Name Rima Hazzouri
Title Pediatrics and Neonatology
Primary Specialty Pediatrics & Neonatology Specialist
Languages English, French and Arabic
Contact Details
Email [email protected]

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Scope of Practice

Neonatology

  • Follow up NICU graduated patients.
  • Neonatal complications during or after delivery (high risk pregnancy)
  • Provide care and treat newborns in NICU using extensive medical knowledge and technical skills to provide quality healthcare for premature, and term babies suffering from:
  • Respiratory disorders of newborn
  • Infant of diabetic mother
  • Neonatal infection
  • Neonatal jaundice requiring exchange transfusion.
  • Intrauterine Growth retardation and Extreme Low Birth weight (less than 1000g)
  • Necrotizing enterocolitis
  • Meconium aspiration syndrome
  • Birth defects and injuries
  • Ensure proper nutrition for healing and growth of critically ill newborn.
  • Newborn health

Pediatrics

  • Immunization
  • Diagnosis and Management of acute and chronic medical conditions.
  • Growth and nutrition
  • Health screening
  • School and community advocacy for child welfare
  • Health education for families
  • Adolescent health counseling

Highlights

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Health Care Profession Achievements

  • Volunteer pediatrician at Cedars Medical Association (NGO) - Lebanon
  • Volunteer in the neonatology clinics at “Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors without Borders) – Belgium in Lebanon”
  • Volunteer in the pediatrics Emergency at “Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors without Borders) – France in Lebanon”
  • Volunteer pediatrician at Sarba Lebanese military's dispensary

Experience

Al Mouwassat Hospital Riyadh – KSA Pediatrician and Neonatologist (2021 – 2023)

  • Handling and treating critical neonatal intensive care cases
  • Handling and treating Pediatric OPD cases.

Keserwan Medical Center – KMC - Lebanon Pediatrician and Neonatologist (2017 – 2021)

  • Handling and treating critical neonatal intensive care cases.
  • Handling and treating Pediatric OPD cases
  • Handling and treating pediatric ward cases.

Notre Dame Du Liban Hospital - Lebanon Pediatrician and Neonatologist (2017 – 2021)

  • Handling and treating critical neonatal intensive care cases.
  • Handling and treating Pediatric OPD cases.
  • Handling and treating pediatric ward cases.
  • Teaching residents and interns.

Pediactric and Neonatology Private clinic - Jounieh Lebanon (2016 - 2021)

Médecins Sans Frontières/Belgium in south Beirut Project - Lebanon Pediatrician and Neonatologist (2019 - 2021)

  • Handling and treating neonatal cases.

Médecins Sans Frontières/France in Bekaa Project - Lebanon Pediatrician and Neonatologist (2019 - 2020)

  • Handling and treating emergy and critical pediatric cases.

Education

Neonatology

  • Lebanese University, Faculty of Medical Sciences, Medical School, Hadath-Lebanon 2015 – 2017

Pediatric Dermatology –DIU

  • Faculty of medicine of Nice; 2017

General Pediatrics

  • Lebanese University, Faculty of Medical Sciences, Medical School, Hadath-Lebanon 2011 – 2015

General Pediatric Internship (FFI at Robert Debré Hospital)

  • Faculty of medicine PARIS DIDEROT – PARIS 7 2014 - 2015

Doctor in General Medicine

  • Lebanese University, Faculty of Medical Sciences, Medical School, Hadath-Lebanon 2005 - 2011

Certifications & Memberships

  • Certification of completion Advance Pediatric Life Support, Hamad Medical Corporation (HMC) Doha, Qatar
  • Certification of completion Newborn Life Support, Hamad Medical Corporation (HMC) Doha, Qatar
  • Member of Lebanese Pediatric Society
  • Member of the American Academy of Pediatrics
  • Qatar Physician License, Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine
  • Licensed in the Saudi commission for health specialties SCFHS, Neonatal Intensive Care
  • Certification of completion as Master Trainer Neonatal Resuscitation, Lebanese MOH, Lebanese Association for early childhood Development, LDS Charities

Publications

Most Recent

  • Al Alam, Chadi, and Rima Hazzouri. “Mild Encephalopathy with Reversible Splenial Lesion (MERS) in a Pediatric Patient: A Case Report and Review of Literature.” Acta Scientific Clinical Case Reports, vol. 6, no. 5, Apr. 2025, pp. 5–8.
  • Hazzouri Rima, Lynn Srour, Marie Bou Nassif, and Chadi Al ALAM. “Neuronal Ceroid Lipofuscinosis (NCL) Unveiled: A Case Study of a 6-Year-Old Boy.” Medical and Research Publications, 2024.
  • Hazzouri Rima, Lynn Srour, and Chadi Al Alam. “Unveiling the Enigma: Abdominal Migraine in Adults – A Case Report and Discussion.” Acta Scientific Clinical Case Reports, vol. 5, no. 529, 2023.
  • Al Alam, C., Srour, L., Hazzouri, R., & Bou Nassif, M. (2023). Complex presentation of suspected Kleine-Levin syndrome in a 14-year-old male. Medical and Research Publications.
  • Al ALAM Chadi, Rima Hazzouri, and Razan Saleh. “Conversion Disorder Mimicking Transverse Myelitis in An Adolescent Lebanese Patient.” SVOA Neurology, vol. 3, no. 3, 2022, pp. 127–130.
  • ALAM CA, Hazzouri R, Saleh R. “Conversion Disorder Mimicking Transverse Myelitis in An Adolescent Lebanese Patient”. SVOA Neurology 2022, 3:3, 127-130
  • Abou Merhi, B., Harb, R., Saneh, H., Hakme, C., Jouni, H., Dabaja, H., Slim, S., Diab, N., Saba, S., Hazzouri, R., & Mansour, S. (2018). Intestinal perforation caused by Shigella infection – A rare case report. International Journal of Science and Research Methodology, 9(2), 212–216."