updated: October 4, 2009
SOME INFORMATION ABOUT THE PHYSICIAN
Dr Rachid completed his medical studies at the American University of Beirut, Lebanon. He then pursued his residency training in psychiatry in the United States initially at the Ohio State University then at Yale University where he received his degrees in psychiatry, hospital psychiatry and psychopharmacology. He is also a diplomate of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology and holds a certificate of intensive training from the Berenson-Allen Center for Noninvasive Brain Stimulation at Harvard University.
Since
1998, and during his residency training at Yale University as a Chief
Resident, Dr Rachid participated in early research activities in
the field of transcranial magnetic stimulation and its applications in
the treatment of auditory hallucinations and treatment-resistant
depression.
In 2002, he moved to Switzerland where he worked as an attending physician then as an associate physician in the Adult Psychiatric Services of the University Hospitals of Geneva. For five years, he also worked on clinical research in transcranial magnetic stimulation focusing particularly on treatment-resistant depression.
Dr Rachid is a member of the following associations:
-
Fédération des médecins suisses (FMH).
- Association des médecins du canton de Genève (AMG).
- American Psychiatric Association (APA).
- Club rTMS et psychiatrie,
- Swiss Society of Biological Psychiatry (SSPB).
- International Society for Interpersonal Psychotherapy
(ISIPT).
- Co-founder and vice-president of the Swiss Society of Interpersonal Psychotherapy (SSPI).
Spoken languages:
french, english, arabic, italian and spanish