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Executive Council

Presidency

Professor David Gordon

President
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Professor Ducksun Ahn

Vice-President
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Professor Stefan Lindgren

Past President
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Professor Ricardo León-Bórquez

President-Elect
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Presidents of the six Regional Associations

Professor Trevor Gibbs

AMEE

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Dr Ahmed Al Rumayyan

AMEEMR

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Professor Emiola Oluwabunmi Olapade-Olaopa

AMSA

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Associate Professor Titi Savitri

SEARAME

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Dr Dujeepa Samarasekera

WPAME

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Dr Marcos Núñez

PAFAMS

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Founding Members

Dr Giorgio Cometto

WHO

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Dr Otmar Kloiber

WMA

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Executive Members

Mădălina Elena Mandache

IFMSA

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Dr Yassen Tcholakov

JDN

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Professor William W Pinsky

ECFMG

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Special Advisers

Professor Hans Karle

President Emeritus and lifetime Special Adviser

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Mark Dexter

Senior Policy Adviser

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Professor Samar A. Ahmed

Special Adviser

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Liz Butler

Special Adviser, Finance and Risk

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Secretariat

Jitka Brabcová

Executive Assistant, World Directory of Medical Schools

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Jana Cohlová

Executive Assistant to the World Federation for Medical Education office

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Anne-Marie Delage

Personal Assistant to the President

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Barbora Hrabalová

Head of External Relations

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Romana Kohnová

Executive Assistant to the World Federation for Medical Education office

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Senior Advisers Emeriti

Leif Christensen

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Dr Jørgen Nystrup

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Advisers

Advisers support the programmes of WFME in a number of different areas

Professor Sam Leinster

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Professor Tewfik Nawar

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Dr Farida Nurmanbetova

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Dr Toshimasa Yoshioka

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Recognition Committee

Independent decision-making committee for the WFME Recognition of Accreditation Programme

Professor Luis Sambo

Africa

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Dr Angel Centeno

Americas

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Professor Zeinelabdin A Karrar

Eastern Mediterranean

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Professor Stefan Lindgren

Europe

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Professor Usman Chatib Warsa

South East Asia

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Professor Alfaretta Reyes

Western Pacific

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Assessors

Assessors work with WFME mainly in the Recognition of Accreditation Programme

Professor Mitra Amini

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Djona Avocksouma

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Nadia Badrawi

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Dr Mariam Baghdady

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Professor Elena I. Barragán

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Dr Barbara Barzansky

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Dr John (Jack) R. Boulet

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Professor Ian Bowmer

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Dr Aikaterini Dima

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Julie Drendall

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Dr Uwom O. Eze

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Professor Michael Field

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Dr María del Carmen García

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Dr Isadora Gutekunst

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Professor Hossam Hamdy

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Professor Shadi Hamouri

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Dr Carol Hodgson

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Professor P T Jayawickramarajah

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Dr Anne Keane

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Professor Namita Kumar

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Professor Peih-ying Lu

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Professor Ismail I. Matalka

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Alan Merritt

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Professor Jadwiga Mirecka

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Dr Geneviève Moineau

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Professor André-Jacques Neusy

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Professor Lois Nora

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Dr Farida Nurmanbetova

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Professor Ivana Oborná

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Dr Sara Osman

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Tamar Sanikidze

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Dr Mokshada Sharma

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Juliana Simon

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Agostinho Moreira de Sousa

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Dr Salma Soussi

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Professor David Taylor

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Sarah Vaughan

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Professor Nu Viet Vu

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Michèle Wera

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Theanne Walters

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Associates

Associates of WFME are appointed for their expertise in specific tasks

Roderic Dennett

Language adviser

Spanish

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Prof Senthil Kumar Rajasekaran

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Shiyao Yuan

Data Scientist

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