• College of Medicine, Basrah University, 1975-1981, Degree awarded: M.B.,Ch.B. Grade. Within 1st quarter
• College of Medicine, Baghdad University. 1987-1989, Degree awarded: M.Sc. in Anatomy, Histology and Embryology. Grade: very good
• College of Medicine, Al-Nahrain University, 1999-2002. Degree awarded: PhD. in human anatomy. Grade: Excellent TITLE OF M.Sc. THESIS:
• A histochemical study of a-motoneurons of rabbit spinal cord TITLE OF Ph.D. THESIS:
• Carboxyl ester hydrolases in the morphological components of the motor unit

SPECIALIZATION:
Human anatomy

• Trauma/ER Surgeon, Rashied military hospital, Baghdad, Iraq 1981-1984
• Mobile Medical Unit Surgeon, Iraq 1984-1987.
• Assistant lecturer of anatomy, Department of Human Anatomy, College of Medicine, Al-Nahrain University, 1990-1998
• Lecturer of anatomy, Department of Human Anatomy, College of Medicine, Al-Nahrain University, 1998-2006
• Assistant Professor of anatomy, chairman of the Department of Human Anatomy, College of Medicine, Al-Nahrain University, 2007- 2010
• Assistant Professor of Biology, Chatham University, Pittsburgh PA 2011-current

• Anatomy for undergraduate medical students as dissector, lecturer and demonstrator.
• Anatomy for undergraduate students of medical engineering.
• Elective courses in anatomy and related sciences: applied anatomy, cross sectional and imaging anatomy, research methods in anatomy; for undergraduate medical students.
• Anatomy, surgical anatomy, cross sectional and imaging anatomy, research methods, histochemistry, anatomy teaching methods and physical anthropology for postgraduate M.Sc. and Ph.D. candidates in anatomy
• Anatomy for candidates of the Iraqi board for medical studies in the braches of gynecology and obstetrics, radiology and surgical anatomy.
• Supervision on M.Sc. & Ph.D. thesis of the postgraduate students.
• Assessment of M.Sc. & ph.D. thesis of the postgraduate students. SUPERVISORS:
  1 Prof. Dr Hani Taha Al Azawi (former Head of Department of Human Anatomy, College of Medicine University, of Baghdad)
  2 Prof. Dr. Mahmood Hayawi Hamash, (former Head of Al-Nahrain University), Department of Human Anatomy, College of Medicine, Al-Nahrain University, Baghdad
  3 Prof. Dr. Anam Rasheed Al-Salihi, Head of Department of Human Anatomy, Assistant Dean, College of Medicine, Al-Nahrain University, Baghdad
  4 Professor Larry Viehland, Chair of Science Department. Chatham University, Pittsburgh PA, USA
  PUBLISHED PAPERS:
  A, Abdulrahman; Ultra- histochemistry of Carboxyl ester hydrolases in the gray Matter of rabbit spinal cord.
  2-Segregation of motor & sensory components of mammalian.
  Peripheral nerves by the activity of non- specific esterase.
  3-The effects of growth hormone inhibition on the activities of epithelial cells in thymus gland of mature mice.
  4 -An in vivo ultrastructure study of thymic nurse cells in albino male mice.
  5-Ultra-histochemical study on lemmocytes in the rabbit.
  6- Histological changes in rat liver induced by exogenous melatonin.
  7- Histological modulation of adult rat's thyroid in response to anti oxidant factor.
  8- Histological effect on epididymidis of adult rats in response to melatonin.
  9- Ultra-histochemical study of carboxylesters hydrolases activity in the interneurons of the mammalian spinal cord.
  RESEARCH PREFERENCES:
  histochemistry, ultrahistochemistry