Mohamad Jawad Khalifeh

Mohamad Jawad Khalifeh, also written Mohamed Jawad Khalife, was born in 1961 in Sarafand and is a Lebanese surgeon who served as minister of Public Health of Lebanon from 2004 to 2010. He took his medical degree at the University of Bucharest in 1985, earned a specialty degree in general surgery at the American University of Beirut in 1991, and completed fellowships in London hospitals between 1990 and 1998 with a special interest in vascular, cancer and liver transplantation surgery. At the American University of Beirut Medical Center he chaired the division of general surgery, directed the Liver Transplant and Hepato-Pancreatico-Biliary Unit, and performed the first liver transplantation surgery in the region. He held the health portfolio in five successive governments; during his terms Lebanon launched a network of accredited primary health care centres, opened over twenty public hospitals, created a registry for the quality and pricing of pharmaceuticals and launched the National Cancer Registry.