From: Alan Meyers <afmeyers@bu.edu>
Date: Thu, 21 May 2009 17:04:29 -0400
To: Sunny Park <secretariat@wma.net>, <kloiber@wma.net>, John Williams
<williams@wma.net>
Subject: physicians protest appointment of Dr Blachar as president of WMA
Dear WMA Council Chair Dr Edward Hill and the Council,
We the undersigned 725 physicians represent both academic medicine (114 professors) and
clinical practice in 43 countries. A matter of grave concern to us, and a threat to the public
reputation of the World Medical Association, has brought us together in this perhaps
unprecedented medical initiative. We wish to publicly protest and appeal against the recent
appointment of Dr Yoram Blachar, longstanding President of the Israeli Medical Association,
as President of the World Medical Association. We believe that his Presidency makes a
mockery of the principles on which the WMA was founded in 1947, which was as a response
to egregious abuses by German and Japanese doctors in World War Two.
The WMA's own Declaration of Tokyo (1975) specifies that "physicians shall not
countenance, condone or participate in the practice of torture or other forms of cruel,
inhuman or degrading procedures, and in all situations, including armed conflict and civil
conflict". The WMA Annual General Assembly of 2007 made it clear that inaction was not an
option, stating that "this is the first time the WMA has explicitly obliged doctors to
document cases of torture of which they become aware. The absence of documenting and
denouncing such acts might be considered as a form of tolerance and of non-assistance to
the victims".(1) There are still more recent calls from authoritative academic sources for the
international medical community to go much further in actively allying itself with efforts to
suppress mistreatment of prisoners. (2)
Amnesty International concluded as long ago as 1996 that Israeli doctors working with the
security services "formed part of a system in which detainees are tortured, ill treated and
humiliated in ways that place prison medical practice in conflict with medical ethics". (3) Dr
Blachar, already IMA President, took no action. Amnesty's briefing to the UN Committee
Against Torture in September 2008 "focuses on Amnesty International's (continuing)
concerns about Israel's failure to implement the Convention against Torture in the Occupied
Palestinian Territories and the intensification of measures amounting to cruel, inhuman and
degrading treatment and punishment".(4)
A well-publicized report in 2007 by the Public Committee Against Torture in Israel (PCATI),
based on the detailed testimony of 9 Palestinian men tortured between 2004 and 2006,
gives a graphic demonstration of the extent to which Israeli doctors continue to form an
integral and everyday part of the running of interrogation suites whose output is torture. (5)
The IMA have conceded that they were aware of this report, but did nothing. More
recently, at a meeting on December 10 2008 in Tel Aviv, with Dr Blachar presiding only
weeks after his inauguration as WMA President, Physicians for Human Rights-Israel again
sought (unsuccessfully) to get the IMA to face this report and all the other evidence in the
public domain.
In its 2008 annual report to the UN Committee Against Torture, the UAT Coalition, a
coalition of 14 Israeli and Palestinian human rights organizations, concluded that "since the
Committee last reviewed Israel, the practice of torture and ill treatment has continued
unabated. The UAT Coalition wishes to inform the Committee that in its opinion the use of
torture and ill treatment by Israeli authorities against Palestinians is both widespread and
systematic. The UAT Coalition has recorded evidence of acts, omissions and complicity by
agents of the State at all levels....until this culture of impunity is addressed this situation is
unlikely to improve".(6)
In November 2008, PCATI filed a contempt of court motion to the High Court of Justice
against the government of Israel and the General Security Service for their responsibility for
a policy that grants a-priori permits to use torture in interrogations. The IMA have never
challenged torture as state policy in Israel.
Dr Blachar went as far as to justify the use in Israel of "moderate physical pressure"
(condemned as torture by the UN Committee Against Torture) in the fourth paragraph of a
letter published in the international medical journal The Lancet in 1997 (7, and attached pdf
). This surely unprecedented action by the president of a national medical association has
not been disowned, and renders him unfit for the office of WMA President. In the age of
evidence-based medicine his rejection of the documentary record has been unprofessional
and frequently contemptuous. On the British Medical Journal (BMJ) website he dismissed a
BMJ paper on health and human rights in the Occupied Palestinian Territories - which cited
Amnesty, Johns Hopkins University, the International Court of Justice, a UN Rapporteur and
Physicians for Human Rights-Israel - as "the lies and filth he spews" and "reminiscent of
some of the worst forms of anti-semitism ever espoused" (8) Indeed Dr Blachar has made
statements which were untrue, and which he must have known were untrue, on at least 10
occasions in the Lancet and the BMJ in the past decade.(9) Given that these 2 international
medical journals are amongst the world's most prestigious and influential, this is an intended
corruption of the public record.
IMA membership of WMA appears to have been a figleaf: The IMA website pays lip service
to medical ethics but Dr Blachar has overseen a studied failure to take the actions mandated
by the Declaration of Tokyo.
We conclude that under Dr Blachar's leadership the IMA made a decision on political
grounds years ago to turn a blind eye to torture in Israel and the institutionalized
involvement of doctors. This stance continues with Dr Blachar as WMA President. On an
issue that goes to the heart of the moral authority of the profession, Dr Blachar has offered
shameful ethical leadership to doctors in Israel and worldwide.
It could scarcely be more scandalous that he now assumes the Presidency of the official
international body overseeing medical ethics. This appointment will seriously damage the
public reputation of the WMA and its work, and risks making it a laughingstock. We call upon
the WMA Council to oblige Dr Blachar to step down as a matter of priority. Since the WMA is
mandated to ensure that its member associations conform to its codes, we also request an
investigation into the IMA record highlighted above.
In view of the public importance of this issue we are copying our letter and supporting
documentation to international medical journals and mainstream newspapers for coverage.
We hope to hear from you and the WMA Council as soon as possible please.
Yours sincerely
Professor Alan Meyers (afmeyers@bu.edu) and 724 other physicians from: United Kingdom,
Canada, USA, Lebanon, Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Italy, South Africa, Norway, Occupied
Palestinian Territories, Malaysia, Switzerland, Algeria, Iraq, Eire, Spain, Australia, India, New
Zealand, Germany, France, Sweden, Pakistan, Tunisia, Morocco, Saudi Arabia, Greece,
Libya, Turkey, Bahrain, Belgium, Peru, Syria, Qatar, Nigeria, Czech Republic, France,
Zambia, Denmark, Dubai, Kuwait, Argentina.
See full signatory list at end
References
1. World Medical Association. Doctors urged to document cases of torture. Press Release 8
Oct 2007.
2. Miles S, Freedman A. Medical ethics and torture: revising the Declaration of Tokyo. Lancet
2009: 373:344-48.
3. Amnesty International. "Under constant medical supervision",torture, ill-treatment and the
health professions in Israel and the Occupied Territories. London. Amnesty International.
MDE 15/37/96. 1996.
4. Amnesty International. Israel/OPT. Briefing to the Committee Against Torture. MDE
15/040/2008. 2008.
5. Public Committee Against Torture in Israel. Ticking Bombs testimonies of torture victims in
Israel. PCATI 2007.
6. Defence for Children International. Palestine Section. UAT Report: Torture and ill-treatment
in Israel and the OPT. 2008.
<http://www.dci-pal.org/>
2008/11/25
UAT report: Torture and ill-treatment in Israel and the oPt
In its 2008 Annual Report, the United Against Torture Coalition (UAT Coalition), a coalition of
14 Palestinian and Israeli human rights organisations, has undertaken an in-depth and
critical analysis of Israel's compliance with the Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel,
Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CAT).
The report examines the continued and systemic use of torture by the State of Israel, in both
Israel and in the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt).
In accordance with the mandate of the UAT Coalition, the Annual Report focuses on
violations against Palestinians, in both the oPt and Israel. The Annual Report is based on
material <http://www.dci-pal.org/english/display.cfm?DocId=836&CategoryId=3>
submitted by the UAT Coalition to the United Nations Committee against Torture (the
Committee) in September 2008, pending the Committee's periodical review of Israel's
compliance with CAT, scheduled for May 2009.
The Annual Report draws upon the considerable experience of the UAT Coalition
membership including more than 80 pages of affidavit material, extracts of which are
interspersed throughout.
In preparing the Annual Report, the UAT Coalition examined the use of torture and illtreatment by the Israeli authorities against Palestinians from the point of arrest, through
interrogation and detention as well as the use of coerced confessions in the military courts.
The Annual Report also considers:
The use of torture and ill-treatment in non-conventional circumstances, including
house demolitions, the Gaza siege and the coercion by the Israeli Security Agency
(ISA) of medical patients attempting to exit Gaza in order to access necessary
medical treatment.
The continued use of incommunicado detention and lack of prompt access
to lawyers for Palestinians detainees.
The discriminatory nature in which laws and practices are applied to
Palestinian detainees compared to Israeli citizens.
The impunity with which ISA interrogators, police officers
and members of the Israeli army torture and abuse
Palestinian detainees, including children as young as 12.
A legislative exemption that allows the ISA to
interrogate Palestinian detainees without audio
visual recordings as is required in other
investigations.
The failure of the State of Israel to clearly
prohibit the use of torture and ill-treatment
in its domestic legislation as recommended
by the UN Committee.
The UAT Coalition concludes in its Annual Report that the use of torture and ill-treatment by
Israeli authorities against Palestinians is both widespread and systematic. The State is either
unwilling or unable to fulfill its treaty obligations under CAT. The UAT Coalition has
observed and recorded evidence of acts, omissions and complicity by agents of the State at
all levels, including the army, the intelligence service, the police, the judiciary and other
branches of government. The UAT Coalition is of the view that until this culture of impunity
is addressed the situation is unlikely to improve. Contact a DCI-Palestine if you wish to
receive a hard copy of the report or read it online
<http://www.unitedagainsttorture.org/page.asp?pageID=28> in English, Arabic or Hebrew.
Source: UAT
7. Blachar Y. The truth about Israeli medical ethics. Lancet 1997;350:1247. (see also pdf
attachment)
8. Blachar Y. Response from the Israeli Medical Association. Rapid Responses, bmj.com, 15
December 2004
9. Untrue statements by Dr Blachar in the British Medical Journal and
the Lancet:
Blachar Y. BMJ 1996; 313:630. "...the association (IMA) has done its utmost to ensure that
Israeli physicians neither directly nor indirectly participate in any acts of torture".
Blachar Y. BMJ 2003; 327:1107. "..a collusion of doctors and torture that does not exist".
Blachar Y. BMJ 2005; 330:254-5. ".. neither the IMA nor WMA is willing to give credence to
the half-truths and untruths".
Blachar Y. BMJ 2005; 331;699. (re torture etc) "..the IMA looks into any claims brought to
our attention".
Dyer O. BMJ 2007; 334:871 (quoting Blachar) ".. the IMA has on many occasions denounced
the use of torture and any involvement by physicians in torture".
More such statements as Rapid Responses at bmj.com <http://bmj.com/> .
Blachar Y. Lancet 1996; 348:1748. (Re Amnesty report on torture inIsrael) "..our organisation
endeavours to ensure that Israeli physicians neither directly nor indirectly participate in any
acts of torture".
Blachar Y. Lancet 1997; 350:1247. "..the IMA has frequently and unequivocally denounced
the use of torture". (In 4th para of same letter he defends moderate physical pressure,
condemned as torture by UN Committee on Torture!)
Blachar Y. Lancet 2001; 361:425.".. torture is abhorrent and the IMA in no way endorses it".
Blachar Y. Lancet 2003; 361:1827. "..the IMA has also contacted the Ministry of Health to
ensure reportage of ethical problems encountered in the course of treatments or any
instances of unethical treatment of patients".
Blachar Y. Lancet 2003; 362:252. (re torture) "..IMA has always made it clear that doctors are
not to be involved in such acts..to the best of our knowledge, Israeli doctors have not taken
part or assisted in such acts".
Blachar Y. Lancet 2003; 362:1675. (re Doctors in Conflict) "..I object strenuously to your
implication that I would deviate from a universally accepted code of medical ethics.. the IMA
has been working for years to ensure that human and medical rights in the territories
are maintained".
BACKGROUND BRIEFING:
Prepared by Dr Derek Summerfield (derek.summerfield@googlemail.com) of the UK Medical
Committee for Palestine
Torture and the Israeli Medical Association: a brief history
Torture in Israel has a long history and there is a mountain of documentation in the public
realm attesting to it- from both international and regional (Israeli and Palestinian) human
rights
organisations .
In 1993 the existence of a "fitness for interrogation" form came to light, to be signed by a
doctor. Since interrogation customarily meant torture, the doctors signing these forms were
giving the green light to the interrogators and their methods and were thus part of the
process themselves.
Amnesty International concluded in 1996 that Israeli doctors working with the security
services "formed part of a system in which detainees are tortured, ill-treated and humiliated
in ways that place prison medical practice in conflict with medical ethics".Amnesty, and
others who approached the Israeli Medical association (IMA) to urge them to take a stand
were consistently rebuffed. This too has been the IMA response to published material in
mainstream medical journals- notable the British Medical Journal and the Lancet. In reply to
one such paper, published in the Lancet in 1997, the longstanding president of the IMA Dr Y
Blachar actually justified the use of "moderate physical pressure", the euphemism in Israel
for torture, and declared as such by the UN Committee Against Torture! A pdf of this letter is
attached.
The moral position and strategic line taken over many years by the IMA was well captured
by a remark made by Professor Eran Dolev, than IMA Head of Ethics (yes, Ethics!) in an
interview in 1999 with a visiting delegation from the Medical Foundation for the Care of
Victims of Torture, London. Prof Dolev stated that that "a couple of broken fingers" during
the interrogation of Palestinians was worthwhile for the information it might garner. When
this was published in the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, verified by those present
at the interview, Dr Blachar defended Prof Dolev.
Indeed 2 years earlier, after a human rights conference in Gaza in 1997, one of us had
written to Dolev in his capacity as Head of Ethics. An Israeli physician had given an account
of a medical colleague who had confessed to her that he had removed the intravenous drip
from the arm of a seriously ill Palestinian prisoner, and told the man that if he wanted to
live, he should co-operate with his interrogators. Dolev was asked to investigate but he
never replied, even after reminders.
When an Israeli psychiatrist Dr Ruchama Marton, a psychiatrist, publicised the unethical role
that fellow Israeli doctors were playing in detention centres by labelling seriously mentally
ill Palestinian detainees as "malingerers", and denying them treatment, the IMA charged her
with slander rather than investigating the allegations.
The titles of 11 Amnesty reports on Israel/OPT between 2002-7 contained the word
"torture".
Torture continues to be state policy in Israel. The Israeli human rights documentation centre
B'Tselem recently confirmed (April 2007) that almost all Palestinian detainees suffer physical
and mental abuse amounting to torture, citing the testimonies of 73 men gathered
between July 2005 and January 2006. The IMA maintains a studied silence.
No recent firsthand evidence is more telling than that compiled by the Israeli organization
Public Committee Against Torture (PCATI), entitled '"Ticking Bombs". Testimonies of Torture
Victims in Israel'. Published in May 2007, their report records the detailed testimony of 9
Palestinian men tortured by Israeli security services between 2004 and 2006. Here is graphic
demonstration of the conclusions published by Amnesty International in 1996, and over and
over again by other
organisations, that Israeli doctors form an integral and everyday part of the running of the
interrogation suites whose output is torture. Doctors, several of whom are actually named,
saw the prisoners at various points between episodes of torture (which in one case led to
spinal cord damage), did not take a proper history, did not protest on these men's behalf,
and typically prescribed simple analgesia before returning them to their interrogators. They
did not
need to ask the prisoners what had happened to them because they knew perfectly well. It
is also remarkable that doctors in position of authority were directly involved in several of
these cases, and are also named: the Chief Medical Officer of the Israeli Prison Service, Dr
Alex Adler; the Chief Medical Officer of Israeli Police Dr.Tzvi Lankovski; and- most telling of
all- no less than the Chairman of the Ethics board of the Israeli Medical Association,
Professor Avinoam Reches. These accounts carry the imprimateur of a human rights
organization of many years standing and high reputation. The named doctors have not
demanded a retraction or sued the report's authors in order to clear their names. When 7 of
us published a short account in the Lancet, the IMA wrote to us to threaten to sue, though in
the same email (which we have retained) they conceded that Professor Reches had been
sent a copy at the time. Thus the IMA condemned itself out of its own mouth, since inaction
in the face of reputable evidence of torture, and of doctor's involvement, violates the WMA
codes- in particular the anti-torture Declaration of Tokyo- to which the IMA is signed up as a
member. As the Executive Director of Physicians for Human Rights-Israel put it in the Lancet
in 2003, the IMA's collusion with torture is part of "its long tradition of siding with 'national
Israeli considerations' rather than with universal medical ethics".
Amnesty International's briefing to the UN Committee Against Torture of 30 Sept 2008
concludes as before: "This briefing focuses on Amnesty International's concerns about
Israel's failure to implement the Convention against Torture in the Occupied Palestinian
territories (OPT) and the intensification of measures amounting to cruel, inhuman and
degrading treatment and punishment......."
On 2 Nov 2008, the Public Committee Against Torture in Israel, in conjunction with the
Association for Civil Rights in Israel, and HaMoked, the Centre for the Defence of the
Individual, PCATI "filed a contempt of court motion to the High Court of Justice against the
government of Israel and its head, Prime Minster, Ehud Olmert, and against the General
Security Service (GSS) and its head Yuval Diskin, for their responsibility for a policy that
grants a-priori permits to use torture in interrogations that fundamentally violate the High
Court of Justice decision of September 1999."
IThe 25 Nov 2008 Annual Report of the United Against Torture Coalition (UAT), posted under
Reference 6 above, included more than 80 pages of affidavit material. The Report formed
the basis of their submission to the UN Committee Against Torture in September 2008,
pending the Committee's next review of Israel's compliance with CAT due in May 2009. The
UAT Coalition examined the use of torture and ill-treatment by the Israeli authorities against
Palestinians from the point of arrest, through interrogation and detention as well as the use
of coerced confessions
in the military courts.
Please note again the surely devastating conclusions of this Report: “The UAT Coalition
concludes that the use of torture and ill-treatment by Israeli authorities against
Palestinians is both widespread and systematic. The State is either unwilling or unable to
fulfill its treaty obligations under CAT. The UAT Coalition has recorded evidence of acts,
omissions and complicity by agents of the State at all levels, including the army,
intelligence service, the police, the judiciary and other branches of government. The
Coalition is of the view that until this culture of impunity is addressed the situation is
unlikely to improve”.
This, then, is a brief account of torture as state policy in Israel, and of the shameful and
unethical role played over many years by the IMA and its longstanding President Dr Yoram
Blachar as part of the culture of impunity to which the UAT Coalition refers. Those who had
cared to examine this record over many years were nonplussed when Dr Blachar became
Chair of Council of the World Medical Association in 2003, and are staggered that he now
takes the Presidency itself!
We are challenging Blachar's appointment on the torture issue specifically, though the other
arm of our case against him and the IMA would be their refusal to hold the Israeli
Government and Defence Force to account for their systematic violations of the 4th Geneva
Convention specifically those clauses which guarantee the right of a civilian population in a
conflict zone to unimpeded access to services vital to life: food, water, health care etc, and
which guarantee health workers,clinics, ambulances etc immunity from military action. The
assault on Gaza in December-January 2008-9 amply and terribly demonstrated what
Physicians for Human
Rights Israel (for whom I have the greatest respect) wrote at the time of the 2002 invasion of
the West Bank. "We believed that the IMA might be able to curb the appalling deterioration
in the attitude of Israeli military forces towards Palestinian health and rescue services. Yet
despite severe injury to medical personnel and to the ability of physicians to act in safety to
advance their patients' interests; despite Israeli shells that have fallen on Palestinian
hospitals;despite the killing of medical personnel on duty- IMA has chosen to remain silent."
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Professor Alan Meyers
Ass Professor Hakon Lasse Leira Professor Edwin Daniel
Associate Professor of Paediatrics Dept of Occupational Medicine Professor Emeitus of Pharmacology
Boston University School of Medicine St Olav University Hospital, Norway University of Alberta, Canada
Boston USA
Professor Spiro Tams Professor Mohammed Tikly
Sir Iain Chalmers Professor of Dermatology Professor of Rheumatology
James Lind Library Jerusalem, Israel University of Witwatersrand
Oxford, UK
Johannesburg, South Africa
Professor Andrew Zweifler
Baroness Dr Jenny Tonge Professor of Internal Medicine Professor Raif Geha
House of Lords Michigan, USA Professor of Paediatrics
London, UK
Harvard, Boston, USA
Professor Ammar Al-Chalabi
Professor Ahmed Okasha Professor of Neurology Professor Cesar Mondragon
Past President, World Psychiatric Association & Complex Disease Genetics National University of San
Marcos
Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt London, UK Lima, Peru
Dr Belgacem Sabri Dr David Bell President elect British Psychoanalytic Society London, UK Dr Hans
Husum
World Health Organisation
Cairo, Egypt
Surgeon, Tromso Mine Victim Resource Centre
University of Northern Norway
Professor Hani Abdeen Professor Warren Gold Professor Ayman Chamma
Al Quds Medical School Professor of Medicine Professor of Medicine
Jerusalem, Palestine
San Francisco, USA Point-Claire, Canada
Professor Wendy Savage Professor Mamoun Kremli Professor M Miqdady
Middlesex University Paediatric Orthopaedics Pediatric Gastroenterology
London, UK Riyadh, South Arabia Canada
Professor Alice Rothchild Professor Rayaz Malik Professor Derek Hellenberg
Obstetrics & Gynaecology Professor of Medicine Family Medicine
Boston, USA Manchester, UK Cape Town, South Africa
Professor Leslie London Professor Frederico Allodi Professor Gene Feder
School of Public Health & Family Medicine Consultant Psychiatrist Academic Unit of Primary Health Care
University of Cape Town Toronto, Canada University of Bristol, UK
South Africa
Professor Jamil Fayez Professor Pat Coll
Dr Brian Martindale Microsurgery & Laser Surgery specialist Clinical Associate/Professor
Member of World Psychiatric Assoc. Washington DC, USA University of Calgary, Canada
Educational Committee
Sunderland, UK Professor Faisal Mirza Prof Tina Dobsevage
Dept of Orthopaedic Surgery Mount Sinai School of Medicine
Professor Zaleha Mahdy Stanford University, USA New York, USA
Member, Malaysian Medical Council
National University of Malaysia Professor Hisham Mehanna Professor Sami Kaidbey
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Hon Professor/Consultant Surgeon Assist Professor of Cardiology
Coventry, UK American University of Beirut
Dr Ruchama Marton
Lebanon
Founder President Professor Ahmed Shabaik
Physicians for Human Rights Professor of Pathology Professor Paul Hamel
Tel Aviv, Israel University of California, USA Director, Health Studies
University of Toronto, Canada
Professor James Martin Professor Morten Lindbaek
Medicine; Respiratory diseases Professor of General Practice Professor Nizar Maraqa
Westmount, Canada University of Oslo, Norway Paediatrics
University of Florida
Professor Pat Bracken Professor Louis Reynolds Jacksonville, USA
Clinical Director School of Child & Adolescent Health
West Cork Mental Health Services, Eire University of Cape Town, South Africa Professor Mounir Hanna
Samy
Psychiatrist
Professor Michael Benny
Professor Errol Holland McGill University, Montreal, Canada
Associate Professor of Medicine Executive Dean, Health Sciences
Virginia, USA Medical University of South Africa Professor Michele Ghielmini
Limpopo, South Africa Head, Medical Oncology
Professor Colin Green
Oncol. Inst.of Southern Switzerland
Surgical Research, Northwick Park Hospital Professor Tom Hutchinson
London, UK Professor of Medicine Professor Marcel-Francis Kahn
McGill University, Canada Emeritus Professor of Medicine
Paris, France
Assoc Professor Jon Jureidini
Disciplines of Psychiatry & Paediatrics Professor Franco Cavalli Professor Michael Benny
University of Adelaide, Australia Immediate Past President Associate Professor of Medicine
International Union Against Cancer Vienna, USA
Professor David Pegg Switzerland
University of York, UK
Professor Hosny Selim
Professor Suzanna Moreno Clinical Associate, Radiation
Professor Mary Ganguli Dept of Clinical Science Oncologist, New York USA
Professor of Psychiatry, Rome, Italy
Neurology & Epidemiology
Professor Abdelmajid Saari
Pittsburgh, USA Professor Ellen Isaacs Surgery
New York Medical College Blida, Algeria
Professor Ala Sharara Youken, USA
Head of Gastroenterology
Professor Tony Davies
American University Beirut Professor Vimala Isaac Zambia School of Medicine
Lebanon Professor of Obstetrics & Gynaecology Lusaka, Zambia
Canberra. Australia
Professor Cassim Motala
Dr William Slaughter
Paediatrician Professor Noha Abokrysha Clinical Instructor in Psychiatry
University of Cape Town Neurology Harvard, Cambridge, USA
Cape Town, South Africa Cairo University, Egypt
Professor Aibah Osman
Professor Pierre L Auger Dr Mads Gilbert Public Health
Clinical Professor, Occupational Medicine Trauma Surgeon Beirut, Lebanon
Laval University Tromso, Norway
Quebec, Canada
Professor Susy Kurian
Professor Aneez Esmail Pathology
Professor Juan Gervaas Professor of General Practice Vellore, India
Professor of International University of Manchester, UK
& Public Health, Spain
Professor Hosny Selim
Professor Mohammed Abou-Saleh Radiation Oncology
Dr Pauline Cutting OBE Professor of Addictions Psychiatry New York, USA
Accident & Emergency Consultant London, UK
Bangor, UK
Professor Gilles Bertschy
Dr Swee Ang Professor of Psychiatry
Dr Ben Alofs Orthopaedic & Trauma Geneva, Switzerland
General Practitioner Consultant Surgeon, London, UK
Bangor, UK
Professor Pierre Biron
Professor Mohamed El-Fakharany Clinical Pharmacology
Dr David Halpin Assist Professor of Pathology Canada
Consultant Orthopaedic & Trauma Surgeon Wayne State University
Newton Abbott, UK Detroit, Michigan, USA Prof Gilles Desroches
Assistant Professor
Dr Chris Burns-Cox Professor Brian Johnston Ophthalmology
Consultant Physician Carnegie Mellon University Ottawa, Canada
Wotton under Edge, UK Pittsburgh, USA
Professor Ehsan Fahmy
Professor Tarek Okasha Prof Said Osman Professor of Psychiatry
Professor of Psychiatry Assistant Professor Egypt
Ain Shams University Diagnostic Radiology
Cairo, Egypt London, Canada Dr Paquita de Zulueta
Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer
Professor Abdul-Latif Elmor Professor Radwan Banimustafa
Medical Ethics & Law
Public Health Consultant PsychiatristnAmman, Jordan London, UK
Zagzig University, Egypt
Professor Aida Seif El Dawla Dr Susan Fayad
Professor Marwan Haiz Professor of Psychiatry Psychiatrist
Edmond J. Safra Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt El Nadim Centre for Rehabilitation
Chair of Functional Neurosurgery
of Victims of Violence, Cairo Egypt
London, UK Dr Eyad El Sarraj
Head, Gaza Community Dr Ghada Karmi
Professor Wa-il Abouhendy Mental Health Programme, Palestine Senior Lecturer
Head of Emergency/Disaster
Exeter University, UK
Psychiatry unit, Zagazig University, Professor Phil Thomas
Arab Federation of Psychiatrists, Egypt Centre for Ethnicity & Health Dr Asad Khan
University of Central Lancashire,UK Respiratory Physician
Professor Svein Haugsgjerd
Blackburn, UK
Psychiatry Oslo, Norway Professor Marwan Hariz Neurosurgery University College London UK
Professor Mohamed Hatta Shaharom Consultant Psychiatrist Malaysia
Professor Mohamed Tikly
Professor of Rheumatology Professor Munir Gharaibeh Professor Ismail Zayid
University of Witwatersrand Professor of Pharmacology Halifax, Canada
Johannesburg, South Africa University of Jordan
Dr Jonathan Dare
Dr Hafizur Rehman Professor Ibrahim Mohamed Consultant Child & Adolescent
Senior Paediatrician Neonatology, Pediatrics Psychiatrist, London UK
President of Islamic Medicine Montreal, Canada
Association of North America
Dr Nahed Mikki
New York, USA Professor Norbert Paediatrician
Medicine Ramallah, Palestine
Professor Mohamed Jeebhay Montreal, Canada
Specialist Occupational Medicine
Dr David Leighton
Cape Town, South Africa Dr Derek Summerfield Consultant Ophthalmologist
Honorary Senior Lecturer Bethlehem, Palestine
Professor Abdul Hakim Babar Institute of Psychiatry, King's College,UK
Professor of Plastic Surgery
Dr Joanna Santa Barbara
Lahore, Pakistan Professor Faisal Rehman Child Psychiatrist
Professor of Medicine Motueka, New Zealand
Professor Masbah Omar London, Canada
Orthopaedic Surgery
Dr Alain Pernet
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia Professor Ghaith Shubailat Specialist Internal Medicine
Plastic surgery Geneva, Switzerland
Professor Abder Ahmane Montreal, Canada
Cardiac Surgery
Dr James Deutsch
Canada Professor Hala Makhlouf Department of Psychiatry
Professor of Pathology University of Toronto, Canada
Professor Husain Saleh Ain Shams University
Chief, Department of Pathology Cairo, Egypt Dr Ana Sanchez
Wayne State University
Obstetrics & Gynaecology
Detroit, Michigan, USA Professor Abida Haque Newport Beach, USA
Professor of Pathology
Professor Shabbir Wadee Houston, USA Dr Robert Shearer
Division of Forensic Science
Urological Surgeon
Stellenbosch, University Professor Khalifa Ghenghesh Somerset, UK
South Africa Al~Fateh University for Medical Science
Tripoli, Libya Dr Malila Noone
Professor Nida Hawash
Microbiologist
Paediatrics Professor Hossam Fadel Darlington, UK
Willowvale, Canada Clin. Prof. Obstetrics & Gynaecology
Medical College of Georgia, USA Dr Daniel McQueen
Professor A. Shamisa
Psychotherapy Specialist Registrar
Neurosurgery Professor Hafeez ur Rahman London, UK
Windsor, Canada Peshawar Medical College
Pakistan Dr Helen McColl
Professor Ismail Zayid
Rehabilitation Centre for Torture
Dalhansie University Professor Ismail Rammouz Copenhagen, Denmark
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GP
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Reading, UK
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Rugby, UK Bedfordshire, UK
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London, UK
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Canada Manchester, UK
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GP
Jordan University of Science & Tech. Dr Malika Sharma Croydon, UK
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Nottinghamshire, UK
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Hebron, Palestine
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London, UK
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Toronto, Canada
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Toronto, Canada Toronto, Canada Rugby, UK
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London, UK
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GP
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Doncaster, UK
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for Oppressed People University College London, UK Cork, Eire
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Rockville, USA
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Northampton, UK
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Lincolnshire, UK
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Northampton, UK Thompson, Canada University of Oslo, Norway
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Specialist General Practice Internal Medicine Family Physician
& Community Medicine, Olso, Norway Mount Royal, Canada Mallorca, Spain
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Modena, Italy Hamilton, Toronto, Canada Tromso, Norway
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UK
Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
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Trondheim, Norway
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Detroit, USA
Burnley, UK
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Istanbul, Turkey
London, UK
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London, UK
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GP
St Albans, UK
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GP Amman, Jordan
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Regina, Canada Dr Sukaina Hirji Dr Faisal Moosa
GP Birmingham, UK
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London, UK
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Dartford, UK Montreal, Canada
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London, UK General medicine Alexandria, Egypt
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Egypt Aberdeen, UK London, UK
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Durban, South Africa Orsay, France London, UK
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London, UK University Kebangsaan Malaysia Kansas City, USA
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UK Psychiatrist Reggio Emilia, Italy
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Varese, Italy Dr Hina Ansari Birmingham, UK
UK
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GP
UK Ain Shams University
Cairo, Egypt
London, UK Dr Mahmoud Sehwail
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London, UK
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Heidelberg, Germany
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Amman, Jordan
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Public Health
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Oslo, Norway Dr Bahaa Ghalayani Anaesthesiology
Head of Department Shawinigan, Canada
Dr Tia MacGregor Al Awda Hospital, Gaza, Palestine
GP
Dr Lois Yelland
Oxford, UK Dr Mazen El-Zibdeh Medical Health Officer
Senior Consultant Vancouver, Canada
Dr Roberto Ruani Obstetrics & Gynaecology
Psychiatrist Amman, Jordan Dr Georges Lévesque
Bologna, Italy
Chargé d'enseignement clinique,
Dr Ohnmar John Université McGill, Médecine d'urgence
Dr Clementina Peris GP Notre-Dame-de-Grace, Canada
Gynaecological Endocrinology Melbourne, Australia
Turin, Italy
Dr John M Tallon
Dr N Naggar Emergency Medicine and Trauma
Dr Miriam Garfinkle President of Arabmed Halifax, Canada
Family Physician Freiberg, Germany
Toronto, Canada
Dr H M Azzam
Dr Safiya Ahsan Vice President for Medical Services
Dr Piersabatino Deola Internist Obstetrics & Gynaecology
Italy London, UK Thompson, Canada
Dr Ibrahim Taher Dr Michaela Beder
Dr Talib Abbas Consultant Microbiologist Psychiatry
Consultant Psychiatrist Ottawa, Canada Toronto, Canada
Kent, UK
Dr Layth Yahya Ibrahim Dr Fayad Hamideh
Dr Jonathan Fluxman King Hussein Cancer Centre Internal Medicine
GP Amman, Jordan Irvine, Canada
UK
Dr Yamina Quahrani
Dr Paul Lévesque Resuscitation Medicine Dr Lalla Latifa Aboussiba
Chargé d'enseignement clinique Blida, Algeria Gynaecologist, Medecin Legiste
Emergency Physician
Morocco
Dr D. Allouache
Dr Berry Beaumont Surgeon Dr Sajida Hussain
GP Blida, Algeria Pathology/Obstetrics
London, UK
Pierrefonds, Canada
Dr Zouhir Afiane
Dr Edward Morris Surgery Neueen Elkholy
General Practitioner Blida, Algeria Family Practice
Witney, UK
New Jersey, USA
Dr Omar Benmeberik
Dr Alaa Dekis Surgical Resident Dr Basma El Mor
Resident, Internal Medicine Blida, Algeria Psychiatrist
Quebec, Canada
Cairo, Egypt
Dr Fatiha Kadri
General Medicine Dr Ragia el Gerzawi
Blida, Algeria Clinical Pathologist
Cairo, Egypt
Montréal, Canada Dr Zeidu Fodhil
Surgery Dr Raisa Malik
Dr Sakeer Hussain Blida, Algeria GP
USA
Burnley, UK
Dr Kartina Noor
Dr Ahmed Elsehety Clinical Microbiology Dr Manof Ubaidat
Southwestern Institute University Kebangsaan, Malaysia General Pathologist
of Neurology, Texas, USA
Bathurst, Canada
Dr H. Medjdoub
Dr Saskeer Hussain Surgeon Dr Shankar Vijaydeva
Haematology & Oncology Blida, Algeria GP
Council Bluffs, USA
UK
Dr Rachid Elghribi
Dr Samir Monir Physician Dr Sameer Abdul Hadi
USA Blida, Algeria Family Physician
Canada
Dr Radi Ahmad
Dr Jeremy Isaacs Neurology London
Consultant Nephrologist
Amman, Jordan Dr Salwa Abu Afieh Dr David Nicholl Dept of Neurology City Hospital Birmingham, UK
Family Physician
Dr Ali Hadi Canada Dr Abdulla Darwish Pathologist Bahrain
Consultant Psychiatrist
Luton UK Dr Sharif Nasr President, Diagnostic Informatics New Jersey, USA Dr Khalid Al-Abbadey
Consultant Psychiatrist Hampshire, UK
Dr Arid Bjorndal
Dr Shireen Kassam Haematology London UK
Public Health Dr Zeeshan Ramzan
Oslo, Norway Fellow in Gastroenterology Dr K S Majeed Forensic Psychiatrist New Zealand
Philadelphia, USA
Dr Paul Malone
Dr Pau Perez Psychiatrist, Hospital La Paz Madrid, Spain
Plastic Surgery Saren Azer
Manchester, UK Clinical Investigator
Respiratory Medicine, Canada
Dr Esperanza Diaz
General Practice Dr Jay Brophy Dr Susan Schonfield Public Health Consultant London, UK
Bergen, Norway Cardiology & Epidemiology
Montreal, Canada Dr Azhar Abdul Aziz Consultant Emergency Physician Doha, Qatar
Dr David Dash
Cardiothoracic Medicine Dr Shehnaz Nadir Ali Dr Eid Mustafa Plastic Surgeon Past President National
Arab American Medical Association Wichita Falls, USA
Canada Ex. Head of Paediatrics Dept.
Surrey, Canada
Dr Sarah Zaher
Opthalmology Dr Asmal Bil Dr Mohd Abed Al Karkhi Psychiatrist Iraq
London, UK Professional Lead Surgeon
Neurosurgery, Canada Dr Rofaat Shokeik Gastroenterologist Tripoli, Lebanon
Dr Samir Shaheen-Hussain
Paediatrics M.Tabib Dr Gassan Maassarani
Montreal, Canada Radiology Neurology Tripoli, Lebanon
Windsor, Canada
Dr Omar Abu-Hijleh
Dr Hisham Solayman
Consultant Endocrinologist Dr Shazia Peer Ear, Nose, Throat Registrar Cape Town, South Africa Tripoli,
Lebanon
Amman, Jordan
Dr Nazia Peer Registrar in Public Health Cape Town, South Africa
Dr Giuliana Bondielli
Dr Rachid Omar Neurology Tripoli, Lebanon Dr Hassan Masri Anaesthetics Tripoli,
Lebanon
General Medicine
Massa, Italy Dr Rachid Mohamad Neurology Tripoli, Lebanon Dr Junaid Al Khaznachi
Internal Medicine Amman, Jordan.
Dr Jose Tallon Aviles Dr Abomohammad Hawarey Consultant Ophthalmic Surgeon Amman, Jordan
Family Doctor
Dr Bernhard Klinghammer
Irun, Spain Dr Waseem Barham King Hussein Cancer Center Amman, Jordan Anaesthetics
Ronnenberg, Germany
Dr Olav Thorssen Dr Ritika Goel
Stavanger, Norway Family Medicine Dr Saideh Khadir
Toronto, Canada Emergency Medicine
Dr Juan Enrique Cimas
Saint-Lambert, Canada
Family Doctor Dr Kamel Afifi Orthopaedics Amman, Jordan
Asturias, Spain
Dr Georges Jalaby MN Angels Clinic Toledo, USA
Dr Mohammad Habbal Consultant Physician Damman, Saudi Arabia Dr Fouad Rifai President, Islamic
Medical Association Lebanon
Dr Lanny Smith USA Dr Veronica Chinchon Psychiatry London, UK