Dr. Ossama Osman       
       
Associate Professor
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science
Phone: 971 3 7137 417
Fax: 971 3 7672995
Email: ossamao@uaeu.ac.ae


College of Medicine and Health Sciences

United Arab Emirates University
P.O.Box 17666, Al-Ain
United Arab Emirates
DegreeUniversityYear
MB,B.chCairo University1979
Postgraduate Diplomas, Certificates, and FellowshipsYear
Clinical Psychopharmacology Research Fellowship (NIMH)1987-1990
DABPN (Certified Diplomat, the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology)1999
Fellow, The American Psychiatric Association2004
Advanced Certirficate in Trauma and Recovery- Harvard University (HPRT)2011
AppointmentYear
Research Fellow, The National Institute of Mental Health. Bethesda, Maryland, U.S.A.1987-1990
Assistant Professor, University of South Florida and Director of Schizophrenia Research Program, Bay Pines VAMC- Tampa- Florida, USA. 1990-1991
Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Associate Chairman for Research, Southern Illinois University, School of Medicine, Springfield, Illinois, U.S.A. 1991-1993
Associate Professor of Psychiatry (Tenure Track), College of Medicine Mercer University, Macon, Georgia USA.1993-1999
Medical Director, Al-Amal Addiction Treatment Hospital- Jeddah, Saudi Arabia and Honorary Associate Professor, Mercer University.1999-2004
Associate Professor & Director of Post-graduate Training Program in Psychiatry, FMHS-UAEU2004-2011
Research Interest
Global Mental health (trauma & recovery- Translation and validation of International Neuropsychiatric diagnostic instruments- Transcultural and Women mental health issues in primary care). 2) Clinical Psychopharmacology of mood disorders and addictions..  
Selected Publications
Osman OT, Mufadel A, Almugadam F, Augusterfer E.(2011).The Psychiatric Aspects of Skin Disorders. Expert Rev.Dermatol.6(2), 195-209.  
Osman, OT and Afifi (2010). Mental health research in the United Arab Emirates from1989 to208. Asia Pac J Public Health, 22S:48-53.  
Osman, O.T., Hsiao, J.K., Risby, E.D., Potter, W.Z.: Dose-dependent effects of intravenous alprazolam on neuroendocrine, biochemical, cardiovascular and behavioral parameters in humans. Psychopharmacol, 111:295-300, 1993.  
Osman OT, Younis A , AlAmiri Z (2008): “Infanticide attempt by a postpartum depressed mother” J Em Med Trauma & Acute Care (MEJEM), 8 (2) 122-123.  
Manji HK, Hsiao JK, Rudorfer MV, Risby ED, Osman OT, and Potter WZ: ECT treatment does not enhance neuroendocrine responses to serotonergic challenge. Journal of Psychopharmacology 6(4): 501-508, 1992.  
Rudorfer, M.V., Risby, E.D., Osman, O.T., Gold, P.W., and Potter, W.Z.: Hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis and monoamine transmitter activity in depression: Central and peripheral effects of electroconvulsive therapy. Biol Psychiatry 29:253-264, 1991.  
Osman, O.T., Rudorfer, M.V., Potter, W.Z.: Idazoxan: A selective alpha-2 antagonist and effective sustained antidepressant in two bipolar depressed patients. Letter to Editor, Arch Gen Psychiatry 46:958-959, 1989.  
Manji HK, Osman OT, Rudorfer MV, and Potter WZ: Chronic idazoxan: a new tool to study enhanced noradrenergic tone ? Clin Pharmacol Ther. 132, 1989.  
O.T. Osman, E. Loschen and R.E. Becker: A case of non-compliance. Hospital and community Psychiatry, March 1989, 41(3)333-334.  
BOOK Chapter: Osman OT (2007) : The Psychological Aspects of Skin Diseases. In Skin and Cosmetics, pp.133-160, Galadari I. (edit.), Portseed Press, Dubai 2007  
Book chapter: Potter WZ, Manji HK, Osman OT, and Rudorfer MV: New antidepressants and their possible modes of action, in New Prospects in Psychiatry. The Bio-Clinical Interface I. J.P. Macher & M.A. Crocq (eds) Elsevier Science Publishers. New York. pp 113-129, 1992.  
Select PROCEEDINGS, CONFERENCES, INVITED LECTURES: Osman O.T. (2010) Mastery of Global Mental Health and Psychiatric Reasearch In the Gulf. . Invited oral presentation by - The Harvard University Program on Refugee and Trauma as part of their Harvard University -HPRT Advanced Certificate Training in Trauma and Recovery. Orvieto- Italy, November 9th, 2010 and is entitled: Mastery in Global Mental Health: Trauma and Recovery.  
Osman, OT. (2010). The skin as a mode of communication. Expert Rev. Dermatol. 5(5), 493-496.  
EL Loschen and OT Osman: Self Injurious Behavior in the Developmentally Disabled: Assessment Techniques. Psychopharmacology Bulletin, 1992,28(4) 433-438.  
O.T. Osman and R.E. Becker: Neurolepics and their metabolites: Effects on alpha-1 and D-2 receptors. Biological Psychiatry 1988,24:815-818.  
Book Chapter: Osman, O.T., Potter, W.Z.: Potentiation of dopamine in the treatment of refractory depression. In advances in Neuropsychiatry and Psychopharmacology: Refractory Depression, J.D. Amsterdam, Ed.). Raven Press, New York, pp 41-52, 1991.  
O.T. Osman and E.L. Loschen : Self Injurious Behavior in the Developmentally Disabled: Pharmacologic Treatment., Psychopharmacology Bulletin 1992, 28(4) 439-449.  
Osman, O.T., DeVane, C.L., Greenblatt, D.J., Potter, W.Z.: Pharmacokinetic and dynamic correlates of intravenous alprazolam challenge. Clin Pharmacol Ther, 50:656-662, 1991.  
M.V. Rudorfer, O.T. Osman and W.Z. Potter: Alprazolam and aggression [Letter] American Journal of Psychiatry, July 1989,146(7):949-950.  
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