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Sylva Portoian-Shuhaiber (Sylva-MD-Poetry) born in the East, immigrated to the West. She is a pediatrician trained in England, a self-published poet, who has had articles published in several well-known medical journals: The Lancet, Archives of Diseases in Childhood, Tropical Pediatrics, Annals of Genetics (Paris), Journal of Inherited Metabolic Diseases and Journal of Cardiovascular Surgery. She has presented her medical publications at international medical conferences. She started rhyming at age seven and discontinued after specializing in medicine. Recently she was able to start poeting once again; she has self-published thirteen collections of poetry in less than a four-year period. Each book breathes a genuine, passionate new poetic story that may be modified to a humanitarian theory. She writes in three languages: English, Armenian and Arabic.

Thirteen Poetry Collections: I: Lance My Hart at a Glance (iUniverse) She had written this collection for her husband, who had a difficult life performing bypass operations on failed hearts during his early years of cardiac surgery. She is praising surgical hands and the dedicated lives of their families, the medical team, and the patients in distress. Lance my heart to feel your delicate lance. Fancy absorbing pains, of your fatigued hands How many hearts you revived—survived. Your hands are respirators for failed fading hearts. II: Delete Depression—Type Inspiration These are poems to alleviate depression for every age; however, this is explicitly meant for students. The book can be the student’s friend when crisis curses the mind. Fears have no end if you bend. They may impel you to the far end. Shine your bright eyes . . . see the clear sky. Hear the echoing songs from the highest mountains.

III: Angel “Lilit” Lilting via Internet (Xlibris) This is a scientific love story conveyed in a poetic thesis that expressed the sincere relationship between a mother-in-law (the author) and a daughter-in-law (lilit). Every mother must provide love to their kin, for a lifetime and after, leaving a narrative of happiness. Support is the road to take in life. Support is the kiss of life, each second in need, For every creature from birth to old age For gaspers of their last breath, blind yet alive.

IV: A Poetic Soul Shined of Genocides These are real stories from my grandmother of known genocides still epidemically invading and crushing the principles of human rights. Let us help every soul who speaks in a true voice. In terrains where flesh decays, uncanned, and Recognition of human rights is mightily unjust, Since all related crimes are committed By vicious hands of vile minds.

V: Sons: Take My Heart and Transplant (Xlibris) These are poetic stories expressed by a sincere, unselfish mother to relieve a mother’s torments and throbs. Transplant “My Hart” in real human soil Saving innocents from slaying and grief. Mothers are mothers wherever they are Tears will not dry until they die.

VI: Millennium Brains’ Lacrimate (Xlibris) These are new events, expected and the unexpected, needed by honest brains. Sylva wrote the poems just before the credit crunch. Do poets possess a mysterious Seventh Sense. Millions die, without mercy rhyme. Firing darts, into mothers’ hearts. Cursed powers must end as putrefied palms!

VII: Politics Play, People Pay, Poets Proms, Pledging Pray The poetic genuineness sings stronger than history as it bleeds from bleeding hearts. Politicians before my birth did and still do, Their job trains them to fool laymen’s crew. Teaching selves to sink the blood in ink— Thus can vanish, showing the sky stays still blue.

VIII: E-mails: Beneath Blossoming Trees (Xlibris) With the world entering one cascade through the Internet, things changed and will continue to change and educate cohorts for the best. Have you dreamed about sending your president Obama Only one letter asking, how he achieved his dreams? Can another human do what He did? Did he change His dermis or aim his talent to serve humanity?

IX: Songs of Searing Desert Storms Some people can change their character like their dresses, some can never do so; they remain faithful to the principles born with them: real, genetically true. I am the one . . . Whose passion is stronger than her mind. Her priorities must persist even if she can’t apply. She cannot lie and change colors. She can’t bend when things seem unjust.

X: Sylva’s Serenade dative Eyes Singing is part of our daily life. These collections of poems are for world singers, songwriters and musicians who contributed in our life to make us happy by singing their songs, and for those who enchanted our straggling life and continue to enchant. Charles Aznavour: You Sang ‘She’ I will sing ‘He’ He is the man I can’t forget, the genes that I carry without regret. He never left treasures that he had worked for. Gone with the wind . . . He left His smile, endlessly gracing my fiery hart. He was a saint ‘Unnamed’. When I was young I never knew His Hearted-Mind so wonderful, so kind.

XI: “My Son—My Sun”: Chants Ann, Obama’s Mother Poetic story of a man no-one expected him to become President especially the white people. Although he has half-black genes, he worked and achieved. I loved a man. He had black skin, His love was tender, serene. From him I gave birth to my Son, My Love My real soulful genes. His father called him Barack (the blessed). I left in pain after blessing him, Teaching . . . how to save innocents’ skin.

XII: Syndromes of Souls: Can Earnest Love Cure All . . . ? As a pediatrician, I learn about syndromes more than then the average literate. Syndromes related to physical and mental traits. Nevertheless, we never care for syndromes of souls, as we can’t reach them easily. It is not the face . . . Nor the dermis Nor the beautiful figure . . . We like to embrace . . . It’s the ‘Human Soul’ . . . We wish to feel . . . Yet, inspire the senses . . . Wishing it to lace in our spirit, until grace . . .

XIII: Applied Poetry Why can’t poetry be applied, like any book of Science or law like Applied Physiology? . . . Can we Try and Apply? I will apply my poetic music, Till each vocalist sings. Poetry cannot be exhibited Can’t be advertised Can’t excite your eyes like portraits But can quench your thirsty vessels With something immeasurable Named ‘Eternal Sensation’. It can fill your eyes with tears, Or your face could dance with smiles For created phases that you never heard before . . . That music takes time to invade And lace immortal nests If it enters passionately It can lie there . . .

Sylva's Poetry collection published in Amazon books...and many sites... Twelve Books (Poetry Collections, 2007-2012), The covers are by famous painters: Andrey Antonyan, Vakhtang Sirunyan, Sevada Grigoryan, Alexander Sadoyan,

Jenny Yousif-Barnette...and my close friend Nancy Dammen-Jones, 

She painted my portrait and President Barak Obama's...and a recent one you can see! Her famous line for mothers who lost their sons in wars... “ Mothers are mothers where ever they are, tears will not dry until they die.”

Title of my new book will be “Bring Out Our Bone"

The poetic ability of the author {Dr. Sylva Portoian}, expresses “Virtuousness of Surgical Hands” and coveys in deep feelings, surgeons’ internal and external “Volcanic- Life”

with their colleges and yet families, living hours in silent nights with “unbeaten heart and 

cold body” to alive the patient physically yet their family psychologically. Last poem praising surgical ability in alphabetical order: Altruism, Bravery, Conscious, Diligence, Enthusiasm, Firmness, Geniality, Inventiveness, Morality during Morbidity- Mortality, Nurturing tissues, Piety, Tolerance, Vivacious in hands and memory, Surgeons are Anti- Xenophobic their aim to alive the person not his skin or face, Zealousness is last character that completes Virtuousness of successful surgeon. By Secret Admirer... I can’t find who wrote these beautiful lines to me...for My book "Lance My Hart (Heart ) at a Glance, July 2007"

Medical articles in PUBMED* and others Dr. Sylva Portoian-Shuhaiber,MB ChB; MSc; MFCM; MFPHM; FRCP.CH (U.K) 1: Shuhaiber H, Chugh T, Portoian-Shuhaiber S, Ghosh D. Wound infection in cardiac surgery. J Cardiovasc Surg (Torino).

       1987 Mar-Apr;28(2):139-42.

2: Portoian-Shuhaiber S, Gumaa K, Hamalawi H, Malla oK, Teebi AS. Siblings with a progressive neurodegenerative

       condition associated with basal ganglia calcifications, retinitis pigmentosa and decreased levels of fucosidase—a new presentation? 
       J Inherit Metab Dis. 1987;10 (4):397-8.

3: Portoian-Shuhaiber S. Infantile diarrhoea due to water complementation of breast and bottle feeding. Arch Dis Child.

       1986 Dec; 61(12):1215-8.

4: Portoian-Shuhaiber S. Feeding practices and electrolyte disturbances among infants admitted with acute Diarrhea.

        J Trop Pediatr. 1986 Aug;32 (4):168-73.

5: Portoian-Shuhaiber S, Farag TI, Sundareshan TS, Jindal HR. Clinical findings in an Arab boy with ring

        (14)(mos 46,XY,r(14)/45,XY,-14). Ann Genet. 1986;29 (2):122-4.

6: Portoian-Shuhaiber S, Cullinan TR. Middle ear disease assessed by impedance in primary school children in south london.

       lancet. 1984 May 19;1 (8386):1111-2. Many more articles published in various medical and health education journals other than PubMed

7: Portoian-Shuhaiber S. Neurological damage after pertussis Vaccine. Saudi Medical Journal.1986;7(3):270-4. 8: Portoian-Shuhaiber S. Mumps and rubella, or measles, mumps and rubella vaccination in children.Journal of Kuwait

       Medical Association. 1987;21(2):136-7

9: Portoian-Shuhaiber S, Wright Dl, Teebi AS: How far to investigate a child with cerebral palsy.Saudi Medical Journal. I987;8(5):534-5 10: Portoian-Shuhaiber S. Child abuse in the community of Kuwait. Journal of Kuwait Medical Association.1987;21(1):2-3 ______________________________

• Medical articles PUMED since 1984

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