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Dr. Philippe M. Frossard
Dean, School of Arts & Sciences
Dr. Philippe M. Frossard joined LAU as the Dean of the School of Arts and Sciences on both the Beirut and Byblos campuses in October 2011.
He received his B.Sc. (1975), M.Sc. (1976), M.Phil. (1977), and Ph.D. (1979), all with honors from the faculties of Sciences and Medicine of the University Louis Pasteur in Strasbourg, France. In 1996, he was awarded a D.Sc. from his alma mater for his lifetime achievements.
Dr. Frossard is a medical scientist who comes to LAU with a wealth of scholarly, teaching and administrative experience in the United States, England, Japan, France, Australia, Pakistan and the United Arab Emirates.
Prior to joining LAU, he served as the Director and Vice President for Research at the Center for Non-Communicable Diseases in Karachi, Pakistan. From 2009 until March 2011, he was the Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Abu Dhabi University, UAE, where he also served as Acting Provost and Acting Vice-Chancellor.
From 2001 to 2009, Dr. Frossard was the Abdulaziz Hussainali Sharif Endowed Professor and Chairperson in the Department of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, at the Medical College of Aga Khan University in Pakistan. From 1993 to 2001, he served as Associate Professor and Deputy Chair of the Department of Pathology at UAE University in the UAE.
From 1983 to 1990, Dr. Frossard worked at California Biotechnology, Inc., California, USA, where he served as Senior Scientist and Director of the Division of Molecular Genetics (1987–1990). Prior to that, he served as Medical Research Fellow (1981–1983) in the Department of Human Genetics at the University of Michigan Medical Center, Ann Arbor, USA.
Dr. Frossard has published extensively on cardiovascular and coronary diseases in a number of prestigious journals. He has received over 40 grants to research topics ranging from the causes of heart diseases to genetic determinants of diabetes and stroke. He holds several medical patents.
He has received awards from major international bodies, including UNESCO’s World’s Young Scientist Award, which he won in 1971, and the Chevalier de l’Ordre National du Mérite (Knight of the National Order of Merit), conferred on him by France in 2003.
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- Dr. Abdallah Sfeir
- Mr. Emile Lamah
- Mr. Roy Majdalani
- Dr. Cedar Mansour
- Dr. Elise Salem
- Dr. Elie Badr
- Dr. Lynn Eckhert
- Dr. Said Elfakhani
- Dr. Philippe Frossard
- Dr. Nancy Hoffart
- Dr. George E. Nasr
- Dr. Pierre A. Zalloua
- Dr. Raed Mohsen
- Dr. Mars E. Semaan
- Mr. Charles Abou Rjeily
- Dr. Sami Baroudi
- Mr. Camille Abou-Nasr
- Mr. Abdo G. Ghié
- Mr. Georges Hamouche
- Ms. Sonia Hajjar
- Ms. Peggy Hanna
- Mr. Robert Hollback
- Mr. Nassib Nasr