Firas Al-Hawari

Firas Al-Hawari
Ministry of Health
Incumbent
Assumed office
29 March 2021
MonarchAbdullah II of Jordan
Prime MinisterBisher Al-Khasawneh
Preceded byNathir Obeidat
Personal details
Born
Firas Ibrahim Al-Hawari

Firas Ibrahim Al-Hawari is the Jordanian Minister of Health.[1] He was appointed as minister on 29 March 2021.[2][3]

Education

Hawari holds a bachelor's degree in medicine from the University of Jordan (1992) and completed an Internal Medicine Residency (1996) and a Clinical Pharmacology Fellowship at the University at Buffalo (1997) and a Pulmonary and Critical Care Fellowship at University of Irvine (2000).[4][5]

Career

From 2000 until 2004, Al-Hawari worked as a Senior Staff Fellow at the American National Institutes of Health in Bethesda in the United States.[6] In 2007, Al-Hawari was the chairman of the Institutional Review Board for Scientific Research at King Hussein Cancer Center. In 2008, he became director of the Smoking Cessation Program at King Hussein Cancer Center. Additionally, he was director of the Respiratory Therapy Unit and Pulmonary Function Laboratory from 2004 until 2021, head of the Department of Chest Diseases and Intensive Care from 2010 until 2018, and a member of the Executive Board at King Hussein Cancer Center from 2013 until 2021.[3]

From 2018 until 2021, Al-Hawari served as the head of the Cancer Control Office.[3]

In 2020, he was appointed head of the National Center for Epidemiology and Communicable Diseases.[3][7][8]

Since 29 March 2021, Al-Hawari has been Minister of Health.[2]

References

  1. ^ "Ministers". The Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan. Retrieved 8 September 2022.
  2. ^ a b "Ministers - Minister of Health". www.moh.gov.jo. Retrieved 2022-09-08.
  3. ^ a b c d "Firas Ibrahim Al-Hawari". Jordan Politics. Retrieved 2022-09-08.
  4. ^ "Feras Hawari". ResearchGate. Retrieved 19 August 2023.
  5. ^ "Feras Hawari, MD, FCCP, TTS". LinkedIn. Retrieved 19 August 2023.
  6. ^ "WHO Global School on Refugee and Migrant Health" (PDF). World Health Organization. 25 October 2021. Retrieved 20 August 2023.
  7. ^ "Prime minister presides over national epidemiology centre's first meeting". Jordan Times. 2021-03-03. Retrieved 2023-06-13.
  8. ^ "New head appointed for National Center for Epidemics and Communicable Diseases Control". en.royanews.tv. Retrieved 2023-06-13.


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