NNA – Professor Sami Richa, the head of the Psychiatric department of Hotel-Dieu de France in Beirut, has become the first Lebanese psychiatrist to be elected as a member of the National Academy of Medicine in France since its establishment nearly 200 years ago.
Richa was unanimously elected as a corresponding member of the Academy within the quot;Medicine and Societyquot; department of the National Academy of Medicine. Founded in 1820, it is France#39;s foremost body of physicians.
The Academy works to gather medical expertise and enhance France#39;s global reputation in healthcare.
The French government often requests reports and positions on medical topics from it, making the opinions it provides a reference point.
Richa, 54 years old, founded the Department of Psychiatry at Hotel-Dieu de France hospital in Beirut and led it for 12 years. He is also a member of the Lebanese National Advisory Committee for the Ethics of Health and Life Sciences.
Richa founded the quot;Association Francophone pour Les Maladies Mentauxquot; (AFMM) and has about 150 scientific articles published in leading specialized journals.
His next book, quot;12 cas cliniques en eacute;thique psychiatriquequot; (quot;12 Clinical Cases in Psychiatric Ethicsquot;), will be published in France and Lebanon in October. — LBC ENGLISH NEWS
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