Professor of Emergency Medicine
American University of Beirut, Lebanon
Dr. Eveline Hitti is Professor of Clinical Emergency Medicine at AUB. She graduated with an M.D. degree from Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in 2002, where she also completed her residency training in Emergency Medicine. After spending four years at Medstar Health and completing her MBA at the Johns Hopkins Carey Business School, Dr. Hitti joined AUB in 2009.
She is current Chairperson of the Department of Emergency Medicine at AUBMC. During her tenure at AUB, Dr. Hitti led the building up the Department of Emergency Medicine, taking it from its infancy phase to a full-fledged academic department with an ACGME-I accredited residency program, an EM student Clerkship, expanded clinical services and scholarly output. Dr Hitti has received multiple awards in recognition of her work advancing Emergency Medicine internationally including the Cristina Costin International Leadership Award and the Samuel Asper Medical Education Award.
Dr Hitti’s scholarly work has focused on applying and developing evidence-based health management practices to improve quality and safety of patient care. In addition, Dr. Hitti’s research focuses on emergency preparedness, acute care and management practices in the low resource setting.