WONCA East Mediterranean update
WONCA's East Mediterranean region has new leaders:
President: Dr Mohammed Tarawneh, Jordan.
Read more about Dr Tarawneh
Immediate Past President: Prof Nabil Kurashi, Saudi Arabia
Honorary Treasurer:
Dr Oraib Al Smadi, Jordan
Honorary Secretary: Prof Abdelmunim Aldabbagh, Iraq
Other officers
• Prof Taghreed Farahat, Egypt
• Dr Omar Al Jabri, UAE
• Dr Mohammad Alshafee, Oman
• Dr Mona Osma, Lebanon
• Dr Amira Stephanou, Syria
• Dr Shaher Alshehri, Saudi Arabia
• Dr Hassan H B Al-Kazzaz, Iraq
Recent meetings include:
1. EMR meeting in Prague
2. the meeting of WONCA EMR executives (Dr Tarawneh and Dr Alsmadi) with the scientific committee of Arab Board for specialities, family and community specialty leaded by Prof Faisal Al Nasir, which is composed of 30 academic representatives most of Arab countries, where we discuss the ways of coordination in order to improve the specialty of family medicine in our region
3.Informal meeting of the WONCA EMR Executive with member organizations of societies of family of medicine from Egypt, Oman, Bahrain and Jordan, (photo)
