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Biography

Hussein Abu Yassin is an entrepreneur physical therapist and Lecturer in the Physical Therapy Department, Faculty of Health Sciences, at Beirut Arab University, where he has taught since September 2014. He has managed a highly reputable and successful physical therapy clinic in Beirut since 2002. Mr. Abu Yassin earned his B.Sc. in Physical Therapy from the Lebanese University in 2000. After several years of clinical practice, he completed his M.Sc. in Physical Therapy for Surgery at Cairo University in 2013. He has also contributed to the profession at the national level through the Lebanese Order of Physical Therapists, serving as Secretary of Pedagogic Affairs on its Board (2023–2024).

Research Interests

Hussein Abu Yassin’s research interests include wound healing and physical therapy agents, oncology rehabilitation, and medical–surgical and geriatric rehabilitation.

Education & Qualifications

M.Sc. in Physical Therapy for Surgery, Faculty of Physical Therapy, Cairo University, Egypt (2013). Thesis: Pulsed Versus Continuous Phenytoin Phonophoresis in Accelerating the Burn Wound Healing in Rats. B.Sc. in Physical Therapy, Faculty of Public Health, Lebanese University, Lebanon (2000).

Teaching Areas

Ethics, professionalism, and laws of professional practice in physical therapy; integumentary and wound-healing physical therapy; medical and surgical physical therapy; geriatric physical therapy; physical therapy for cancer patients; physical therapy in women’s health; stretching and physical therapy interventions; education in physical therapy; research methodology and supervision of undergraduate research projects; and clinical practice supervision in medical–surgical and geriatric settings.