Faisal Abdul Latif Alnasir
The Arab board for Medical Specializations, UAE
Biography
Faisal Abdullatif Alnasir is currently Professor and Chairman of the Department of Family & Community Medicine. He was the former Vice President of the Arabian Gulf University and also the former President of the Scientific Council of Family & Community Medicine in the Arab Board for Health Specialties. He was the first and the only Bahraini Physician to obtain MRCGP and FFPH of UK, and also the first Bahraini physician to obtain PhD in Family Medicine. Currently he is a Fellow member of Royal College of General Practitioner (FRCGP) UK, fellow of the College of Public Health, UK, member of the Irish College of General Practitioner (ICGP), Ireland and is member of the American Academy of Family Physicians. He is also the General Secretary of the International Society for the History of Islamic Medicine and advisor for the EMRO WHO. With regards to his post graduate education Prof Alnasir completed his PhD in Family Medicine from Glasgow University, Scotland, in 1997, his Family Medicine specialty from AUB, Beirut in 1984, and M.B.B.ch from Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt in 1979. Alnasir received many awards and honors including life membership and appreciation of Excellence from various organizations such the Pakistan Academy of Family Physicians in March 2015 The World Organization Congress of Family doctors (WONCA) as the Global Family Doctor of the month, the Arab Council for Health Specialties and the Sudanese National Council. He recently was also honored by the Bahrain Parents Caring Society with the prize of HH Sheikh Khalifa bin Ali Alkhalifa as the most distinguished Bahraini in parent’s caring and received Gold Medal in the Education Day of Bahrain offered by H.E Amir of Bahrain
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Abstract : Effective communication and its role on patients’ health