About

Fawzi Hassani graduated in pharmacy from Damascus University in 1972 and has taught at the Faculty of Pharmacy there since 1980. He has also held teaching appointments at the University of Kalamoon, the International University for Science and Technology, Al-Andalus University for Medical Sciences, the Distinction and Creativity Agency, and Al-Sham Private University.

From 1985 to 1988 he worked at the Carl Gustav Carus Medical Academy in Dresden, with extended periods at the Institutes of Microbiology and Clinical Chemistry. His research with Prof. Wolf Witzleb focused on Legionella infections in Syria, based on serological tests of 500 sera from healthy individuals and 200 double sera from pneumonia cases. He received his Certificate in Microbiology from Dresden in 1986.

In 1998 a DAAD scholarship took him to the Universitätskliniken des Saarlandes in Homburg, with colleagues from Damascus, Aleppo, and Lattakia, and led to a Certificate in Hematology. He passed the Syrian Boards in Microbiology and in Biochemistry in 2016.

He has written four textbooks: Medical Parasitology (Damascus University, 1983), Diagnostic Medical Bacteriology (Dar Al-Quds, 2006), Diagnostic Medical Parasitology and Mycology (2017), and Hematology — Practical Laboratory (2019). From 1991 to 2003 he was Editorial Secretary of the Arab Drug Information Service Bulletin. He directs Al-Hurreit Medical Laboratory in Damascus and is an active member of the Syrian Clinical Laboratory Association.