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Professor
MD Anderson UT
Disclosure(s): No financial relationships to disclose
Dr. Ray Hachem is a Professor of Medicine and Director of Extramural Education Program in the Department of Infectious Diseases and Infection Control at The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas. Dr. Hachem earned a Bachelor of Science in Chemical and Biomedical Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin. He earned his medical degree from the University of Santiago, where he also completed his internship. Dr. Hachem joined M. D. Anderson in March 1988 as a fellow and currently serves as Principal Investigator on a number of clinical trials. He has received numerous national scientific and professional honors. He is also a Co-Inventor on several U. S. patents which have been granted. Dr. Hachem has authored over 200 peer reviewed articles published in prestigious journals such as Clinical Infectious Diseases, Lancet Infectious Diseases, Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, Cancer, and New England Journal of Medicine.
Dr. Hachem served as the chairman of the Division of Internal Medicine Research Committee. The national president of the American Lebanese Medical Association (ALMA).The director of the World Institute of Medical Education (WIME). He also serves on the Institutional Review Board (IRB), the Institutional Research Grant (IRG) Committee, the Infection Control Committee, and the Ad Hoc Committee of for the Prevention of Fungal Infections. He is an active member of the Harris County Medical Society, Texas Infectious Diseases (TIDS), and American Society for Microbiology (ASM), Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA), the American College of Physicians (ACP) and the Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA).