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Hikmat T. Fikrat PhD

Retired Professor

CA, USA

Professional summary

I was brought up, and finished High School in the official Iraqi school system. After High School graduation with honor, I was awarded a full scholarshipi for undergraduate college studies at the the American University of Beirut (Lebanon) from the Iraqi government. after receiving my B.A. in 1952 (with honor), i taught for a year at the chemistry department of the Medical College in Baghdad as a Teaching Assistant. in 1953, i was awarded another ful scholarship by the iraqi goverment for graduate training at the University of California at Berkeley / San Francisco (USA) and i received my Ph.D. in pharmaceutical / medicinal chemistry in 1959 after which i went back to teach at the school of pharmacy, university of Baghdad where i went through the ranks except for two periods of absence: one in 1963-1964 for a sabtical post-doctoral year at the Medical Center of the university of Maryland in Baltimore (USA); and the other from 1971-1974 to serve as the President of the university of Su

Education

Universities

University of California at San Francisco, School of Medicine

Doctor of Philosophy, research doctorate, Pharmaceutical/Medicinal Chemistry
1959

Licenses/Certifications

Ph.D., University of CALIFornia, Berkeley?San Francisco

1959

M.Sc., University of California, Berkeley

1956

B.A., American University of Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon

1952

Experience

Visiting Professor / Researcher

School of Pharmacy, University of the Pacific, Stockton, CA, USA
1981 to 1987

Professor

University of Baghdad, Baghdad, Iraq
1974 to 1983

President

University of Sulaimania, Sulaimania, Iraq
1971 to 1974

Lecturer/ Assistant Professor

University of Baghdad, Baghdad, Iraq
1959 to 1971

Honors and Awards

Full Scholarship to study for Ph.D. at the University of California, Berkeley, USA

Government of Iraq
1963

Scholarship

Government of Iraq
1948

Memberships

member, Editorial Board

The Pharmacist Letter and the Prescriber Letter
1984

Publications

Books

Consumption of alcoholic beverages in Iraq

International Congress on ALCOHOLISM and Drug Abuse, Acapulco, Mexico, (1979)
1979

The EFFECT OF Fasting on Urinary PH

J. Fac Med, Baghdad 14, 95, (1972)
1972

The Stability of some Ester and Amide Drugs in solutions of polyethylene glycol,

J. Fac. Med, Baghdad, 12, 74, (1970)
1970

Some p-Hydroxyphenoxyacetc acid derivatives

J. Med. Chem., 10, 271, (1967)
1967

Chemotherapy of cancer

J. Fac. Med, Baghdad (1966)
1966

Chelation as a mechanism of drug action

J. FAC. Med., Baghdad, 7 91 (1965)
1965

Dervatives of Thiazolo{5,4-d)-Thiazole

J. PHARM Sci., 51, 527 (1962)
1962

Disclosure or Conflict of Interest

Hikmat T. Fikrat PhD has nothing to disclose

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