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Lamiaa Hamie, M.D.

Assistant professor, Division of Pediatric Dermatology
Department of Pediatrics

Education

Fellowship
Medical College of Wisconsin

Residency
American University of Beirut Medical Center

Master of Science
American University of Beirut School of Medicine

Medical School
American University of Beirut School of Medicine

Practice Areas

  • Atopic dermatitis
  • Psoriasis
  • Acne
  • Hemangiomas
  • Birthmarks
  • Pediatric skin condition

Research Interests

  • Inflammatory skin conditions
  • Infantile hemangiomas

Publications and Media Placements

  • Kadhi A, Hamie L, Eid E, Nemer G, Kurban M. Di-Genic Inheritance in Genodermatoses: Insights from Two Consanguineous Cases in a Reference Lebanese Center within the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Region. Dermatol Pract Concept. 2025 doi: 10.5826/dpc.1501a4935. 
  • Kurban M, El Feghaly J, Hamie L. NSDHL-Related Disorders. 2011 Feb 1 [updated 2024 Sep 5]. In: Adam MP, Feldman J, Mirzaa GM, Pagon RA, Wallace SE, Amemiya A, editors. GeneReviews® [Internet]. Seattle (WA): University of Washington, Seattle; 1993–2025. PMID: 21290788.
  • Nohra Ghaoui, Lamiaa Hamie. Exploring Clarithromycin in Infantile Bullous Pemphigoid: An Uncommon Approach to a Rare Disease. Pediatric Dermatology. 2024;doi:10.1111/pde.15513. 
  • Divina Justina Hasbani, Lamiaa Hamie. Infantile hemangiomas. Dermatologic Clinics. 2022. doi: 10.1016/j.det.2022.06.004.
  • Ayat Kadhi, Lamiaa Hamie, Christel Tamer, Georges Nemer, Mazen Kurban. A Novel Pathogenic CDH3 Variant underlying Hereditary Hypotrichosis simplex detected by whole-exome sequencing (WES) – A case report.Molecular Case studies. 2022. doi: 10.1101.mcs.a006225.
  • Houda Ziadeh, Monique Chaaya, Samar Rachidi, Khalil El Asmar, Amal Al-Hajje, Lamiaa Hamieh, Vicky Nahra, Imad Uthman. Lebanese Hospital-Based Rheumatoid Arthritis Registry: Characteristics of Patients and Comparison with Other Populations. Mediterr J Rheumatol 2022;33(2):218-23
  • Lamiaa Hamie, Ossama Abbas, Suha Kanj-Sharara, Jihane Abou Rahal. Erythema Induratum of Bazin after Intravesical Bacillus Calmette-Guerin Immunotherapy. Clinical and Experimental Pharmacology and Physiology. 2022; doi: 10.1111/1440-1681.13619. 
  • Lamiaa Hamie, Randa Al-Barazi, Ossama Abbas. A Non-healing Oral Ulcer in a Child. American Journal of Dermatopathology. 2022 Feb 1;44(2):153-154.  
  • Lamiaa Hamie MD, MSc, Maria Hamie, Mazen Kurban MD, Ossama Abbas MD. Eosinophilic Ulcer of the Oral Mucosa: An update on clinicopathologic features, pathogenesis, and management. International Journal of Dermatology. 2021. doi: 10.1111/ijd.15986. 
  • Lamiaa Hamie, Isabelle Haddad, Nourhan Nasser, Mazen Kurban, Ossama Abbas. Primary Localized Cutaneous Amyloidosis of Keratinocyte Origin: An Update with Emphasis on Atypical Clinical Variants. American Journal of Clinical Dermatology. 2021. doi: 10.1007/s40257-021-00620-9. 
  • Lamiaa Hamie MD, MSc, Edward Eid MD, Samar Khalil MD, Nohra Ghaoui MD, Ossama Abbas MD, Mazen Kurban MD. Genodermatoses with Hearing Impairment. Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology.2021. doi: 10.1016/j.jaad.2021.06.850. 
  • Hamie L, Nammour T, Barada KA. Polyps and skin lesions: what could it be? Gut. 2021. gutjnl-2021-324052.  
  • Lamiaa Hamie, Edward Eid, Joanna Khalil, Rayah Sawaya, Ossama Abbas, Mazen Kurban. Genodermatoses with Behavioral sequelae. Postgraduate Medical Journal (BMJ). 2021. doi: 10.1136/postgradmedj-2020-139539. 
  • Lamiaa Hamie, Rayah Sawaya, Ossama Abbas. Imatinib-Induced Eruptive Nevi. Clinical and Experimental Pharmacology and Physiology. 2021. doi: 10.1111/1440-1681.13491.
  • Lamiaa Hamie M.D., Nelly Rubeiz M.D., Ossama Abbas M.D. A verrucous papule on the vulva. Gulf Journal of Dermatology and Venereology. 2021; 28(1): 52-54.
  • Lamiaa Hamie, Mazen Kurban, Ossama Abbas, Amir Ibrahim, Shukrallah Zaynoun. A necrotic arm with a palpable pulse. International Journal of Dermatology. 2021. doi: 10.1111/ijd.15477. Online ahead of print. 
  • L. Hamie, O. Abbas, M. Kurban, J. Bhawan. Osteoclast-like giant cells: Focus on entities relevant to dermatopathology and underlying pathogenesis. American Journal of Dermatopathology. 2021;43(3):163-173.  
  • L. Hamie, T. Bardawil, I. Khalifeh. High-risk Human Papillomavirus in Ruxolitinib- associated Sebaceous Neoplasms. Indian Journal of Dermatology, Venereology and Leprology. 2021;87(3):404-408.
  • Lamiaa Hamie, Ossama Abbas, Jag Bhawan. Neuroendocrine Differentiation of Skin Tumors: A Comprehensive Review. American Journal of Dermatopathology. 2020; 42(12): 899-910.
  • Nemer G, El-Hachem N, Eid E, Hamie L, Bardawil T, Khalil S, El-Rassy I, Safi R, Khalil A, Abbas O, Shimomura Y, Kurban M. A novel TRAF3IP2 variant causing familial scarring alopecia with mixed features of discoid lupus erythematosus and folliculitis decalvans. Clinical Genetics. 2020; 98(2): 116-125.
  • Georges El Hasbani, Ziyad Ghazzal, Habib Dakik, Lamiaa Hamie, Imad Uthman. Acute Coronary Syndrome in a Male with Elevated Anti-Cyclic Citrullinated Peptide and no Evidence of Longstanding Rheumatoid Arthritis. Mediterranean Journal of Rheumatology, 2020; 30;31(3):362-365.
  • L Hamie, E Eid, O Abbas, R Safi, T Nammour, H Tamim, M Makki, C Stephan, D Hasbani, H Wehbe, N Ghaoui, M Hawa, N Nasser, A Eid, AG. Kibbi, M Kurban. SuPAR, a potential inflammatory mediator in psoriasis pathogenesis. Clinical and experimental Pharmacology and physiology, 2020; 47(10):1705-1712.
  • Samar Khalil, Edward Eid, Lamiaa Hamie, Tara Bardawil, Ziad Moujaes, Wael Khalil, Ossama Abbas, Mazen Kurban. Genodermatoses with Teeth Abnormalities. Journal of Oral Diseases, 2020; 26(5):1032-1044.
  • L. Hamie, G. Nemer, M. Kurban. Malar Rash in a young child with neurodevelopmental delay: A Quiz. Archives of Disease in Childhood (BMJ) [published online ahead of print, 2020 May 23].
  • Pamela Kassabian, Edgar Jabbour, Mazen Kurban, Lamiaa Hamie. Mutations in P63 and IRF-6 Present with Overlapping Craniofacial Defects: A study from Lebanon. Oral rehabilitation and Dentistry, 2019; 2(1): 3-3.
  • Lamiaa Hamie and Jihane Abou Rahal. Water-related dermatoses. International Journal of Dermatology, 2019;58(5):515-529.
  • Lamiaa Hamie, Mona Nasrallah, Salim Saba and Nelly Rubeiz. Necrobiosis Lipoidica: A Potential Skin Manifestation of Cushing’s Disease? Journal of Dermatologic Surgery, Research and Therapy, 2019; 2(2): 67-69.
  • Christina Bergqvist, Bilal Abdallah, Divina-Justina Hasbani, Ossama Abbas, Abdul Ghani Kibbi, Lamiaa Hamie,Mazen Kurban, and Nelly Rubeiz. CHILD Syndrome: A Modified Pathogenesis-Targeted Therapeutic Approach. American Journal of Medical Genetics, 2018; 176(3):733-738.
  • Lamiaa Hamie, Georges Daoud, Georges Nemer, Tarek Nammour, Alissar El Chediak, Abdul Ghani Kibbi, Assaad Eid and Mazen Kurban. SuPAR, an emerging biomarker in Kidney and inflammatory disease. Postgraduate Medical Journal (BMJ), 2018; 94(1115), 517-524.
  • Toru Kawai, Ryota Hayashi, Hiroyuki nakai, Yutaka Shimomura, Mazen Kurban, Hiroki Fujikawa, Atsushi Fujimoto, Lamiaa Hamie, Riichiro Abe. A heterozygous mutation in the SAM domain of p63 underlies a mild form of ectodermal dysplasia. Journal of dermatological sciences, 2018; 90(3):360-363. 
  • Christina Bergvist, Humam Kadara, Lamiaa Hamie, Georges Nemer, Remi Safi, Mirna Karouni, Nadine Marrouche, Ossama Abbas, Divina Justina Hasbani, Abdul Ghani Kibbi, Dany Nassar, Yutaka Shimomura and Mazen Kurban. SLURP-1 is mutated in Mal de Meleda, a potential molecular signature for melanoma and a putative squamous lineage tumor suppressor gene. International Journal of Dermatology, 2018; 57(2):162-170.
  • Kurban M, Zeineddine SB, Hamie L, Safi R, Abbas O, Kibbi AG, Bitar F, Nemer G. FOXI2: a possible gene contributing to ectodermal dysplasia. European Journal of Dermatology, 2017; 27(6):641-645.
  • Tara Bardawil, Abdallah Rebeiz, Myriam Chaabouni, Jessica El Halabi, Zakaria Kambris, Ossama Abbas, Ossama Abou Hassan, Lamiaa Hamie, Fadi Bitar, Abdul Ghani Kibbi, Georges Nemer and Mazen Kurban. Mutations in the ABCG8 Gene are Associated with Sitosterolemia in the Homozygous Form and Xanthelasmas in the Heterozygous Form. European Journal of Dermatology, 2017; 27(5):519-523.
  • Hamie L., B.S., Knio Z., M.D., Abbas O. M.D., Akel R. M.D., Bardawil T., B.S., Kibbi A. M.D., Kurban M., M.D. Clinical Clues Early in the Lives of individuals with Lipoid Proteinosis Can Determine the Course of theDisease. Journal of Clinical & Experimental Dermatology, 2017; 42(4):428-430. 
  • Akel R. M.D., Hamie L., M.D. Common Cutaneous Disorders in the Geriatric Population: A Review. Lebanese Medical Journal, 2018; 66(2):98-106.
  • Bitar F., Najjar T., Hayashi R., Nemer G., Shigera Y., Hamie L., Abbas O., Kibbi A., Shimomura Y., Kurban M. A Novel Heterozygous Mutation in Desmoplakin gene in a Lebanese Patient with Carvajal Syndrome and Tooth Agenesis. Journal of the European Academy of Dermatology & Venereolgy, 2015; 30(12): e217-e219.  

Professional Organizations and Associations

  • Society of Pediatric Dermatology