Murshed Khater

Murshed Khater ( Arabic مرشد خاطر, DMG Muršid Ḫāṭir ; * 1888 ; † 1962 ) was a Syrian doctor , university professor and politician. He was the first dean of the Medical Faculty of Damascus University and the country's health minister from 1951 to 1953.

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Murshed Khater was born in the Chouf District in the Ottoman Empire . He completed his school education in Beirut , where he graduated in medicine in 1911 . During the First World War he was drafted into the Ottoman Army in 1915 and was captured by the British in 1916. After his release he joined the Arab revolt under Faisal I against the Ottomans. He was involved in the invasion of Faisal's troops in Damascus on October 1, 1918. In 1919 he left the army and devoted himself to the development of Arabic-speaking medical university structures in Syria. He founded an institute of medicine and served as chief physician of the surgical department of the Damascus Military Hospital. In 1923 he became the first dean of the Medical Faculty of Damascus University . He continued his work as a university lecturer until 1946 and was one of the editors of the medical magazine ( al-Madschalla at-Tibbiyya ) of the university. Khater received high civil awards from the Syrian state and was appointed Minister of Health by Adib al-Shishakli in 1951 . After the decline of Shishakli's rule, Khater withdrew back to his medical work. He wrote medical frameworks, including an Arabic-language, six-volume encyclopedia of surgical diseases.

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1. ↑ ^{a b} Sami Moubayed: Steel and Silk - Men and Women who Shaped Syria 1900–2000. Seattle, 2006, pp. 444f