Mohamad Jawad Khalifeh

Mohamed Jawad Khalife was born on November 7, 1961, in Sarafand, Lebanon.{{fact|date=October 2024}}

He was the son of Jawad Khalife, former mayor of Sarafand.{{Cite web |title=الوزير السابق محمد جواد خليفة يفجع بأعز الناس |url=https://yasour.org/2018/en/news/details/news-69459 |access-date=2023-07-11 |website=يا صور |language=ar}}

After obtaining his medical qualifications (MD) from the University of Bucharest-Romania in 1985, He trained in surgery and obtained his specialty degree in general surgery from the American University of Beirut-Lebanon in 1991. He completed his fellowships in surgery between 1990-1998 in London hospitals (Watford, St. Thomas, King’s College, Royal Free Hospital) with special interest in vascular, cancer and liver transplantation surgery.{{fact|date=October 2024}}

Back to Lebanon in 1991, he chaired the division of General Surgery and was appointed as the Director of the Liver Transplant and Hepato-Pancreatico-Biliary Unit at the American University of Beirut Medical Center where he performed the first liver transplantation surgery in the region and pioneered many other major surgical techniques.{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=|title=Mohamad Jawad Khalife CV|url=https://staff.aub.edu.lb/~webgsurg/downloads/cvs/mohammad_khalife-.pdf|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160309141329/http://staff.aub.edu.lb/~webgsurg/downloads/cvs/mohammad_khalife-.pdf|archive-date=2016-03-09|access-date=|website=}}

In the period between 2004-2010, Professor Khalifeh was named in five successive governments as the minister of Public Health of Lebanon. In addition to his public duties, Professor Khalifeh kept practicing surgeries at AUB-Medical Center, teaching students, training residents and producing research. Under his terms as Minister of Health, Lebanon launched a network of accredited primary health care centers in addition to opening over 20 public hospitals in the country, a new registry for quality and pricing of pharmaceuticals in Lebanon was created, a health reform plan that guarantees a mandatory public national health insurance system to every citizen was instituted, and the official National Cancer Registry (NCR) in Lebanon was launched.{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=|url=http://www.nna-leb.gov.lb/en/show-news/23558/nna-leb.gov.lb/en|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200408020205/http://www.nna-leb.gov.lb/en/show-news/23558/nna-leb.gov.lb/en|archive-date=2020-04-08|access-date=|website=|title=National News Agency - Khalifeh fellow at Royal College of Surgeons}}

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• 2004: Officer of the National Order of the Cedar
• 2009: Commander of the National Order of the Cedar
• Honorary fellowships of the Royal College of Physicians and the Royal College of Surgeons in England{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=25 June 2010|title=Royal college of physicians|url=https://www.rcplondon.ac.uk/news/lebanese-health-minister-becomes-rcp-fellow|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=|website=}}
• 2021: Order of the Rockel (effectively making him Grand Commander of the order of the Republic of Sierra Leone){{Cite web|title=Dr. Khalife bestowed Grand Commander honor by president of Sierra Leone|url=http://www.aub.edu.lb:80/articles/Pages/Mohamad_Jawad_Khalifeh_Decoration.aspx|access-date=2021-06-29|website=American University of Beirut|language=en-US}}{{Cite web|last=Agency|first=National News|title=Abdallah congratulates Mohammad Khalifeh on receiving highest 'medal of honor' from Sierra Leone|url=http://nna-leb.gov.lb/en/show-news/128650/|access-date=2021-06-29|website=National News Agency|language=en|archive-date=2021-06-29|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210629073008/http://nna-leb.gov.lb/en/show-news/128650/|url-status=dead}}

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