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Middle East Journal of Internal Medicine

Print ISSN: 1837-9052
Online ISSN: 1837-9060

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Chief Editor:
Ahmad Husari MD FCCP D'ABSM
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Lesley Pocock
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Editorial Board

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Board Members:

Chief Editor
Ahmad Husari
Director, American University of Beirut Sleep Disorders Center
Director, American University of Beirut outpatient clinical care services
Assistant Professor
Division of pulmonary and critical care Medicine
American University of Beirut Medical Center
Beirut Lebanon

Associate Editor
A. Abyad, MD, MPH, MBA, AGSF , AFCHSE

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Regional

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

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
Qatar

Prof. Hassan Bella Md, PhD, DTM&H
College of Medicine,
King Faisal University,
Saudi Arabia

Prof. Ilhami UNLUOGLU (M.D)
Head of Fam Med DepSchool of Medicine
Osmangazi University
Turkey

Dr. Muayad K.Khalid M.B.Ch.B, FRCP
Senior Consultant Physician
Hamad General Hospital
Senior Editor,MEJEM
Assistant Professor of MedicineTrauma and Acute Care(JEMTAC) Doha,Qatar
Weill Cornell Medical College-Qatar Senior Editor
Senior Editor,Journal of Emergency Mediciene Qatar
(Edinburgh)

Yousef Abou Allaban MD, MBA
American Board Certified in Psychaitry
Medical Director, Boston Health Care Inc.
Senior Consultant Psychiatrist, Abu Dhabi, UAE
Assistant Professor in Pschiatry, Univeristy of Massachusetts Medical School
Abu Dhabi, UAE

Abdulghani Mohamad Al samarai
Professor
Department of Medicine
Tikrit University College of Medicine
IRAQ

Dr Amina Hamed Ahmad Al Obaidy
B Sc M SC PH D.
Consultant in Clinical Biochemistry
Tikrit University College of Medicine
IRAQ

Prof Dr Hamid Y Hussain,
Community medicine, Family medicine/ University of Baghdad/Iraq
Senior specialist / Dubai Health Authority / Dubai-UAE

Masoud Mardani, MD
Professor of Infectious Diseases,
Dep of Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine,
Shaheed Beheshti University of Medical Sciences
Tehran-IRAN

Professor Diaa Essam El -Din Rizk
MSc, FRCOG, FRCS, MD, Dip BA
Professor of Obstetrics & Gynaecology
Consultant Obstetrician & Gynaecologist, Ain Shams Maternity and Women's Hospital
Editor, International Urogynecology Journal
Cairo- Egypt.

Dr Iheb Ghariani
Geriatrician
Department of Internal Medicine
Habib Thameur Hospital
Tunis

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

International

Shabbir M.H. Alibhai, MD, MSc, FRCP(C)
Assistant Professor,
Departments of Medicine and Health Policy,
Management, and Evaluation
University of Toronto
Attending Physician and Scientist,
Department of Medicine, University Health Network
Research Scientist, National Cancer Institute of Canada
Senior Editor, Geriatrics & Aging
CANADA

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.

Changiz Geula, Ph.D.
Professor of Neuroscience
Director, Laboratory for Cognitive
and Molecular Morphometry
Cognitive Neurology and Alzheimer's Disease Center
Northwestern University
Feinberg School of Medicine
Chicago, IL 60611USA

KCM Wilson MPhil, MD, FRCPsych.
Professor of Old Age Psychiatry
Liverpool University
Liverpool-UK

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
Chairman, GAIA
Italy

Khulood A Muhiddin
MB, ChB, PhD (Lond), FRCP (UK)
Consultant Physician in General and Geriatric Medicine
Southern Derbyshire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust
UK

Jørgen Nystrup, MD
Chief Medical Staff Officer Psychiatry
Zealand Region
10-16 Smedegade
DK-4000 Roskilde
Denmark

Dr. Kawa Dizaye
Professor of Pharmacology
Bsc. (Pharm) Diploma (Clinical Pharm), MSc (Med. Physiology),
PhD, (Pharmacology).
Head Of Department of Pharmacology
College of Medicine, Hawler Medical University
Iraq

Mehmet Rami Helvaci, M.D.
Medical Faculty of the Mustafa Kemal University,
Professor of Internal Medicine
31100 Serinyol Antakya Hatay, Turkey

M. M. Khaled
M.Phil, PhD. (UCL-London, UK)
Professor of Metabolic & Medical Biochemistry
BAU Medical School & LU Public Health-FSP-3
Beirut
Lebanon

Hamid Ghaffoori Hasan
(BSc, MSc, PhD)
Prof. in Clinical Biochemistry.
Baghdad University, Ibn AL-Haitham College of Sciences,
Adhamiya, Baghdad, IRAQ.

Dr Almoutaz Alkhier Ahmed
Diabetologist, Family medicine
MSc in diabetes,Pg Dip in diabetes,IIWCC,MRCGP[intr],FRSPH
National Guard Health Affairs- WR
Jeddah
Saudi Arabia

Prof. Tamer A Gheita, MD
Professor of Rheumatology and Clinical Immunology,
Faculty of Medicine, Cairo University, Egypt (Misr)
Certified EULAR Rheumatologist, Zürich, Switzerland.
Editor In-Chief, The Egyptian Rheumatologist (Elsevier)
Egypt

Pr. Sonia Ouali Hammami
Internal Medicine Department-Endocrinology
Geriatric Unit
CHU F Bourguiba Monastir
Research Lab : Human Nutrition & metabolic disorder
University of Monastir
Tunisia

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Affiliated Organisations
-MENAA
-MEAMA
-Abyad Medical Center & Middle-East Longevity Institute, Lebanon
-medi+WORLD International Pty. Ltd., Australia