Riad Barmada
Riad Barmada | |
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| رياض برمدا | |
| Born | July 26, 1929 |
| Died | January 10, 2014 (aged 84) |
| Nationality | Syrian, American |
| Alma mater | University of Damascus University of Illinois at Chicago |
| Occupation(s) | Orthopedic surgeon, Professor |
| Organization | University of Illinois at Chicago |
| Children | two |
Riad Barmada (Arabic: رياض برمدا; July 26, 1929 – January 10, 2014), a Syrian-American orthopaedic surgeon and professor. Barmada was the head of orthopedics at the University of Illinois at Chicago from 1984 to 1998[1] and served as the president of the Illinois Orthopedic Society and president of the Chicago Committee on Trauma.
Early life and education
[edit]Barmada was born in 1929 and grew up in Aleppo. His father was a judge in Syria and his uncles were Mustafa Bey Barmada former Governor-General of the State of Aleppo and Rashad Barmada minister of Defense in Syria. Barmada completed his medical degree from University of Damascus in 1956 and completed a one-year general surgery residency there before going to Chicago.[citation needed]
Baramda completed an internship at Walther Memorial Hospital, followed by residencies in orthopedic surgery at St. Elizabeth Hospital, Illinois Masonic Hospital, and the University of Illinois Hospital.[2]
Career
[edit]In the early 1960s, he helped found a medical school in University of Aleppo where the curriculum was taught in English so that students could learn from the most current medical literature without having to wait for translations.[3]
In 1967, he joined the faculty of University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) College of Medicine as a research associate and became a professor of orthopedics in 1972. He headed the department from 1984 to 1998. He retired in 1999 but remained professor emeritus.[1][3]
He worked quietly to bring women and minorities into orthopaedic surgery, which was a particularly male-dominated specialty in the 70s[1]
He was a member of numerous associations, including the International Society of Orthopaedic Surgery and Traumatology, American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, American Orthopaedic Association, American Medical Association, and Illinois State Medical Society, Dr. Barmada was a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons, president of the Chicago Committee on Trauma, and served as president of the Illinois Orthopaedic Society in 1991.[citation needed]
According to Google Scholar, Barmada has an h-index of 20.[4] According to the Scopus he has an h-index of 16.[5]
Books
[edit]- Orthopedic Surgery Case Studies: 40 Case Histories Related to Orthopedic Surgery.[6]
- Pathophysiology of Orthopedic Diseases.[7]
Selected journal publications
[edit]- Misoprostol Inhibits Polymethylmethacrylate-Stimulated Lysosomal Degranulation and IL-1 Release from Neutrophils [8]
- Optimisation of the posterior stabilised tibial post for greater femoral rollback after total knee arthroplasty—a finite element analysis[9]
- Factors influencing initial cup stability in total hip arthroplasty.[10]
- Polymorphonuclear leukocyte degranulation with exposure to polymethylmethacrylate nanoparticles.[11]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c Tribune, Graydon Megan, Special to the. "Dr. Riad Barmada, 1929–2014". Chicago Tribune. chicagotribune.com. Retrieved 2020-10-30.
{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ "Editorial Review Group Chair: Riad Barmada, MD | Doody's Collection Development Monthly". dcdm.doody.com. Retrieved 2021-10-30.
- ^ a b "Orthopaedic surgeon Riad Barmada, 84 | UIC Today". today.uic.edu. Retrieved 2020-10-30.
- ^ Riad Barmada publications indexed by Google Scholar
- ^ Riad Barmada publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database. (subscription required)
- ^ Barmada, Riad; D Ray, Robert (1976). Orthopedic Surgery Case Studies: 40 Case Histories Related to Orthopedic Surgery. Medical Examination Publishing Co., Inc. ISBN 0874880300.
- ^ Barmada, Riad. Pathophysiology of Orthopaedic Diseases (1st ed.).
- ^ Papatheofanis, Frank J.; Barmada, Riad (1996). "Misoprostol Inhibits Polymethylmethacrylate-Stimulated Lysosomal Degranulation and IL-1 Release from Neutrophils". American Journal of Therapeutics. 3 (1): 21–26. doi:10.1097/00045391-199601000-00005. PMID 11856994. S2CID 21175072.
- ^ Solitro, Giovanni; Amirouche, Farid; Barmada, Riad; Goldstein, Wayne; Gonzalez, Mark; Broviak, Stefanie (2014). "Optimisation of the posterior stabilised tibial post for greater femoral rollback after total knee arthroplasty—a finite element analysis". Clinical Biomechanics (Bristol, Avon). 33 (10): 687–693. doi:10.1016/J.CLINBIOMECH.2014.09.006. PMID 25266242.
- ^ Barmada, Riad; Solitro, Giovanni; Amirouche, Farid; Broviak, Stefanie; Gonzalez, Mark; Goldstein, Wayne (2014). "Factors influencing initial cup stability in total hip arthroplasty". Clinical Biomechanics. 29 (10): 1177–1185. doi:10.1016/J.CLINBIOMECH.2014.09.006. PMID 25266242.
- ^ Papatheofanis, Frank J.; Barmada, Riad (June 1991). "Polymorphonuclear leukocyte degranulation with exposure to polymethylmethacrylate nanoparticles". Journal of Biomedical Materials Research. 25 (6): 761–771. doi:10.1002/jbm.820250606. PMID 1874759.
| International | |
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| National | |
| Academics | |
- University of Illinois Chicago alumni
- Barmada family
- 1929 births
- 2014 deaths
- People from Aleppo
- Physicians from Chicago
- Syrian emigrants to the United States
- Damascus University alumni
- Syrian surgeons
- American surgeons
- 20th-century American scientists
- American orthopedic surgeons
- Syrian orthopedic surgeons
- Syrian academics