Rita Farah, PhD, MPH, PharmD

Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine
Lead Epidemiologist
Medical Toxicology Faculty

P.O. Box 800699
Charlottesville, VA 22908-0699
Phone: (434) 924-5185
Fax: (434) 971-8657
E-mail: wwv3zr@virginia.edu

• Kerns AF, Scheffel ET, Farah R, Holstege CP. Black Widow Spider Exposures: A Retrospective Review of the National Poison Data System 2012-2022. Wilderness Environ Med. 2024 Dec 13:10806032241300134. doi: 10.1177/10806032241300134. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 39670790.
• Farah R, Rege SV, Cole RJ, Holstege CP*. Suspected Suicide Attempts Among Persons Aged 10-19 Years During the COVID-19 Pandemic – United States, 2020-2022. MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep. 2023 Apr 21;72(16):426-430. doi: 10.15585/mmwr.mm7216a3. Cited 7 times. Rank 3 of 207 in Public, Environmental & Occupational Health.
• Farah R, Kazzi Z*, Brent J, Burkhart K, Wax P, Aldy K; Toxicology Investigators Consortium FACT Study Group. Ivermectin associated adverse events in the treatment and prevention of COVID-19 reported to the FACT pharmacovigilance project. Clin Toxicol (Phila). 2022 May 10:1-5. doi: 10.1080/15563650.2022.2070187. Cited 14 times. Rank 24 of 93 in Toxicology.
• Zeenny RM, Dimassi A, Sacre H, El Khoury G, Hajj A, Farah R, Hajj H, Lahoud N, Akel M, Hallit S*, Salameh P. A cross-sectional survey on community pharmacists readiness to fight COVID-19 in a developing country: knowledge, attitude, and practice in Lebanon. J Pharm Policy Pract. 2021 Jun 11;14(1):51. doi: 10.1186/s40545-021-00327-6. Cited 22 times. Rank in the first quartile in Pharmacy and Health Policy.
• Akiki Z, Saadeh D*, Farah R, Hallit S, Sacre H, Hosseini H, Salameh P. Asthma prevalence and associated factors among lebanese adults: the first national survey. BMC Pulm Med. 2021 May 13;21(1):162. doi: 10.1186/s12890-021-01529-z. Cited 6 times. Rank 10 of 155 journals in the Medicine, General and Internal category.
• Saadeh D, Sacre H, Hallit S*, Farah R, Salameh P. Knowledge, attitudes, and practices toward the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) among nurses in Lebanon. Perspect Psychiatr Care. 2020 Nov 1. doi: 10.1111/ppc.12676. Cited 59 times.
• Kawkabani N*, Boustros O, Farah R, Darwish R, Abi Ghanem M, Souidan H, Zeidh H, El Charif MH, Abou Khalil B. Reproducible and Reliable Modified Technique of Surgical Aortic Valve Replacement That Decreases the Incidence of Permanent Pace Maker Implantation. International Journal of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery. Vol. 6, No. 3, 2020, pp. 44-48. doi: 10.11648/j.ijcts.20200603.12.