Ali Abdulrahman, Ph.D.

Hometown: Pittsburgh, PA 
Joined Chatham: 2011

ACADEMIC AREAS OF INTEREST

Clinical Anatomy

PERSONAL AREAS OF INTEREST

Biking, Exercising, Knitting, Gardening, Cooking, Listening to music, Enjoy watching history and food channels, Traveling, Hiking 

BIOGRAPHY

SPECIALIZATION:  Human anatomy

EXPERIENCE:

• Trauma/ER Surgeon, Rashied military hospital, Baghdad, Iraq 1981-1984
• Mobile Medical Unit Surgeon, Iraq 1984-1987.
• Assistant lecturer of anatomy, Department of Human Anatomy, College of Medicine, Al-Nahrain University, 1990-1998
• Lecturer of anatomy, Department of Human Anatomy, College of Medicine, Al-Nahrain University, 1998-2006
• Assistant Professor of anatomy, chairman of the Department of Human Anatomy, College of Medicine, Al-Nahrain University, 2007- 2010
• Assistant Professor of Biology, Chatham University, Pittsburgh PA 2011-current

TEACHING:

• Anatomy for undergraduate medical students as dissector, lecturer and demonstrator.
• Anatomy for undergraduate students of medical engineering.
• Elective courses in anatomy and related sciences: applied anatomy, cross sectional and imaging anatomy, research methods in anatomy; for undergraduate medical students.
• Anatomy, surgical anatomy, cross sectional and imaging anatomy, research methods, histochemistry, anatomy teaching methods and physical anthropology for postgraduate M.Sc. and Ph.D. candidates in anatomy
• Anatomy for candidates of the Iraqi board for medical studies in the braches of gynecology and obstetrics, radiology and surgical anatomy.
• Supervision on M.Sc. & Ph.D. thesis of the postgraduate students.
• Assessment of M.Sc. & Ph.D. thesis of the postgraduate students. 

EDUCATION

• College of Medicine, Basrah University, 1975-1981, Degree awarded: M.B.,Ch.B. 
• College of Medicine, Baghdad University. 1987-1989, Degree awarded: M.Sc. in Anatomy, Histology and Embryology. 
• College of Medicine, Al-Nahrain University, 1999-2002. Degree awarded: PhD. in human anatomy.