Islamset - Symposium on "Medical Definition of Death" - Introduction and Names of Participants

The Medical Definition of Death

Introduction

Dr. Ahmed Regai El-Gendy, Ph.D.
Secretary General Assistant,
Islamic Organization for Medical Sciences (IOMS), Kuwait.

Ruptured brain stem after judicial hanging

This is the first (purely) medical symposium held by The Islamic Organization for Medical Sciences in Kuwait between 17 and 19 December, 1996. It had two goals: First: To be updated on the international developments in the field of the medical definition of the time of death. Second: To review and respond to a recent campaign in the lay press and media, challenging the established opinion that the death of the brain together with death of the brain stem as a second basis to diagnose death. Such a basis was endorsed by the symposium on medical jurisprudence held in Kuwait in 1985, and the ruling of the Council of Islamic Fiqh (Jurisprudence) a division of the Muslim League Organization, in Makkah, Saudi Arabia, in 1986. This organization thought it was opportune to redress the issue, and called for this symposium attended by the following medical scholars:

Names of Participants
(In Alphabetical Order)

1. Dr. Abbas Ramadan Chairman of Neurosurgery and Vice-Director, Ibn-Sina Hospital, Kuwait.	2. Counsellor Abdallah Al-Issa Member of Board of Trustees, IOMS, Vice President, Court of Cassation (Tamyiz), Kuwait.
3. Dr. Abdel-Lateef Othman Professor of Neurology, Al-Azhar University, Cairo, Egypt.	4. Dr. Abdel-Monem Ebeid Chairman of Anaesthesia, Moassat Hospital, Kuwait.
5. Dr. Abdel-Rahman Al-Awadi President, IOMS, Kuwait.	6. Dr. Abu-Shadi El-Rooby, Professor of Medicine, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt.
7. Dr. Adnan Khreibet, Department of Neuro-Physiology, Ibn-Sina Hospital, Kuwait.	8. Dr. Ahmad Badran Professor of Surgery, Ciro University, Cairo, Egypt.
9. Dr. Ahmad El-Kadi, Member of Board of Trustees, IOMS, Akbar Clinic, Panama City, Florida, USA.	10. Dr. Ahmad Raga'i El-Gindy, Director of Islamic Medicine Center, and Secretary General Assistant, IOMS, Kuwait.
11. Dr. Ali Al-Saif, Secretary General, IOMS, Assistant Under Secretary, Ministry of Health , Kuwait.	12. Dr. Asmahan El-Shebeily, Department of Neurology, Ibn-Sina Hospital, Kuwait.
13. Dr. Essam al-Sherbini, Consultant, Department of Medicine, Al-Sabah Hospital, Kuwait.	14. Dr. Faisal Abdel-Raheem Shaheen, Director, Organ Transplantation Center, Saudi Arabia.
15. Dr. Hamdi el-Sayyid, President, Doctor's Syndicate, Egypt; Member, People's Council: Professor of Cardiac Surgery, Ein Shams University, Cairo, Egypt.	16. Dr. Hassan Hathout Member of Board of Trustees, IOMS Former Professor of Obstetrics & Gynecology, Kuwait University, Islamic Center of Southern California, L.A., USA.
17. Dr. Hassan Hassan Ali, Professor of Anesthesiology, Harvard University, Massachussets, USA.	18. Dr. Hessein Al-Gazairy, Director, EMRO, World Health Organization, Alexandria, Egypt.
19. Dr. Hussein Malibari, Department of Neurology, King Abdul-Aziz University Hospital, Saudi Arabia.	20. Dr. Ibrahim Ali Hassan, Counsel and Vice-Chairman, Council of the State, Egypt.
21. Dr. Ibrahim Badran, Member of Board of Trustees, IOMS; Former Minister of Health, Egypt; Professor of Surgery, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt.	22. Dr. Khalid Al-Madhkour, Member of Board of Trustees, IOMS, Professor of Sharia, University of Kuwait, Kuwait.
23. Dr. Khairy el-Samra, Professor of Nuerosurgery, Cairo University; Member of Consultative Council, Egypt.	24. Dr. Mahmoud Samhan, Consultant, Organ Transplantation, Kuwait.
25. Dr. Mahmoud Creidiyeh, Neurologist, Director of Barbir Hospital, Beirut, Lebanon.	26. Dr. Mamdouh Gabr, Professor of Paediatrics, Cairo University; Former Minister of Health, Egypt; Secretary General, Egyptian Red Crescent.
27. Dr. Mohammad Ali Al Barr, Consultant of Medicine and Islamic Medicine, Saudi Arabia.	28. Dr. Mohammad al-Sabeel, Consultant, LiverTransplant Program, King Fahd Hospital for National Guard, Saudi Arabia.
29. Dr. Mohammad Emadel Deen Fahli, Professor of Neurology, Ein Shams University, Cairo, Egypt.	30. Dr. Mohammad Haitham Al-Khayat, Member of Board of Trustees, IOMS; Vice-Director, EMRO, WHO, Alexandria, Egypt.
31. Dr. Mohammad Reda Al-Gindi, Director of Hospitals, Monoufiyyah, Egypt	32. Dr. Mohammad Sharif Mokhtar, Professor of Cardiology and Director of Critical Care, Faculty of Medicien, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt.
33. Dr. Mohammad Zuhair al-Qawi, Consultant Neurologist, King Fahd Hospital and Research Center, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.	34. Dr. Mokhtar al-Mahdi, Neuro-Surgeon, Egypt.
35. Dr. Mustafa Moussawi, Director, Hamad Al Issa Transplantation Centre, Kuwait.	36. Dr. Rauf Mahmood Sallam, Professor of Surgery, Al-Azhar University, Cairo, Egypt.
37. Dr. Safwat Hassan Lutfi, Professor of Anaesthesiology, Faculty of Medicine, Cairo, Egypt.	38. Dr. Salah el-Ateeqi, Member of Board of Trustees, IOMS; Driector, Al Sabah Health Region, Kuwait.
39. Dr. Soheil Shammary, Department of Neurology, Faculty of Medicine, Kuwait.	40. Dr. Youssef Rize Lee, Neuro-Surgeon, Turkey.