Dr. Fayez El-Gabalawi
Chief Medical Officer
Dr. El-Gabalawi (Dr. El) serves as the Chief Medical Officer. He joined Belmont for about thirty years and served in different clinical and administrative capacities as staff psychiatrist, president of medical staff, and medical director of child/adolescent division. He held a medical degree from Cairo University, completed psychiatry residency at Temple University, child/adolescent fellowship at Columbia University, and board certifications in both adult and child psychiatry. In addition to extensive teaching, mentoring, and supervising medical students, residents and fellows, he has also conducted research, published several articles and book chapters, and awarded several academic and community service awards. He holds a faculty position at Jefferson University as clinical associate professor of psychiatry, and functions as the associate director of the child/adolescent fellowship. He advocated strongly for children mental health during his term as a president of the regional council of child and adolescent psychiatry of Eastern Pa. and South NJ. As the CMO he is continuously working with the medial staff to recruit excellent candidates, and to ensure a high level of safety and quality of patient care that Belmont is always striving to achieve.
Publications:
- Religion and Psychiatry in the Age of Neuroscience, The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 2020
- Varieties of Religious (Non)Affiliation: A Primer for Mental Health Practitioners on the “Spiritual but Not Religious” and the “Nones”, The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease
- The Effect of Mental Illness on Language Regression to the Mother Tongue in Bilingual Teenagers, The Journal of Neuropsychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences, 2009
- Hypersexuality in Inpatient Children and Adolescents: Recognition, Differential Diagnosis, and Evaluation, CNS Spectrums, 2007
- Tremors: Diagnostic Clues, Treatment Options, Gale Academic Onefile, 2004
- Asperger’s Disorder: A Review of Its Diagnosis and Treatment, Comprehensive Psychiatry, 2004
- The Clinical Experience of Citalopram in the Treatment of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder: A Report of Two Persian Gulf War Veterans, Military Medicine, 2001
- Treatment of Bipolar I Disorder in an Adolescent with Olanzapine, Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychopharmacology, 2000
- Ian Canino, M.D., Fayez El-Gabalawi, M.D. “El Museo” A group of art experience for inner-city children, Comprehensive Mental Health Care Vol. 2, No. 2, 1992
Contributing author:
- “Positive Intervention in Depression” a chapter in “Positive Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Psychology”. Editors: Erick Messias, Hamid Peseschkian, Springer International Publishing 2021 https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-33264-8_9
- “Suicide among Youth of Middle Eastern Origin” a chapter in “Suicide among diverse Youth” (eds.) Andres Pumariega & Neha Sharma. Springer International Publishing AG 2018 https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-66203-9_10
- Child and Adolescent Psychiatry: Conceptual and Diagnostic Issues. A chapter in C. Perring & L. Wells (eds.) Diagnostic Dilemmas in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. UK, Oxford University Press. May, 2014 https://oxfordmedicine.com/view/10.1093/med/9780199645756.001.0001/med-9780199645756-chapter-2
