Editorial Board
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Chief Editor
Abdulrazak Abyad MD, MPH, AGSF
Director, Abyad Medical Center and Middle-East Longevity Institute
Editorial office
Abyad Medical Center and
Middle-east Longevity Institute
Azmi Street , Abdo Center
P.O Box 618
Tripoli-Lebanon
Tel & Fax : 961-6-443684
Mobile : 961-3-201901
E-mail : aabyad@cyberia.net.lb
Web site : http://www.amclb.com

Advisor to the Editor
Prof. Dr Sijmen Duursma
University Medical Center, Utrecht University Hospital
Utrecht, The Netherlands

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

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Regional

Bahrain
Dr. F. Amin
Assistant Under-Secretary For Training and Planning
Ministry of Health
Kingdom of Bahrain.

Faisal A. Latif Alnasir FPC, FRCGP, MICGP, PhD
Associate Professor
Department of Family and Community Medicine
Vice Dean, Student Affairs and Premedical Program
College of Medicine and Medical Sciences
Arabian Gulf University
Bahrain

Dr. Mona Alshaik Almahmood
Elderly Health Focal Person, Primary Health Care
Ministry of Health
Kingdom of Bahrain
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Egypt
Dr Nasser Loza FRCPsych
Director,
The Behman Hospital
Cairo,
Egypt
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Sultanate Oman
Dr Ali Jaffer Mohamed

Advisor Health Affairs and Supervising DGHA
Ministry of Health Sultanate of Oman
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Iran
Dr. Anahita Khodabakhshi Koolee
Assistant professor of counseling psychology,
Faculty of Human Science, Khatam University,
Tehran, Iran

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Iraq
Hamid Yahya Hussain(MBChB)
medicine(PhD) community and family medicine
Assistant Prof
Iraqi Board for medical specialization
Baghdad
Iraq

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Lebanon

Dr Mohamed Khaled
Dean of Public Health
Tripoli Lebanon
Al Jinan University
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Qatar
Dr. Muayad K.Khalid,MD,CABM,MRCP(UK)
Associate Editor,MEJEM
Consultant Physician,EM
Hamad General Hospital,
Qatar

Prof. Abdulbari Bener
Advisor to World Health Organization
Head & Consultant,
Dept. of Medical Statistics & Epidemiology
Hamad General Hospital &
Hamad Medical Corporation
Weill Cornell Medical College
Qatar
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Saudi Arabia
PROF. NABIL KURASHI
Professor of Family Medicine
College of Medicine, King Faisal University
Pro tem Regional President, WONCA EMRO
Vice-Chairman, Arab Development Institute
Vice-President, Arab Development University of Bahrain

Hashim Hasan Balubaid, M.B., ChB.SSC-Med..FACP
Assistant Professor King Saud Bin Abdulaziz University
Head Division of Physical & Geriatric Medicine
Department of Internal Medicine
King Abdulaziz Medical City , National Guard Hospital
Riyadh , Saudi Arabia
Waleed AL Malik MD.
geriatrecian .
King Abdulaziz Medical City.
King Fahad National Guard Hospital.
Riyadh. Saudi Arabia.
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Turkey
Hakan Yaman, MD,MS
Associate Professor and Chair
Department of Family Medicine,
Faculty of Medicine, University of Akdeniz,
Antalya,
Turkey
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United Arab Emirates
Prof. Omer El Rufaei
UAE University
United Arab Emirates
Abdu Adem

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Affiliated Organisations
1. medi+WORLD International
2. MEAMA
3. MEAAA
4. Abyad Medical Center
5. Middle-East Longevity Institute Lebanon
6. MESA
7. MENAR
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INTERNATIONAL
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Prof. Jean-Pierre Michel
Head of the geriatric ward
Department of rehabilitation and geriatrics Geneva
University Hospital and Medical School
President of the European Academy for Medicine of Ageing Academic
Director of the European Union Geriatric Medicine Society
WHO expert Health and Age programme.

Prof. Jürgen Howe
Prof. Dr. Jürgen Howe
TU Braunschweig
Institut für Psychologie
Abt. Gerontopsychologie
Germany

Barry Reisberg, M.D.
Professor,Department of Psychiatry
Clinical Director
Silberstein Aging and Dementia Research Center
New York University School of Medicine
USA

Ruth McCaffrey ND, ARNP-BC
Assistant Professor
Christine E. Lynn College of Nursing
Florida Atlantic University
Boca Raton, Fl. 33431
USA

Prof. Dr. Dr. Ernst R. v. Schwarz, MD, PhD, FESC, FACC, FSCAI
Professor of Medicine, Cedars Sinai Medical Center
Medical Director, Cardiac Support Program
Co-Director, Cardiac Transplantation
Professor of Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
Cedars Sinai Heart Institute, Division of Cardiology
Cedars Sinai Medical Center
USA

Palmi Johnsson, MD, FACP
Chief of Geriatrics
Landspitali University Hospital
University of Iceland, School of Medicine
Reykjavik, Iceland

Prof Giovanni GAMBASSI
Department of Gerontology and Geriatric Sciences
the Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore
Rome, Italy

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

M.W. Ribbe MD.PhD.
Professor of Nursing Home Medicine
Free University medical center VUmc
The Netherlands

Prof. Francesco Marotta, MD, PhD
Consultant in Gastroenterology
SG Hospital, Milano
WHO-Cntr. for Biotech. & Nat. Med.
University of Milano
Consultant in BioGerontology
Urology Dept., University of Pavia

Perminder Sachdev MD PhD, FRANZCP
Professor of Neuropsychiatry
University of New South Wales & Neuropsychiatric Institute,
The Prince of Wales Hospital,
Australia

Shabbir M.H. Alibhai, MD, MSc, FRCP(C)
Assistant Professor,
Departments of Medicine and Health Policy, Management, and Evaluation University of Toronto
Senior Editor, Geriatrics & Aging
Canada

Dr. Khulood A. Muhiddin, MB, ChB, PhD, FRCP
Consultant in Stroke Medicine,
Royal Derby Hospital,
United Kingdom