Executive Board

Advisor
Prof. Dr. Sijmen Duursma
The Netherlands

Chairman
A. Abyad, MD, PhD, MBA, MPH, AGSF
Middle East Longevity Institute
Abyad Medical Center
Tripoli, Lebanon

Member
Dr. Tawfik A M Khoga
Director General
Council of Health Ministers for GCC States
Saudi Arabia

Dr Ali Jaffer Mohamed
Advisor Health Affairs &
Supervising DGHA
Ministry of Health Sultanate of OMAN

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

Prof. Jean-Pierre Michel
Head of the geriatric ward
Department of rehabilitation and geriatrics Geneva
University Hospital and Medical School
President of the European Academy for Medicine of Ageing Academic
Director of the European Union Geriatric Medicine Society
WHO expert Health and Age programme.

Prof. Dr. M.W. Ribbe
Department of Nursing Home Medicine
VU University Medical Center
The Netherlands

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

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

Ms Lesley Pocock
Publisher and Managing Director
medi+WORLD International
Australia

Prof. Omer El Rufaei
UAE University
United Arab Emirates

Dr. Mona Alshaik Almahmood
Elderly Health Focal Person, Primary Health Care
Ministry of Health
Kingdom of Bahrain

PROF. NABIL KURASHI
Professor of Family Medicine
College of Medicine, King Faisal University
Pro tem Regional President, WONCA EMRO
Vice-Chairman, Arab Development Institute
VIce-President, Arab Development University of Bahrain

Prof Faisal Alnasir, MICGP, FRCGP, FFPH, PhD
Professor of Family Medicine Arabian Gulf University
President; Scientific council of Family & Community Medicine, Arab Board for Health Specializations
General Secretary, International Society for the History of Islamic Medicine
Chief Editor, Journal of Bahrain Medical Society
Bahrain

Hashim Hasan Balubaid, M.B., ChB.SSC-Med..FACP
Assistant Professor King Saud Bin Abdulaziz University
Head Division of Physical & Geriatric Medicine
Department of Internal Medicine
King Abdulaziz Medical City , National Guard Hospital
Riyadh , Saudi Arabia

Mr . Nabil Charaf
Maitre
Montreux - Switzerland