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Voluntary rank detailsMahmoud okasha, MBBCh, MD, MRCPsych, DLFAPA
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Titles
member of the board of directors and secretary of the Clinical TMS society; Co chair of the insurance committee of the CTMSsociety
Biography
Associate Clinical Professor Teaching medical students, PA students, and residents
CNS Clinical Research (Principal Investigator in over 60 studies)
Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS Therapy) in the Treatment of Treatment Resistant Depression
Organized Medicine Board of Directors for the New London County Medical Assoc.
member of the council of the CSMS and member of the operational committee of the CSMS
Speaker of the house of Delegates of the Connecticut State Medical Society
Past President of the New London County Medical Association
PAST Involved in steering committee that founded MD Health Plan
Chairman of Quorum Committee
Chaired Finance and Mental Health Liaison Committee, CSMS IPA
President of Medical Staff at W.W. Backus Hospital
Chairman, Department of Psychiatry, W.W. Backs Hospital
AWARDS 2005 Advisory Council to the Scientific Program of the XIII World Psychiatric Congress
2005 Advisory Board of the World Psychiatric Association Presidential Program on Global Child Mental Health
Appointments
Education & Training
- Post Doctoral Fellow
- Yale School of Medicine (1977)
- Registrar and Senior Registrar
- Westminster Medical school London UK (1973)
- Registrar
- Bexley Hospital UK (1971)
- MBBCh
- Cairo University (1968)
- MD
- Cairo University (1968)
Research
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Overview
- Bristol-Myers Squibb - Prodromal Alzheimers Disorder (Memory Loss) Phase II
- Bristol-Myers Squibb - Treatment of patients with mild to moderate Alzheimers Disease
- Pfizer - Major Depressive Adjunctive Therapy in MDD
- Pfizer - Smoking Cessation - Chantix with MDD
- Forest Pharmaceutical - Major Depressive Adjunctive Therapy in MDD
- AstraZenaca - Major Depressive Adjunctive Therapy in MDD
- Neuronetics - Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation Efficacy Trial
Medical Research Interests
Publications
1979
Depressive and extrapyramidal symptoms and clinical effects: a trial of fluphenazine versus flupenthixol in maintenance of schizophrenic out-patients.
Knights A, Okasha MS, Salih MA, Hirsch SR. Depressive and extrapyramidal symptoms and clinical effects: a trial of fluphenazine versus flupenthixol in maintenance of schizophrenic out-patients. The British Journal Of Psychiatry : The Journal Of Mental Science 1979, 135: 515-23. PMID: 394794.Peer-Reviewed Original Research
Others
- 1978 Okasha, M.S., Hirsch, S.R., Knight, A. and Salih, M.A. Flupenthixol and Fluphenazine Decanoate: A Comparative Review PSYCHIATRIC ANNAL 8”7 (1978), 350-355Peer-Reviewed Original Research
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