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Purpose & Objectives Committees Hotel Info & Directions Past Conference	Steering Committee Adnan Hammad, PhD, Conference Chairman, Director, ACCESS Community Health and Research Center Marwan Abouljoud, MD, Division Head, Surgical Director, Transplant Program, Henry Ford Health System Abdallah Boumediene, Operations Manager, ACCESS Community Health and Research Center Jean Chabut, MPH, Public Health Administrator, MDCH Brian Connolly, President and CEO, Oakwood Healthcare (invited) Beverly Watts Davis, MS, Director of the Center for Substance Abuse Prevention, SAMHSA (invited) Basim Dubaybo, MD, Scientific Committee Chair, Chief of Staff, John D. Dingell VAMC, Professor and Assistant Dean, Wayne State University School of Medicine Hassan Fehmi, MD, Senior Staff Physician, Nephrology, Henry Ford Health System Kevin Fenton, MD, PhD, Director of the National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention, Center for Disease Control (CDC) Miguel Gomez, Director, The Leadership Campaign on AIDS, Office of HIV/AIDS Policy, and U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (invited) Nathan Grey, National VP, International Affairs, American Cancer Society Hassan Jaber, Executive Director, ACCESS Tom Johnson, ASCW, CEO, Apex Behavioral Health, PLLC Mark Kelley, MD, Executive Vice President, CEO, Henry Ford Health System Nabil Khoury, MD, President, National Arab American Medical Association Anahid Kulwicki, RN, DNS, FAAN, Deputy Director, Wayne County Department of Health & Human Services. Cathy Mozham, Director, Community Affairs, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan Martha E. Newton, Director, Office of Refugee Resettlement, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (invited) Vicki Rakowski, RN, Executive VP of Medical Activities, American Cancer Society John C. Ruckdeschel, MD, President and CEO, Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute Mark Saffer, MD, President, Midwest Health Plan Maryjean Schenk, MD, MPH, Professor, Wayne State University Nancy Schlichting, President and CEO, Henry Ford Health System Paul Shaheen, Executive Director, Michigan Council for Maternal and Child Health Veda Sharp, PhD, Deputy Director, Detroit Wayne County Community Mental Health Agency William R. Steiger, PhD, Special Assistant to the Secretary for International Affairs, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (invited) Mary A. Zatina, Senior Vice President-Planning and Communications, Oakwood Healthcare System Kenneth Barker, Sales Manager, Accidental & Health License #0246943, Molina Medicare Scientific Committee Basim Dubaybo, MD, Scientific Committee Chair, Chief of Staff, John D. Dingell VAMC, Professor and Assistant Dean, Wayne State University School of Medicine David Bassett, PhD, Professor, Wayne State University David Clifford, PhD, Director, Eastern Michigan University, Institution for the Study of Children, Families and Communities May Darwish-Yassine, PhD, Sr. Research Scientist, Michigan Public Health Institute Emily Grekin, PhD, Assistant Professor, Wayne State Univ. Julie Hakim-Larson, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Windsor Adnan Hammad, PhD, Conference Chairman, Director, ACCESS Community Health and Research Center Mouhanad Hammami, MD, Executive Director, National Arab American Medical Association Walid Harb, MD, Medical Education, Clinical Associate Professor, Oakwood Health System William Herman, MD, Director, Michigan Diabetes Research and Training Center Linda Jaber, Pharm.D., Associate Professor, Wayne State University Suzanne Mellon, PhD, Dean, University of Detroit Mercy School of Nursing Jerome Nriagu, Professor,School of Public Health, University of Michigan David Pieper, PhD, CME, Wayne State University School of Medicine Virginia Rice, PhD, RN, APN, FAAN, Professor, Wayne State University Wael Sakr, MD, Professor, Wayne State University, Former Chair, Michigan Scientific Committee Maryjean Schenk, MD, MPH, Professor, Wayne State University Kendra Schwartz, MD, MSPH, Professor, Wayne State Univ. Omar Shafey, MPH, PhD, Manager, Int’l Cancer Research, American Cancer Society (National Scientific Committee) Amr Soliman, MD, PhD, Professor, U of M School of Public Health Manuel Tancer, MD, Professor and Chair, Wayne State University Dept. of Psychiatry & Behavioral Neurosciences Linda S. Weglicki, PhD, RN, Assistant Professor, Wayne State University, College of Nursing Karen Patricia Williams, PhD, Assistant Professor, Michigan State University Nancy Wrobel, PhD, Associate Professor and Chair, Dept. of Behavioral Science University of Michigan Dearborn International Scientific Consultants Abdul-latif A. Elmor Emara, MD, Consultant of Public Health, MOH, Kuwait, Prof. of Public Health, Zagazig University, Egypt Ahmed Alzawawy, MD, President of ICEDOC, International Campaign for Establishment and Development of Oncology Centres, Egypt Ala Alwan, MD, Assistant Director-General, Health Action in Crises, World Health Organization, Switzerland Ali A. Al-Shamlan, PhD, Director General, Kuwait Foundation for the Advancement of Sciences, Kuwait Belgacem Sabri, MD, Director, Health Systems and Services Development, World Health Organization, Eastern Mediterranean Regional Office, Egypt Hassan Ghanem, MD, Head of Epidemiology Department, Sousse Medical School, Tunisia Huda Juijer, RN, PhD, FEAN, Director, School of Nursing, Associate Dean, Faculty of Medicine, .Lebanon Ibrahim Bani Hani, MD, DS, FRCS (Ed), FICS, Professor of Urology, Dean, School of Medicine, Mutah Univ., Jordan Inas El Attar, PhD, Professor, Chari, Department of Epidemiology, Cairo Cancer Institute, Egypt Kalthoom M. A. Hassan, MD, Family Physician, Head of Motherhood & Children Health Rak Medical District, United Arab Emirates Kamel Ajlouni, Professor, President, National Center for Diabetes Endocrinology and Genetics, Jordan M. Nizar Akil, MD, President, Aleppo University, Syria Mohammed H. Althani, MD, Medical Advisor, National Health Authority, Qatar Mustafa Khogali, Professor, Department of Family Medicine, Khartoum Medical School, Sudan Mustafa Saleh Mustafa, MD, General Manager, Ministry of United Health, Sudan Nagi Saghir, MD, FACP, Clinical Assoc. Professor of Medicine, American Univ. of Beirut Medical Center, Lebanon Noureddine Chaouki, Director, Epidemiology and Disease Control Directorate, Ministry of Health, Morocco Raghda Shukri, PhD, Dean, Faculty of Nursing, Muscat University, Sultanate of Oman Samer T. Abu-Ghazaleh, MBA, Consultant and Assistant to the CEO, International Medical Center,Saudi Arabia

Purpose & Objectives

Committees

Hotel Info & Directions

Past Conference

Steering Committee

Adnan Hammad, PhD, Conference Chairman, Director, ACCESS Community Health and Research Center

Marwan Abouljoud, MD, Division Head, Surgical Director, Transplant Program, Henry Ford Health System
Abdallah Boumediene, Operations Manager, ACCESS Community Health and Research Center
Jean Chabut, MPH, Public Health Administrator, MDCH
Brian Connolly, President and CEO, Oakwood Healthcare (invited)
Beverly Watts Davis, MS, Director of the Center for Substance Abuse Prevention, SAMHSA (invited)
Basim Dubaybo, MD, Scientific Committee Chair, Chief of Staff, John D. Dingell VAMC, Professor and Assistant Dean, Wayne State University School of Medicine
Hassan Fehmi, MD, Senior Staff Physician, Nephrology, Henry Ford Health System
Kevin Fenton, MD, PhD, Director of the National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention, Center for Disease Control (CDC)
Miguel Gomez, Director, The Leadership Campaign on AIDS, Office of HIV/AIDS Policy, and U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (invited)
Nathan Grey, National VP, International Affairs, American Cancer Society
Hassan Jaber, Executive Director, ACCESS
Tom Johnson, ASCW, CEO, Apex Behavioral Health, PLLC
Mark Kelley, MD, Executive Vice President, CEO, Henry Ford Health System
Nabil Khoury, MD, President, National Arab American Medical Association
Anahid Kulwicki, RN, DNS, FAAN, Deputy Director, Wayne County Department of Health & Human Services.
Cathy Mozham, Director, Community Affairs, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan
Martha E. Newton, Director, Office of Refugee Resettlement, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (invited)
Vicki Rakowski, RN, Executive VP of Medical Activities, American Cancer Society
John C. Ruckdeschel, MD, President and CEO, Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute
Mark Saffer, MD, President, Midwest Health Plan
Maryjean Schenk, MD, MPH, Professor, Wayne State University
Nancy Schlichting, President and CEO, Henry Ford Health System
Paul Shaheen, Executive Director, Michigan Council for Maternal and Child Health
Veda Sharp, PhD, Deputy Director, Detroit Wayne County Community Mental Health Agency
William R. Steiger, PhD, Special Assistant to the Secretary for International Affairs, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (invited)
Mary A. Zatina, Senior Vice President-Planning and Communications, Oakwood Healthcare System
Kenneth Barker, Sales Manager, Accidental & Health License #0246943, Molina Medicare

Scientific Committee

Basim Dubaybo, MD, Scientific Committee Chair, Chief of Staff, John D. Dingell VAMC, Professor and Assistant Dean, Wayne State University School of Medicine

David Bassett, PhD, Professor, Wayne State University
David Clifford, PhD, Director, Eastern Michigan University, Institution for the Study of Children, Families and Communities
May Darwish-Yassine, PhD, Sr. Research Scientist, Michigan Public Health Institute
Emily Grekin, PhD, Assistant Professor, Wayne State Univ.
Julie Hakim-Larson, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, University of Windsor
Adnan Hammad, PhD, Conference Chairman, Director, ACCESS Community Health and Research Center
Mouhanad Hammami, MD, Executive Director, National Arab American Medical Association
Walid Harb, MD, Medical Education, Clinical Associate Professor, Oakwood Health System
William Herman, MD, Director, Michigan Diabetes Research and Training Center
Linda Jaber, Pharm.D., Associate Professor, Wayne State University
Suzanne Mellon, PhD, Dean, University of Detroit Mercy School of Nursing
Jerome Nriagu, Professor,School of Public Health, University of Michigan
David Pieper, PhD, CME, Wayne State University School of Medicine
Virginia Rice, PhD, RN, APN, FAAN, Professor, Wayne State University
Wael Sakr, MD, Professor, Wayne State University, Former Chair, Michigan Scientific Committee
Maryjean Schenk, MD, MPH, Professor, Wayne State University
Kendra Schwartz, MD, MSPH, Professor, Wayne State Univ.
Omar Shafey, MPH, PhD, Manager, Int’l Cancer Research, American Cancer Society (National Scientific Committee)
Amr Soliman, MD, PhD, Professor, U of M School of Public Health
Manuel Tancer, MD, Professor and Chair, Wayne State University Dept. of Psychiatry & Behavioral Neurosciences
Linda S. Weglicki, PhD, RN, Assistant Professor, Wayne State University, College of Nursing
Karen Patricia Williams, PhD, Assistant Professor, Michigan State University
Nancy Wrobel, PhD, Associate Professor and Chair, Dept. of Behavioral Science University of Michigan Dearborn

International Scientific Consultants

Abdul-latif A. Elmor Emara, MD, Consultant of Public Health, MOH, Kuwait, Prof. of Public Health, Zagazig University, Egypt
Ahmed Alzawawy, MD, President of ICEDOC, International Campaign for Establishment and Development of Oncology Centres, Egypt
Ala Alwan, MD, Assistant Director-General, Health Action in Crises, World Health Organization, Switzerland
Ali A. Al-Shamlan, PhD, Director General, Kuwait Foundation for the Advancement of Sciences, Kuwait
Belgacem Sabri, MD, Director, Health Systems and Services Development, World Health Organization, Eastern Mediterranean Regional Office, Egypt
Hassan Ghanem, MD, Head of Epidemiology Department, Sousse Medical School, Tunisia
Huda Juijer, RN, PhD, FEAN, Director, School of Nursing, Associate Dean, Faculty of Medicine, .Lebanon
Ibrahim Bani Hani, MD, DS, FRCS (Ed), FICS, Professor of Urology, Dean, School of Medicine, Mutah Univ., Jordan
Inas El Attar, PhD, Professor, Chari, Department of Epidemiology, Cairo Cancer Institute, Egypt
Kalthoom M. A. Hassan, MD, Family Physician, Head of Motherhood & Children Health Rak Medical District, United Arab Emirates
Kamel Ajlouni, Professor, President, National Center for Diabetes Endocrinology and Genetics, Jordan
M. Nizar Akil, MD, President, Aleppo University, Syria
Mohammed H. Althani, MD, Medical Advisor, National Health Authority, Qatar
Mustafa Khogali, Professor, Department of Family Medicine, Khartoum Medical School, Sudan
Mustafa Saleh Mustafa, MD, General Manager, Ministry of United Health, Sudan
Nagi Saghir, MD, FACP, Clinical Assoc. Professor of Medicine, American Univ. of Beirut Medical Center, Lebanon
Noureddine Chaouki, Director, Epidemiology and Disease Control Directorate, Ministry of Health, Morocco
Raghda Shukri, PhD, Dean, Faculty of Nursing, Muscat University, Sultanate of Oman
Samer T. Abu-Ghazaleh, MBA, Consultant and Assistant to the CEO, International Medical Center,Saudi Arabia