Dr. Mounes Kalaawi

"Excellence and relentless commitment to high quality patient care are deeply instilled in the institutional cultures of both AUB and CMC, and this is personified in the physicians, nurses and staff," said Dr Mounes Kalaawi, CEO of CMC.

Addressing CMC staff and management, Dr Mounes Kalaawi, CEO of CMC said: "You exceeded all expectations. Congratulations on your outstanding and superb performance.

Dr Mounes Kalaawi, Chief Executive Officer and Chief of Surgery at CMC hospital, said the programme is part of a series of such initiatives that started three years ago in order to improve the exchange of expertise and knowledge between healthcare practitioners in Johns Hopkins Medicine International and CMC hospital.

"CMC's new Imaging and Nuclear Medicine Department is a fully equipped facility that employs cutting-edge medical imaging technologies," said Dr Mounes Kalaawi, Chief Executive Officer, Clemenceau Medical Centre.

Mounes Kalaawi, MD, FRCS, FICS Chief Executive Officer Clemenceau Medical Center (affiliated with Johns Hopkins Medicine International) Dr Mounes Kalaawi is a co-founder, partner, member of the Board of Directors and the Chief Executive Officer of Clemenceau Medical Center, a state-of-the-art facility in Beirut. CMC has succeeded in reaching a long-term affiliation with Johns Hopkins Medicine in the United States in the establishment and administrative set-up of the facility, as well collaboration in providing clinical services and continuing medical education. Dr Kalaawi has 22 years of surgical experience, trained and certified by the Royal Colleges of Surgeons in Scotland and England. After gaining experience in the various fields of general surgery and obtaining FRCS in 1989, he attained additional higher surgical training in digestive surgery and endoscopy.

Dr. Mounes Kalaawi, Chief Executive Officer of Clemenceau Medical Center, believes that with its latest technology equipment in Nuclear Medicine Division, the CMC Imaging Center will be one of the leading Radiology departments in the Middle East with its latest digital imaging systems available, especially with the newly acquired 64 Slice CT scan from GE with its diagnostic tools that enables performing in addition to whole body scanning, such as Cardiac CT to visualize Heart vessels without Catheterization and Colonography for colon imaging without performing colonoscopy.Dr. Kalaawi added, "This agreement with GE is in addition to a 7 Million Dollar contract CMC signed earlier with GE to install the world newest technology in MRI, CT, Nuclear Medicine, Mammography, Fluoroscopy, Densitometry, Flat Panel Cardiac Catheterization Lab, and 4D Ultrasound all linked to a Picture Archiving & Communication System (PACS) for a completely Film less Medical Imaging."