The Department of Surgery- Faculty of Medicine, King Abdulaziz University- gave a party on Tuesday 6th Zul Qaeda 1429 in honour of participants in the First Surgery Conference.
The party was attended by Dr Adnan Bin Abdullah Al-Mazrou, Dean of the Faculty of Medicine and Chairman of the Conference's Supreme Organizing Committee, Prof Hassan Bin Ali Al-Zahrani, KAU Head Department of Surgery, Chairman of the Conference's Organizing Committee and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Saudi Society for Vascular Surgery's (SSVS), Prof Adnan Bin Abdul-Mutie Mardad, Chairman of the Saudi General Surgery Society (SGSS) and Prof Abdul Rahman Ashi.
Dr Rabee Alsaeed Abdulhalim, founder of the Urinary Tract Surgery Unit at the Department of Surgery, gave a lecture on the Islamic medicine and the medical contributions made by Muslim surgeons with reference to making accurate diagnosis and treatment judgments and compiling general and medical reference books. He concluded his lecture with some lines of a poem praising King Abdulaziz University and the bigheartedness and munificence of the people of Jeddah.
After that, Prof Khalil Bin Mahmoud Salman, the first KAU Head Department of Surgery, was honoured. Topping his batch, Prof Salman graduated from the University of Cairo in 1960 with a BA in medicine and surgery. In 1963, he obtained a Diploma in surgery and in 1966 he was awarded the Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh (FRCS). Later, Prof Salman did a PhD in surgery at the University of Cairo in 1974. In 1977, he was appointed an assistant professor at the Faculty of Medicine, University of King Abdulaziz, and was later appointed Head Department of Surgery during the period spanning from 1978 to 1984. Prof Salman has a number of published essays and research studies in surgery. He is also a member of some medical committees, including the Saudi Medical Council, the Operation Rooms' Committee and the Clinical Curricula Review Committee. He also chaired the Saudi General Authority of Health Services in the western region for 7 years and was a member of the Saudi Legal Medicine Authority in the western region for 2 years.
After honouring Prof Salman, the following former Heads of the KAU Department of Surgery were also honoured:
• Prof Khalil Mahmoud Salman
• Prof Marwan Mahasni
• Prof Ahmed Mohamed Abbas Mukhtar
• Prof Yassir Salih Gamal
• Prof Talal Mohamed Bakhsh
• Dr Khalil Mahmoud Majid Mansouri
• Prof Adnan Abdul Mutie Mardad
• Dr Khalil Mahmoud Rashad Habib Allah Ghashghari
• Dr Ahmed Mohamed Arif Kansara
• Prof Hassan Bin Ali Al-Zahrani
The following were also honoured for their outstanding contributions to the Department of Surgery:
• Prof Khalil Mahmoud Salman
• Prof Marwan Mahasni
• Prof Suleiman Ibrahim
• Prof Rabee Alsaeed Abdulhalim
• Prof Ahmed Mohamed Abbas Mukhtar
• Prof Hassan Rafah
• Prof Khalil Mahmoud Mohamed Deeb Eid
• Prof Farhan Hussein
• Dr Hassan Nasr
• Dr Adnan Sairafi
• Dr Omer Tawfeeq
• Dr Mohamed Shalabi
• Dr Khalil Midhat Shalabi
• The late Dr Adnan Jamjoom
Heads of the Conference's sessions, local and international speakers, sponsoring companies and members of the Conference's Organizing Committee were also honoured.
This was announced by Dr Haitham Bin Ahmed Zaka'ee, Supervisor General of Public Relations and Media.