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Ali Ibrahim Shamseddine

Ali Ibrahim Shamseddine MD, FRCP

Oncology, Internal Medicine and General Medicine
Beirut, Beirut, Lebanon

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Dr. Shamseddine is currently Professor of Clinical Medicine at the American University of Beirut and previously the Head of Hematology /Oncology Division 2000-2017. He got his training at the American University of Beirut and he is also a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians (London). Professor Shamseddine served as a Chair of the hospital committee on cancer 1997-2011 as well as the Director of the Tumour Registry at the Medical Centre and Data Management Unit since 2014. He was appointed for the position of Vice President of the National Cancer Registry (NCR) from 2005-2010.

He served as WHO advisor in epidemiology during 2013-2016. He is the Founder and Chair of the Advisory Board of Arab Collaborative Haematology-Oncology Group (ACOG). He also served as president of the Lebanese Society of Medical Oncology (LSMO 2006-2008) and chair of the European Arab Society of Oncology Prostatic Group in Lebanon (2010-2013). He is currently the chair of the prostatic cancer session at the European School of Oncology (ESO) 2016, 2017, and 2018. He is a member of the scientific committee and active faculty of the World Gastrointestinal Cancer Conference (ESMO) 2017&2018. Recently (April 2018) Dr. Shamseddine was nominated By ASCO to serve as a member of an expert panel charged with the development of clinical guidelines for treating advanced-stage colorectal cancer (3 years). Dr. Shamseddine has published more than 200 papers in peer-review journals. His research interests include the epidemiology of cancer in Lebanon and the region, gastro-intestinal and prostatic cancers. He also published a book reporting the trends in cancer at the American University of Beirut over 20 years (1983–2003).
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