Ramzi Musharrafieh

Ramzi Musharrafieh ( Arabic رمزي مشرفية, DMG Ramzī Mušarrafiyya , also Moucharrafiyé ; * around 1960) is a Lebanese orthopedist and joint surgeon. From January to August 2020 he was Minister of Social Affairs and Tourism in the Diab cabinet .

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Ramzi Musharrafieh received his medical degree from the American University of Beirut (AUB) and worked at the Robert Jones Hospital in Great Britain before joining the Department of Surgery at the AUB as Assistant Professor of Orthopedics, Hand Surgery and Microscopic Surgery from 1991 changed. He was then appointed associate professor in 1997. In 2005 he was appointed Full Professor in the Department of Orthopedics at Balamand University and Clemenceau Medical Center.

Moucharrafiyé was President of the Lebanese Society for Reconstructive Microsurgery and President of the Lebanese Society for Orthopedics and Joints. He has published several research papers at the Lebanese American University.

On January 21, 2020, Musharrafieh, representing the Druze community, was appointed Minister of Social Affairs and Tourism in Hassan Diab's cabinet.

After Hassan Diab resigned as Prime Minister on August 10, 2020, the minister remained in office until a new cabinet was formed.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Who's who in Lebanon's new government. Al Arabiya, January 22, 2020, accessed January 23, 2020 . 
2. ↑ Biographies-express des nouveaux membres de l'équipe ministérielle. L'Orient Le Jour, January 23, 2020, accessed on January 23, 2020 (French). 
3. ↑ Naharnet Newsdesk: New Lebanese Government Formed after 3 Months of Political Vacuum. Naharnet, January 22, 2020, accessed on January 22, 2020 . 
4. ↑ Lebanon president accepts gov't resignation after Beirut blast. Al Jazeera, August 11, 2020, accessed on August 11, 2020 . 

predecessor	Office	successor
Avedis Guidanian	Lebanon Minister of Tourism from January 21, 2020
Richard Kouyoumdjian	Minister of Social Affairs of Lebanon from January 21, 2020