Dr. Hala Abi Rached

Hala Abi-Rached, MD is a consultant dermatologist at CMC Dubai.She received her medical degree and training in dermatology at Saint Joseph University (USJ) in Lebanon. She continued her training in both adult and pediatric dermatology at Tenon Hospital and Necker Hospital in Paris. Moreover, she holds a diploma in Dermatological Lasers and Esthetic Dermatology from Lille University, France.She started her career in 2008 at Saint-George Hospital University Medical Center in Beirut as a full time dermatologist and as an Assistant Professor at the University of Balamand.She was appointed Acting chief of the Division of Dermatology in 2009 and Program Director in 2018 and holds the position of Chief of the Division of Dermatology since october 2019. She was also named Associate Professor of Dermatology at the University of Balamand in 2013.She has organized and chaired the First Seminar of Pediatric Dermatology in Lebanon and in the Middle East in 2010 where seven international speakers were invited.In November 2014, she organized and presided an international seminar in Beirut for Genetic Skin Diseases “Together against Genodermatoses” that hosted 6 international speakers. Moreover, she has largely contributed to the development of pediatric dermatology in Lebanon as a subspecialized clinician, as a teacher and as a speaker. She’s also an active member of the Lebanese Society of Dermatology since 2005.On an International level, she has been invited as an international speaker in several international meetings of which the “28ième Congres des Dermatologistes Francophones”, the 13th European Society for Pediatric Dermatology Congress and the 9th Franco-Maghrebin Congress of Pediatric Dermatology. She has also participated in several international workshops, courses, and masterclasses in the field of surgery (JDP), dermoscopy (JDP, EADV), and esthetic dermatology / injection techniques (AMWC, AMEC, IMCAS, Allergan Educational Programme). Moreover, she was elected to become a member of the Genodermatoses Network Scientific Committee (France) in 2015 and was nominated to become a member of the Society for Pediatric Dermatology in 2018 (USA).