Asem Ata Shehabi

Professor Asem Ata Al-Shehabi, DSc.

He was born and grew up in Al-Quds Al-Sharif (Jerusalem) and studied in its schools. He traveled to Germany and studied biological sciences, obtaining his first academic diploma from the University of Hamburg, Germany, in 1967. He then earned a Diploma in Medical Microbiology and a Doctorate in Sciences/Medical Microbiology from the University of Kiel, Germany, in 1972. He worked for two years in the Internal Medical Clinic at Eppendorfer University Hospital in Hamburg, Germany.

He started his academic profession as a teaching member in the faculty of medicine, and as a consultant and director of medical microbiology at the University Jordan Hospital in Amman. The author obtained his professorship in 1985 and worked as a free consultant for the World Health Organization for many years.

During his long academic career of over 45 years, Dr. Shehabi has published 142 scientific research and studies related to various types of medical microbes, including bacteria, viruses, and fungi, especially papers dealing with antimicrobial resistance, epidemiology of microbial infections, the spread of infections in hospitals and community, and probiotics in internationally indexed journals. He published three books specialized in medical microbiology and health sciences in the Arabic language. He also published nearly a thousand public scientific articles related to human microbes, antibiotics, and public health sciences concerned with human life in scientific and cultural Arabic journals. The author received several international scientific and research grants and awards, which he has spent at a number of universities in Germany, Sweden, and the USA.