Mohamed Jawad Khalife (born November 7, 1961) is a Lebanese surgeon. He was minister of Public Health of Lebanon from 2004 to 2010.
Biography
editMohamed Jawad Khalife was born on November 7, 1961, in Sarafand, Lebanon.[citation needed]
He was the son of Jawad Khalife, former mayor of Sarafand.[1]
After obtaining his medical qualifications (MD) from the University of Bucharest-Romania in 1985, He trained in surgery and obtained his specialty degree in general surgery from the American University of Beirut-Lebanon in 1991. He completed his fellowships in surgery between 1990-1998 in London hospitals (Watford, St. Thomas, King’s College, Royal Free Hospital) with special interest in vascular, cancer and liver transplantation surgery.[citation needed]
Back to Lebanon in 1991, he chaired the division of General Surgery and was appointed as the Director of the Liver Transplant and Hepato-Pancreatico-Biliary Unit at the American University of Beirut Medical Center where he performed the first liver transplantation surgery in the region and pioneered many other major surgical techniques.[2]
In the period between 2004-2010, Professor Khalifeh was named in five successive governments as the minister of Public Health of Lebanon. In addition to his public duties, Professor Khalifeh kept practicing surgeries at AUB-Medical Center, teaching students, training residents and producing research. Under his terms as Minister of Health, Lebanon launched a network of accredited primary health care centers in addition to opening over 20 public hospitals in the country, a new registry for quality and pricing of pharmaceuticals in Lebanon was created, a health reform plan that guarantees a mandatory public national health insurance system to every citizen was instituted, and the official National Cancer Registry (NCR) in Lebanon was launched.[3]
Awards
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- 2004: Officer of the National Order of the Cedar
- 2009: Commander of the National Order of the Cedar
- Honorary fellowships of the Royal College of Physicians and the Royal College of Surgeons in England[4]
- 2021: Order of the Rockel (effectively making him Grand Commander of the order of the Republic of Sierra Leone)[5][6]
References
edit- ^ "الوزير السابق محمد جواد خليفة يفجع بأعز الناس". يا صور (in Arabic). Retrieved 2023-07-11.
- ^ "Mohamad Jawad Khalife CV" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-03-09.
- ^ "National News Agency - Khalifeh fellow at Royal College of Surgeons". Archived from the original on 2020-04-08.
- ^ "Royal college of physicians". 25 June 2010.
- ^ "Dr. Khalife bestowed Grand Commander honor by president of Sierra Leone". American University of Beirut. Retrieved 2021-06-29.
- ^ Agency, National News. "Abdallah congratulates Mohammad Khalifeh on receiving highest 'medal of honor' from Sierra Leone". National News Agency. Archived from the original on 2021-06-29. Retrieved 2021-06-29.
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