New Faculty
Dr. Amin Ali Muhammad
Discipline of Psychiatry
Faculty of Medicine
Dr. Muhammad was appointed professor of Psychiatry in the Faculty of Medicine in February 2006. He graduated in 1984 from Dow Medical College, Karachi, Pakistan. He holds MRCPsych, FRCP, BCPsych, DPM, DCP and PhD (UK). Before accepting a faculty position at Memorial, he was a consultant psychiatrist at the Dr. Everett Chalmers Hospital in Fredericton, N.B. He has wide experience in general adult, geriatric and transcultural psychiatry.
Dr. Muhammad's current research projects are in the areas of psychiatry, ethnopsychiatry, juvenile prison services, community epilepsy programs and rural psychiatry. He is also involved in an anthropological research project established at Manora Island in Karachi. His most recent research papers are on the topics of the decline in morbidity through a community project; the uses and limitations of e-psychiatry; primary care psychiatry; appraisal of disaster psychiatry; mental health and rescuing medical professionals; Shamanism and role of shamans, mental health in Pakistan; the implications for society of criminality and mental health; polypharmacy in psychiatry; and the uses and limitations of ethnotherapy.
Dr. Muhammad is author of six books and more than 40 scientific articles, including a 2004 publication on the prevalence of depression and the associated risk factors among adult women in a fishing community. "I have always been interested in bringing medicine to the population in the areas in which I have worked, and have undertaken a number of projects on my own initiative," he said.