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Doaa Mohamed Helmy Ahmed Barakat

Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

Language:

ar en

Experience:

23

Nationality:

Egypt

Registration & License

DOH

GD24026

Biography

Doaa Barakat graduated with excellent grades with honors from Ain Shams University, Egypt. She received Arab board Certification in 2006 and PH.D from Egypt in 2009. She is an assistant professor since 2017 in Okasha institute of psychiatry, with subspecialty in child and adolescent psychiatry. She completed a one-year equivalent clinical fellowship in sleep medicine at sleep and Fatigue Institute, Canada, 2012-2015. She is now a consultant psychiatrist in Al Ain Hospital and Sheikh Tahnoon Medical City, UAE since December 2018. She is the manager of Sakina for Children Center, Al Ain. She has thirteen publications with ongoing research projects.

Specialties

  • Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

Professional Experience

Dec 2018 - Present

Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Consultant and manager of Sakina for Children Center, Al Ain.

Qualifications

Arab board of psychiatry, PhD in psychiatry

Doaa Barakat is a graduate of Ain Shams University, Egypt where she graduated with excellent grades with honors. She received her Arab board Certification in 2006 and PH.D from Ain Shams University in Egypt in 2009. She recived her training in Okasha institute of psychiatry (Institute Of Psychiatry at the Faculty of Medicine, Ain Shams University) which is one of two WHO Collaborating Centres for Research and Training in Mental Health in the WHO-EMRO, where she holds a position as assistant professor of psychiatry since 2017, with subspecialty in child and adolescent psychiatry.

Publications & Papers

Publication

1- Prenatal and perinatal risk factors in ADHD in a sample of Egyptian ADHD children. Middle East Current Psychiatry: July 2008. 2- Studying medication adherence in patients with schizophrenia: focus on antipsychotic-related factors The Middle East Current Psychiatry; January 2016 3- Relation between insomnia and Stress, Anxiety and Depression among Egyptian medical students. The Middle East Current Psychiatry; July 2016 4- Dimensionality of the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index in the collegiate young adults. Springerplus. 2016 Sep 13;5(1). 5- Quality of sleep in a sample of Egyptian medical students. The Middle East Current Psychiatry; October 2016. 6- Screening for Obstructive Sleep Apnea in Tramadol Users: A Case-Control Study. The Middle East Current Psychiatry: April 2017 - Volume 24 - Issue 2 - p 63–67. 7- Screening for Obstructive Sleep Apnea in patients with Treatment-Resistant Depression: A Case-Control Study. Middle East Current Psychiatry: April 2018 - Volume 25 - Issue 2 - p 57–63. 8- Attitude towards Psychiatry among interns in Egypt. The Middle East Current Psychiatry: January 2018 - Volume 25 - Issue 1 - p 29-33. 9- Methylenetetrahydrofolate Reductase Gene Polymorphisms and Executive Functions in a Sample of Egyptian Children with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. The Middle East current Psychiatry: October 2018-25(4):166-172 · 10- The sociodemographic and clinical characteristics of tramadol dependence among Egyptians and their relationship to the associated insomnia. Addictive Disorders & Their Treatment 17(2):1 · March 2018. 11- Aggression in ADHD: relation to salivary cortisol. Middle East Current Psychiatry volume 28, Article number: 25 (2021). 12- Atomoxetine in Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder in Children with and Without Comorbid Mood Disorders. J Child Adolesc Psychopharmacol. 2021 Jun; 31(5):332-341. doi: 10.1089/cap.2020.0178. 13- Spectrum of neuro-genetic disorders in the United Arab Emirates national population. Clin Genet 2021 Aug 10. doi: 10.1111/cge.14044.

Memberships

Egyptian psychiatric association

member