From Left: Minister of Public Health H E Dr Hanan Mohamed Al Kuwari, Dr Victor Dzau – President, National Academy of Medicine, and Dr Mariam Abdul Malik, Managing Director of PHCC.
Doha: The second Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Regional Summit of Association of Academic Health Centers International (AAHCI) was recently organised in Doha and featured a cadre of local and international experts in the fields of clinical care, health professions education and research, which are all areas integral to academic health centres.
The meeting was inaugurated by H E Dr Hanan Mohamed Al Kuwari, Minister of Public Health and Managing Director of Hamad Medical Corporation (HMC), who was instrumental in launching Qatar’s national academic health system in 2011.
The second AAHCI MENA Regional Summit was organised by HMC in collaboration with AAHCI and was supported by the World Innovation Summit for Health (WISH), a Qatar Foundation initiative.
Dr Al Kuwari praised the achievements generated under HMC’s longstanding partnership with the AAHCI and reiterated HMC’s commitment to developing the academic health concept locally in Qatar as well as regionally.
“We remain steadfast in our commitment to the ideals of academic health and in our desire to work closely with the AAHCI and other regional academic centres in the Middle East. The development of an integrated Academic Health System underpins our determination to meet the health care challenges of Qatar’s growing population and aligns with the aspiration of Qatar’s National Vision 2030,” said Dr Al Kuwari.
The AAHCI is a member-based organisation founded in 2008 as a subsidiary to the US-based Association of Academic Health Centers (AAHC).
