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Name: Dr. Mohammad Abdullah Hassuneh
Nationality: Pelestinian.
Place of birth:Rafidia, Nablus
Date of birth: May 15th. 1948
Marrital status: Married + 8 children
Address: Rafidia – Nablus
Tel-Resid: 00970-9-2348666
Mobile:00970--599-935142
Email: mhassuneh@hotmail.com ,and : m_hassuneh@yahoo.com
Languages: Arabic, English, and Hebrew
Qualifications:
1. Foreign Animal Diseases Diagnosticians Training course, The Animal and
Plant Health Inspection Service, Plum Island. USA 1994.
2. Master of Preventive Veterinary Medicine (MPVM) University of CaliforniaDavis, USA. 1984.
3. Specialization on diagnosis of Poultry Diseases, Kimron Veterinary Institute,
Beit Dagan, Israel 1976-1977.
4. BVM&S, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine Cairo University 1973.
Training Courses:
1. Training on Diagnosis, Treatment, and Control of Poultry Diseases for two
months in departments of avian medicine at the universities of Georgia .
Pensylvania , Iowa , Arkansas, California- Davis and Texas A&M 1981.
2. Training course at the reference laboratories in UK (Weybridge ) on diagnosis
of zoonotic diseases ,August-September 1989.
3. Advanced course in veterinary medicine (10 days ) at the Kimron Veterinary
Institute. Beit Dagan- Israel, 1995.
4. Management and skills course UNDP and Alquds University, 2000.
5. Epidemiology training course. Terramo-Italy. (FAO fund) June 1995.
6. Risk analysis and risk management. WTO and OIE, Paris 1995.
7. Training course on hydatid disease, zoonotic disease in animals and man,
Cyprus , 1995.
8. Zoonotic diseases courses by WHO ,Ramallah, 1996.
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Area of Work:
1. Faculty member, school of Vet. Medicine, An- Najah National University
from 8.11.2003 – present
Lecturing on Zoonoses, Poultry diseases.
Epidemiology, and Infectious animal diseases .
2. Board member and Veterinary consultant, Palestine Poultry
Company.LTD.Tulkarm , 8.11.2003 present.
3Director General of Veterinary Services and Animal Health, Ministry of
Agriculture , Palestine 25.4.1994 – 8/11/2003.
4Director of Veterinary Services, West Bank, from 1.1.1986 – 25.12.2005.
5Deputy Director of Veterinary services and Poultry Diseases specialist. West
Bank 1.11.1984 – 31.12.1985.
6Poultry Diseases Officer of West Bank 1.2.1976 – 31.12.1985.
8Hebron Veterinary Officer from 1.4.1974 – 31.1.1976.
9Nablus Veterinary office ,15.6.1973 – 31.3.1974.
Academic Work:
1. Faculty Member. Faculty of Veterinary Medicine. An-Najah National
University, 8.11.2003 – present..
2. Part-time lecturer at Faulty of Veterinary Medicine 2001-2003.
3. Part –time lecturer at Faculty f Agriculture, An-Najah National University
from 1989-1995
4. Coordinator and lecturer for many courses for veterinarians and agriculture
engineers, funded by Italian NGO's , AOAD,and CARE international.
5. Palestinian Team- leader for regional research projects on animal
diseases(Brucellosis,FMD,Neonatal diseases,and poultry diseases )funded by
MERC/ USAID.1996-2002),Researchers and Veterinarians from Palestine,
Jordan ,Egypt ,and Israel participated.
6. As Director General of the Palestinian Veterinary Services ,had the position as
Counterpart on Brucellosis control program which was funded by Argentine
,Spain ,and Japan ,and was implemented by UNDP.
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Participation in Conferences and Research paper:
1. Emerging poultry diseases in Palestine. The Eleventh Scientific Conference of
the General Federation of Arab Veterinarians, Amman-Jordan-27-29
April,2006..
2. An outbreak of concurrent infection of Avian Influenza, Chicken Infectious
Anemia, and Ornithobacterium Rhinotracheale in a broiler farm. Fava
Congress Seoul 2004, South Korea.
3. Campylobacter Jejuni Infection on Poultry Farms and its Effect on Poultry
Contamination During Slaughtering. Journal Food Protection. 49: 895 -903
(November 1986).
4. Keratinophilic Fungi on the Hair of Cows, Donkeys, Rabbits, Cats and Dogs
from the West Bank. J. Mycopathologia. 104: 109-121 (1988).
5. Keratinophilic Fungi on Sheep Hairs from the West Bank. Journal
Mycopatholigia 106: 95-101 (1989).
6. Keratinophilic fungi on sheep hairs from the West Bank. Journal
Mycopathologia 104:103-108 (1988).
7. Conference: The 3rd scientific meeting of the Arab Veterinarians held at
Amman, Jordan University, Faculty of Engineering, between 31/10-3/11/1986.
8. Conference: “Brucellosis in West Bank”, Beir Zeit University, 1991.
9. Seminar on Economic Significant Reproductive Disorders in small Ruminants
held at Amman, The Jordan- German technical cooperation between 6/5/1990 10/5/1990.
10. Compatibility and Incompatibility of Coccidiostats with Various Drugs and
Antibiotics used in Poultry, Seminar on Drug Residues Beir Zeit University.
1993.
11. Animal Health Problems and Needs in the Occupied Palestinian Territories;
Symposium and Workshop on Animal Health Issues in the Middle East,
Proceeding , 17-21 April 1994, Sharm-elsheikh. Egypt.
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12Palestinian.team leader,MERC Project on Poultry Disease, Tumour Viruses,
and Immunosuppressive Diseases from 1997-2002.
13. Principle investigator in the Regional Animal Health Cooperation Program on
FMD, Brucellosis and Neonatal Disease 1996 – 2002.
14. Conference on Hydatid Disease, Cyprus 1995.
15. Member of the Regional oversight Committee (ROC) and Chairman in the
year 2001-2002.
16.MERC-EU
Workshop”Animal
Health
Issues
in
the
Middle
East”
Ramallah,Palestine,October27-29,1998
17. MZCP meeting, Luxor, Egypt, November 1999 Presenting the Zoonotic
Diseases in Palestine.
18. Regional collaboration: Epidemiological investigation of specific Diseases in
the Middle East. Robinson, R.A., Saperstien, G., Hassuneh,M., Ragheb, A.R.,
Reda, IU.M, and Yokobson, B. 27 world veterinary conference, Tunesia Sept.
2002.
19. FMD, International meeting, June 2002 Leon-France.
20. Office of International Epizootica Annual Meetings during May every year
starting 1995 – till 2003.
Membership and Technical Participation;
1. Member of the advisory & technical committee, Palestinian team to
the peace conference, Veterinary Medicine and Agriculture
Committee.
2. Palestinian representative at the International Animal Health
Organization O.I.E , attending the annual meeting for 9 years. 1994 –
2003
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3. Participation in regional meetings and conferences in the Middle - East
that concern the topics of veterinary services and animal health.
4. Member of the Palestinaian National Zoonotic Committee.
5. Ex- member in the National Bio-Diversity Committee in Palestine.
6. Ex- Secretary of the Palestinian Syndicate
7. Member of the Palestinian Syndicate.
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