# Lebanese Order of Physicians

Founded on December 7, 1946, the Lebanese Order of Physicians in Beirut is a medical organization and physician group in Lebanon. Its membership aims to pursue and promote optimal healthcare system and policies in Lebanon thus the region. Physicians apply scientific knowledge and clinical expertise to the diagnosis, treatment, and compassionate care of adults across the spectrum from health to complex illness.

## Role

The Lebanese Order of Physicians’ mission is a medical, healthy, scientific, administrative, and a guiding mission that aims to:
* Unify the doctors’ word, defend their rights, maintain their legitimate moral and material interests, raise the level of their profession, and ensure the ethics and dignity of the medical care.
* Discipline doctors to its laws and to the medical ethics.
* Express an opinion and make suggestions for laws and regulations related to the profession of medicine and health agreements.
* Express an opinion in sending medical missions and in attending international health conferences.
* Coordinate with government institutions, especially with the Ministries of Public Health and Environment, to take the correct and useful decisions in the issues related to public health, and the formulation of national health policies.
* Provide suggestions on the medical curriculum in colleges and institutes of medicine in Lebanon, and ensure the professional eligibility of physicians.
* Contribute along with local and international institutions to defend human rights in health issues.
* Coordinate with the Ministries of Public Health and Media on all matters related to public medical information and medical programs of any kind.
* Express an opinion in the organization of the professions of assistance in the field of medicine.
* Develop a manual on doctor fees.
* Seek to solve the disputes that might occur among physicians or between them and their patients.
* Help the doctors, or their families’, that are in need or with disabilities, and establish a retirement (pension) fund for aging and disability insurance.
* Put a self-health insurance for the medical entity, and establish a synergistic fund for this purpose.

## Presidents

| Position | Name | Duration |
| 1 | Raif Abi Al-Lamaa | 1947–1948 |
| 2 | Mohamad Haidar | 1949–1950 |
| 3 | Joseph Al-Feghali | 1951–1952 |
| 4 | Najib Saad | 1953–1954 |
| 5 | Philip Chedid | 1955–1956 |
| 6 | Najib Saad | 1957–1958 |
| 7 | Antoine Hasri | 1959–1960 |
| 8 | Afif Mfarrej | 1961–1962 |
| 9 | Philip Chedid | 1963–1964 |
| 10 | Afif Mfarej | 1965–1966 |
| 11 | Antoine Honein | 1967–1968 |
| 12 | Farid Haddad | 1969–1970 |
| 13 | Antoine Honein | 1971–1972 |
| 14 | Joseph Azar | 1973–1974 |
| 15 | Fouad Al-Chemali | 1975–1987 |
| 16 | Michel Salhab | 1988–1989 |
| 17 | Mounir Rahme | 1990–1991 |
| 18 | Fouad Al-Boustani | 1992–1995 |
| 19 | Faek Youness | 1995–1998 |
| 20 | Ghattas Al-Khoury | 1998–2001 |
| 21 | Mahmoud Choucair | 2001–2004 |
| 22 | Mario Aoun | 2004–2007 |
| 23 | Georges Aftimos | 2007–2010 |
| 24 | Charaf Abou Charaf | 2010–2013 |
| 25 | Antoine Boustany | 2013–2016 |
| 26 | Raymond Sayegh | 2016 - 2019 |
| 27 | Charaf Abou Charaf | 2019- |

## Branches

* Baalback
* Bekaa
* Jounieh
* Nabatieh
* Saida

## Committees

Media & Communication Committee
Scientific Committee
Administrative Committee