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INTERNATIONAL HONOUR FOR HAMDAN AT IMD-IHF CONference
The fifth annual IMD-IHF International Medical Care
and Diagnostic Conference and Exhibition, was held
10-12 September 2005 in Dubai, United Arab
Emirates.
The three-day conference and exhibition, held under the
patronage of Shaikh Hamdan Bin Rashid Al Maktoum,
Deputy Ruler of Dubai, Minister of Finance and Industry and
Head of the Dubai Department of Health and Medical
Services (Dohms), was inaugurated by Hamad Abdul Rahman
Al Midfa, Minister for Health. Gadi Marshoud, Director
General of Dubai Health and Medical Services Department,
together with some 40,000 healthcare professionals and
experts and 100 international specialist companies, also
attended the conference.
Shaikh Hamdan Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, himself, at the
opening ceremony of the conference, was presented with an
award by Professor Per-Gunnar Svensson, Director General of
the International Hospital Federation, in recognition as the
best international personality and for his contributions in the
fields of health, education and sports from 2001 to 2005. The
award was received by Shaikh Rashid Bin Hamdan Bin Rashid
Al Maktoum on behalf of his father.
Professor Svensson upon presentation of the award
commented that, “Shaikh Hamdan’s winning of the title is
because he is a prominent personality in the Arab world, who
The award is presented
has a great record of accomplishments in the areas of health,
education and sports.”
The Conference hosted 9 other conferences simultaneously,
including the International Emergency and Catastrophe
Management Conference and Exhibition, the Dubai
International Pathology and Genetics Conference and
Exhibition and the International Obstetrics and Gynaecology
and Fertility Conference and Exhibition.
Governing Council member profile: Dr Owen Gregan Curteis
Dr Owen Gregan Curteis became in 2001 the
Australian Representative on the IHF Governing
Council as well as IHF Representative on the
Australian Healthcare Association National Council.
Dr Curteis graduated in Medicine from the University of
Sydney in 1960 and received his Graduate Diploma in
Health Administration from the University of New South
Wales in 1973. In 1975 he became a Fellow of the Royal
Australian College of Medical Administrators and in 1989
Fellow of the Australian College of Health Service Executives.
He undertook his residency training at the Mater
Misericordiae Hospital in north Sydney from 1961 to 1965
and registrar training at the Repatriation General Hospital at
Concord from 1966 to 1971. Of the 25 years he spent at
Concord (1966–1990), 15 of those were as Chief Executive
Officer (1975–1990), after which he was appointed Chief
Executive Officer of the Western Sydney Area Health
Service. In 1996, he took the unusal step of re-entering
clinical medicine in his appointment as Career/Senior
Medical Officer for the Brisbane Waters Private Hospital.
Dr Curteis is an active member of both the Royal
Australian College of Medical Administrators and the
Australian College of Health Service Executives. He was
Chairman of the News South Wales Branch of the Royal
Australasian College of Medical Administrators (RACMA) in
1982-83 and has been a member of the Federal Council of
that College since 1998. Since 2001 he has been the
Australian representative on the Board of Governors of the
Asian Hospitals Federation.
He also has been a surveyor for the Australian Council on
Healthcare Standards (ACHS) since 1976 and is a member
of the Council’s Board, representing the Royal Australian
College of Medical Administrators.
Dr Curteis has encompassed a wide range of
extracurricular activities as well, including time as an
executive member and Treasurer of the Postgraduate
Medical Council and member of the Minister’s Health
Advisory Council.
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