Chief Editor
Abdulrazak Abyad MD, MPH, AGSF
Director, Abyad Medical Center and Middle-East Longevity Institute
Abyad Medical Center
Azmi Street , Abdo Center
PO Box 618
Tripoli
Lebanon
Phone: (961) 6-443684
Fax: (961) 6-443685
aabyad@amc-lb.com

Advisor to the Editor
Emeritus Professor Neil Carson
Medical Director - medi+WORLD International
Phone: +61 (3) 9819 1224
Fax: +61 (3) 9819 3269

Assistant to the Editor
Rima Khatib
Email: Rima@amc-lb.com
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EDITORIAL BOARD

Regional
H/E, Sheikh Mohammed Bin Saqir Al-Qassimi,
Undersecretary of Ministry of Health,
Director of Sharjah, Medical District
United Arab Emirates

Tawfik Khoja, MD
Family & Community Medicine Consultant
Director General of the Executive Board
The Health Minister's Council for the GCC States
Riyadh,
Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Said N. Arnaout, MD., Ph.D
Regional Advisor,
Health of Special Groups (Health of Elderly, School Health, Occupational Health)
WHO/EMRO

Nizar Farjou, MD
Director Primary Health Care,
Ministry of Health,
Sharjah District,
United Arab Emirates

Omer E.F. El-Rufaie,
Professor and Chair
Department of Psychiatry,
Faculty of Medicine, UAE University,
Al-Ain,
United Arab Emirates

Javaid Iqbal MBChB FRCS(Ed) FICS DBMA DMMA
Head of Department & Consultant Neurosurgeon,
Al Baraha Hospital, PO Box 22241,
Dubai,
United Arab Emirates

Prof Tariq Al-Habeeb
Associate Professor & Consultant
Head, Division of Psychiatry
College of Medicine & King Khalid University Hospital
King Saud University
Kingdom of Saudia Arabia

M. Tariq Aziz
General Secretary
Pakistan Society of Family Physicians, Lahore.
Chief of Family Medicine Department
Fatima Memorial Hospital and Medical College
Member Wonca Working Party on Rural Health
Member - HARP (Health for all Rural people)
Pakistan

Prof. Ahmed Okasha
President WPA
Director of WHO Collaborating Center
Institute of Psychiatry, Ain Shams University
Eygpt

Amal Khairy, MD
Senior Professor
Primary Health Care Division
HIPH,
Alexandria University
Egypt

Ersoy Fusun, MD
Associate Professor
Head of Department of Family Practice
Kirikkale University medical School
Turkey

Ilhami Unluoglu,MD
Associate Professor
Osmangazi University
School of Medicine
Head of Family Medicine Department
Eskisehir
Turkey

Hakan Yaman, MD,MS
Associate Professor and Chair
Department of Family Medicine,
Faculty of Medicine, University of Akdeniz,
Antalya,
Turkey

Salih Almarri,MD
Consultant Family Medicine,
Chairman, Department of Family Medicine, Doha,
Qatar

Dr.Muayad K.Khalid,MD,CABM,MRCP (UK)
Associate Editor,MEJEM
Consultant Physician,EM
Hamad General Hospital,
Qatar

Fawzi A. Amin, MBBch, MPH, PhD.
Ass. Professor in Family and Community Department
Arabian Gulf University
Bahrain

ABEER KHALED AL BAHO, MD
Director of Family Medicine,
Specialty Training Program
Head of Examination Board Kuwait
Kuwait

Jean Karl Soler MD
Family Physician, Researcher
Editor, "It-Tabib tal-Familja/ The Family Physician"
Malta College of Family Doctors
MALTA

Tewfik K Daradkeh. MD; FRCPsych; DPM
Professor & Head, Division of Psychiatry
Unv of science &technology (JUST),
Irbid,
Jordan

Khateeb-Nadia Al
Arab Scientists Organization
Lattakia
Syria

Hassane Awada
Professor & Chair, Department of Family Medicine
Hotel Dieu de France
Beirut
Lebanon

Fuad T Antun , MD, PhD. FRCPsych, DPM
Professor of Psychiatry
Advisor & WHO National Focal Point forMental Health-Ministry of health
Lebanon

Abdullah Adra, MD
Clinical Associate , Dept of Obstetrics and Gynaecology
American University of Beirut-Medical Center. Beirut-
Lebanon

Fadi Murad, MD
Associate Professor of Medicine (Gastroenterology)
Department of Medicine
American Univerity of Beirut Medical Center
Beirut
Lebanon

Gabriel M. Maliha, MD, Ph.D
Dean, School of Pharmacy,
Lebanese American University
Lebanon

Oussayma Moukhachen, Pharm.D., BCPS
Clinical Assistant Professor
School of Pharmacy
Lebanese American University
Byblos,
Lebanon

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Affiliated Organisations
Abyad Medical Center & Middle-East Longevity Institute-Lebanon
Department of Family Medicine Qatar
Family Medicine Specialty Training Program, Kuwait
Australian Family Physician (Royal Australian College of General Practitioners)
medi+WORLD International
Department of Family Medicine, Medical Faculty, Akdeniz University of Antalya,Turkey
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INTERNATIONAL

Professor John Murtagh,
Head of the Global Family Doctor International Accreditation Committee
Department of Community Medicine,
Monash University
Australia

Professor Barry D Weiss,
Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of Arizona College of Medicine,
Tucson, AZ, USA

Professor Michel Jean-Pierre
Institutions Universitaries de Geriatric
Geneva
Switzerland

Mohammed T Abou-Saleh M.B., Ch.B
M.Phil. ,M.R.C.Psych,F.R.C.Psych, Ph.D.
Reader in Addictive Behaviour
Clinical Director - Addiction Services
Honorary Consultant in Addiction Psychiatry Department of Psychiatry of Addictive Behaviour and Psychological Medicine
Director of Research , Department of Mental Health
St George's Hospital Medical School
Director of Research and Development
South West London & St George's MH Trust
United Kingdom

Professor Alan Walker
University of Sheffield
United Kingdom

Alan J Sinclair, MD
Professor of Medicine (Geriatrics)
Director, Successful Ageing Programme
Section of Geriatric Medicine
University of Warwick
United Kingdom

Professor John R. M. Copeland
Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry,
University of Liverpool
United Kingdom

Dr Justin Allen,
Director of Postgraduate General Practice Education,
President of EURACT (European Academy of Teachers in General Practice - the education network of WONCA Europe)
Leicester, United Kingdom.

Dr. Niall Maguire
Irish College of General Practitioners
Ireland

Juan Mendive, MD
Family Physician
Chairman of the International Committee of semFYC (Spanish Society of Family Medicine)
Spain

Dr. Peder Olesgaard MD
General Practitioner - Facilitator
Denmark

Katrín Fjeldsted, MD
Reykjavík,
Iceland

George E. Kikano, MD, CPE
Chairman, Family Medicine
Case Western Reserve University and
University Hospitals of Cleveland
Cleveland, OH
USA

Prof Changiz Geula
Associate Professor, Department of Medicine (Neuroscience);
Division on Aging, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA
Center for Neurodegeneration and Repair, Harvard Medical School,
Harvard Medical School
Boston, MA
USA

Roger Zoorob MD, MPH
Associate Professor and Associate Chair
Residency Program Director
Loiuisian State University Health Sciences Center
Department of family Medicine
New Orleans,
USA

Robert P. Friedland, MD
Professor, Lab of Neurogeriatrics
Dept of Neurology
Case Western Reserve University
University Hospitals of Cleveland
USA

JEFFREY L. CUMMINGS, M.D.
Director, UCLA Alzheimer's Disease Center
The Augustus S. Rose Professor of Neurology
Professor of Psychiatry & Biobehavioral Sciences
Vice Chair, Department of Neurology
Director, UCLA Alzheimer's Disease Center
University of California , Los Angeles
USA

Fahim Farhat, M.D., M.B.A.
Assistant Clinical Professor
Department of Family & Community Medicine
Baylor College of Medicine
Houston, Texas
USA

Bowirrat Abdalla M.D., Ph.D.
Assist. Professor of Anatomy & Neurobiology
Boston University School of Medicine
80 E. Concord St. , L815
Boston , MA
USA

Hilal A. Lashuel
Instructor in Neurology
Harvard Medical School & Brigham and Women's Hospital,
Boston,
USA

Marc L. Rivo, M.D., M.P.H.
Editor - Wonca News
4566 Prairie Avenue
Miami Beach, FL
USA

Janan Al-Awar Smither, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Psychology
University of Central Florida
Orlando, FL
USA

Prof. A. Claudio Cuello, MD, DSc, FRSC
Research Chair
Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics
Faculty of Medicine
McGill University
Canada

A. S. Abdulla, BSc, MD, LMCC, CCFP(C), DipSportMed (CASM)
Medical Director The Kingsway Health Centre,
Ontario
Canada


Prof Marietjie de Villiers
National Chairperson: SA Academy of Family Practice/Primary Care
Head: School of Public and Primary Health Sciences
Faculty of Health Sciences
University of Stellenbosch
Tygerberg
South Africa

LAM Tai Pong, MD
Associate Professor
Family Medicine Unit, University of Hong Kong
Hong Kong

Dr Yong Rafidah Abdul Rahman
( MBBS, MAFP, FRACGP, Post-grad Dip Rep Med)
Lecturer & Family Physician
International Medical University,
Jalan Rasah, 70300 Seremban, Negeri Sembilan,
Malaysia

Dr Alverston Bailey Mb,Bs,Mro
Medical Director
Tretzel Medical Clinic
Discovery Bay
St Ann, Jamaica,
West Indies

Hadi Danawi, Ph.D., MPH., CCRP.
Senior Consultant Epidemiologist.
Faculty Mentor, Walden University.
Senior Research Director, Epiconsults, Inc. Houston, TX. USA.
Editor MediView Express Reports, NY, NY, USA.