Amin J. Barakat

Amin J. Barakat (born November 2, 1942) is a Lebanese-American physician known for the diagnosis Barakat syndrome.

Barakat is in full-time pediatric practice at Northern Virginia Pediatric Associates. He is certified by the American Board of Pediatrics and the American Board of Hospital Physicians. He is also clinical professor of pediatrics and pediatric nephrology at Georgetown University and clinical professor of pediatrics at the George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences. Barakat is a member of the ALSAC/St Jude Children's Research Hospital Leadership Council, and president of the American Foundation for Saint George Hospital.