Prof. Dr.Hamanajim Jaff

Professor Dr.Hama Najm Hama Faraj Jaff

Date of birth: 1st July, 1946

Place of birth: Kifri, Kirkuk, Iraq

Nationality:  Iraqi Citizen   

Sex: Male

Marital status:  Married with Two sons and a daughter

Current Address:

Respiratory Training Center,

 Rizgary Teaching Hospital,

Erbil, Kurdistan Region, Iraq

Tel. 00964-750 4482965

E-mail: [email protected] or [email protected]  

PO Box Address: 116/5

Graduation:

M.B.Ch.B. (Mosul)-1969, Mosul College of Medicine, Mosul University, Mosul, Iraq 

Qualifications:

M.B.Ch.B. (Mosul)-1969

M.R.C.P.I (Ireland) -1984 

D.T.M (London) -1985mCardiothoracic Institute, London University, UK

F.C.CP. (USA) -1990

FRCP (London) -2003

Appointed by the Royal College as International Advisor for Iraq from 2004-2011

FRCP (Glasgow) -2004

FRCP (Ireland) -2005

Registration:

Full registration with General Medical Council-UK 

No. 2882671

Date 22, November, 1983

 Membership of Scientific and Professional Societies:  

-Iraqi Medical Association

-Kurdistan Medical Syndicate

-European Respiratory Society  

-Kurdistan Cardiothoracic Society                                                

Professional And Academic position

Cosultant Respiratory Physician-1990

Professor of Medicine- 2003

Current Position:

Consultant Respiratory Physician, Rizgary Teaching Hospital

Head of Respiratory Training Center, Kurdistan Board for Medical Specialties,            

Erbil, Kurdistan Region, Iraq.                                                                      

Previous Posts:                

In Iraq

Army Medical Officers, Kirkuk Military Hospital – Iraq, 1969-1971.                     

House Officer, YarmookTeaching Hospital, Baghdad ,Iraq-1971-1972.

General Practitioner, Chwarta Health Center, Sulaymania,Iraq,1972-1974.

 Karama Teaching hospital-Baghdad, Iraq, 1974-1978.    

In United Kingdom(UK)

Locum SHO- Chest Medicine – Healthfeild Hospital ,Ayer,Scotland, UK, 1/2/1981-1/5/1981.             

Locum SHO – Neurology – Institute of Neurological Science, Glasgow – Scotland, UK, 1/6/1981-1/9/1981.

Registrar – Medicine-Stonehouse Hospital, Stonehouse, Scotland, UK, 1/10/1981-1/8/1984-

In Iraq

Consultant Physician,Rizgary Teaching Hospital , Erbil, Iraq-1/11/1985.

Senior Lecture in Medicine, Department of,Medicine, College of Medicine, Salahaddin  University, Erbil , Iraq, 1/2/1986-22/5/1990.

Assistant Professor in Medicine, Department of Medicine, Salahaddin University, Erbil , Iraq, 23/5/1990

-Editor and founder of Zanco Journal for Medical Sciences, 1989

Head of Department of Medicine, College of Medicine, Salahaddin University, Erbil, Iraq28/7/1990.

Dean of College of Medicine, Salahaddin University, Erbil, Iraq. 2/12/1993-1/6/2004,

Member of Higher Education and Scientific Research Council of Iraqi-Kurdistan, 2/9/1993.   

President of Kurdistan higher Council of Medical Specialties, 1/2/2009-31/12/2017.

I established the council and founded its scientific and administrative structure.

-Editor of Journal of Kurdistan Board of Medical Specialties (2015-2017)

Clinical Experience

While I was doing my postgraduate studies in Scotland-UK, I have worked as Medical Register in a busy general district hospital with 1 in 2 on –call rota in General Medicine for three years.   I was covering Emergency Department as well as coronary care unit.

In 1984 I joined a training course in Chest medicine at Brompton and London chest hospital which included training in bronchoscopy and pulmonary function tests. After completion of the training I was awarded a Diploma in Respiratory Medicine from Cardiothoracic Institute-London University.

On returning to Iraq in 1985, I was appointed as Consultant physician and responsible for 20 beds General Medicine unit. I was covering an Outpatient Consultation clinic one day per week, doing fiberoptic bronchoscope two days per week and reporting pulmonary function test of the hospital.

I am responsible for bronchoscopy and pulmonary function units of Rizgary Teaching Hospital.

My main practice now involves general and cardiothoracic medicine. 

Teaching Experience

Since 1985 I worked as consultant physician and senior lecture in Medicine at Rizgary Teaching Hospital and Salahaddin College of Medicine – Department of medicine. My duties involve theoretical lectures twice per week and clinical bedside teaching for medical students. I participate in assessment and final M.B.Ch.B. examination of the students.

In 1991, I was appointed as Head of Department of Medicine of the College. My duties included monitoring completion of curricula, organizing clinical meetings, tutorials and journal clubs for undergraduate, postgraduate students and junior medical staff.

I supervised training and research programs of postgraduate student leading to High Diploma degree in General Medicine and four Master students in Community Medicine. I also supervised two PhD students in physiology. 

As a member of higher Education and Scientific Research Council, I was responsible for planning policy of undergraduate and postgraduate medical education in Iraqi-Kurdistan.

I played the main role to establish Dentistry College in 1995 and Nursing College in 2001 both in Erbil.I was appointed as Acting Dean of both colleges for one academic year until most of their problems as newly established colleges were solved .

In 2004.Iappointed as supervisor for Iraq and Arab of Medical Specialties in General Medicine until 2009

In 2016,I was appointed as  Head of Respiratory Training Center, Kurdistan Board for Medical Specialties, Erbil, Kurdistan Region, Iraq.                                                                      

Administrative Experience

    I was the Head of Department of Medicine with all its responsibilities from 1990 – 1993.

Dean of Salahaddin College of Medicine – Erbil - 2/12/1993-1/6/2004, after being elected by the teaching staff of the college.

After second Gulf war and UN Sanction on Iraq and Kurdistan Region many difficulties challenged the college.

I worked hard to find financial support, filling the shortages in the teaching staff and to establish postgraduate studies in some branches of medicine.

I was successful to gain the recognition for primary MB.Ch.B. qualification of the college by British GMC in December 1994.

I tried my best to improve the standards of graduates, implementation of the prescribed curricula of the college, expanding postgraduate studies and provision of facilities for research programs.

  I worked hard to persuade the Council of Higher and Research to establish College of Dentistry in 1995 and College of Nursing in 2002.I was appointed as acting Dean for both colleges for one year until the curricula and needs of both colleges were fixed.

I worked in different committees in the college and the university as following:

  1. Head of scientific committee of the college (1987-1991).
  2. Head of academic promotion committee of the college (1988-1992).
  3. Member of the central committee of publication and translation of the university (1991-1994 and then 1998-2001).

Courses

High Diploma course in Advanced Thoracic Medicine, Cardiothoracic Institute, Brompton Chest Hospital, London, October1984 to March1985.

Training course in fiberoptic Bronchoscopy, Brompton and London Chest Hospitals, March, April, and June, 1985.

Conferences

  1. WHO, East Mediterranean health conference, Baghdad, 3-5, February, 1987.
  2. British Council, Recent Advances in Respiratory Medicine, Edinburgh, Scotland 16-27, August, 1987.
  3. Kurdistan Minstery of Health Annual Conferences,Erbil, 1994, 1996 ,1998,2000,2002,2003 and 2004.
  4. Long-term effects of chemical weapons on Halabja population, Washington, Geneva, Paris and Oxford, 1998,1999,2001,2002.
  5. Planning team conference on Curricula Development and community Health for Kurdistan Medical Schools, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, USA,22-28,January,2003
  6. Breast cancer conference, Minstery of Health, Erbil, 1-2, July, 2005.
  7. Minstery of Health, Kurdistan Health System Reform, 1-2, August, 2005.
  8. Health and the Environment in Iraq: Status, Needs and Challanges, Amman,Jordan,Sponsered by Stony Brooke University, New York,19-22,September,2005.
  9. All conferences of Kurdistan Cardiothoracic Society

 

Researches and Publications

1-Published Clinical Research Papers 

  1. M.M. Mohamed,H.M. Hshim, JAFF H. N., Accidental poisoning of children in ERBIL Province ,Ann. Coll.Med.Mosul. 14: 55-60, 1988.
  2. AZIZ J.M., JAFF H. N., Hamed S. K.H.Normal vital capacity and effect of smoking in Erbil, ZJMS Vol.2.No.1,1989.
  3. Hussain S.G., S.G., JAFF H. N., Mohamed M.M., Acute bacterial Meningitis. ZJMS Vol.3.No.1, 1990.
  4. Hussain S.G., JAFF H. N., Mohamed M.M., Acute Meningitis, ZJMS Vol.4.No.1, 1991.
  5. JAFF H.N., Kalid W., Rasol D.M., Pulmonary Aspergillosis from Northen Iraq – A Case Report, ZJMS Vol.1.No.2, 1994.
  6. Mohamed M.M., Omer M.N., JAFF H. N.,Pulmonary function tests among workers in Erbil Tobacco, Factory Journal of faculty of Medicine Baghdad, Vol.32No.3, 1992.
  7. Jaff H. N., Hashim H.M., Omer M.N.,Asthma in Northern Iraq ,ZJMS 2:1,1995.
  8. Fareed H.A., Hashim H.M., JAFF H. N.,Distribution of ABO and Rh blood group systems among Erbil population, ZJMS 2:2, 1995.
  9. Jalil T., Mohamed N., JAFF H. N. Mineral metabolism in Diabetes Mellitus, ZJMS 2:2,1995.
  10. Hamanejm Jaff, Mohammed Ahmed Akrayi, Evaluation of Cardiomyopathy in Erbil, ZJMS, Vol.4, No.(1&2),1998-2000.
  11. Hamanejm Jaff , Raibwar Mohsin,A study of antihypertensive treatment failure in Erbil region, ZJMS,Vol.4,No.(1&2),1998-2000.
  12. Jaff H.N., Salayi J.S., Profile of Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease in Erbil.

     (ZJMS, 5:1, 2001)

  1. JAFF H. N., Habib M.A.,Assessment of Goitre in Children in Erbil, ZJMS, Vol.5, No.1, 2001.
  2. Hamanejm Jaff, Assessment of drug treatment of tuberculosis in Erbil, ZJMS, Vol.9, No.1, 2005.
  3. Hamanejm Jaff, Profile of bronchogenic carcinoma in Kurdistan Regionm, ZJMS, Vol.9, No.2, 2005.

16.Kawa Dizay,Ali Al-Jeboory and Hamanejm Jaff,Pharmacological Studies of Procyanidin Isolated from Crataegus Azarolus,Pakistan Journal of Pharmacology,Vol.22,No.1,January,2005.

  1. Hamanejm Jaff, Outbreaks of Malaria in Erbil Governorate in a decade (1990-200), ZJMS, Vol.10, No. (1&2), 2006.

18.Zana Sidiq Mohammed Saleem,Hamanejm Jaff, Prevalence of Metabolic Syndrome among patientswith Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus in Dohul,Vol.1,No.1,2011

19.Zhyan Hayder,Mohammed Saleh Jaff,Hamanejm Jaff,Smome physiologic and Biochemical Parameter Changes and their Relation with Chronic Kidney Disease, Journal of Koya University,No.24,September,2012.

  1. Shapol J.Ubeid,Hamanejm Jaff,Compliance to Antitubeculos Drugs among Patients in Erbil,Kurdistan,Region,Iraq,Medical Journal of Babylon,Vol.16,No.2.2019.

21.Ali Abulatif  H.Barzinji. Hamnejm Jaff, Sherzad Ali Ismaael, Epidemiology and Clinical Characteristics of patients after recovery from COVI-19 infection in Erbil , Governorate,Iraq, ZJMS, Vol.26, No. 2,2021

2-Published Basic Researches Papers

  1. IsmailM.Maulod, Hamanejm Jaff and Almas M.R.Mahmud, Effect of plasma melatonin and continuous bright light on plasma endothelin-1level and some biochemical and hematological parameters in a Diabetic rat, Zanco Journal of Pure Applied Sceiences.Vol.32 No.3, 2010.
  2. IsmailM.Maulod,Hamanejm Jaffand AlmasM.R.Mahmud, Effect of L-Arginine on Plasma Endotheline-1level in rats with induced Diabetes Mellitus or Pulmonary fibrosis, presented at International Conference of Salahaddin University Erbil,October!8-20,2011.
  3. Ismail M. Maulod, Hamanejm Jaff and Almas M.R.Mahmud, Correlation between plasma Endothelin-1.Blood Glucose and serum Calcium in male rats instillated with Beleomycin.Journal of University of Zakho,Vol.1(A),No.1,2013

3-Published Books

  1. Clinical Examination in Surgery, First Edition, Zhyan Printing Press-Erbil, 1999.
  2. Advanced Sport Medicine, First Edition, Zanco Press-Erbil, 2002 (In Arabic Language).
  3. Clinical Examination in Medicine, (A Concise Practical Guide), First edition,2002.