He was associate director of that hospital's pediatrics department from 1967 to 1971.

During those years, he also taught as an assistant professor in the university's Department of Pediatrics.

It had lost patients, closed its pediatrics department and cut a third of its beds.

So the pediatrics department turned to its staff of five lawyers, hired for just this kind of situation.

Subsequently, Gharib became chairman of the pediatrics department, a post he held until 1975.

He was a past chief of its Department of Pediatrics.

He left to work for the medical school at Temple in 1940, where he chaired the pediatrics department until 1964.

The typical situations were again different for emergency rooms and geriatrics or pediatrics departments.

He was chairman of the pediatrics department at the University of Rochester from 1978 to 1983.

On his return he started the pediatrics department at the U-M Hospital.