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Adel A. Wassef, M.D., Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at The University of Texas Medical School at Houston, has served as an attending physician, Adult Services, since 1994.
 
Wassef received his medical degree from Ain Shams University in Cairo, Egypt where he graduated with honors in 1979. He completed a rotating internship at Ain Shams University Hospitals in 1980, then served as a general practitioner with the Ministry of Health in Egypt for one year. After a psychiatry residency at Behman Hospital in Cairo, Wassef traveled to the U.S. where he completed a two-year residency at The University of North Dakota and The University of Texas Medical Branch in Galveston.
 
Prior to joining the faculty at The UT Health Science Center, Wassef most recently served as Assistant Professor and Associate Medical Director of the Psychiatric Clinical Research Center in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at UT Medical Branch in Galveston.
 
He has extensively studied and researched the treatment of depression and related depressive disorders, and, through a grant received from NIMH, helped coordinate a series of continuing education conferences on the recognition and treatment of depression that was attended by several thousand mental health professionals from different training backgrounds.
 
Wassef serves on a number of university and department committees at The UT Medical School at Houston, including the Undergraduate Committee, the Residency Training Committee, and the Patient Rights Committee.