UPDATE--PROTEST LETTER (725 physicians) to World Medical Association about its new president and Israeli torture
Reageer (0)The point our campaign has reached: the WMA Council refuses to respond to our appeal!
Derek Summerfield
Please read the electronic letter below, which the Brit Med Journal has today posted up at bmj.com. I think it speaks for itself. We have made a signficant finding, albeit a finding we might have half expected. It might indeed be called the Goldstone effect: even unanswerable evidence can be ignored or demonised when the offending party is Israel. We find that the the WMA, the world's official body for the oversight and regulation of medical ethics internationally, cannot or will not do fulfill its mandate when it is about Israel but will do so, as here, when it is about Iran. We find the WMA hollowed out or corrupted or under unusual political pressures behind the scenes, or a combination. We find that international medical ethical codes are not meant to be applied to those with powerful interests and advocates- in the same way as the International Criminal Court is not meant to apply to such as UK or USA, even though Bush and Blair are indictable for war crimes for having invaded Iraq without a UN mandate. WMA membership appears to have been useful for the IMA for the figleaf defence such membership offered- Blachar often responded in the BMJ or Lancet by presenting WMA membership per se as evidence of the ethical integrity of the IMA.
As well as these findings, our campaign has generated a lot of media interest and publicity, has been playing a part in wider conscientisation not just about torture and the involvement of doctors, but about the whole climate of human rights abuses by Israel, including systematic violations of the Fourth Geneva Convention, and the sense of impunity that sustains this. We have undoubtedly rattled the Israeli medical establishment, and perhaps more widely in Israel, and they have taken it very seriously (including the threat of a libel suit in August to which we responded collectively, as you know. By the way, nothing further heard yet from Blachar/IMA lawyers in London).
WMA Presidents serve one year and Blachar stepped down last month. This does not appear to mean that he leaves the WMA: the WMA website indicates that the current President (Dr Dana Hanson of Canada), the immediate past President (Blachar), and the next President-to-be, form a triumvirate at the top of the WMA. In any event our appeal/protest to the WMA was 2 fold: firstly, for the WMA to fulfill its mandate to ensure that member associations abide by the Declaration of Tokyo and other WMA codes ie. to investigate the ethical record of the IMA in the light of the evidence we sent them alongside our original letter of last May. Secondly, in the light of this evidence, to see whether it was safe and sound for Blachar to be the president of the IMA- what would this mean for the reputation and standing of the WMA etc.
We have reached a certain point in our struggle but the stakes are high for the Palestinian victims of these abuses and our struggle goes on. We have to continue to publicise our case in whatever forum, and continue to pressurise the WMA Council (who have elected some new members) to consider whether they can maintain their preposterous refusal to address an evidence-based appeal from physicians from 43 countries, what it will do to their name etc. We are enquiring whether all members of the WMA Council (who are scattered around the world) saw all the material we sent to WMA headquarters in Geneva, and were party to the decision not to respond. Irregularities seem highly possible. For those signatories in countries whose national medical association is a WMA member, we should consider what pressure can be brought to bear on their representatives to do something. This is certainly a particular issue for those of us in UK, given that the Brit Med Assoc have stood staunchly in defence of the IMA as good colleagues etc!
So, partial success so far, but still a road to travel...campaigning on Israel-Palestine is of course like no other, and we have to be patient and persistent. We can still win here! Please do publicise what has happened so far and consider what you can do. Suggestions welcomed!
Best wishes
Derek Summerfield (convenor)
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World Medical Association calls on Iran to respect medical ethics code
Wise (20 October 2009) [Full text]
World Medical Association calls on Iran to respect medical ethics code
The WMA speaks out on Iran but not on Israel. Why not?
6 November 2009
Derek a Summerfield,
Send response to journal:
Re: The WMA speaks out on Iran but not on Israel. Why not?
I note with interest in the BMJ that the World Medical Association has spoken out about possible collusion by doctors with abuses of prisoners in Iran (1). You report Dr Otmar Kloiber, WMA Secretary General as saying: We were approached by a number of different physicians in Iran. Because the reports come from different sources we thought they were likely to be reliable.we wanted to send a strong signal with this motion. Dr Frank Montgomery, vice President of the German Medical Association (and a WMA Council member) added: physicians serve people not governments. Physicians will not participate in torture or degrading treatment. They are the whistleblowers of such criminal acts committed by governments.
I commend these statements and the WMA action, which is exactly what the WMA was mandated to do when it was set up after WW2 as the official watchdog on medical ethics worldwide. But there could hardly be a greater contrast with the WMA approach currently to Israel. In June the BMJ reported that 725 doctors from 43 countries had written collectively to the WMA Council to urge them to examine whether the Israeli Medical Association, a WMA member, had been adhering to the WMAs own codes, notably the WMA Declaration of Tokyo, the seminal anti-torture code for doctors (2). The WMA is mandated to ensure that its member associations abide by its codes. The question was all the more resonant in the light of the fact that longstanding IMA President Yoram Blachar had become WMA President.
The charge was exactly the same as the one the WMA is now raising in relation to Iran: the collusion of doctors (and the IMA) with the practice of torture of prisoners in Israel. The 725 doctors cited a voluminous evidence base from both international and regional human rights organisations of high repute; attached to the letter were reports from Amnesty (twice, a decade apart), including their Briefing paper to the UN Committee Against Torture last year, Physicians for Human Rights Israel (PHRI), Public Committee Against Torture in Israel (PCATI), the Defence for Children International, Palestine section , publication of the 2008 United Against Torture report (UAT, a coalition of 14 Israeli and Palestinian human rights organisations) to the UN Committee Against Torture. PCATI and PHRI separately submitted reports and findings to the WMA Council to urge them to examine the case. Dr Wendy Orr, the South African doctor who blew the whistle on the collusion of doctors with torture and other abuses of prisoners in the apartheid era and was later a Commissioner in the SA Truth Commission, also wrote to the WMA Council to press them to act. (The Medical Association of South Africa was for a period excluded from the WMA). Prominent international academics like Professors Noam Chomsky and Norman Finkelstein lent their names from the start. Recently in the BMJ Professor John Yudkin urged the BMA, a fellow WMA member, to use their influence in a matter of such medical ethical gravity(3).
And the response of the WMA Council after 5 months? Not a word, not even acknowledgement of receipt of the original letter with evidence and signatory list, despite polite reminders, despite further material submitted in support of the case. Last week, Professor Alan Meyers of Boston University, the lead signatory, finally reached Dr Edward Hill, WMA Council Chair, on the phone in USA, to be told that the WMA would not be responding.
The campaign did prompt a response from WMA President Blachar, not the addressee of the letter, in his own right. In August he instructed London lawyers to threaten me personally with proceedings for libel (I am the convenor of the campaign), alleging that I was conducting a vendetta and had "deceived" the other 734 signatories.
So what are we to conclude from the stark difference in the WMA handling of the Israel case by comparison with Iran? The WMA Council have turned away from an evidence-based appeal by doctors which, arising from 43 countries, is of unprecedented scope and breadth, an appeal framed within the WMAs own codes and pronouncements on the duties of doctors. This is a significant breach. If the weight of evidence we cite does not constitute an emphatic case, then no evidence about medical ethical breaches anywhere ever will, and we might as well throw the Declaration of Tokyo in the waste bin. To speak out about Iran is laudable, but it is easy. As with comparable concerns about the role of US doctors at Guantanamo and elsewhere, our case is surely the litmus test of whether internationally agreed medical ethical codes actually matter, and can hold transgressors to account when they have powerful friends
Derek Summerfield
1. Wise J.WMA calls on Iran to respect medical ethical code. BMJ 2009;339:4321.
2. Kmietowicz Z. Doctors call on head of WMA to quit as matter of priority. BMJ 2009;338:2556.
3. Yudkin J. The IMA and doctors complicity in torture. BMJ 339:4078
Competing interests: 17 years involvement in human rights work in Israel-Palestine
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700 doctors demand the removal of WMA president for involvement in torture
by Saed Bannoura
23-6-2009
700 doctors from 43 countries sent a letter of protest to the Word Medical Association (WMA), which is considered the WMA’s governing body, demanding the removal of the newly appointed president, an Israeli doctor, for ignoring the participation of medical staff in the torture of Palestinian prisoners, the Guardian reported.
The Israeli doctor, Yoram Blachar, has been the head of the Israeli Medical Association since 1995, and became the head of the WMA of November of last year.
The physicians, who signed the protest letter, are senior professors and physicians from England, Europe and the United States.
They stated that Blachar had failed to respond to charges that a number of Israeli doctors are involved in the torture of Palestinian detainees during interrogation in Israeli prisons.
In 1996, the Amnesty International reported that doctors, working with the Israeli security services, are taking part in torturing Palestinian detainees, mistreating and humiliating them in a manner that violates medical ethics.
Pediatrician Alan Meyers, from Boston University School of Medicine, in the United States, said that the presidency of Blachar to the WMA mocks the principles of the association which was founded in 1947.
A 1975 declaration in Japan states all Physicians in all situations should not participate of help in torture or any form of cruel, inhuman or degrading procedures, including in armed conflicts and civil unrest.
In its annual meeting two years ago, the institution decided that all doctors are obliged to document cases of torture they are aware of, and that the lack of documenting such cases would be considered tolerance to torture, and lack of assistance to the victims.
The Guardian said that Blachar sent an email to it promising to respond to the allegations, and described the news as baseless imaginary allegations.
In 1997, Blachar sent a letter to the Lancet medical Journal defending the participation of physicians in torturing Palestinian detainees in Israeli prisons.
In his letter, Blachar claimed that ‘moderate physical pressure’, similar to the torture sanctioned by the Bush Administration against Guantanamo Bay prisoners, and other CIA black sites in several countries, ‘does not violate the international law’.
This so-called ‘moderate’ torture used by the CIA includes beating the detainees, depriving them from sleeping, isolating them, subjecting them to extreme hot and cold, humiliating them in addition to various illegal methods.
Meyers, who is also Jewish and well known for his stances for human rights in Israel since many years, stated that physicians who are involved in torture should not be allowed to practice medicine, and should be held accountable for their participation in torture.
In June 26 of 2008, the Israeli Physicians For Human Rights published a report accusing Israeli doctors of ignoring the human rights of the Palestinian detainees.
It is worth mentioning that dozens of Palestinian detainees died due to torture, dozens more died due to medical negligence, while hundreds of detainees are currently in urgent need for medical care, including cancer patients, and detainees who suffer chronic illnesses and disabilities, but are not receiving the needed medical treatment.
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Jews Sans Frontieres
World Medical Association headed by overt racist
31-5-2009
Wonderful report in the Jewish Chronicle. It's "about" the protest signed by 752 physicians from 4o different countries calling for the dismissal of Dr Yoram Blachar, former head of the Israeli Medical Association:
The Israeli president of the World Medical Association has attacked critics who have called for his dismissal over allegations that Israeli doctors have been involved in or condoned the torture of Palestinians.
An open letter, said to have been signed by 725 physicians from more than 40 countries and sent to Dr Edward Hill, chair of the WMA council, has attacked Dr Yoram Blachar’s appointment saying it will “seriously damage the public reputation of the WMA and its work and risks making it a laughing stock”. A press release accompanied the letter signed by Dr Derek Summerfield, Dr Blachar’s main critic.
The letter claims: “Under Dr Blachar’s leadership the Israel Medical Association (IMA) made a decision, on political grounds, years ago to turn a blind eye to torture in Israel and the institutionalised 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.
“We call upon the WMA Council to oblige Dr Blachar to step down as a matter of priority.”
Ok, so far, so fair. But see this:
But Dr Blachar insisted:
“I have no intention of standing down. It’s a joke.
“My view [of the letter] is that if we go through the names only partially, you will see that many of them are Arab physicians
Most of them are Arab physicians? And your point, Dr? But there's more:
You must notice that all the inquiries and investigations have come from information that has come only from Palestinians.
Ok, so Arabs and Palestinians can't be believed. Anything else?
I did attempt to meet Dr Summerfield some years ago but he refused to meet me.
Dr Summerfield denies refusing to meet Dr Blachar.
So, any more for any more? Just one thing.
On the question of a general boycott of the Israeli medical profession, Dr Blachar, who has held senior posts with IMA since 1995, said: “Some of the signatories are ex-Israelis, which smacks of self-destruction and is inexplicable to me. The boycott initiative is rooted only in Britain.”
Even a real doctor dabbling in the notion of self-hatred and not only that, having sought to invalidate his detractors by reference to their Arab or Palestinian ethnicity, he now tries the same trick, not as racist as the first, true, by saying that the boycott movement is rooted in the UK only.
They'll say anything these zios.
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Here a letter Dr Blachar published in the Lancet in 1997, giving an explicit defence of torture (‘moderate physical pressure’).
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 publicised 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 organisations, 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 AgainstTorture) 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.
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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.
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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 institutionalised 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.
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>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 laughing stock. 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
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1. World Medical Association. Doctors urged to document cases of torture. Press Release 8 Oct 2007.
22 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.
November 25, 2008
 UAT report: Torture and ill-treatment in Israel and the oPt |
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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 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 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. The Annual Report also considers:
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 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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725 Signatories:
Professor Alan Meyers
Associate Professor of Paediatrics
Boston University School of Medicine
Boston USA
Sir Iain Chalmers
James Lind Library
Oxford, UK
Baroness Dr Jenny Tonge
House of Lords
London, UK
Professor Ahmed Okasha
Past President, World Psychiatric Association
Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt
Dr Belgacem Sabri
World Health Organisation
Cairo, Egypt
Professor Hani Abdeen
Al Quds Medical School
Jerusalem, Palestine
Professor Wendy Savage
Middlesex University
London, UK
Professor Alice Rothchild
Obstetrics & Gynaecology
Boston, USA
Professor Leslie London
School of Public Health & Family Medicine
University of Cape Town
South Africa
Dr Brian Martindale
Member of World Psychiatric Assoc.
Educational Committee
Sunderland, UK
Professor Zaleha Mahdy
Member, Malaysian Medical Council
National University of Malaysia
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Dr Ruchama Marton
Founder President
Physicians for Human Rights
Tel Aviv, Israel
Professor James Martin
Medicine; Respiratory diseases
Westmount, Canada
Professor Pat Bracken
Clinical Director
West Cork Mental Health Services, Eire
Professor Michael Benny
Associate Professor of Medicine
Virginia, USA
Professor Colin Green
Surgical Research, Northwick Park Hospital
London, UK
Assoc Professor Jon Jureidini
Disciplines of Psychiatry & Paediatrics
University of Adelaide, Australia
Professor David Pegg
University of York, UK
Professor Mary Ganguli
Professor of Psychiatry,
Neurology & Epidemiology
Pittsburgh, USA
Professor Ala Sharara
Head of Gastroenterology
American University Beirut
Lebanon
Professor Cassim Motala
Paediatrician
University of Cape Town
Cape Town, South Africa
Professor Pierre L Auger
Clinical Professor, Occupational Medicine
Laval University
Quebec, Canada
Professor Juan Gervaas
Professor of International
& Public Health, Spain
Dr Pauline Cutting OBE
Accident & Emergency Consultant
Bangor, UK
Dr Ben Alofs
General Practitioner
Bangor, UK
Dr David Halpin
Consultant Orthopaedic & Trauma Surgeon
Newton Abbott, UK
Dr Chris Burns-Cox
Consultant Physician
Wotton under Edge, UK
Professor Tarek Okasha
Professor of Psychiatry
Ain Shams University
Cairo, Egypt
Professor Abdul-Latif Elmor
Public Health
Zagzig University, Egypt
Professor Marwan Haiz
Edmond J. Safra
Chair of Functional Neurosurgery
London, UK
Professor Wa-il Abouhendy
Head of Emergency/Disaster
Psychiatry unit, Zagazig University,
Arab Federation of Psychiatrists, Egypt
Professor Svein Haugsgjerd
Psychiatry
Oslo, Norway
Professor Mohamed Tikly
Professor of Rheumatology
University of Witwatersrand
Johannesburg, South Africa
Dr Hafizur Rehman
Senior Paediatrician
President of Islamic Medicine
Association of North America
New York, USA
Professor Mohamed Jeebhay
Specialist Occupational Medicine
Cape Town, South Africa
Professor Abdul Hakim Babar
Professor of Plastic Surgery
Lahore, Pakistan
Professor Masbah Omar
Orthopaedic Surgery
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Professor Abder Ahmane
Cardiac Surgery
Canada
Professor Husain Saleh
Chief, Department of Pathology
Wayne State University
Detroit, Michigan, USA
Professor Shabbir Wadee
Division of Forensic Science
Stellenbosch, University
South Africa
Professor Nida Hawash
Paediatrics
Willowvale, Canada
Professor A. Shamisa
Neurosurgery
Windsor, Canada
Professor Ismail Zayid
Dalhansie University
Nova Scotia, Canada
Professor Basim Al-Shihabi
Consultant Neuro-otologist
Stevenage, UK
Professor Mohammad Abbas
Orthopaedic Surgery Consultant
King Abdul Aziz University
Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
Professor Hamdy Elsayed
President Egyptian Medical Syndicate
Egypt
Professor Mahmoud Elshandidi
Professor of Paediatrics
Cairo, Egypt
Professor Zafar Hussain
Medical Microbiology
Canada
Dr Jackie Applebee
Medical Foundation for Victims
of Torture, London, UK
Dr Sylvia Watkins
Medical Oncologist
Stevenage, UK
Dr Fady Joudah
Internal Medicine
Houston, USA
Dr Brian Robinson
Psychiatrist
Milton Keynes, UK
Dr Sam Richmond
Consultant Neonatologist
Sunderland, UK
Professor Hamed
Oakton College
Illinois, USA
Dr John Bell
Medical Foundation for
Victims of Torture, London, UK
Dr Elizabeth Gordon
Consultant Surgeon
London, UK
Dr Andrew Rouse
Public Health Physician
Birmingham, UK
Dr A. Peer
Med Microbiologist
Durban, South Africa
Dr Janine Molleyres
Internal Medicine
Ecoteaux, Switzerland
Dr Mona Hamed Imam
El Nadim Centre for Rehabilitation
of Victims of Torture - Cairo, Egypt
Dr Ayman El Badry
Rheumatology & Rehabilitation
Gaza, Palestine
Dr Omar Mangoush
Thoracic Surgeon
London, UK
Dr Andy Oxman
Norwegian Knowledge Centre
for Health Services, Oslo, Norway
Dr Jesse Soodalter
Brown University Medical School
Providence, Rhode Island, USA
Dr Diana Warner
GP
Bristol, UK
Dr Francis Nathan
Senior Visiting Ophthalmologist
Adelaide, Australia
Dr Ahmed Almari
Radiologist
Bradford, UK
Dr Colin Brewer
Research Director
London, UK
Dr Debbie Goldman
GP
Oxford, UK
Dr Jamel Turky
Psychiatrist
Tunisia
Dr Ranjeet Brar
Vascular Surgical Research Registrar
London, UK
Dr Hashem Jaddou
Faculty of Medicine
Jordan University of Science & Tech.
Irbid, Jordan
Dr Gabor Mate
Family Practice
Vancouver, Canada
Dr Jalaluddin Soni
GP
Johannesburg, South Africa
Dr Anna Livingstone
Honorary Senior Lecturer in General Practice
London, UK
Dr Abdul Sattar Majzoub
Ophthalmology
Canada
Dr Haidar Dekmak
Chief Anaesthetics &Resuscitation
Canada
Dr M M Al Hasan
Primary Care
South Africa
Dr Najat Khenyab
Chief, Obstetrics & Gynaecology
Canada
Dr Adriano Sassi
President Centrale Sanitaria Svizzera
Switzerland
Dr Felicity de Zulueta
Consultant Psychiatrist
London, UK
Dr Hadil Kamal
Periodontal Surgeon
Ramallah, Palestine
Dr Kathleen Panama
GP
London, UK
Dr Alaoui Driss
Psychiatry
Canada
Dr Abdullah Abba
Pulmonology
Canada
Dr David Toowara
GP
Hemel Hempstead, UK
Dr Rand Askalan
Paediatric Neurology
Toronto, Canada
Dr Bharathi Kamineni
Family Practice
New York , USA
Dr Gill Yudkin
GP
London, UK
Dr Mamdouh El-Adl
Consultant Psychiatrist
Northampton, UK
Dr Muhammad Dadibhai
GP Registrar
Dewsbury, UK
Dr B Farkat
Gastroenterlogist
Beirut, Lebanon
Dr Charles Essex
Consultant Paediatrician
Leamington Spa, UK
Dr Mohamed Ali
Internal Medicine
Leicester, UK
Dr Paola Canarutto
General Medicine
Turin, Italy
Dr Samir Mourad
Psychiatrist
Case Western University
Cleveland, USA
Dr Nazim Merchant
Consultant Maxillo-Facial Surgeon
Ayr, UK
Dr Nibal Lubbad
Family Medicine
Toronto, Canada
Dr Omer Faruk Gergerlioglu
Chest Physician
Association of Human Rights & Solidarity
for Oppressed People
Ankara, Turkey
Dr Ranjit Mani
Neurologist
Rockville, USA
Dr Feras Mustafa
Psychiatrist
Northampton, UK
Dr Tarik Al-Kubaisy
Consultant Psychiatrist
Lincolnshire, UK
Dr Shahid Latif
Consultant Psychiatrist
Northampton, UK
Dr Arthur Hertzberg
Specialist General Practice
& Community Medicine, Olso, Norway
Dr Luisella Grandori
Paediatrician
Modena, Italy
Dr Luay Kafienah
Old Age Psychiatry
UK
Dr David Crowley
GP
Moray, UK
Dr Siri Slastad
Consultant Occupational Medicine
Trondheim, Norway
Dr Wael Hakmeh
Emergency Medicine Physician
Detroit, USA
Dr Murat Coskun
Child & Adolescent Psychiatrist
Istanbul, Turkey
Dr M Asmal
Boston, USA
Dr Mouna Ghanem
Medical Resident
Damascus, Syria
Dr Rohana Jaafar
Lecturer in Paediatrics
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Dr Qasim Bhorat
GP
Soweto, South Africa
Dr Catriona Morton
General Practice
Edinburgh, UK
Dr Peter Kandela
GP
London, UK
Dr Christianne Kolberg
Psychiatrist
Tromso, Norway
Dr Marco Chiesa
Director,Personality Disorder Research
London, UK
Dr Amin El Hihi
Consultant Psychiatrist
Manchester, UK
Dr Martin Birnstingl
Consultant Surgeon
London, UK
Dr Susan Rosenthal
Ontario, Canada
Dr K Khan
GP
Croydon, UK
Dr Ian Whetter
Family Physician
Quebec, Canada
Dr Ashraf Jedaar
Forensic Psychiatrist
Cape Town, South Africa
Dr Ayman Aboguddah
Director of Echocardiography
Regina, Canada
Dr Zeenath Asma
Associate Pathologist
Illinois, USA
Dr Maria Luisa Agnolio
Family Doctor
Sandrigo, Italy
Dr Nadia Al Hawashim
Consultant Pathologist
Saudi Arabia
Dr M T Bailony
Paediatrics
San Diego, USA
Dr Sarwat W Ahmad
Psychiatry
North Carolina, USA
Dr El Hattab El Ibrahimi Youssef
Ear, Nose & Throat
Taroudant, Morocco
Dr Linn Abusalameh
Paediatrics
Cardiff, UK
Dr Nayef Agel
Medical Consultant
London, UK
Dr Hoda Makkawi
Clinical Assistant Professor
Family Medicine, Canada
Dr Sarwat Sadek
Examiner for Royal College of Surgeons
of England, Taunton, UK
Dr Sabur Malek
Trauma & Orthopaedics
Swansea, UK
Dr Magdi El-Guindi
Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon
Buckingham, UK
Dr Tariq Khan
Cardiac Surgery
London, UK
Dr Estela Welldon
Consultant Psychiatrist
London, UK
Dr Gabe Woollam
Family Medicine
Goose Bay, Canada
Dr Robert Haynes
Cardiology
Washington State, USA
Dr Zahra Kassam
Oncologist
Toronto, Canada
Dr Nadia Dabbagh
Child Psychiatrist
London, UK
Dr Mahmoud El-Wasify
Psychiatrist
Egypt
Dr Haroun Patel
Urologist
Durban, South Africa
Dr Rola Alkurdi
Anaesthetist
London, UK
Dr Gamal Mohamed Hassan
Consultant Psychiatrist
UK
Dr Shuaib Mangra
Occupational Health/Sports Medicine
Cape Town, South Africa
Dr Simonetta Pagliani
General Medicine
Milan, Italy
Dr Sare Davutoglu
Consultant Obstetrician & Gynaecologist
Istanbul, Turkey
Dr Filippo Bianchetti
Family Medicine
Varese, Italy
Professor Amina Balafreij
Paediatrician
Rabat, Morocco
Dr Salam Ismael
Doctors for Iraq
Baghdad, Iraq
Dr Adam Forman
GP
London, UK
Dr Merlin Willcox
GP
Oxford, UK
Dr Sally Reynolds
GP
Oxford, UK
Dr Ibrahim Omari
Family Medicine
American University of Beirut
Lebanon
Dr Aslam Bhorat
Urologist
Glenwood, South Africa
Dr Zeinab Abrong
Psychiatrist
Tunisia
Dr A Basyuni
Orthopaedic Surgeon
Cairo, Egypt
Dr K. El Farra
Consultant Gynaecologist
Hertfordshire, UK
Dr M. Namazie
Anaesthetist
Kuala Lumbur, Malaysia
Dr Mikram Malik MBE
GP
Lancashire, UK
Dr As'ad Bhorat
Family Physician
South Africa
Qasim Bhorat
GP
South Africa
Dr R Ismail
GP
South Africa
Dr Z. Goondiwala
Family Physician
Johannesberg, South Africa
Dr George Nossar
Specialist Occupational Medicine
New South Wales, Australia
Dr Amr Salem
Ear, Nose & Throat
Leicester, UK
Prof M Darrat
Assistant Professor, Anaesthesia
Hamilton, Canada
Raymond Brown
Consultant Paediatrician
Buckinghamshire, UK
Dr Marco Albonico
Specialist Infectious Diseases
Turin, Italy
Dr Nabil Sultan
Chief Nephrology Fellow
Univ. of Western Ontario, Canada
Dr Mohammed Naji
Anaesthetist
Virginia, USA
Dr Maged Agour
Psychiatrist
Cambridge, UK
Dr Fahed Al-Daour
GP trainee
Mansfield, UK
Dr Duaa Bakri Saeed
Internist
Blackburn, UK
Dr Nabil Asfour
Internal medicine
Saskatoon, Canada
Dr Khalid Al Wahhabi
General Surgeon
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Dr M C Solwa
Family Physician
Durban, South Africa
Dr George Longstreth
Gastroenterologist
San Diego, USA
Dr Ahmed Manjra
Paediatrician
Westville, South Africa
Dr Suleiman Nayal
Gastroenterologist
Canada
Dr Bouchamma Sakina
Endocrinology
Canada
Dr Olivier Dezeustre
Rheumatology
Canada
Dr Grabois
Stomatology
Canada
Dr Said Sellam
Medecin General, Emergency Medicine
Canada
Dr Ismail Jalili
Opthamologist
Stamford, UK
Dr Arti Maini
London, UK
Dr Luay Kafienah
Walsall, UK
Dr Manaf Ubaidat
Bathurst, Canada
Dr Dina Al Khatib
Bathurst, Canada
Dr Omer Moghraby
Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
London, UK
Dr Shasnkar Vijayodeva
Harrow, UK
Dr Nazem Alzalam
Family Medicine
Pediatrics, Canada
Dr Joseph El-Khoury
Adult Psychiatrist
Oxford, UK
Dr Hashim Reza
General Psychiatry
London, UK
Dr Tayyeb Tahir
Consultant Liaison Psychiatrist
University Hospital of Wales, UK
Dr Sadia Malick
Clinical Lecturer
Birmingham University, UK
Dr Hanif Awan
Accident & Emergency Registrar
Oldham, UK
Dr Mario Valpe
Speccialist in General Medicine
Rome, Italy
Dr Yasser Tolba
Academic Dept of Anaesthesia
Intensive Care, Birmingham, UK
Dr Wilfred Sircus
Gastroenterologist
St. Andrews, UK
Dr Santa di Prima
Internist
Turin, Italy
Dr Simon Lewin
Public Health
Oslo, Norway
Dr Tia MacGregor
GP
Oxford, UK
Dr Roberto Ruani
Psychiatrist
Bologna, Italy
Dr Clementina Peris
Gynaecological Endocrinology
Turin, Italy
Dr Miriam Garfinkle
Family Physician
Toronto, Canada
Dr Piersabatino Deola
Italy
Dr Talib Abbas
Consultant Psychiatrist
Kent, UK
Dr Jonathan Fluxman
GP
UK
Dr Paul Lévesque
Chargé d'enseignement clinique
Emergency Physician
Dr Berry Beaumont
GP
London, UK
Dr Edward Morris
General Practitioner
Witney, UK
Dr Alaa Dekis
Resident, Internal Medicine
Quebec, Canada
Montréal, Canada
Dr Sakeer Hussain
USA
Dr Ahmed Elsehety
Southwestern Institute
of Neurology, Texas, USA
Dr Saskeer Hussain
Haematology & Oncology
Council Bluffs, USA
Dr Samir Monir
USA
Dr Radi Ahmad
Consultant Nephrologist
Amman, Jordan
Dr Ali Hadi
Consultant Psychiatrist
Luton UK
Dr Arid Bjorndal
Public Health
Oslo, Norway
Dr Paul Malone
Plastic Surgery
Manchester, UK
Dr Esperanza Diaz
General Practice
Bergen, Norway
Dr David Dash
Cardiothoracic Medicine
Canada
Dr Sarah Zaher
Opthalmology
London, UK
Dr Samir Shaheen-Hussain
Paediatrics
Montreal, Canada
Dr Omar Abu-Hijleh
Consultant Endocrinologist
Amman, Jordan
Dr Giuliana Bondielli
General Medicine
Massa, Italy
Dr Jose Tallon Aviles
Family Doctor
Irun, Spain
Dr Olav Thorssen
Stavanger, Norway
Dr Juan Enrique Cimas
Family Doctor
Asturias, Spain
Dr Mohammad Habbal
Consultant Physician
Damman, Saudi Arabia
Ass Professor Hakon Lasse Leira
Dept of Occupational Medicine
St Olav University Hospital, Norway
Professor Spiro Tams
Professor of Dermatology
Jerusalem, Israel
Professor Andrew Zweifler
Professor of Internal Medicine
Michigan, USA
Professor Ammar Al-Chalabi
Professor of Neurology
& Complex Disease Genetics
London, UK
Dr David Bell
President elect
British Psychoanalytic Society
London, UK
Professor Warren Gold
Professor of Medicine
San Francisco, USA
Professor Mamoun Kremli
Paediatric Orthopaedics
Riyadh, South Arabia
Professor Rayaz Malik
Professor of Medicine
Manchester, UK
Professor Frederico Allodi
Consultant Psychiatrist
Toronto, Canada
Professor Jamil Fayez
Microsurgery & Laser Surgery specialist
Washington DC, USA
Professor Faisal Mirza
Dept of Orthopaedic Surgery
Stanford University, USA
Professor Hisham Mehanna
Hon Professor/Consultant Surgeon
Coventry, UK
Professor Ahmed Shabaik
Professor of Pathology
University of California, USA
Professor Morten Lindbaek
Professor of General Practice
University of Oslo, Norway
Professor Louis Reynolds
School of Child & Adolescent Health
University of Cape Town, South Africa
Professor Errol Holland
Executive Dean, Health Sciences
Medical University of South Africa
Limpopo, South Africa
Professor Tom Hutchinson
Professor of Medicine
McGill University, Canada
Professor Franco Cavalli
Immediate Past President
International Union Against Cancer
Switzerland
Professor Suzanna Moreno
Dept of Clinical Science
Rome, Italy
Professor Ellen Isaacs
New York Medical College
Youken, USA
Professor Vimala Isaac
Professor of Obstetrics & Gynaecology
Canberra. Australia
Professor Noha Abokrysha
Neurology
Cairo University, Egypt
Dr Mads Gilbert
Trauma Surgeon
Tromso, Norway
Professor Aneez Esmail
Professor of General Practice
University of Manchester, UK
Professor Mohammed Abou-Saleh
Professor of Addictions Psychiatry
London, UK
Dr Swee Ang
Orthopaedic & Trauma
Consultant Surgeon, London, UK
Professor Mohamed El-Fakharany
Assist Professor of Pathology
Wayne State University
Detroit, Michigan, USA
Professor Brian Johnston
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, USA
Prof Said Osman
Assistant Professor
Diagnostic Radiology
London, Canada
Professor Radwan Banimustafa
Consultant PsychiatristnAmman, Jordan
Professor Aida Seif El Dawla
Professor of Psychiatry
Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt
Dr Eyad El Sarraj
Head, Gaza Community
Mental Health Programme, Palestine
Professor Phil Thomas
Centre for Ethnicity & Health
University of Central Lancashire,UK
Professor Marwan Hariz
Neurosurgery
University College London
UK
Professor Munir Gharaibeh
Professor of Pharmacology
University of Jordan
Professor Ibrahim Mohamed
Neonatology, Pediatrics
Montreal, Canada
Professor Norbert
Medicine
Montreal, Canada
Dr Derek Summerfield
Honorary Senior Lecturer
Institute of Psychiatry, King's College,UK
Professor Faisal Rehman
Professor of Medicine
London, Canada
Professor Ghaith Shubailat
Plastic surgery
Montreal, Canada
Professor Hala Makhlouf
Professor of Pathology
Ain Shams University
Cairo, Egypt
Professor Abida Haque
Professor of Pathology
Houston, USA
Professor Khalifa Ghenghesh
Al~Fateh University for Medical Science
Tripoli, Libya
Professor Hossam Fadel
Clin. Prof. Obstetrics & Gynaecology
Medical College of Georgia, USA
Professor Hafeez ur Rahman
Peshawar Medical College
Pakistan
Professor Ismail Rammouz
Faculty of Medicine
Fez, Morocco
Professor Abdulkarim Ebrahim
Professor of Psychiatry
Bahrain
Dr Marc Sapir
Ret Medical Director
California, USA
Dr Lee Cranberg
Neurologist
Harvard, Boston, USA
Dr Kambiz Boomla
Senior Clin. Lecturer
University of London, UK
Dr Flavia Donati
Psychiatrist
Rome, Italy
Dr Nuri Gene-Cos
Consultant Psychiatrist
London, UK
Dr Sushrut Jadhav
Consultant Psychiatrist
London, UK
Dr Ghada Awad
Obstetrics & Gynaecology
Auckland, New Zealand
Dr Azad Mashari
Resident Physician in Anaesthesia
University of Toronto, Canada
Dr Shazia Malik
Consultant Obstetrics & Gynaecology
London, UK
Dr Abdulaziz Zorgani
Medical Microbiologist
Tripoli, Libya
Dr Susanne Yound
Anaesthetist
Glasgow, UK
Dr Sam Noumoff
McGill University
California, USA
Dr Ahmed El-Laboudi
Diabetes
Leeds, UK
Dr Colin McKean
GP
Liverpool, UK
Dr Adib Essali
Consultant Psychiatrist
Damascus, Syria
Dr Bassem Saab
Programme Director Family Medicine
American University Beirut,
Lebanon
Dr Sarah Wakeman
Brown Medical School
Rhode Island, USA
Dr Bilal Farhat
Gastroenterology
Beirut, Lebanon
Dr Khalid Mansour
Consultant Psychiatrist
Essex, UK
Dr Nicholas Batley
Emergency Medicine
American University Beirut
Lebanon
Dr Muneer Deeb
Consultant General Surgeon
Kassel, Germany
Dr Khalil Elbayouk
Rugby, UK
Dr Tom Marshall
Senior Lecturer in Public Health
University of Birmingham, UK
Dr Martin Birnstingl
Consultant Surgeon
London, UK
Dr Osama Omari
General Surgeon
Canada
Dr Roland Farhi
Brussels, Belgium
Dr Mahnaz Hashmi
Psychiatrist
London, UK
Dr Samer Jabbour
Senior Lecturer
Faculty of Health Sciences
American University Beirut, Lebanon
Dr Malika Sharma
Internal Medicine
Toronto, Canada
Dr Bassam Odeh
Consultant Haematologist
Damascus, Syria
Dr Akkache Abd Nacer
General Surgery
Blida, Algeria
Dr Ahmed Elmeshhedany
Clinical Haematology
Hawler Medical University
Irbil, Iraq
Dr Huda Salman
Pathologist
Penang, Malaysia
Dr Husni Al-Robb
Consultant Psychiatrist
Northampton, UK
Dr Harry Williams
Psychiatrist
Ontario, Canada
Dr Mohsin Moola
GP
Dublin, Eire
Dr Ahmed Rashad
Paediatric Specialist
Saudi Arabia
Professor Hana Soliman
Psychiatry
Rochester, UK
Dr Ireo Bono
Oncology Specialist
University of Genoa, Italy
Dr Henrik Pelling
Psychiatrist
Uppsala, Sweden
Dr Mazen El-Khairy
Gaza, Palestine
Dr Sameh El-Kawy
Consultant Orhopaedic Surgeon
Warwick, UK
Dr Anand Trip
Neurologist
London, UK
Dr Lara El Zahabi
General Medicine
Toronto, Canada
Dr Ron Singer
GP
London, UK
Dr Minella de Souza
Psychiatry
University of Toronto, Canada
Dr Ian Kerr
Consultant Psychiatrist
Coatbridge, UK
Dr Paul Malone
UK
Dr Gilberto Calzolari
Internal Medicine
Turin, Italy
Professor Allie Moosa
Paediatrician
Cape Town, South Africa
Dr Shakir Alani
Physician
Leeds, UK
Dr Saleh El-Hilu
General Adult Psychiatrist
West Bromwich, UK
Dr Shereen Habib
GP
Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Dr Guido Ginstetta
Family Medicine
Pino Torinese, Italy
Dr Simon Quinn
London, UK
Dr Farhana Lockhat
GP
UK
Dr Shuaib Manjra
Chairman, Trauma Centre for Survivors of Violence and Torture
Cape Town, South Africa
Dr Jo Moncrieff
Senior Lecturer Social Psychiatry
University College London, UK
Dr Saleyha Ahsan
Internist
London, UK
Dr Syira Ahsan
GP
London, UK
Dr Saima Ahsan
Internist
London, UK
Dr Hisham Tassi
Chief Medical Officer
Internal Medicine
Thompson, Canada
Dr Ramzy Wahhab
Internal Medicine
Mount Royal, Canada
Dr Maha Almahmudi
Radiation Oncology
Hamilton, Toronto, Canada
Dr Dahlia Wasfi
USA
Dr Waleed Libda
Clinical Toxicology, Canada
Dr Warren Bell
President, Medical Staff, Family Med.
Shuswap Lake General Hospital
Salmon Arm, Canada
Dr Ghassan Joundi
Dermatology
Winnipeg, Canada
Dr Sahar Khorsheed
Pediatric Gastroenterology
Ancaster, Canada
Dr Rahmah Rasat
Paediatrics
University Kebangsaan, Malaysia
Dr Stephen Cummings
American Board of Family Medicine
Hope Valley, USA
Dr Barry Mohamed Atik
Medecine Generale
Khouribga, Morocco
Hisham Thabet
Ophthalmology
Essen, Germany
Abdel-Raouf Ismail
Plastic Surgery
Dhahran, Saudi Arabia
Dr E Sayed
Family Practice
Welland, Canada
Dr Raisa Malik
GP
Lancashire, UK
Dr Mark Struthers
GP/ Prison Medicine
Bedford, UK
Dr Ibrahim Hanif Awan
UK
Dr Jamil Gharaba
Surgery
Padua, Italy
Dr Alfonso Coletta
Anaesthetist
Forence, Italy
Dr Essam Hassan
Consultant Psychiatrist
Milton Keynes, UK
Dr Jill Donnelly
Consultant Surgeon
Hereford, UK
Dr Fouad Alani
Associate Specialist in Medicine
Blackburn, UK
Dr Raied Haris
General Medicine
Blackburn, UK
Dr Sukaina Hirji
GP
Harrow, UK
Dr Jan ter Laak
Senior Lecturer
Utrecht, Netherlands
Dr Sue Black
GP
Bristol, UK
Dr Teresa Poltronieri
Medical Psychotherapist
Rovigo, Italy
Dr Clyde Farris
Orthopaedic Surgeon
Oregon, USA
Dr Patrick Boyd
Consultant Urologist
London, UK
Dr Aideen Naughton
Consultant Paediatrician
Abergavenny, UK
Dr Hellme Najim
Consultant Psychiatrist
Basildon, UK
Dr Faysal El-Kak
Senior Lecturer
American University Beirut, Lebanon
Dr Shahnaz Aslam
Karachi, Pakistan
Dr Naseer Nuaman
GP
Dartford, UK
Dr Marwa Shoeb
Radiologist
London, UK
Dr Marryum Hussain
Consultant Psychiatrist
Liverpool, UK
Dr Susan Kurien
Psychiatrist
London, UK
Dr Bianca Fossati
General medicine
Monza, Italy
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Palestine
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Paediatric trainee
Canada
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General Surgeon
Girona, Spain
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Family Medicine
Cape Town, South Africa
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Anaesthetist
Aberdeen, UK
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Child Psychiatrist
Orsay, France
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Consultant Obstetrician & Gynaecologist
University Kebangsaan Malaysia
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
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Psychiatrist
Thessaloniki, Greece
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Canada
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Montreal, Canada
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Cairo, Egypt
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Cairo, Egypt
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UK
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Oncology
Bellinzona, Switzerland
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Respiratory Medicine
UK
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General Director
Treatment & Rehabilitation Centre
Ramallah, Palestine
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Public Health
London, UK
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Gastroenterologist
Philadelphia, USA
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Birmingham, UK
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Consultant Endocrinologist
Bury, UK
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Physician
Staffordshire, UK
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Orthopaedic Surgery
Montreal, Canada
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Consultant Neurologist
Brighton, UK
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Orthopaedic Surgeon
Irbid, Jordan
Dr Hyman Sam Glatt
GP
Sunderland, UK
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Dept. of Medicine & Pub. Health
University of Bologna, Italy
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General Physician
Karachi, Pakistan
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Consultant in Pain Management
Birmingham, UK
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Dept of Pathology/Laboratory Med.
New Jersey Medical School, USA
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Internal Medicine
Florida, USA
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Hospital Director
Aleppo, Syria
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Ophthalmologist
Texas, USA
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Medicine
Derby, UK
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Paediatric Orthopaedic Surgeon
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Dr F Shaikh
GP
Durban, South Africa
Dr J Qadri
Obstetrics &Gynaecology
Orlando, USA
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Clinical Research Fellow in Epilepsy
King's College, London UK
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Neurology Registrar
London, UK
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Internal Medicine
Pennsylvania, USA
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GP
Taza, Morocco
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Psychiatry
Omaha, USA
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Internal & Emergency Medicine
Tampa, USA
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Anaesthetics
Val-d'or, Canada
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Neurology
Czech Republic
Dr Habib Rahman
Consultant Surgeon in Trauma
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Dr Rafael Gracia Ballarin
Family Physician
Alava, Spain
Dr A M Faghihi
Radiology
London, UK
Dr Muin Fedah
Director, In Vitro Fertilisation
& Genetics Centre, Amman, Jordan
Dr Fouad Siddiqui
Consultant Physician
Birmingham, UK
Dr F Rahman
Pathologist
Nova Scotia, Canada
Dr Masood Shariff
Psychiatry Residency
Philadelphia, USA
Dr Sheraz Butt
Copenhagen, Denmark
Dr Mariaguilia Agnoletto
Psychiatrist
Milan, Italy
Dr Bilal Butt
GP
Rochdale, UK
Dr Nadeem Jilani
Specialist Registrar in Paediatrics
Manchester, UK
Dr Zeyn Green-Thompson
Specialist Registrar
Cambridge, UK
Dr Urfan Zahoor Amed
Copenhagen, Denmark
Dr Giovanni Pettenella
GP
Verona, Italy
Dr Jawad Yahya Hadi
Cons. Internist & Cardiologist
Amman, London
Dr Achilla D'Anna
General Medicine
Milan, Italy
Dr Jane Hamilton
Consultant Perinatal Psychiatrist
West Lothian, UK
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Consultant Psychiatrist
Luton, UK
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Nigeria
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Consultant Surgeon
London, UK
Dr Ahmed Bayoumi
Internal Medicine
University of Toronto, Canada
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Head of Department
Al Awda Hospital, Gaza, Palestine
Dr Mazen El-Zibdeh
Senior Consultant
Obstetrics & Gynaecology
Amman, Jordan
Dr Ohnmar John
GP
Melbourne, Australia
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President of Arabmed
Freiberg, Germany
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Internist
London, UK
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Consultant Microbiologist
Ottawa, Canada
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King Hussein Cancer Centre
Amman, Jordan
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Resuscitation Medicine
Blida, Algeria
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Surgeon
Blida, Algeria
Dr Zouhir Afiane
Surgery
Blida, Algeria
Dr Omar Benmeberik
Surgical Resident
Blida, Algeria
Dr Fatiha Kadri
General Medicine
Blida, Algeria
Dr Zeidu Fodhil
Surgery
Blida, Algeria
Dr Kartina Noor
Clinical Microbiology
University Kebangsaan, Malaysia
Dr H. Medjdoub
Surgeon
Blida, Algeria
Dr Rachid Elghribi
Physician
Blida, Algeria
Dr Salwa Abu Afieh
Family Physician
Canada
Dr Sharif Nasr
President, Diagnostic Informatics
New Jersey, USA
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Fellow in Gastroenterology
Philadelphia, USA
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Clinical Investigator
Respiratory Medicine, Canada
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Cardiology & Epidemiology
Montreal, Canada
Dr Shehnaz Nadir Ali
Ex. Head of Paediatrics Dept.
Surrey, Canada
Dr Asmal Bil
Professional Lead Surgeon
Neurosurgery, Canada
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Radiology
Windsor, Canada
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Ear, Nose, Throat Registrar
Cape Town, South Africa
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Registrar in Public Health
Cape Town, South Africa
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Neurology
Tripoli, Lebanon
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Neurology
Tripoli, Lebanon
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Consultant Ophthalmic Surgeon
Amman, Jordan
Dr Waseem Barham
King Hussein Cancer Center
Amman, Jordan
Dr Ritika Goel
Family Medicine
Toronto, Canada
Dr Kamel Afifi
Orthopaedics
Amman, Jordan
Professor Edwin Daniel
Professor Emeitus of Pharmacology
University of Alberta, Canada
Professor Mohammed Tikly
Professor of Rheumatology
University of Witwatersrand
Johannesburg, South Africa
Professor Raif Geha
Professor of Paediatrics
Harvard, Boston, USA
Professor Cesar Mondragon
National University of San Marcos
Lima, Peru
Dr Hans Husum
Surgeon, Tromso Mine Victim Resource Centre
University of Northern Norway
Professor Ayman Chamma
Professor of Medicine
Point-Claire, Canada
Professor M Miqdady
Pediatric Gastroenterology
Canada
Professor Derek Hellenberg
Family Medicine
Cape Town, South Africa
Professor Gene Feder
Academic Unit of Primary Health Care
University of Bristol, UK
Professor Pat Coll
Clinical Associate/Professor
University of Calgary, Canada
Prof Tina Dobsevage
Mount Sinai School of Medicine
New York, USA
Professor Sami Kaidbey
Assist Professor of Cardiology
American University of Beirut
Lebanon
Professor Paul Hamel
Director, Health Studies
University of Toronto, Canada
Professor Nizar Maraqa
Paediatrics
University of Florida
Jacksonville, USA
Professor Mounir Hanna Samy
Psychiatrist
McGill University, Montreal, Canada
Professor Michele Ghielmini
Head, Medical Oncology
Oncol. Inst.of Southern Switzerland
Professor Marcel-Francis Kahn
Emeritus Professor of Medicine
Paris, France
Professor Michael Benny
Associate Professor of Medicine
Vienna, USA
Professor Hosny Selim
Clinical Associate, Radiation
Oncologist, New York USA
Professor Abdelmajid Saari
Surgery
Blida, Algeria
Professor Tony Davies
Zambia School of Medicine
Lusaka, Zambia
Dr William Slaughter
Clinical Instructor in Psychiatry
Harvard, Cambridge, USA
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Public Health
Beirut, Lebanon
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Pathology
Vellore, India
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Radiation Oncology
New York, USA
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Professor of Psychiatry
Geneva, Switzerland
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Clinical Pharmacology
Canada
Prof Gilles Desroches
Assistant Professor
Ophthalmology
Ottawa, Canada
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Professor of Psychiatry
Egypt
Dr Paquita de Zulueta
Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer
Medical Ethics & Law
London, UK
Dr Susan Fayad
Psychiatrist
El Nadim Centre for Rehabilitation
of Victims of Violence, Cairo Egypt
Dr Ghada Karmi
Senior Lecturer
Exeter University, UK
Dr Asad Khan
Respiratory Physician
Blackburn, UK
Professor Mohamed Hatta Shaharom
Consultant Psychiatrist
Malaysia
Professor Ismail Zayid
Halifax, Canada
Dr Jonathan Dare
Consultant Child & Adolescent
Psychiatrist, London UK
Dr Nahed Mikki
Paediatrician
Ramallah, Palestine
Dr David Leighton
Consultant Ophthalmologist
Bethlehem, Palestine
Dr Joanna Santa Barbara
Child Psychiatrist
Motueka, New Zealand
Dr Alain Pernet
Specialist Internal Medicine
Geneva, Switzerland
Dr James Deutsch
Department of Psychiatry
University of Toronto, Canada
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Obstetrics & Gynaecology
Newport Beach, USA
Dr Robert Shearer
Urological Surgeon
Somerset, UK
Dr Malila Noone
Microbiologist
Darlington, UK
Dr Daniel McQueen
Psychotherapy Specialist Registrar
London, UK
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Rehabilitation Centre for Torture
Copenhagen, Denmark
Dr William Dienst
Family & Emergency Physician
Washington State, USA
Dr Alaa Hasan Alsadadi
Consultant Psychiatrist
Bahrain
Dr Sajida Ajjawi
Obstretics & Gynaecology
Ramallah, Palestine
Dr Pam Wortley
GP
Sunderland, UK
Dr Ahmed Abou-Zeid
Neurosurgery
Manchester, UK
Dr Frank Arnold
Clinical Director, Medical Justice Network
Reading, UK
Dr Gerard Reissmann
GP
Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
Dr Axel Wannag
Occupational Physician
Bergen, Norway
Dr Elizabeth Dick
Consultant Radiologist
London, UK
Dr Maryam Navsa
Family Physician
University of Cape Town, South Africa
Dr Runa Mackay
Paediatrician
Edinburgh, UK
Dr Najib Safieddine
Fellow in Thoracic Surgery
Toronto, Canada
Dr Mahommed Siddique Tayob
Clinical Research Unit
Middelberg, South Africa
Dr Eric Brenman
Consultant Psychiatrist
London, UK
Dr Laure Sayyed Kassem
Internal Medicine
Cleveland, USA
Dr Bajes Hamad
Consultant Paediatric Nephrologist
Qatar
Dr Shabbir Amanullah
Psychiatrist
Charlottetown, Canada
Dr Ghassan Al Amar
Internal Medicine
American University Beirut
Lebanon
Dr Nazim Ismail
Consultant Medical Microbiologist
Pretoria, South Afrrica
Dr I Osman
GP
Durban, South Africa
Dr Numan Shah
Surgeon
Manchester, UK
Dr John Phillips
Consultant Paediatrician
Eniskillen, UK
Dr Salma Shebaik
California School of Medicine
University of San Diego, USA
Dr Talib Mearza
GP
Bedfordshire, UK
Dr Fatiha Kadri
General Medicine
Blida, Algeria
Hisham Thabet
Ophthalmology
Essen, Germany
Dr Shazad Amin
Consultant Psychiatrist
Manchester, UK
Dr L Azhar
Obstetrics
Canada
Dr Dina Al Khatib
Family Doctor
Bathurst, Canada
Dr Mohammad Abu Hilal
School of Medicine
Southampton University, UK
Dr Khalid Khabn
GP
Croydon, UK
Dr Ali Dabbagh
Ophthalmologist
Dubai
Dr Lydia Cairncross
General Surgeon
Cape Town, South Africa
Dr Deema Abdul Hadi
Family Physician
Canada
Dr Reem Abdul Hadi
Internal Medicine
Canada
Dr Imad Khreim
Psychiatrist
Mass., USA
Dr Hafez Alhous
Cardiology
Aberdeen, UK
Dr Chris Evans
Consultant Psychiatrist
Nottinghamshire, UK
Dr Brakat Sharabati
Pathologist
Hebron, Palestine
Dr Jonathan Flaxman
GP
London, UK
Dr Abbas Azadian
Psychiatrist
Toronto, Canada
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Gaza, Palestine
Dr Nuzhat Sarfraz
GP
Billericay, UK
Dr Stephen Ginn
Psychiatrist
London UK
Dr Maha Elias
Consultant Anaesthetist
Weston-super-Mare, UK
Professor Sami Timimi
Faculty of Health & Social Sciences
Lincoln University, UK
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Consultant Psychiatrist
Rugby, UK
Dr Rabih El Chammay
Psychiatrist
Beirut, Lebanon
Dr Tarek El-Gohary
Consultant Psychiatrist
Birmingham, UK
Dr Gianni Marin
Cardiology and Paediatrics
Trviso, Italy
Dr Ranio Abusamra
Paediatrician
London, UK
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Psychiatrist
London, UK
Dr Biba Stanton
Cinical Lecturer Neurology Research
London, UK
Dr Faisals Suliman
GP
Durban, South Africa
Dr K. Jaffar
Consultant Psychiatrist
Basildon, UK
Dr Frederick Holmes
Urologist
Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK
Dr Aisha Sarwar
GP
Manchester, UK
Dr Goretta Bonacorsi
Ematologia
Modena, Italy
Dr Abdelmoniem Ali
Consultant Psychatrist
Doncaster, UK
Dr Joan Giller
Area Medical Officer
Cork, Eire
Dr Shahid Salim
GP
Manchester, UK
Dr S Alani
Clinical Neurophysiology
Leeds, UK
Dr Catherine Houghton
Consultant Chest Physician
Bury, UK
Dr Gunhild Nybork
GP/Researcher
University of Oslo, Norway
Dr Bernardino Oliva Fanlo
Family Physician
Mallorca, Spain
Dr Klaus Melf
Assisting County Doctor
Tromso, Norway
Dr Nicholas Embleton
Consultant Neonatal Paediatrician
Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
Dr Heinz Eckel
Doctor and Sociologist
Berlin, Germany
Dr Dave Knight
Occupational Medicine
Cape Town, South Africa
Dr Fawad Zaman
Consultant Respiratory Physician
Burnley, UK
Dr Aroushka James
Psychiatry
London, UK
Dr John Vaughan
GP
North Haven, Australia
Dr Laurel Baldwin-Ragaven
Faculty of Health Sciences
University of Cape Town, South Africa
Dr Essack Mitha
Contract Clinical Research
Johannesberg, South Africa
Dr Manal Khorsheed
Family Medicine
Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
Dr Claire Jenkins
Consultant Psychiatrist
London, UK
Dr Sukaina Hirji
GP Registrar
St Albans, UK
Dr D F Annabi
Internist - Endocrinologist
Amman, Jordan
Dr Sonia Allam
Consultant Anaesthetist
Stirling, UK
Dr Ahmad Bakr
Paediatrician
Cairo, Egypt
Dr Shiroma De Silva Minor
Consultant Oncologist
UK
Dr Jalaluddin Soni
GP
Johannesburg, South Africa
Dr Khaled Fathy
Lecturer Internal Medicine
Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt
Dr M Al-Bustami
Consultant Cardiologist
Hertfordshire, UK
Dr Abdulla Bashir
General Surgeon
Amman, Jordan
Dr Azhar Aziz
Senior Consultant Emergency Physician
Doha, Qatar
Dr Faisal Moosa
Birmingham, UK
Dr R M Kajee
GP
Johannesburg, South Africa
Dr Neveen Elkholy
Family Practitioner
New Jersey, USA
Dr Wahaj-ud-Din Ahmad
Neurologist
North Carolina, USA
Dr Mahmoud Loubani
Bathurst, Canada
Dr Sara Loubani
Bathurst, Canada
Dr Eman Loubani
Ottawa, Canada
Dr Mohammed Loubani
Family Medicine
London. Canada
Dr Osama Loubani
Halifax, Canada
Dr Rhona MacDonald
Medical Journal Editor
London, UK
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Montreal, Canada
Dr Imad Khreim
USA
Dr Sarfaraz Ahmad
Physician
Juvail, Saudi Arabia
Dr Enzo Farina
Dept of Surgery
Turin, Italy
Dr Adel Elmary
Cardiology
Alexandria, Egypt
Dr Monica Malventano
Family Paediatrics
Ferrara, Italy
Professor Hazem
Orthopaedic Surgery
Saudi Arabia
Dr Atyabi Haley
Family physician
Canada
Dr Aseel Hegazi
Genitourinary/HIV Medicine
London, UK
Dr Emad Fawzy
Anaesthesia/Intensive TreatmentUnit
London, UK
Dr Hisham Al-Qassab
consultant Physician/Geriatrician
London, UK
Dr Zafir Hawa
Interventional Cardiologist
Kansas City, USA
Dr Mario Franzini
General Surgery
Reggio Emilia, Italy
Dr Diana Menzies
Consultant Psychiatrist
London, UK
Dr Ahmad Alramahi
Orthopaedic Surgeon
Amman, Jordan
Dr Jose Aparicio Garcia
Family Practitioner
Zafra, Spain
Dr Maged Sonkor
Consultant Physician
Birmingham, UK
Dr Liliana Perez
Anaesthetist
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Dr Heba Ghazy
Paediatrician
Ain Shams University
Cairo, Egypt
Dr Suhaila Ameeri
Histopathologist
Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Dr A A Mishal
Internist Endocrinologist
Amman, Jordan
Dr Roberto Maisto
Psychiatrist
Bologna, Italy
Dr Ali Al-Hakim
ENT surgery
Manchester, UK
Dr Aneesa Peer
Psychiatry
London, UK
Dr Gerhard Lotze
General Practitioner
Heidelberg, Germany
Dr Afra Al Dayel
Consultant Haematopathologist
Damman, Saudi Arabia
Professor Yahia Dajani
Consultant Pathologist
Amman, Jordan
Dr Ahmed Sabra
Intensive Care
Bristol, UK
Dr Tapanari Eleni
Paediatrician
Thessaloniki, Greece
Dr Bahoo Ghalayani
Al-Awda Hospital
Gaza, Palestine
Dr Jacqueline Le Corre
General Physician
Gonvix, France
Dr Elia Abi-Jaoude
Psychiatry
York, Canada
Dr Atalla Hamada
Plastic Surgery
Qatar
Dr Robert Dickson
Family Practitioner
Calgary, Canada
Dr Mohamed Khodr
Public Health
Virginia, USA
Dr Jamshid Marvasti
Child & Adult Psychiatrist
Manchester, USA
Dr Amal Shamma
Paediatrician
Kuwait
Dr M F Kamal
Jordan University
Amman, Jordan
Dr Maqsood Khan
Internal Medicine
Chicago, USA
Dr Ayman Askari
Consultant Rheumatologist
Sheffield, UK
Dr Sarimah Omar
Radiologist
Melaka, Malaysia
Dr Renza Martinelli
Occupational Medicine
Reggio Emilio, Italy
Dr Agnese Moro
Cardiologist & General Medicine
Treviso, Italy
Alfred Homsy
Anaesthesia
Cote-des-Neiges, Canada
Dr Beukhalifa Riadh
Psychiatry
Canada
Dr Iziki Abderrahim
General Medicine
Canada
Yashar Salek
Family Medicine
Willowdale, Canada
Dr Hassan Mostafa
Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery
London, Canada
Asif Kazmi
Pediatrics
Toronto, Canada
Dr Muhammad Shoib
Dermatology
Lahore, Pakistan
Dr Fasahat Wasty
Pathology
London, Canada
Dr Abde Ikhalek Beu Rejeb
France
Dr Adeel Mahmood
Family Medicine
Mississauga, Canada
M. A.Diwan
Ears, Nose & Throat
Guelph, Canada
François Milette
Pathology
Longeuil, Canada
Loraine Telleria
Medecine Familiale
Ville Saint-Pierre, Canada
Dr Carinne Minne
Consultant Forensic Psychiatrist
London, UK
Ahmed Ahmed
Chief of Standards Committee
Paediatrics
Thompson, Canada
Dr S Gardee
Family Practice
Ottawa, Canada
Dr Abdel-Nacer Akkache
Surgery
Blida, Algeria
Dr Jamila Khatri
Surgery
Blida, Algeria
Dr Farida Mokhtari
Resuscitation Medicine
Blida, Algeria
Dr Kamal Mattar
Urology
Toronto, Canada
Dr Ayesha Jafri
Office Medical Director
Rockville, USA
Dr Anthony Duerksen
Family Medicine
Toronto, Canada
Dr Hisham Alsher
Medical Technology/Physician
Toronto, Canada
Dr Walid Abdel Wahed
Gaza, Palestine
Dr William Ralph
USA
Dr Ibrahim Renno
Anaesthesiology
Shawinigan, Canada
Dr Lois Yelland
Medical Health Officer
Vancouver, Canada
Dr Georges Lévesque
Chargé d'enseignement clinique,
Université McGill, Médecine d'urgence
Notre-Dame-de-Grace, Canada
Dr John M Tallon
Emergency Medicine and Trauma
Halifax, Canada
Dr H M Azzam
Vice President for Medical Services
Obstetrics & Gynaecology
Thompson, Canada
Dr Michaela Beder
Psychiatry
Toronto, Canada
Dr Fayad Hamideh
Internal Medicine
Irvine, Canada
Dr Lalla Latifa Aboussiba
Gynaecologist, Medecin Legiste
Morocco
Dr Sajida Hussain
Pathology/Obstetrics
Pierrefonds, Canada
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Family Practice
New Jersey, USA
Dr Basma El Mor
Psychiatrist
Cairo, Egypt
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Clinical Pathologist
Cairo, Egypt
Dr Raisa Malik
GP
Burnley, UK
Dr Manof Ubaidat
General Pathologist
Bathurst, Canada
Dr Shankar Vijaydeva
GP
UK
Dr Sameer Abdul Hadi
Family Physician
Canada
Dr Jeremy Isaacs
Neurology
London
Dr David Nicholl
Dept of Neurology
City Hospital
Birmingham, UK
Dr Abdulla Darwish
Pathologist
Bahrain
Dr Khalid Al-Abbadey
Consultant Psychiatrist
Hampshire, UK
Dr Shireen Kassam
Haematology
London UK
Dr K S Majeed
Forensic Psychiatrist
New Zealand
Dr Pau Perez
Psychiatrist, Hospital La Paz
Madrid, Spain
Dr Susan Schonfield
Public Health Consultant
London, UK
Dr Azhar Abdul Aziz
Consultant Emergency Physician
Doha, Qatar
Dr Eid Mustafa
Plastic Surgeon
Past President National Arab American Medical Association
Wichita Falls, USA
Dr Mohd Abed Al Karkhi
Psychiatrist
Iraq
Dr Rofaat Shokeik
Gastroenterologist
Tripoli, Lebanon
Dr Gassan Maassarani
Neurology
Tripoli, Lebanon
Dr Hisham Solayman
Tripoli, Lebanon
Dr Hassan Masri
Anaesthetics
Tripoli, Lebanon
Dr Junaid Al Khaznachi
Internal Medicine
Amman, Jordan.
Dr Bernhard Klinghammer
Anaesthetics
Ronnenberg, Germany
Dr Saideh Khadir
Emergency Medicine
Saint-Lambert, Canada
Dr Juan Enrique Cimas
Family Doctor
Asturias, Spain
Dr Mohammad Habbal
Consultant Physician
Damman, Saudi Arabia
Dr Fouad Rifai
President, Islamic Medical Association,
Lebanon
Dr Georges Jalaby
MN Angels Clinic
Toledo, USA
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USA
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Psychiatry
London, UK
