Sami Ibrahim Haddad  Sami Ibrahim Haddad, (July 3, 1890 – February 5, 1957) was a doctor, surgeon and writer. He was born in Palestine and spent most of his life in Lebanon. He achieved preparatory education at the Bishop Gobat School (1901–1905) and the English College (1907–1909) in Jerusalem. This left an indelible mark on him. His assertiveness, honesty, discipline, and austerity most probably derived from his early Scottish high school teachers in Jerusalem, where he earned the Gibbon Memorial Prize in July 1906. He graduated with a Medical Doctor (MD) degree from the Syrian Protestant College (SPC) in 1913. Founded in 1866 by the American missionaries in Beirut (Lebanon), the SPC was renamed in 1920 as the American University of Beirut. For seven years after graduation (1913–1919), he practiced general medicine and public health, and taught the basic medical sciences at SPC. In 1919, he was nominated physician in charge of the Mental Disease Hospital at Asfuriyeh. When the U.S. King-Crane Commission (created by President Woodrow Wilson to poll public opinion in Syria, Lebanon and Palestine) arrived in Beirut, he became its physician and interpreter. Before he joined the Department of Surgery of the American University of Beirut as Adjunct Professor of Surgery in 1929, he was granted a Rockefeller fellowship. He married Lamia Morcos (1896–1994) who helped him raise six children. One of whom was Dr. Fuad Sami Haddad, "...the founder of modern neurosurgery in Lebanon." He traveled to the United States of America for a training in urology at the Johns Hopkins University under the mentorship of Dr. Hugh Hampton Young. After ten years of industrious preparation and study (1913–1922), Haddad embarked on the path of teaching and practicing urology and surgery. He taught medical students, interns, and residents and operated on several patients. In his spare time, he collected Arabic medical manuscripts and wrote about the history of Arabic medicine. He kept abreast of new medical developments through trips abroad to the United States, Austria, Brazil, Australia, Iraq, Qatar, England, France, and Spain. During his trips, he photographed Arabic medical manuscripts and other important documents related to the history of Arabic medicine in the libraries of Paris, London, and Jerusalem. He became a member of the International Society for Surgery in 1931, a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons in 1934, a member of the Council of AUB, and in 1941, Chairman of AUB's Department of Surgery and Dean of its Medical School.