Curriculum Vitae
Personal Data:
Name in full : Ghassan ZAKHIA DOUAIHY
Place & Date of birth : Zgharta, 26/01/1967
Nationality : Lebanese
Civil Status : Married with 3 children
Address : Kousba- koura, Najib Farah Building, near St Joseph church.
Phone number : 961-*-******
Educational Background:
Jul 98 – Jul 99 : General Hospital centre of Longjumeau, Paris AFSA in Orthopedic and traumatology Surgery
Service of Prof. LIGNAC
Jul 96 – Jun 98 : University Hospital Centre TENON, Paris AFS in Spine, Knee and Hip Surgery
Service of Prof. JUDET
Jul 99 : St Joseph University – Paris Hospitals
AFSA Thesis
"Percutaneous Fixation of Carpal Scaphoid
Fractures"
Dr Issam SEMAAN
Jun 99 : C2 of specialized anatomy of surgical
approaches in Orthopedic surgery. License in
dissection.
French University of Research, Holy Fathers,
Paris
May 98 : Thesis of Specialization in Orthopedic surgery Stabilization of the patella: technique of
medial retinacular ligament reconstruction
with gracilis tendon graft.
Tutor: Prof. CHASSAING, Paris
Jun 97 : University of Pierre & Marie CURIE (Paris 6) University Diploma in Sport Surgery
Prof. in charge: G. SAILLANT
Inter-university Diploma: Luxation of the
patella, stabilization by a new technique;
preliminary study.
1992 – 1996 : Saint Joseph University (Beirut – Lebanon) Faculty of Medicine. Resident in Orthopedic
and Traumatology Surgery at St Georges
Hospital (Beirut – Lebanon).
Prof. in charge: Emile RIACHI.
Thesis of specialization: unicompartemental
arthroplasty in knee arhrosis.
Tutor: Dr Roger MELKI.
1992 – 1994 : Monitor of Dissection
Laboratory of Anatomy at St Joseph
University, Beirut.
1985 – 1992 : Saint Joseph University (Beirut – Lebanon) Faculty of Medicine.
* Diploma of M.D
Thesis of doctorate:" Echoendoscopy in the
diagnosis of the main biliary duct lithiasis"
Tutor: Dr Raymond SAYEGH
* Internship at Hospital of La Pitié Salpetière
(Paris) (1990 – 1991)
Profs in charge: * Serge HERSON
* Jean Paul CHIGOT
* Resident at Hotel Dieu de France (Beirut –
Lebanon). (1991 – 1992)
Works and Publications:
Nov 1999 : AFSA Thesis (Convention of SOFCOT
2000): French Society of Orthopedic surgery
and Traumatology.
Apr 1998 : Thesis of specialization: convention of the French Society of Arthroscopy. Apparition of
the work in the Arthroscopy annals with all
the author's copyright reserved.
May 1996 : International convention of Sport Surgery
(Amman – Jordan). Extra-articular
ligamentoplasty of the ACL.
An a propos of 240 cases.
Sep 1995 : International convention of Traumatology
(Beirut – Lebanon). Active participation,
particulary in the cadre of three conferences
about: 1- Anterior knee pain.
2- Meniscal Agenesy.
3- Hip Fracture: Morbidity – Mortality.
Feb 2016 : Bilateral avulsion of patellar apexes : a case report. Poster and oral presentation accepted
in EFORT congress in Geneva 2016, as being
the second case described in the world.
May 2018 : Oral presentation of the first case described in the world about the interest of the use of
Mini Tightrope in the Sauvé-Kapandji
intervention in a Madelung deformity,
EFORT congress in Barcelona.
July 2021 : Dorsal approach with low profile plate in treatment of scaphoid nonunion with proximal
pole avascular necrosis: A case report.
Ghassan Zakhia - Douaihy MD,AFS,AFSA
(First and correspondant author)
JBJS case connector Volume 11. Number 3 .
July 22,2021
Investigation performed at American
University of Beirut Medical Center.
Languages : Reading, speaking, writing fluently French, Arabic and English.
Other Activities:
Since 1999 : Orthopedic surgeon in the Lebanese Army. Since 1994 : Member of Lebanus – Humanitarian and
Cultural Association in Lebanon and France.
1982 – 1987 : Member of Students club in Zgharta
(Lebanon)
Since 2007 : Member of the Rotary club in Zgharta. \ Leisure & Sports : Moviegoer, reading, music, tennis, tennis table, Swimming.
Symposium and Practical Works
1997 : A day work of prosthetic knee of TENON
Hospital.
Since 1996 : Presence at the Annual convention of
SOFCOT
(French Society for Orthopedic and
Traumatology Surgery).
1995 : Symposium of AO/ASIF (Association for the
Study of Internal Fixation).
1999 : Course of posterior stabilization of the
lumbar spine.
2000 : Workshop on Internal and/ or External
Fixation. Orthofix Verona, Italy.
2007 - 2010 : Shoulder and Knee Arthroscopy course in Strasbourg (IRCAD) France and Salzbourg
Austria.
Since 2010 : The EFORT congress.
2011-2015 : Hip arthroscopy courses in Strasbourg. 2012 -2016 : specialized courses in shoulder and knee Arthroscopic surgery. Arthrex Laboratory
in Munich-Germany.
2012 : American Academy of orthopedic surgeon
Congress in San Francisco-USA.
2015-2019 : AO workshop and Master courses in Davos Switzerland.
Oct 2010 – Oct 2013 : Academic Activity
Attaché of Anatomy teaching in LAU Byblos
Anatomy lab .
N.B: AFSA: attestation de formation specialisée
approfondie.
AFS: attestation de formation specialisée.