The AAHCI Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Regional Office is hosted by American University of Beirut Medical Center located in Beirut, Lebanon.
The AAHCI Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Regional Office is responsible for organizing regional events and conferences, fostering the discussion on key issues for MENA academic health centres and systems, contributing to the development of AAHCI programs, and strengthening collaborations between current and perspective AAHC and AAHCI members, especially but not only in MENA.
Leadership
Regional Ambassador
Chair-Designate of the AAHCI Steering Committee
Dr. Mohammed Sayegh
Executive Vice President for Medicine and Global Strategy as Regional Ambassador
Regional Office Manager
Noha Hachach, MPH
Director of Medical & Health Strategy
Director of AUBMC Affiliations
| American University of Beirut Medical Center |
Lebanon |
| Hamad Medical Corporation |
Qatar |
| Sidra Medicine |
Qatar |
| Gulf Medical College Hospital and Research Center |
UAE |
| Arabian Gulf University |
Bahrain |
| Lebanese American University |
Lebanon |
| Specialized Medical Center |
Saudi Arabia |
If you have questions or comments, please contact:
Regional Office Manager
Noha B. Hachach, MPH
Director of Medical & Health Strategy
Director of AUBMC Affiliations
Tel: +961 1 350000 ext: 4727
The Middle East and North Africa Regional Office will be hosting its second regional meeting in collaboration with ACGME-I in Beirut, Lebanon on November 8-10,2019. This meeting will focus on the Leading Regional Transformation in Training and Research.The Middle East and North Africa Regional Office hosted a regional meeting in Beirut, Lebanon on September 26-28, 2018. This meeting focused on the Transformation of Medical Education in the New Era.If you are interested in participating in the meeting, please contact AAHCI MENA Regional Manager, Noha Hachach, for more details.
MENA Regional Office to be hosted by American University of BeirutAugust 1, 2017It is with great pleasure that we announce that the American University of Beirut (AUB) will host the Association of Academic Health Centers International (AAHCI) MENA Regional Office. As leaders in the field of medical care, we continuously seek to advance our health system through major collaborations. The new collaboration will pave the way in bringing together academic health centers to promote regional activities, as well as programs that are of particular interest to the area.
In his capacity as a Regional Ambassador, Executive Vice President for Medicine and Global Strategy, Dr. Mohamed H. Sayegh, will be working closely with AUB members to actively support health centers worldwide. The regional office will mainly provide valuable insight for AAHCI on key issues and challenges faced in the region. Ms. Noha Hachach will act as the Regional Manager for the office.
Accordingly, AUB will play a pivotal role as a growing platform to customize region-specific interests and tailor programs, facilitate important regional networking opportunities, educational programs, exchange of best practices, data collection and analysis, and community/regional relationships, and promote the understanding of the academic health center concept to government, industry, and the public.
Hosting the AAHCI regional office is a great opportunity to empower healthcare centers to transform, adapt, and thrive in a landscape which is continuously evolving. It reinforces AUB’s pioneering role in supporting medical advancement, while acting as a gateway to assure high quality patient care to the whole MENA region. This will ultimately lay the ground for further development in the future, keeping AUB at the forefront of progress to ensure a highly transformative healthcare environment.
Press Releases
English version
AAHCI MENA Conference "Transformation of Medical Education in the New Era: Humanism, Technology, and the Physician of Tomorrow"
Media Coverage
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Recommendations at the AAHCI MENA Regional Conference, presented at the AAHC Annual meeting in Chicago on October 11-12-2018 (By Dr. Kamal Badr)
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Humanism, Technology and the Physician of Tomorrow: Everything will Change
The webinar discusses the impending radical transformation of medical and premedical education to prepare future doctors for practicing medicine in the 21st century. The outcomes and recommendations of the AAHCI-MENA regional meeting and the AAHC national meeting, held in Beirut and Chicago in 2018, were presented, as was the resulting proposals to transform medical and premedical curricula in the new era.
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Research Challenges in the Middle East
The webinar gives a broad overview of research challenges facing academic health centers and systems located in and working with those in the Middle East. Presented by Ibrahim Janahi, MD, FCCP, FRCPCH, Chair, Medical Education, Division Chief, Pediatric Pulmonology, Sidra-Medicine, and Professor of Clinical Pediatrics, Weill Cornell Medicine, in Qatar.
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