Lebanese Order of Physicians

Founded on December 7, 1946, the Lebanese Order of Physicians in Beirut is the largest medical organization and physician group in Lebanon. Its membership of 12,000 aims to pursue and promote optimal healthcare system and policies in Lebanon thus the region. Physicians are specialists who apply scientific knowledge and clinical expertise to the diagnosis, treatment, and compassionate care of adults across the spectrum from health to complex illness.

Role

The Lebanese Order of Physicians’ mission is a medical, healthy, scientific, administrative, and a guiding mission that aims to:

  1. Unify the doctors’ word, defend their rights, maintain their legitimate moral and material interests, raise the level of their profession, and ensure the ethics and dignity of the medical care.
  2. Discipline doctors to its laws and to the medical ethics.
  3. Express an opinion and make suggestions for laws and regulations related to the profession of medicine and health agreements.
  4. Express an opinion in sending medical missions and in attending international health conferences.
  5. Coordinate with government institutions, especially with the Ministries of Public Health and Environment, to take the correct and useful decisions in the issues related to public health, and the formulation of national health policies.
  6. Provide suggestions on the medical curriculum in colleges and institutes of medicine in Lebanon, and ensure the professional eligibility of physicians.
  7. Contribute along with local and international institutions to defend human rights in health issues.
  8. Coordinate with the Ministries of Public Health and Media on all matters related to public medical information and medical programs of any kind.
  9. Express an opinion in the organization of the professions of assistance in the field of medicine.
  10. Develop a manual on doctor fees.
  11. Seek to solve the disputes that might occur among physicians or between them and their patients.
  12. Help the doctors, or their families’, that are in need or with disabilities, and establish a retirement (pension) fund for aging and disability insurance.
  13. Put a self-health insurance for the medical entity, and establish a synergistic fund for this purpose.

Presidents
PositionPhotoNameDuration
1Raif Abi Al-Lamaa1947–1948
2Mohamad Haidar1949–1950
3Joseph Al-Feghali1951–1952
4Najib Saad1953–1954
5Philip Chedid1955–1956
6Najib Saad1957–1958
7Antoine Hasri1959–1960
8Afif Mfarrej1961–1962
9Philip Chedid1963–1964
10Afif Mfarej1965–1966
11Antoine Hanin1967–1968
12Farid Haddad1969–1970
13Antoine Hanin1971–1972
14Joseph Azar1973–1974
15Fouad Al-Chemali1975–1987
16Michel Salhab1988–1989
17Mounir Rahme1990–1991
18Fouad Al-Boustani1992–1995
19Faek Youness1995–1998
20Ghattas Al-Khoury1998–2001
21Mahmoud Choucair2001–2004
22Mario Aoun2004–2007
23Georges Aftimos2007–2010
24Charaf Abou Charaf2010–2013
25Antoine Boustany2013–2016
26Raymond Sayegh2016 -

Branches
  • Baalback
  • Bekaa
  • Jounieh
  • Nabatieh
  • Saida

Committees

Media & Communication Committee

  • Dr. Laudy Abou Reda
  • Dr. Wassim El Bitar
  • Dr. Paula Karam
  • Dr. Mohamad Mazraani
  • Dr. Hachem Noureldine
  • Dr. Richard Rizk
  • Dr. Jean Claude Saab

Scientific Committee

Administrative Committee

References
  1. Role of the Order
  2. Charah Abou Charaf: The Order of Physicians... after half a century - From Pioneers.. to a promising future (1946-2013)
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