Hikmet Jamil, MD, DVD, DIH, MSc., PhD, MFOM (Honor), FFOM.I (Honor)
hjamil@med.wayne.edu

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Departmental Role

• Use the knowledge I have gained from my 33 years of experience in occupational & environmental health to promote a healthy and safe working and everyday living environment.
• Take an active role in teaching the various occupational and environmental health courses and seminars offered by our division.
• Take an active role in local, national and international research conducted by the division.
• Build research collaborations with local community non-profit organizations and with academic institutes at the international level, in particular among Middle East countries.

• Primary Research Interests fall in two areas, Iraqi refugees and immigrant health disorders and the impact of water-pipe (hookah) smoking on the health of smokers at the level of local, national and international.

Education

M.D., 1962 / College of Medicine, University of Baghdad.

DVD, 1974 / Society of Apothecaries of London, England, Diplomate in Venereology

DIH, 1975 / The Royal College of Physicians of London & The Royal College of Surgeons of England, London, England, Diploma in Industrial Health

MSc, 1975 / University of London, England, Master of Science in Occupational Medicine

PhD, 1978 / University of Manchester, England, Doctor of Philosophy

FFOM.I (Honorary), 1984 / Fellowship of the Faculty of Occupational Medicine of the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland

AFOM (Honorary), 1985 / Royal College of Physicians of London, England, Associate of the Faculty of Occupational Medicine

MFOM (Honorary), 1987 / Royal College of Physicians of London, England, Member of the Faculty of Occupational Medicine

Experience from Selected Positions Held

• Health Consultant, Arab American & Chaldean Council (ACC) (2005 -Present)
  
  
• Environmental Health Consultant on the Stony Brook University Project (USAID HEAD PROGRAM/SBU) (2004 -05)
  
  
• Consultant on International Board / The Yemeni Journal For Medical Sciences / The University of Science and Technology / The College of Medical Sciences (2003 -Present)
  
  
• President, International Society of Iraqi Scientists, Michigan, USA (2002 -Present)
  
  
• Education Committee / Dept. of Family Medicine and Public Health Sciences / WSU (2001 -2007)
  
  
• Member, International Advisory Board / Basrah J. of Surgery /Basrah-Iraq (2000 -Present)
  
  
• Adjunct Faculty / Faculty of Allied Health Professions, Department of Occupational & Environmental Health Sciences, College of Pharmacy and Allied Health Professions, Wayne State University, Michigan. USA (1998 -Present)
  
  
• Health Consultant/ ACCESS Community Health & Research Center. MI (1997-05)
  
  
• Vice President / The High Council for Iraqi Scientific Societies (Included 34 Societies) (1994-96)
  
  
• President of the Iraqi Society of Occupational Health and Safety (1992 -96)
  
  
• Chief, Deputy or Secretary of several scientific journals (1984-96)
  
  
• External Examiner, Board Community Health, Jordanian Medical Council, Jordan (1984-91)
  
  
• Consultant for several councils at different Ministries and Institutions (1980 - 96)
  
  
• Supervisor for: Two Ph.D. candidates, Fifteen MSc. Students, Eighteen Diplomates and 44 field projects leading to a Certificate in Occupational & Environmental Medicine (1980 -96)
  
  
• Program Director for postgraduate studies (Diploma, Master and Ph.D.), Department of Community Medicine, University of Baghdad (1979 -96)
  

Selected Scientific Achievements
 

• Published 141 field research projects in the field of Occupational & Environmental Medicine and Community Health Problems (1980 - Present)
  
  
• Author of 20 books (7 academic) in the field of Occupational Health and Safety (1980 - 97)
  
  
• 165 Papers presented in different national & international scientific meetings (1979 - Present)
  
  
• Published 248 scientific articles in the field of Occupational Health and Safety (1979 - Present)
  
  
• Initiated national and then international Arab Health Conferences with two workshops (Pre- and Post-conference) through ACCESS Organization in MI (1999-2003)
  
  
• Founded two scientific societies, one in Iraqi (The Iraqi Society of Occupational Health and Safety, Iraq in 1992) and one in USA (International Society of Iraqi Scientists in 2000)
  
  
• Established three Postgraduate (Diploma, Master & Ph.D.) courses in Occupational and -Environmental Medicine (1980 - 97)

• Developed new curriculum to Occupational & Environmental Medicine Graduate Course (2000-Present)

Selected Honors/Awards

• Gate of Aleppo Certificate / The 38 Iraqi Medical Association Conference / 5-7 April, 2008 Aleppo Syria
  
  
• Symbol of Ras Gas Corporation / In appreciation of visit Ras Gas Facilities following Pre-Conference Workshop / Qatar Primary Health Care Conference / WHO / 1st International Conference in Partnership with the WHO. 1– 4/11/ 2008, Ritz-Carlton Hotel Doha, Qatar
  
  
• Teacher Award /American Academic Family Physicians / Department of Family Medicine / Residency Program 2004, 20 05. 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2009 / WSU
  
  
• Teacher Award / School of Medicine / Wayne State University, November 2006
  
  
• Teacher of the Year 2003 / Selected by Occupational & Environmental Medicine Residents
  
  
• Shield Award for the participation in a workshop on Occupational Health and Safety for Nurses / Faculty of Nursing / Jordan University of Science & Technology: A joint effort between W.H.O and the Faculty of Nursing / Jordan, Oct. 7-8, 2002
  
  
• Teaching Award / Department of Family Medicine / School of Medicine / WSU, 2001
  
  
• Outstanding Achievement Award for co-chairing the Second Biennial National Conference on Health Issues in the Arab American Community May 10-13, 2001
  
  
• Summary of biography is listed in the 25th & 26th Dictionary of International Biography, Cambridge / United Kingdom, 1997 - 1998
  
  
• MAN OF THE YEAR 1995," American Biographical Institute / Board of International Research / U.S.A., 1986
  
  
• Special commendation from the President of Iraq for extensive publications in Occupational Health & Safety, 1982
  

Grant Support

• Co- Investigator / Project Coordinator. Project title: / Mental health in Iraqi refugees: Importance of post-displacement social stressors, 2010-2014. Project funded by NIMH.

• Co- Investigator: Project Title: U.S. vs. Swedish Refugee Integration Programs and Polices. Submitted to Wayne State University, Project funded by WSU. 2010-2011
  
  
• Co- Investigator: Project Title: / Refugees Mental Health: Resiliency and Risk Factors Sweden [Approved by Swedish Government in August 2008-09.
  

• Principle Investigator: In kind with Arab American & Chaldean Council to supervise the Physicians Education Program on HCV which is funded by Roche Incorporation. Project Title: Physicians Education Program on HCV 2006-2007. Project funded by Roche Inc.
  
  
• Principal Investigator / In kind with Arab American & Chaldean Council to supervise the HCV project entitle Hepatitis C risk assessment among Arab / Chaldean American People in Southeast Michigan. 2005-06. Project funded by Roche Inc.

• Principal Investigator / Grant proposal entitled, An Epidemiological Study Health Assessment of Iraqi Americans Residing in Southeast Michigan.  Research sponsored by Pfizer Corporation and implemented through ACCESS Community Health & Research Center, 2004-2005.
  
  
• Principal Investigator / Grant proposal entitled, "Psychiatric Disorders in Iraqi Refugees: Mental Health Recipients (Nov. 01 - Jan. 02) Dearborn MI. Research sponsored by Center for Victims of Torture, Minnesota, through ACCESS Community Health and Research Center / Mental Health Clinic, 2001 - 2002.
  
  
  

Publications for the last five years (Total 143 publications)

• Jamil, H., Elsouhag, D., Hiller, S., Arnetz, J.E., Arnetz, B.B. Sociodemographic risk indicators of hookah smoking among White Americans: A pilot study. Nicotine Tob Res 2010 12: 525-529
• Jamil, H., Campbell-Voytal K, Arnetz JE. Perceptions of training in occupational and environmental medicine among family medicine residents.. J Occup Environ Med. 2010 Feb;52(2):202-6.
• Rice VH, Weglicki LS, Templin T, Jamil, H., Hammad A. Intervention Effects on Tobacco Use in Arab and Non-Arab American Adolescents. Ms. Ref. No.:  ADDICTBEH-D-09-00150. Journal Addict Behav. 2010 Jan;35(1):46-8
• Jamil, H., Templin T, Fakhouri M, Rice VH, Khouri R, Fakhouri H, Hasan Al-Omran , Ibrahim Al-Fauori, Omer Baker (2009). Comparison of Personal Characteristics, Tobacco Use, and Health States in Chaldean, Arab American, and non-Middle Eastern White Adults. J Immigr Minor Health. 2009, 11:310-317.
• Bengt B. Arnetz, Thamer A. Hamdan, Mary Grzybowski, Rick Severson, Sawsan W. Shukri, Jamil, H., War-related mental health disorders among Iraqis 10 years after the 1991 Gulf War: A comparative study of soldiers and civilians living under sustained socio-environmental stress. The New Iraqi Journal of Medicine 2009; 5 (1): 9 -21
• Jamil, H., Matthew Ventimiglia, Hyder Makki, Bengt Arnetz. Mental  Health and Treatment Response Among Iraqi Refugees as Compared to Other Non-War Exposed Arab Immigrants. A Pilot Study in Southeast Michigan.. Journal of Immigrant and Refugee Studies [Accepted, 2009]
• Jamil, H., Matthew Ventimiglia, Rahim Mahmoud, Bengt Arnetz. Somatic and Psychiatric Disorders and Health Care Utilization among Iraqi Refugees and Yemeni Immigrant The New Iraqi Journal of Medicine 2009 ; 5 (3): 14- 22 ; 5): 14- 22
• Jamil, H., Elsouhag, D., Hiller, S., Arnetz, J.E., Arnetz, B.B. Sociodemographic risk indicators of hookah smoking among White Americans: A pilot study. Nicotine Tob Res 2010 12: 525-529Florence Dallo,Monty Fakhouri, Thomas Templin, Radwan Khoury, Haifa Fakhouri, The Prevalence of Self-Reported Chronic Conditions among Arab-, Chaldean-, and African-Americans in Southeast Michigan. Ethnicity & Disease Journal, 2009; 19(3):293-300.
• Jamil, H., Elsouhag, D., Hiller, S., Arnetz, J.E., Arnetz, B.B. Sociodemographic risk indicators of hookah smoking among White Americans: A pilot study. Nicotine Tob Res 2010 12: 525-529MD, PhD; Kimberly Campbell-Voytal, PhD; Judith Arnetz, PhD, MPH. Family medicine residents' perceptions of the usefulness of training in occupational and environmental medicine. Journal of Occupational & Environmental Medicine. [Accepted 2009]
• Jamil, H., Fakhouri, M., Dallo, F., Templin, T., Khoury, R., Fakhouri, H. Self-Reported Heart Disease among Arab and Chaldean American Women Residing in Southeast Michigan. / Ethnicity and Disease Journal / 2008 Volume 18 No 1. 19-25
• Jamil, H., Fakhouri, M., Dallo, F., Templin, T., Khoury, R., Fakhouri. Disparities in Self-Reported Diabetes Mellitus among Arab-, Chaldean-, and African- Americans in Southeast Michigan" / Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health./ 2008 Vol. 10 No. 5, 397-405
• Markey Johnson; Jerome Nriagu; Adnan Hammad; Kathryn Savoie & Jamil, H., Elsouhag, D., Hiller, S., Arnetz, J.E., Arnetz, B.B. Sociodemographic risk indicators of hookah smoking among White Americans: A pilot study. Nicotine Tob Res 2010 12: 525-529. Asthma, Environmental Risk Factors, and Hypertension among Arab Americans in Metro Detroit. Accepted at J Immigrant Minority Health [Published on line, 2008]
• Virginia Hill Rice, PhD, RN; Linda S. Weglicki, PhD, RN; Thomas N. Templin, PhD; Jamil, H., MD, PhD; Adnan Hammad, PhD. Intervention Effects on Tobacco Use in Arab and Non-Arab American Adolescents. Journal of Nicotine and Tobacco Research.[Ppublish on line 2008]
• Linda S. Weglicki, PhD, RN, Thomas N. Templin, PhD, Virginia Hill Rice, PhD, RN, CNS, FAAN, Jamil, H., Elsouhag, D., Hiller, S., Arnetz, J.E., Arnetz, B.B. Sociodemographic risk indicators of hookah smoking among White Americans: A pilot study. Nicotine Tob Res 2010 12: 525-529, MD, PhD, Adnan Hammad, PhD., Comparison of Cigarette and Water-Pipe Smoking by Arab and Non–Arab-American Youth. Am J Prev Med 2008;35(4) 335- 339
• Jamil, H., Elsouhag, D., Hiller, S., Arnetz, J.E., Arnetz, B.B. Sociodemographic risk indicators of hookah smoking among White Americans: A pilot study. Nicotine Tob Res 2010 12: 525-529MD, PhD; Mary Grzybowski, PhD; Julie Hakim-Larson, PhD; Monty Fakhouri, MSCHS; Jessica Sahutoglu, MS; Radwan Khoury, PhD; Haifa Fakhouri, PhD. Factors Associated With Self-Reported Depression In Arab, Chaldean, And African Americans. Ethnicity & Disease, 2008, Vol. 18 (4), 464-470
• Blessman, J., Skupski, , J., Jamil, M. H., Jamil, H., Bassett, D., Wabeke, R., Arnetz, B. Barriers to At-Home-Preparedness In Public Health Employees:  Implications for Disaster Preparedness Training / JOEM, 2007, Vol. 49(3): 318-326
• Jamil, H., Mohamed Farrag, Julie Hakim-Larson, Talib Kafaji, Husam Abdulkhaleq, & Adnan Hammad. "Mental Health Symptoms In Iraqi Refugees: Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Anxiety, and Depression"  J. of Cultural Diversity. 2007, Vol. 14 No.1,19-25
• Jamil, H., Nassar-McMillan, S., Lambert, R., Immigration and Attendant Psychological Sequalae: A Comparison of Three Waves of Iraqi Immigrants. American Journal of Orthopsychiatry 2007, 77(2):199-205
• Virginia Hill Rice, PhD, RN; Thomas Templin, PhD; Adnan Hammad, PhD; Linda Weglicki, PhD, RN; Jamil, H., MD, PhD; Sharifa Abou-Mediene, MD, MPH. Collaborative Research of Tobacco Use & Its Predictors In Arab & Non-Arab American 9th Graders. Ethn Dis. 2007; 17 [Suppl 3]: S3-19
• Linda S. Weglicki, PhD, RN; Thomas Templin, PhD; Adnan Hammad, PhD; Jamil, H., MD, PhD; Sharifa Abou-Mediene, MD, MPH; Mona Farroukh;
• Mary Johnson, PhD; Jerome Nriagu, PhD; Adnan Hammad, PhD; Kathryn Savoie, PhD; Jamil, H. MD, PhD. Asthma, Environmental Risk Factors, & Hypertension Among Arab in The Metro Detroit Area. Ethn Dis. 2007; 17 [Suppl 3]:S3-46
• Jamil, H., MD, PhD; Sylvia Nassar-McMillan, PhD; Richard Lambert, PhD; Adnan Hammad, PhD. Medical Complaints Of Iraqi American People Before & After The 1991 Gulf War. Ethn Dis. 2007; 17 [Suppl 3]: S3-77-78
• Julie Hakim Larson, PhD; Mohamed Farrag, PhD; Jamil, H., MD, PhD; Talib Kafaji, EdD; Husam Abdulkhaleq, MA; Adnan Hammad, PhD. Hope & Fostering The Well-Being of Refugees From Iraq Ethn Dis. 2007; 17[ Suppl 3]: S3-83-84
• Rice, V., Weglicki, L., Templin, T., Hammad, A., Jamil, H., & Kulwicki, A.(2006). Predictors of Arab American Adolescent Tobacco Use. Journal of Merrill Palmer Quarterly, 2006, 52(2), 327-342.
• Jamil, H., Nassar-McMillan, S., Salman, W.S., Tahar, M., Jamil, L.H. Iraqi Gulf War Veteran Refugees in the U.S.: PTSD and Physical Symptoms. Journal of Social Work Health Care; 2006, 43(4):85-98
• Jamil, H., Hill Rice,V., Hammad, A., Jamil, L.H. Pass, H. Tobacco Use among Arab American Adults In Southeastern Michigan Community. Iraqi Medical Journal, 2006, Vol. 52(1): 56-61
• Jamil, H., Nassar-McMillan, S. Lambert, R. Hammad, A. Brief Note: Health Assessment of Iraqi Immigrants. Journal of Immigrant & Refugee Studies. 2006 Vol. 4, No. 4, P:69-73
• Johnson, M., Nriagu, J., Hammad, A., Savoie, K., Jamil, H., Asthma Prevalence & Severity in the Detroit Area, Michigan. Journal of Immigrant Health, Vol. 7,No. 3, 165-178, 2005
• Slotnck, M.J., Nriagu, J.O., Johnson, M.M., Jamil, H., Hammad, A. Profiles of Trace Elements in Toenails of Arab Americans in the Detroit Area Michigan. Biological Trace Element research, Vol. 107. No. 2, 113-126, November 2005
• Savoie, K., Savas, S. A., Hammad, A., Jamil, H., Nriagu, J.O., Abdulrahim S. Environmental Justice and Environmental Health: Focus group Assessments of the Perceptions of Arab Americans in Metro Detroit. Ethnicity & Disease, J., Vol.  15, No. 1, S1-41-42, 2005
• Johnson, M., Hammad, A., Nriagu, J.O., Savoie, K., Jamil, H., Environmental Disease Burdon in Arab-American Communities in the Detroit Area: Prevalence & Severity. Ethnicity & Disease, J., Vol. 15, No. 1, S1-43-46, 2005
• Zajac, L.M., Nriagu, J.O., Savoie, K., Hammad, A., Jamil, H., Costs of Environmentally Attributable Diseases in the Arab-American Community in the Detroit Area. Ethnicity & Disease, J., Vol. 15, No. 1, S1-47-48, 2005
• Hammad, A., Nriagu, J.O., Savoie, K., Johnson, M., Jamil, H., Knowledge, beliefs, & Attitudes About Environmental Diseases Among Arab-American Communities in the Detroit Area. Ethnicity & Disease, J., Vol. 15, No. 1, S1-49-51, 2005
• Rice, V.H., Templin, T., Weglicki, L., Jamil, H., Hammad, A., Baker, O., Kulwick, A., Al-Omran, H., Al-Faouri, I., Thomsson, F., Dakroub, M., Abou-Mediene, S. Predictors of Tobacco Use Among Lebanese, Yemeni and Iraqi Adolescents, 14-18 Years of Age. Ethnicity & Disease, J., Vol. 15, No. 1, S1-57-59, 2005
• Jamil, H., Hakim-Larson, J., Farrag, M., Kafaji, T., Jamil, L.H., & Hammad, A. Medical Complaints among Iraqi American Refugees with Mental Disorders. Journal of Immigrant Health, Vol. 7, No. 3, 145-152, July 2005
• Abou-Mediene, S., Rice, V.H., Jamil, H., Templin, T., Hammad, A., Weglicki, L., Kulwick, A., Al-Faouri, I., Al-Omran, H., Baker, O., Dakroub, M., Thomsson, F. A Comparison of Psychosocial Factors and Tobacco Use among Arab & Arab American Adolescents: Preliminary Finding. Ethnicity & Disease, J., Vol.15, No. 1, S1-60-61, 05, 2005
• Al-Faouri, I., Rice, V.H., Weglicki, L., Kulwick, A., Jamil, H., Baker, O., Al-Omran, H., Dakroub, M. Culturally Sensitive Smoking Cessation Intervention Program Redesign for Arab-American Youth. Ethnicity & Disease, J. Vol. 15, No.1, S1-62-64, 2005
• Templin, T., Rice, V.H., Gadelrab, H., Weglicki, L., Hammad, A., Kulwick, A., Al-Omran, H, Al-Faouri, I., Baker, O., Jamil, H., Thomsson, F., Dakroub, M., Abou-Mediene, S. Trends in Tobacco Use Among Arab/Arab-American Adolescents: Preliminary Findings. Ethnicity & Disease, J., Vol.  15, No. 1, S1-65-68, 2005.