Prof. Dr. Muhammad Hussein Hashem Al-Hakim

Born in 1953 in Basra, studied elementary school in Baghdad in the Kadhimiyah area in 1964 and completed the middle school in 1967 and preparatory in 1970.

He enrolled in the Faculty of Pharmacy at Baghdad University in 1975 and completed his PhD at the Medical College of St. John's Hospital at Bartolomeo University in London.

Al Hakim participated in the Royal College of Pathological Analysis in 1982 and received a postdoctoral degree in pathological analysis from the Faculty of Medicine of St. Bartholomew Hospital in Britain.

Management positions

He held several positions, including assistant researcher in the pharmacology department of the College of Medicine at University of Basrah in 1976-1978 and postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Clinical Chemistry at St. Bartholomew Hospital Medical School in Britain; He was a faculty member and head of the radioisotope’s unit at the College of Medicine at University of Basrah in 1982-1984. He worked as a rapporteur for the Pharmacology department at the College of Medicine at the University of Basrah in 1983 and as Head of the Pharmacology department in 1984-1985, and served as head of the physiology department in1993-1996 and was director of the Hemoglobin Morbidity Unit and head of the Pathology and Forensic Medicine department in 1996-1999, as dean of the College of Pharmacy in 1999/03 and head of the pharmacology department in 2003 at the College of Medicine at University of Basrah.

The most important scientific achievements

Al-Hakim had many scientific achievements, including manufacturing pharmaceuticals used inside Iraq and teaching students of undergraduate studies in pharmacology and toxicology and medical analysis in the College of Medicine, as well as teaching students of undergraduate studies and graduate students in Baghdad and Basrah and supervising many postgraduate studies in the College of Medicine and the College of Science and Pharmacy at Basrah and Baghdad universities in the doctoral and master's stages.

He has more than thirty researches in the field of radioactive and non-radioactive isotopes to measure medicines inside and outside the body and in extracting effective pharmaceuticals from local medicinal plants and using them to prepare various pharmaceutical preparations as well as optimal use of medicine in order to improve its performance, reduce its toxicity and diagnose side effects.