Pr Hassen A. Gharbi

Born in Thala, Tunisia, Dr Gharbi is Professor of Radiology and Professor in Medical Biophysics.
He is involved in several teaching programs mainly in ultrasound and in Paediatric Radiology, in Tunisia and in several countries around the world often in Africa.
 
He was the founder in 1986  and the first President of the MASU, Mediterranean and African Society of Ultrasound, member of the World Federation of Ultrasound in Medicine and Biology since 1992
Under the auspices of  WHO  at the beginning and now under the auspices of WHO, MASU  and WFUMB, he directed several international courses around the world in developing countries  mainly : Tunisia, Algeria, Libya , Morocco, Egypt, Turkey, Bangladesh, Kenya, Tanzania, Tchad, Uganda, Yemen, Sudan, Cyprus , Syria, Pakistan, Cameroon, Pakistan, Afghanistan, ….


He created since 1970, the first paediatric radiology department, in Tunisia and in the North African as independent and efficient body.

His other main interest and original publications were dedicated to Hydatid diseases (imaging, epidemiological and treatment study). His imaging US classification of the Hydatid cyst appearance,   published in Radiology in 1981, is still used around the  world

He published, in collaboration as author or as co-author more than 20 books, all dedicated mainly to paediatric radiology, tropical and infectious diseases (hydatid diseases).
More than 120 articles are published in national and international journals in the different fields covered by his activities.

Dr Gharbi received many awards and recognitions for his contributions for the promotion of the good use of the radiology  in developing countries.
PERSONAL DATA:
          Name      : Hassen Akéba GHARBI

          Address    : 12, Rue Mohamed Salaheddine - Mutuelleville
                                                1082 Tunis Mahrajane - TUNISIA

          Tel   Home   : + 216 71  789 406 -   Office: + 216 71 900 677
          Fax    Home   : + 216 71  791 760      Office: + 216 71 900 908
          e-mail          : hassen.agharbi@ planet.tn

         Date of birth      :       January 15th, 1939
         Place of birth      :  Thala, Tunisia

         Citizen                 :   Tunisia.

EDUCATION 
  
     - Graduate M.D  -       - Medical School Paris - June 1967
    -  Master in Human Biology - Medical School Paris - June 1966
    - Graduate in Optic Physiology (PhD)      - Sciences Faculty Orsay - Paris 1968
    - Graduate in Radiology - Medical School Paris 1969
    - Graduate in Aeronautic Medicine - Medical School Paris 1967
    - Graduate in Medical Electronics- Medical School Paris 1968
    - Professor in Medicine
        ( Medical  Biophysics )       - Medical School Paris 1969
-  Professor in Radiology           - Faculty of Medicine Tunis 1975
    - Graduate in Management of Radiation Accidents. REACT/TS. 1986 Oak Ridge Associated Universities.              -  Oak Ridge -Tennessee. USA

MEDICAL LICENSURE

       - Tunisia – Licensure N° 961 - issued by may 5th 1970

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

- Assistant Professor Biophysics Department -Medical School Paris 1966 -1970
- Vice Dean of    the    Medical      School     of     Tunis   1971 - 1973.
-  Head   of   the    department   of    Radiology -   Children    hospital    .Tunis - 1970 - 1989.
- Founder  and   Director  of   the   National  Centre  of   Radiation  Protection – Ministry of Public Health - Tunis - 1971 -1989.
- Judicial    Assermented    Expert    in    Radiation    Protection - Ministry   of    Justice; Tunis - 1986.
-  Head    of   the     Medical     Biophysics     Department -    Medical    School   Tunis - 1970- 1985.
- President   of    Radiological    National   Commission   in    the   Ministry   of     Public Health - Tunis - 1975- 1985.
- Adviser   in   the   Ministry   of   Public   Health   in    the    following   fields :          Radiology ,   Paediatric  Radiology ,   Biomedical    Engineering ,   Radiation  Protection,  Medical  School training, Hospital  equipment planification ... 1972-1989.
- Expert   in Radiology, Radio-Protection    and    Paediatric-Radiology, World     Health Organization   (WHO), Geneva 1993-1997, 1997-2001, 2001-2004, 2004-2007, 2007-2010.

HONORS
 
        - Awarded medal for outstanding services in Public Health, Tunisia. 1993.
        - Awarded medal of honours “Arab Doctors”, Alep, Syria; 1993.
        - International Price: “Memorial   Pietro  Cignoli ” - Institute of Radiology   Palermo Italy december 16th 1997

MEMBERSHIP IN MEDICAL ASSOCIATIONS

     - President of Tunisian Society of Medical Sciences (Société Tunisienne des   Sciences Medicales ) : 1981- 1984- (STSM)

     - General Secretary of   Tunisian   Society   of   Radiology: 1970 - 1983; 1986 - 1991.  (STR)

- Founder and President of Mediterranean and African   Society of Ultrasound:     MASU. 1986 1992. (MASU)

 - Founder and  President of  the  Medical  Society of Electronics       and   Biomedical  Engineering- (STEMGB)- (  Société   Tunisienne   d’Electronique  Médicale  et   de  génie Biologique ) : 1971 - 1976.

 - President of Tunisian Society of Radiology : 1991 - 1994 , 1994- 1998.(STR)
  
-French   Society of  Ultrasound  (SFAUMB) -  Société     Française d’Application  des Ultrasons à la Médecine et à la  Biologie- since 1981

 -French    Society    of    Paediatric   imaging   (SFIP), since 1975

 -Scientific    Committee of   International   Institute   of Medical Imaging   Monaco.  (IIMIM)

- European   Society    of       Paediatric     Radiology.(ESPR) since 1975     

-    Radiological Society  of North America –(RSNA) ID 0077994 since -1993.

-    American Roentgen Ray Society (ARRS) , member ID 723347 - 2009
  
  -Member of  the World Federation for ultrasound in Medicine and Biology   Board  ( WFUMB) :

1994 - 1997 :  .Co-opted  Board Member WFUMB- member of  the                 Educational committee : Vice - Chairman
     Vice - Chairman  of  the  Sponsoring  committee.   
1997-2000 Member MASU representative in WFUMB board
2000-2003 - Vice President 2 of the WFUMB Board
2003-2006 - Co-opted  Board Member WFUMB- member of  the                      Educational committee
2006-2009 - Co-opted  Board Member WFUMB member of  the                       Educational committee- Member of the nominating committee
2009-2011 - Co-opted  Board Member
          WFUMB member of  the Educational committee

- Member of the board of the International Society of Radiology, ISR , 2004-2010

-    Founder and President Elect of the African Society of Radiology  2008-2011. (ASR).

HONORARY MEMBERSHIP IN MEDICAL ASSOCIATIONS

    - Honorary Member   of   the Egyptian Society   of   Radiology and Nuclear   Medicine. Cairo 6-1-1990.  ( ESRNM)   
                           
   - Honorary Member of the Italian Society of Ultrasound. (SIUMB). 1991

   -  Honorary Member of the Italian Society of RADIOLOGY AND Nuclear Medicine . (SMIRN). Milano 1988

 
    -Honorary member of the French Society of Radiology   November 1997 Paris- (SFR )

-Honorary President of Tunisian Society of Radiology July 1998- (STR)

-    Honorary member of the ,American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine, (AIUM) since  Montreal June 20003

        - Honorary Member of the Society for Society of Pediatric Radiology.  (SPR)-    Scottsdale, Arizona, USA  May 2008

-    Selected to be Honorary Fellow of the American College of Radiology, (ACR), Washington, DC,  may16-19  2010

MAJOR RESEARCH INTEREST

1.    Tropical disease mainly hydatid diseases.
2.    Ultrasound in Tropical diseases
3.    Ultrasound in paediatric age: bone, digestive tract,
4.    Radiation - Protection
  5. Imaging modalities in developing countries.
  6.  Paediatric Radiology

EDITORIAL BOARD

Member of  Editorial board of  International Review :
                                           - Paediatric Radiology 1984 - 1996.
                                           - Annales Françaises de Radiologie. Paris.
                                           - JEMU (MASSON). Paris, since 2001.
                                           - French Journal of Radiation Protection. Paris .
                                           - Eido Electa . Palermo . Italy.
                                           - Medecine du Maghreb. Toulon. France.
                                               - Revue Maghrebine  de Pediatrie.

PUBLICATIONS

A- MAIN PUBLISHED BOOKS:

IN COLLABORATION AS AUTHOR or as CO-AUTHOR

   1-   * Echography  pédiatrique : Editor  Masson .P. Jouve.   Paris  1983 .94   pages . French.

    2- * Echography  of the spleen : Editor Springer Verlag . W.J.N.  Bruneton  1986.  88 pages. English.

     3-* Rational use in pediatric radiology :Technical  Report  W.H.O. N° 757- 1987

     4-* L’Echographia  nelle Malattie Infettive
C , FILICE , E.G. RONDANELLI   Edit  Medico  Scientifiche,  Pavia 1989. 488 Pages. Italian.

      5- * Rational   use   of    imaging    techniques   in   practical    situations : Technical report   W.H.O. N° 795 /  1990 : 144.   Pages-   French  and  English.

      6- *Atlas    of    abdominal    and    small    parts   sonography.  A.  KURJAK ,  Z.  FUCKAR , H.A. GHARBI- 1991 - Zagreb  376 pages . ( French - English  -  Yugoslav). Zagreb . 1991. French - English - Yougoslave.

     7-   * Manuel d’Ultrasonologie générale de l’adulte. P. JOUVE . Editor Masson 1993 .French-  384 pages.


    8-    * W.H.O. Manual   of   basic   Ultrasound .
P.E.S. PALMER - OMS Publications , 1195 , 334   pages , in  English,   French,   Spanish., Arabic… 15 languages 1996 Ref :
ISBN 9241544619

    9-   * Global   Textbook   of   Radiology
            H. PETTERSON . Nicer   Publications   .  English ,   Spanish       and   Chinese .   2 Tomes1330 pages . 1995. Nicer  Institute .     Oslo,  Norway
   
 10- *  Frontiers   of   Gastroenterology . Vol   24 .  Ultrasound    Application     in  Gastroenterology, L. GANDOLFI , M.FUKIDA. Edit KARGER Editeur . AG     Bale    Suisse . 1997.

   11-  *  Training  in  diagnostic  ultrasound :  essentials,   principales    and   standards. Report of a WHO Study  Group WHO  Technical  Report  Series N° 875 - Geneva 1998

12-  *  Abdominal Ultrasound Atlas
 L. Buscarini, R. Campani Edit. Idelson-Gnocchi  Italy 2001-

13- * Puncture Aspiration Injection Re-aspiration,
 PAIR, an option for the treatment of cystic Echinococcosis –
 WHO informal Working group on Echinococcosis,
 WHO-IWGE , Booklet WHO publication Ref WHO/CDS/CSR/APH/2001.6

       14- * Manual of ultrasound in infectious and parasitic diseases:
  H. LUTZ   et H.A. GHARBI.
  WFUMB Book: 181 pages-  176 figures10 tables
Editor Springer. 2005  ISBN  3-540-24446-8.
 
        15- * Le kyste hydatique et l’échographie : de la description, au dépistage jusqu’au traitement..35 années de passion. 183 pages-
H.A. GHARBI – Editeur Centre de documentation universitaire.
 Tunis - ISBN 9973-37-255-7 -Tunis 2005

         16-  * Manual of Ultrasound , 2 volumes, under the auspices of WHO and WFUMB , editor Springer 450 pages , Harald LUTZ ,E. BUSCARINI ,Hassen A. GHARBI ( on charge of paediatric chapters  )  and others , will be published in 2010.

    B-    PUBLICATIONS - ARTICLES :

More than 120 articles are published in national and international journals in the different fields covered by his activities.
The complete list may be sent if needed.

INVITED SPEAKER IN INTERNATIONAL

 Dr Gharbi was invited  speaker in more than 40 international meetings in different fields  :
          Tropical disease mainly hydatid diseases.
          Ultrasound mainly in paediatric age : bone , digestive tract, ....
          Radiation – Protection
          Imaging modalities in developing countries.
          Paediatric Radiology…….

        Last invitations : ICR 2008: June 2008, Marrakech, Morocco, and WFUMB World Congress Sydney Australia september 2009, ICR 2010 Shanghai, 2011 WFUMB world Congress , Vienna 2011

The complete list may be sent if needed.

TEATCHING ACTIVITIES IN  MEDICAL IMAGING AND  ULTRASOUND

   As Professor of Radiology and medical Biophysics, Dr Gharbi is involved in several teaching programs in Tunisia and around the world.
   He is mainly involved, also with his team, in paediatric radiology and   in medical Ultrasound activities since 1970. He created the first department of paediatric radiology in 1970, the first department of echography in Tunisia and in the North African area, with multiple activities: teaching, medical and fundamental research in 1977.
    Under the auspices of WHO at the beginning and now under the auspices of WHO and WFUMB, several international courses are organized, with the help of others medical associations, around the world in developing countries mainly. The last one was in, Lusaka, Zambia February 2010, the planed next courses will be in Ethiopia, October 2010 and Rwanda December 2010.