I graduated medical school in 2011 (Sudan). I finished Master of Public health from University of Malaya (Malaysia) in 2016. I am a Lecturer of Community Medicine and Public Health in National University, Sudan.
I Have been working in Ministry of Health Khartoum State since 2019. I was the Focal person for Khartoum State Cancer Registry, then I became the NCDs Control Director.
I attended workshop on Cancer registration, and received advanced training in the CanReg5.

Amid Abu Hmaidan is currently the Manager of the Qatar National Cancer Registry, and the project manager of the strategic project of the creation of Qatar Cancer Information Center QCIC. He holds a degree in clinical informatics from French Universities, and had the chance to work on clinical data management for clinical trials in Paris at the research center of Sanofi. Amid has solid experience in building cancer registries, hospital and national ones, in addition to general and disease-specific ones as well, in Jordan, UAE and Qatar.

Ms. Khadija holds a bachelor degree in nursing from the Al Quds University (1995-1999) and a master of community and public health from the Birzeit University (2006-2008). She was the national coordinator of Inclusive Education for Students with Impaired Vision Program and is currently a public health officer at the Palestinian National Institute of Public Health.

Dr. Al Jerf holds an MPH from the Center for Public Health Studies/Ministry of Health cooperated with World Health organization(WHO) from 1997.

Dr. Al-Lawati holds an MD degree from sultan Qaboos university (2003) and an MPH (Applied epidemiology and statistics) from Curtin University of Technology, Western Australia. She joined the NCD department since 2009 looking after Oman National Cancer registry which is a population-based registry. She is actively collecting and analysing the data on cancer cases nationally and preparing the report on Cancer incidence in Oman on annual basis (cancer incidence in Oman). Additionally, she has attended workshops on cancer registration and has background in CanReg 5 and stata. Recently published two articles on twenty- years trends of cancer incidence in Oman 1996-2015 and epidemiology of lung cancer in Oman.

Dr. Al-Omari holds a PhD in Clinical Pharmaceutical Sciences from the University of Iowa, USA. She has more than 20 years of experience spanning Research & Development, Academia and Oncology research. Her research experience includes clinical trial design & conduct, grant & protocol writing, pharmacokinetic modeling of antineoplastics, genotyping assays and HPLC/ LC-MS method development & validation. In her capacity as the Chief Scientific Officer at King Hussein Cancer Center, she leads the Office of Scientific Affairs & Research which hosts the KHCC’s hospital-based Cancer Registry, Center for Research Shared Resources and the Center for Grants and Contracts Management. She also co-chairs KHCC’s Research Council. Under the leadership of Dr. Al-Omari, KHCC obtained AAHRPP accreditation in June 2019. The Cancer Registry at KHCC is a high-quality database that captures comprehensive information on each cancer case diagnosed and/or treated at KHCC including follow-up data.

Ms. Manal currently conducts cancer research at the Bahrain Cancer Registry.

Dr. Ali Saeed Alzahrani currently serves in three professional roles: Consultant Endocrinologist, Department of Medicine as well as Scientist and Head, Molecular Endocrinology Section, Department of Molecular Oncology, Research Centre, King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Centre, and finally as Professor of Medicine and Endocrinology, AlFaisal University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. He was an editorial board member for the Annals of Saudi Medicine from 2003 to 2007 and went on to be editor-in-chief for the same journal from 2007 to 2010. He is now an international member of the editorial board of the British Journal of Diabetes and Vascular Diseases. Dr. Alzahrani has produced 65 peer-reviewed articles, has delivered over 90 lectures in Saudi Arabia and internationally and has made more than 80 national and international poster and oral presentations at conferences.

Dr. Basaleem is a medical doctor, Vice Dean, Faculty of Postgraduate Studies, consultant in public health and community medicine and Director of Aden Cancer Registry and Research Center, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Aden. She serves as the UNESCO Country Focal Point Bioethics Network on Women’s Issues in Arab Region (BiNWIAR) and WHO expert, Eastern Mediterranean Countries on NCDs Surveillance. She is a member of the Ethics Center of Science & Technology and Women Center for Research and Training University of Aden and important scientific and professional organizations. She is an Executive Board Member of Organization for Women for the Developing Countries and a secretary for the General Yemeni Women Association for Science & Technology for the Development. She is a committee member of the International educational activities, National Academies of Science USA, “Educational Institute on Responsible Science” in a team of members from USA, UK and Egypt. Lastly, she is the Editor-In-Chief Yemeni Journal of Medical and Health and a Principal investigator.

Dr. Bendahou, was born in Morocco in 1977, graduated from Medical university of Rabat (Morocco) in 2005 and obtained her specialty diploma on Clinical Epidemiology in 2011 from Medical university of Fez (Morocco). In 2009 obtained a Master degree in clinical research from the “Institute of Public Health Epidemiology and Development” (ISPED) at the University Victor-Segalen in Bordeaux, France. Dr. Bendahou has been in charge of the Casablanca Cancer Registry since 2013.

Dr. Lamia holds a Bachelors degree in Medicine and Surgery (MBBS) from Faculty of Medicine, University of Khartoum 1994, and a Clinical MD in Community Medicine (2007) from the Post Graduate Board of the same institute. She has worked with the public health sector in her home country, Sudan for more than 15 years in various lead positions. She joined the World Health Organization in 2012 and brings in experience from working across three different countries of the region (Sudan, Pakistan, Oman), each with its unique context and socio-demographic setup. She also contributes more than 20 years of experience in national and international development in public health, across various programmes, and covering both prevention and curative perspectives. Dr Lamia joined the WHO Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean in November 2021 and currently holds the position of Regional Advisor for NCD Prevention.

Dr. Waled Masaud graduated from the university of Tripoli with the medical degree MBBCh in 2006. Dr. Masaud worked in medical oncology until 2016. Dr. Masaud has been involved in cancer registry since 2016. has an extensive experience in cancer data collection and registration, ICD-O Coding, data management and reporting, involved in staff training on basics of cancer registration. Dr. Masaud is currently the director of the national cancer registry, Libya.

Dr. Cherif is the director of Cancer Registry of Setif in collaboration with the International Agency for Research on Cancer (WHO), Lyon, France since 1988. He is also the regional representative of the Executive Board of the International Association of Cancer Registries of Africa and the National
Coordinator of Cancer Registries in Algeria. Lastly, he is the director of Laboratory of Environment and Health in Medicine Faculty, University of Setif.

Dr. Daher holds an MPH and PhD in public health. In WHO, he was the emergency and humanitarian action coordinator and national public health officer before heading the Gaza Strip sub office.

Dr. ElBasmy holds a DrPH in Cancer Epidemiology and Biostatistics from the University of Cairo. She was an associate professor of cancer epidemiology and biostatistics in the National Cancer Institute (NCI), Cairo University. She is now the head of epidemiology and cancer registry unit at the Kuwait Cancer Control Center.

Qualifications of Dr. Suad elnaami include MBBch at the Tripoli University, Faculty of Medicine in Tripoli, Libya and radiation oncology from Libyan board for medical specialty.

Dr. Eser was first involved in cancer registry at Izmir Cancer Registry in 1995, when it was founded as the first population-based cancer registry in Turkey. After 2000, she was the core for cancer registration in Turkey and helped to establish and maintain the cancer registries in other provinces which were selected as representatives of their regions. In this process, despite all difficulties, she managed to release high-quality cancer information and filled a great gap in the region. After the implementation of GICR (Global Initiative for Cancer Registry Development) Project by IARC (International Agency Research on Cancer), in 1993, Izmir Cancer Registry has become the IARC Regional Hub for cancer registration for Northern Africa, West and Central Asia and she was assigned as the PI of the Hub.

Dr. Heba is the regional surveillance officer for the Noncommunicable diseases and Mental Health working at the regional office of the World Health Organization for the Eastern Mediterranean; EMRO, Cairo, Egypt. She acquired her bachelor’s degree of Medicine and Surgery (MBChB) from Alexandria Faculty of Medicine, Egypt, in 1990. In 1993 she joined the Community Medicine Department, Faculty of Medicine, Alexandria University where she acquired the master’s degree in occupational health, Alexandria Faculty of Medicine in 1997and the Doctorate degree in Occupational Health in 2005. Dr. Heba Joined World Health Organization in 2007. On the job, she acquired certificate of tobacco control leadership program, at John Hopkins Bloomberg school of Public Health, Baltimore, USA. She also acquired Postgraduate certificate in International Management from University of Liverpool, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

Nada Ghosn is a Medical Doctor, specialized in public health and social medicine, graduated from Faculty of Medicine, University of Lille, France. She is Head of the Epidemiological Surveillance Program at the Lebanese Ministry of Public Health since 2000 whilst also teaching Epidemiology and Epidemiological Surveillance at the Faculty of Public Health of the Lebanese University, and Faculty of Health Sciences of Balamand University. Dr. Ghosn is the National Focal Person for the EU project ‘Mediterranean Programme for Intervention Epidemiology Training (MediPIET)’.

Dr. Hsairi is a Professor of Public Health at the faculty of Medicine of Tunisia, since 2003. He is the head of Department of Epidemiology in Salah Azaiez Institute of cancer, and head of North Tunisian Cancer registry, since 2015. He is a regional Representative of IACR in Africa. Dr. Hsairi is an ex Director of National Institute of Public Health (2012-2014) and ex national coordinator of cancer registries (North Tunisian Cancer registry, Cancer registry of Sousse and cancer registry of Sfax) in Tunisia (1998-2014). He was also a member of ADELF board council and of “Revue santé Publique – France”. He is the main Coordinator of the three cancer plans in Tunisia: 2006-2009 cancer plan, 2011-2014 cancer plan, and 2015-2019 cancer plan.

Dr. Ibrahim is the Director of the National Cancer Registry of Egypt and a Professor of Epidemiology at the National Cancer Institute.

Dr. Eman began working as physician since 2002. She joined the medical review office in 2011, at the Ministry of Health, which is responsible for cancer registry in the Kingdom of Bahrain. She attended the following courses: “Principles of oncology for Saudi Arabian cancer registry professionals, at King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre (Riyadh, Nov. 2011)”, “The first MENA region cancer registry workshop at King Hussain Cancer Centre (Jordan, April,2012)”, “Cancer registry workshop, Kuwait (Nov,2015)”. As part of the registry team, she mainly generates data using the canreg4 program to produce an annual report of cancer incidence and mortality in Kingdom of Bahrain.

Dr. Khoshnood is an infectious disease epidemiologist, and his experience is mostly with HIV prevention research among people who use drugs and other at-risk populations, including its ethical aspects. For the past 5 years,
his work focused on health of refugees and other displaced populations, including cancer awareness and prevention, mostly in Lebanon. He does not have experience with tumor registries but have reached out to colleagues at Yale School of Public Health and Connecticut Dept. of Public Health tumor registry program (oldest in U.S) with this expertise and they are interested to help ICRIM.

Certified Tumor Registrar since 2009, Khaled Jamal is currently the Manager of the hospital based cancer registry of King Hussein Cancer Center in Jordan, and was member the team who built the registry. Khaled has extensive experience in tumor data and registries. Initially trained as medical records specialist with a degree in business management. Khaled delivered several training workshops on cancer registry operations and data coding. He is also developing his knowledge in cancer data statistics.

Dr. Kutluk graduated from Hacettepe University Medical School Turkey in third rank in 1981 and attained a postdoctoral fellow and Fulbright scholar at MDACC, USA (1992-94). He is a leading healthcare executive at Hacettepe University; Vice-Director of Children’s Hospital (1997-1998), Director of Oncology Hospital (1999-2007), Director of Children’s Hospital (2000-2007) and President of Institute of Child Health (2000-2004), President of Institute of Oncology (2004-2008) & CEO of Hacettepe Hospitals (2008-2011). He was the president of UICC; European Cancer Leagues, Turkish Association for Cancer Research and Control, Turkish Pediatric Oncology Group, Turkish National Pediatric Society. He is an honorary fellow of AAP. Dr. Kutluk gave a speech at the opening session on UNGA for NCDs. He is also an associate Editor of ASCO JGO and the country leader of R4HC Project. He is currently leading the Turkish Pediatric Cancer Registry and is the chair of the data management and Registry Committee at POEM.

Huda Lahham was born in Nablus/ Palestine. She has a bachelor’s degree in pharmacy and has a master degree in Public Health. She was appointed as the director of the Pharmaceutical Information Department from 2008 to 2012. She studied master’s in clinical epidemiology in Australia and became the director of Epidemiological Analysis Department/ Palestinian Ministry of Health. She conducted many research and worked with different groups of patients (e.g., Haemophilia patients). Since 2017, she has overseen the National Cancer Registry/ a population- based cancer registry. She is working to achieve the goal of cancer registries (prevention and control of cancer).

Dr. Mohseen holds an MD from the University of Baghdad, a Higher Diploma in Community Medicine/Field Epidemiology from the College of Medicine at the University of Baghdad, and an M.B.CH.B from the College of Medicine in Iraq. She is a member of: Iraqi Cancer Board at the Ministry of Health, Iraqi Cancer Registry Team: Annual Report of the Iraqi Cancer Registry 2015, 2016, 2017, and 2018; Checking and Review Team: Annual Report of the Iraqi Cancer Registry 2015 & 2016;Annual Statistical Report \ Planning and Resources
Enhancement Office\Health Statistical Section\ Ministry of Health 2017 and 2018; Checking and Review Team: Biennial Report of the Iraqi Injury Surveillance System\Ministry of Health 2016 & 2017; committee of environmental statistics: Central Statistical Organization at the Ministry of Planning, Iraq, 2019; and Tephinet Reviewer Committee TEPHINET/GHD/BRM Project 2019.

Dr. Al Tajjar completed her MD degree in Damascus University of Medicine in 1996, then obtained a diploma in clinical laboratory from the Syrian Ministry of Health from 2003 to 2007. She also completed a Master of Public
Health from Liverpool School for Tropical Medicine Center for Strategic Health studies in Damascus in 2010. She took part in the “Regional meeting on Strengthening the Integration and Management of Non-communicable Diseases
in Primary Health Care Facilities”, WHO Cairo- Egypt, 8-10 September 2014, as an NCD’s focal point. She also took part in the regional workshop on PHC
Measurement & improvement initiative in Cairo on October 2 and 3, 2019. Dr. Al Tajjar currently works as the director of the NCD department in the WHO where she is responsible for collection and analyzing NCDs statistical reports; conducting and participating in training courses on NCDs integration into PHC level, risk approach and prevention policies; preparing and updating new NCD guidelines; coordinating with WHO and stakeholders to implement health strategies and lastly oversees cancer registry, data entry and capacity building activities.

I joined the National Cancer Registry Program in Egypt starting from November 2009. My work includes:
1- Assisting in the development of the web based database of the program. This includes ensuring that all database documentation is complete and accurate and obtained in a timely manner.
2- Completing cancer registry abstracts in accordance with ICO-0, SEER Summary Staging and MP/H manuals.
3- Training as regards cancer abstraction (including ICD-O and SEER Summary Staging).
4- Compiling various statistical reports and performing other registrar duties to facilitate the smooth functioning of the program. This includes assembling data collected by the cancer registry by preparing reports, which summarize the cancer experience of the program and maintaining necessary logs as support documentation.
5- Assisting and collaborating with clinicians and colleagues, and other departments on cancer-related studies.
6- Participating in and attending relevant meetings seminars, conferences, lectures and programs.
7- Maintaining program quality control procedures.
At March 2013, I got my CTR credentials.

Dr. Nimri holds a bachelor of medicine and surgery (from Pakistan in 1990), higher diploma in community medicine (from Jordan in 2002), a master level two-year comprehensive postgraduate training program in applied epidemiology (FETP) in collaboration with CDC-USA (from Jordan in 2003-2005), diploma in cancer prevention and control- National Cancer Institute, NIH (from USA in 2006), diplomas in cancer registration and CanReg software, IARC (from France in 2005/2007), diploma in cancer prevention and cancer etiology from the UM School of Public Health in the University of Michigan (2008, USA), and an MPH from the University of Jordan (2017-2019). He was part of the Board in community medicine (The Arab Board of medical Specialization; Arab league) in 2004. Dr. Nimri is the currently the head of the Cancer Prevention and Control Department in the Ministry of Health in Jordan. He is always a director-PI in the Jordan Cancer Registry. Dr. Nimri is also a member of Izmir Hub Advisory Committee cancer registration (IARC) international, and EUROMED cancer project (CPO.IT) international. Lastly, Dr. Nimri is currently the executive board member in the Jordan Cancer Society.

Mona Numairy has an MSc. in biology from the faculty of Science at University of Khartoum. She joined Sudan national cancer registry since 2009.

Mr. Shelpai is a Certified Tumor Registrar (CTR) from NCRA, USA. He is GICR – IARC/WHO Regional Trainer/Expert in Cancer Registration and Data Quality for MENA Region. He received training in Disease-Cancer Registration, Epidemiology and Survival Analysis from WIA Cancer institute, Chennai, India, and he received training in Disease-Cancer Registration and Cancer Epidemiology from IARC / WHO – Cancer Epidemiology Lyon, France. He has received grant support from IARC & UICC to help in Disease-Cancer registry & Epidemiology field development. He is an active member in the NCRA (National Cancer Registry Association) USA since 2006 – present. With 15 years’ of experience, Wael’s CTR certification from NCRA in the US has facilitated his professional growth. In Jordan, he successfully built the Cancer Registry- F/U and disease specific registry, as Cancer Registry Data Analyst,CTR with Cancer registry system experience managing a database with over 20,000 cases. In Qatar, he successfully built the Qatar National Cancer Registry at Ministry of Health-Qatar and he was the Clinical Data Specialist, Clinical Coder for the governmental Ministry of Health. His efforts yielded success in building cancer registry systems, abstracting, coding, quality control, reporting, building and designing IT systems such as: In-House Cancer Registry Software, Follow up System, Disease Specific Registry and Cancer Screening Registry. He has successfully completed the requirements of NCRA’s Continuing Education (CE) Program for the 1/1/2014 – 31/12/2015 CE cycle. For CTR valid through : 31 December 2017.