Background
Abuzzahab, Faruk Said was born on October 12, 1932 in Beirut, Lebanon. Son of Said Salim and Nimet Mohammad (Meuzzin) Abuzzahab. came to the United States, 1953, naturalized, 1958.
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Faruk Said Abuzzahab
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Bachelor of Science, American U., Beirut, Lebanon, 1955; Doctor of Medicine American U., 1959; Doctor of Philosophy, University Minnesota, 1968.
Career
Rotating intern, American U. Hospital, Beirut, 1958-1959;
resident in psychiatry, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, 1959-1962;
practice medicine specializing in psychiatry and clinical psychopharmacology, Minneapolis, since 1962. Member of staff University of Minnesota Hospitals, Fairview, Minneapolis. Acting medical director Hastings Eastern State Hospital, Minnesota, 1963-1978.
Member of staff St. Mary's Hospital, chief psychiatry, 1978-1979. Chief service Anoka Eastern State Hospital, 1978-1981. Research fellow University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, 1962-1966, instructor, 1966-1968, assistant professor psychiatry and pharmacology, 1968-1973, clinical associate professor, 1973-1979, clinical professor psychiatry, pharmacology and family practice, since 1979.
Consultant psychiatrist St. Croix County Health Center, New Richmond, Wisconsin, 1975-1977, Dunn County Health Care Center, Menominee, 1970-1986. President, Clinical Psychopharmacology Cons., since 1973. Administrator psychopharmacology and pharmacopsychiatry funds, since 1969.
Achievements
Membership
Board of directors Minnesota Life Care Centers, 1975-1986. Fellow American Psychiatric Association, American College Clinical Pharmacology. Member American Medical Association, American Society Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Minnesota Psychiatric Society (Private Practitioner of Year 1990), Minnesota Medical Society (subcommittee on alcoholism and drug abuse 1970-1980), Society Biological Psychiatry, Hennepin County Psychiatric Society (president 1976-1978), Collegium International Neuropsychopharmacologium, American Society Clinical Pharmacology, American College Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, British Association Psychopharmacology, Sigma Xi, Alpha Omega Alpha.
Connections
Married Beverly Elaine Swinter, June 29, 1962 (divorced 1982). Children— Nada Josephine, Mary Jennifer, Faruk Said, Jeffrey Faruk, Mark Faruk. Married Kathryn Buoen, October 8, 1982.
Children— Brita Kathryn, Omar Faruk.
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Lebanese