Abdul-Razzak Al-Adwani
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Al-Adwani, Abdul Razzak Mishari b.14 Feb 1928 d.5 July 1996 MB BS Lond(1958) MPH MRCP(1964) FRCP(1979)
Abdul-Razzak Al-Adwani served his country, Kuwait, and the Middle East region in a number of high administrative offices. He was Minister of Health from 1971 to 1975, chairman of the Kuwaiti Medical Association from 1975 to 1977 and the first editor in chief of the journal of the Kuwait Medical Association. From 1980 to 1984 he was chancellor of Kuwait University and started the Kuwait Medical School.
Born in Kuwait, he was educated in Cairo and went on to England for his medical education. He graduated from St Bartholomew’s Hospital Medical School, London, and went on to spend the formative years of his neurological career in the best known centres for neurological disorders, including the National Hospital in London and the Massachusetts General Hospital, USA. While in Massachusetts he also graduated from Harvard with an MPH (Masters degree in public health).
Upon his return from the US he started a private practice that was both busy and popular but, without exception, he never charged a patient. He was completely unperturbed by this and was only saved from total financial ruin through being appointed Minister for Health which forced him to give up the practice.
He became a member of the executive council of the World Health Organization and was granted a Fellowship of the Royal College of Physicians in London in 1979. He was a prominent delegate at the first World Environmental Conference in Stockholm.
He was not only a respected physician in his discipline of neurology, but was also a scholar with a special interest in Islam and Arabic grammar and culture. He was proficient in German, his English was flawless and his French reasonable. He reviewed most of the translated works of George Bernard Shaw printed by the Kuwait Ministry of Information.
