Waseem Abdallah, MD

Dr. Waseem Abdallah received his undergraduate degree from Al-Baath University in Homs, Syria. He subsequently completed a psychiatry residency at the Hamad Medical Corporation/Weill Cornell Medical College program in Doha, Qatar; after graduating, he stayed at Hamad/Cornell to do a consultation-liaison psychiatry fellowship there as well. Dr. Abdallah went on to complete a psychiatry residency at Howard University Hospital here in DC, where he served as chief resident. At Howard, he received their award for the Highest Performance on PRITE three years in a row, and was the recipient of a Diversity Leadership Fellowship from the American Psychiatric Association. Dr. Abdallah completed his consultation-liaison psychiatry fellowship at Georgetown, and subsequently joined the fellowship faculty as an attending on the C-L psychiatry service at MedStar Washington Hospital Center, where he supervises fellows in addition to Georgetown psychiatry residents and medical students.