User:AwniShahait

Awni D. Shahait, M.D., Intern at Jordan University Hospital, Amman, Jordan

Contact: awnishahait@yahoo.com , 00962796025875

• Associate Editor-In-Chief for several WikiDoc chapters (Traumatic abdominal wall hernia, Lingual thyroid)

Education

M.D. degree from The University of Jordan, Amman, Jordan in 2011.

Research Experience

• September - October,2009

Involved as a “Group Leader” in a research named “Barriers to Mammography Screening for Breast Cancer in Jordan”, which was held by the King Hussein Cancer Center, Amman.

• February, 2010 – February, 2012

“Attitude of Medical Students toward Psychiatry in the University of Jordan” In this study we were able to find a significant change in the attitude of medical students toward psychiatry after the psychiatry clerkship. This study was submitted to the Arab Journal of Psychiatry.

• January, 2011 – September, 2011

“Smokers’ hair: Does smoking cause premature hair graying?” In this research we found a relationship between premature hair graying and smoking in the Jordanian population. This study was submitted to Mayo Clinic Proceedings.

• January, 2012 – Present

Working on a case report in the General Surgery department regarding a missed traumatic abdominal wall hernia, with discussing the mainline of management in these patients.

• February, 2012 – Present

Also working on another case report in the General Surgery department. In this case, we are reporting prostatic adenocarcinoma metastasis to the thyroid gland, which represent the sixth case worldwide.