King Fahad Hospital
PO Box 22490
Riyadh
Saudi Arabia
11426
Biographical Sketch:
Ziad Memish is currently the Assistant Deputy Minister of Health for Preventive Medicine in Saudi Arabia. He is a Consultant Adult Infectious Diseases at King Fahad Medical City, Clinical Professor Department of Community & Public Health at King Saud University in Riyadh, President of the Saudi Association of Public Health and Adjunct Professor in the Department of Medicine, University of Ottawa, in Ottawa, Canada & Adjunct Professor in the Hubert Department of Public Health Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University. Founded GCC and WHO collaborating Centre for Infection Control.
Ziad Memish obtained his medical degree from the University of Ottawa in 1987. Additional qualifications include those from the American Board of Internal Medicine in 1990 and the American Board of Infectious Diseases in 1992, and the American Certification of Infection Control. He has received Fellowships of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada in Internal Medicine (1991) and Infectious Diseases (1992). He is a fellow of the American College of Physicians (1993), of the Infectious Diseases Society of America (1997) and of the Society of Healthcare Epidemiology of America (2000).
In November 2007, he was awarded by the Custodian of the Two Holly Mosques King Abdullah Bin Abdulaziz Al Saud “The King Abdulaziz Medal from the First Degree” - the highest award on a National level in Saudi Arabia for achievements in the field of infectious diseases and infection control.
Professor Memish has presented more than 180 abstracts internationally and published more than 200 papers and chapters in books. A reviewer for 17 peer reviewed journals, he is currently the Editor-in-Chief of Journal of Infection and Public Health and a Section Co-Editor & Associate Editor of the American journal of Infection Control and Corresponding Editor of the International Journal of Infectious Diseases.