Ahmad Said Teebi was a Lebanese-born Palestinian clinical geneticist who studied and practiced in several countries, ending his career in Canada and the United States.
18 Facts About Ahmad Teebi
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Ahmad Teebi received his primary education in Lebanon and in Kuwait.
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Ahmad Teebi obtained his medical degree from Cairo University, then studied Pediatrics in Kuwait.
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Ahmad Teebi began his medical residency at the Kuwait Medical Genetics Center, then completed it at the University of British Columbia, and in the United States at Yale University.
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In 1983, Ahmad Teebi received a DHCG from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
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In 1992, Ahmad Teebi joined the Division of Medical Genetics at the Montreal Children's Hospital, McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
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Ahmad Teebi worked there as an Associate Professor of Pediatrics from 1993 to 1998.
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Ahmad Teebi died on his birthday in 2010, at Trillium Health Centre in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada, from complications of cancer.
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Ahmad Teebi had nearly 300 articles published, and over 25 chapters included in significant textbooks.
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Ahmad Teebi had over 90 entries in the Online Mendelian Inheritance in Man created by Victor A McKusick.
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Ahmad Teebi worked to develop or further the organization of important congresses in Human and Medical Genetics in various cities of the Arab world, including the Joint Symposium of the Institut Pasteur de Tunis and MEGA.
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Ahmad Teebi worked for the establishment and progress of genetic programs in Kuwait, Qatar, and Saudi Arabia, where he founded the Genetic Counseling Program at King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center in Riyadh.
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Ahmad Teebi spent years on the editorial boards of medical and scientific journals, including the Editorial Board of the American Journal of Medical Genetics and Clinical Genetics.
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Ahmad Teebi was a Founding and Editorial Board member of Clinical Dysmorphology.
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Ahmad Teebi founded the first Arab neonatal screening program in Kuwait.
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Ahmad Teebi spent eight months in Saudi Arabia to develop medical genetics services, including the foundation of clinical genetics training programs and genetic counseling programs.
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Many of the syndromes that Ahmad Teebi studied and wrote about were ultimately named after him.
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Ahmad Teebi was a member of scientific societies and study groups, including the HUGO mutation database initiative.