Prof. Elias Chedid is a Consultant Psychiatrist at ACPN. He earned his Doctorate in Medicine (MD) in 1993 from Saint Joseph University of Beirut, Lebanon, and completed higher training in adult psychiatry from St. Joseph University and Paris Descartes Faculty of Medicine, France, in 1997. He is a licensed consultant in psychiatry with the DoH, Abu Dhabi.

Prof. Chedid’s career spans multiple prestigious roles with 27 years of clinical and academic expertise. In his clinical practice, Prof. Chedid joined the Department of Psychiatry and Addictology at Saint Charles Hospital in 1998, where he served as Head of Department from 2006 to 2018. He later joined the Psychiatry and Behavioral Department at Bellevue Medical Center in 2019. Prof. Chedid was appointed to the CME committee at the Arab Board of Psychiatry in 2023 and is a co-founding member of the Lebanese Association for the Protection of Children of War and their Families (APEG-Lebanon). Since 2012, he has been an active member of the Lebanese Association of Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies (ALTCC). Before joining ACPN, he served as the Professor and Head of the Psychiatry Department at the Faculty of Medicine at the Lebanese University. He has also been an Associate Professor at the University of Balamand and an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Arts and Sciences of the Lebanese University. He has extensive experience teaching undergrad and master’s psychology students in psychiatric disorders, psychobiology, clinical developmental psychology, and cognitive neurosciences, and has tutored many completing their master’s and PhD theses.

Prof. Chedid is highly skilled in both adult and child psychiatry, with deep expertise in mood disorders (bipolar and depressive disorders), schizophrenia, anxiety disorders (panic, phobias, obsessive-compulsive disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder), and substance use disorders.

Nationality: Lebanese
Language/s: Arabic, English