First Day : Wednesday 8^th November 2006

The workshop starts at 10 am in the Kuwait hall of the EMRO office ,Cairo ,Egypt.

• The workshop started by a recognition to those working with ESPRI either in the medical field or mass media and it is a time of recognition to their effects along the past 4 years;
• followed by a scientific session:
- Dr. Mohamed Awad Tag Eldin, spoke about smoking as a public health problem
- Dr.Chris Lofferedo spoke about Epidemiology of Shisha in Egypt
- Dr. Osama El-Khateeb spoke about the burden of non-communicable diseases as an outcome of smoking.
- Dr. Fatma Elawa spoke about media and its role in smoking prevention motivation.

   Main Speakers:
* Dr. Mohamed Awad Tag Eldin : Professor of chest diseases in Ain Shams Faculty of Medicine and the former minister of health an population.
* Dr. Mohamed Mustafa Kamal : Co-Principle Investigator of ESPRI and Professor of Public Health in Ain Shams Faculty of Medicine.
* Dr.Chris Lofferedo : Priciple Investigator of ESPRI and Professor in public health ,Community Medicine Department, faculty of Medicine , University of Meryland
* Dr. Mohamed Fawzi Montaser : The dean of faculty of medicine Ain Shams University.
* Dr. Osama El-Khateeb : Consultant to the Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean of the World Health Organization, for non communicable diseases.
* Dr. Abdelaziz Saleh : Consultant to the Regional Director for the Eastern Mediterranean-WHO
* Dr. Mohamed Haythem El-Khyat : Chief consultant to the Director of the Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean of the World Health Organization
* Dr. Fatma Elawa : Consultant to the Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean of the World Health Organization, the anti-tobacco
* Dr. Ibraheem El-Kerdany : Media adviser and spokesman for the Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean-WHO
 

  Attendants :
* Egyptian Radio and Television represented by:
1. Mrs. Ftama Wahba, Announcer in the network of Youth and Sports Radio Egypt
2. Mrs. Hayat Attyea, Announcer in the network of Youth and Sports Radio Egypt

* Ministry of Health and population represented by:
3. Dr. Faten Ghazy, Director of the Technical Office of the Minister of Health and Population
4. Dr. Mohamed Mehrez.

* Scout and national societies:
1. General/ Ahmed Abdellatif, Chairman of the General Federation of scouts and girl scouts
2. Mr. Fathy Farghaly, Assistant Secretary General of the Arab Organization of the Scout
 

* Ain Shams University represented by:
Dr. Nahla El-Sayed, Assistant professor of psychiatry medicine.
Dr. Hesham Ramy, Assistant professor of psychiatry medicine
Dr. Amany Haroon, Assistant professor of psychiatry medicine
Dr. Jihan Elnahas, Assistant professor of psychiatry medicine
 

* All ESPRI staff.         * Doctors who are intrested in the workshop issue.

Dr. Ibrahim El- Kerdany

Mrs. Haiat Attia
 

General.Ahmed Abdellatif

The appreciation of leaders  who shared in smoking prevention activities:

:Dr. Mohamed Awad Tag Eldin, Professor of chest diseases in Ain Shams Faculty of Medicine and the former minister of health an population
Dr. Hussin Elgazaaery, Director of the Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean of the World Health Organization
Dr. Abdelaziz Saleh, Consultant to the Regional Director for the Eastern Mediterranean-WHO
Dr. Mohamed Haytham Elkhayat, Chief consultant to the Director of the Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean of the World Health Organization
Dr. Fatma Elawaa, Consultant to the Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean of the World Health Organization, the anti-tobacco
Dr. Ibraheem Elkerdany, Media adviser and spokesman for the Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean-WHO
Mrs. Fatma Fowad, Head of channel 2 in the Egyptian TV
Mrs. Hayat Atiea, Announcer in the network of Youth and Sports Radio Egypt
Mrs. Fatma Wahba, Safsafh-Channel 2
Mrs. Mona Abdelhady, Announcer in network of Holy Koran Radio Egypt
Dr. Faten Ghazy, Director of the Technical Office of the Minister of Health and Population
General/ Ahmed Abdellatif, Chairman of the General Federation of scouts and girl scouts
Mr. Fathy Farghaly, Assistant Secretary General of the Arab Organization of the Scout
Mr. Hassan Donia, The composer's music
Mr. Sabry Riad, Poeter
Dr. Mona Elhadidy, Dean of the International Academy of Sciences-Information 6th of October City

Dr. Fatima El- Awa

Dr. Mohamed Haytham

 Elkhayat

Mrs. Fatma Wahba

Second Day : Thursday 9^th November 2006

Training Workshop

The second day included the training of smoking cessation program (Quit4Life) for the physician of ministry of health and population those will be inserted in smoking cessation clinics. The training is given in 4 session, each one represented a step in the program:
 Step 1: Get Motivated.
 Step 2: Get Smart.
 Step 3: Get Support.
 Step 4: Get On With It
 

Smoking Cessation

(Quit 4 Life Program)

Attended by 61 persons who are working on smoking cessation clinics on MOHP hospitals. The objective is to enforce the role of the clinics in smoking cessation.

The training is done by Dr. Nahla El-Sayed, Dr. Hesham Ramy, Dr. Amany Haroon and Dr. Jihan Elnahas.

 with our best wishes
 
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