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Ziad A. Memish, MD, FIDSA, FRCPC, FACP (he/him/his)

Senior Infectious Diseases consultant & Advisor Supervisor General for humanitarian and medical studies
King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relef Center
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Prof. Ziad A. Memish, MD, FRCPC, FRCPE, FRCPL, FACP, FFPH

Ziad Memish is currently a senior consultant in infectious diseases and Advisor Supervisor General for Medical & Humanitarian Research, King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center. Professor at the College of Medicine in Alfaisal University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia; and Adjunct Professor in the Hubert Department of Global Health, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Georgia, USA.

Professor Memish obtained his MD from the University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Canada in 1987 and is Board certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine, the American Board of Infectious Diseases as well as a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians (Canada, Edinburgh, and London) and the American College of Physicians. He is widely recognized as a pioneer in Mass Gathering Medicine and Infection Control & established the WHO collaborating center for mass gathering medicine in the Ministry of Health and WHO Collaborating Center for Infection Prevention and Control and AMR in the Saudi Ministry of National Guard (Health Affairs). On a national level he was the first Deputy Minister for Public Health at Ministry of Health for 6 years (2009-2014) & is the chair of the national scientific technical advisory group for COVID-19 and the Chair of the technical advisory group on COVID-19 vaccine under the Royal Court. He received the King Abdulaziz Medal from the first degree in 2007, the highest national award for his achievements in Infectious diseases and infection control in KSA.
He is the EIC of 3 medical journals: Journal of Epidemiology & Global Health (Springer Nature), Journal of Mass Gathering Medicine (Elsevier), and Doctor Sulaiman Alhabib Medical Journal (Wolter Kluwer). Also, Co-EIC of Clinical Infectious Disease Journal (Frontiers). He has presented extensively national and internationally and published more than 850 papers and book chapters.

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