TAWFIQ A M KHOJA
Director General, Executive Board of Health Council for GCC

Dr Tawfiq Khoja is currently the Director General of Executive Board of Health Ministers' Council for GCC. He is also serving as an adjunct Professor at university of Oklahoma.

Born in Tabuk � Saudi Arabia on May 8, 1959
Father Name: Ahmed Motheffer Khoja

Qualification:

  • MBBS, 1982, King Saud University, Riyadh
  • DPHC, 1986 with intensive care, King Saud University, Riyadh
  • MRCGP (UK) 1989, Royal College Of G.P. UK
  • FRCGP (UK) 1996, Royal College of G.P. UK
  • FFPH (UK) 2003, Faculty of Public Health Medicine of the Royal College of Physicians of the UNITED KINGDOM.
Present and previous employment:
  • Primary Health care Specialist, 1986-87
  • Director Primary Health Care Dept.1986-87, General Directorate of Health Affairs, Riyadh Region, Riyadh.
  • Assistant Director General, 1989-93., General Directorate of Health Affairs, Riyadh Region, Riyadh.
  • Primary health care Consultant, 1989
  • Director General of Health Centers, MOH, 1994.
  • Lecturer, College of Medicine King Saud University, ( Part time)
  • Executive Director, Executive Board, Health Ministers' Council for GCC 2000-2003.
  • Director General, Executive Board, Health Ministers' Council for GCC 01-2000 — present.
  • Adjunct Professor, 16/6/2003 —../ University of Oklahoma, USA
Chairman / Member of Board:
  • Chairman, Quality Assurance Committee, General Directorate of Health Affairs, Riyadh Region, Riyadh.
  • Supervisor, Saudi society of Family and Community Medicine, Riyadh Office, Riyadh 1993
  • Chairman, Saudi National Committee Psychiatry. Illness, 1994.Chairman, The Saudi National Scientific Committee for Optimal Standards of PHC Training Centers in the Kingdom. (1994).
  • National Coordinator, Saudi National Scientific Committee – Diagnosis and Management of Bronchial Asthma. 1994.......
  • Chairman, Program of Supportive Supervision of Q A, Monitoring Evaluation and Supervision (MOH) 1994.
  • Chairman, Saudi Nat. Com Acute Respiratory Infection, 1995
  • Chairman of National scientific Committee for the Mini Clinics for chronic patients care. Initiative in Health Centers in Saudi Arabia, 2003.
  • Member of Board of Trustee International Center for Diarrheal Disease 1995-2001.
  • National Coordinator for National Scientific Committee for Evidence Based Medicine, 2001 till now.
  • Member of Abyad Medical Center, Middle East Longevity Institute, Middle East academy for Medicine of Ageing, Lebanon.
  • Member of the Editorial Board, Middle East pediatrics, June 21 1997 — till now.
  • Member of Editorial Board, for General Policy of the Middle East Primary Care Research Network
  • Eastern Mediterranean Health Journal
  • Saudi Journal of Kidney Diseases and Transplantation
  • Journal of Family and Community Medicine, Saudi Arabia
  • Saudi Medical Journal, KSA
  • Annals of Saudi Medicine
  • Board Member of IUHPE 2004 - 2009
  • Board Member CHRNI, 2005.

Updated: 12 Mar 2007