Dr. Hakim was born in Syria and received MBBS in medicine from Tishreen University in 2000. He then persued residency training in Germany where he completed a basic and higher training in diagnostic and interventional radiology from Heidelberg University.
He completed the German training with board certification from Heidelberg University.
He has specialist expertise in complex and advanced angiography mainly for oncology patient.
His research main interest is Angio-embolization in Hepatocellular diseases and highly selective prostatic artery angio-embolisation.