EMAME Meetings and Conferences

Third Regional Conference on Medical Journals in the Eastern Mediterranean Region
27-29 January 2006
Shiraz, Islamic Republic of Iran

Provisional programme


 

Thursday  26/01/2006

8:00-12:30

Achievements and Challenges of Medical Journalism in Iran (in Farsi): Lectures

 

 

12:30

Prayers and Lunch

 

 

14:00-18:00

Achievements and Challenges of Medical Journalism in Iran (in Farsi): Practical Session

 

 

15:00-19:00

Shiraz City Tour for non-Iranian participants and all accompanying persons (Buses will leave from Pars International Hotel)

 

 

Friday 27/01/2006

 

 

7:30-12:30

Tour of Persepolis and Nagsh-e-Rostam for all participants (Buses will leave from Pars International Hotel)

 

 

13:00

Prayers and Lunch

 

 

14:00-18:30

Workshop Sessions at Conference Venue (Registered Participants)

 

 

19:00-20:30

Opening Ceremony in Hall No.1 at Conference Venue

 

 

20:30

Opening Ceremony Dinner at Pars International Hotel

 

 

Saturday  28/01/2006

Research and Medical Journalism in the Region  

8:00

Biomedical research in the developing world: new insights into an old problem

Diaa Rizk

United Arab Emirates

8:10

Accept, modify or reject?
a pilot scheme for assessing & deciding on manuscripts submitted for publication

Hassan Bella

Saudi Arabia

8:20

Research publication in Iran and EMR: a scientometric perspective 

Arash Etemadi

Iran

8:30

The status of qualitative research in articles in approved Iranian medical journals 

Abbas Heydari

Iran

8:40

Where to publish our research: national, regional or international? 

Mohammad Hadi Bagheri

Iran 

8:50

Research in developing nations: a double jeopardy

Farrokh Habibzadeh

Iran

9:00

Open Discussion

 

 

10:00

Coffee/Tea Break

 

 

 Editorship 

 

 

10:30

Challenges in publishing a high-quality journal with limited resources

Fatema Jawad

Pakistan

10:40

The editor of a local journal 

Yousef M. Abdulrazzaq

United Arab Emirates

10:50

Middle East Journal of Emergency Medicine: 5 years of experience

Muayad Khalid

Qatar

11:00

Starting as an editor: the skills you need

Peush Sahni

India

11:20

Lebanese Medical Journal: a tale of achievements, problems and challenges 

Adel E. Berbari

Lebanon

11:30

Bahrain Medical Bulletin: survival issues 

Jaffar M. Al Bareeq

Bahrain

11:40

What do (BMJ) editors want

Rajendra Kale

United Kingdom

12:00

Hints on the history of the Journal of Faculty of Medicine

Dhafir lbrahim El-Yassin

Iraq

 12:10

PANEL DISCUSSION: How to Improve our Editorship Skills?

Moderator: Harvey Marcovitch

 

13:00

Prayers and Lunch

 

 

Biomedical eJournalism  

14:00

Utilization of eJournals and internet as sources in postgraduate medical studies in Sudan 

Elsheikh Badr

Sudan

14:10

On line Edition: A great source of manuscripts and regional cooperation? 

Maqbool Jafary

Pakistan

14:20

ParsMedline eJournals system: construction of a low-cost and web-based editorial management and electronic publishing tool for Iranian biomedical journals 

Omid Beiki

Iran

14:30

Online publishing: strategies and issues

Pippa Smart

United Kingdom

Regional Biomedical Journalism  

15:00

Mediterranean editors and translators (MET), a new continuing professional development organization for communications facilitators 

Karen Shashok

Spain

15:15

How can the Middle East succeed in biomedical journalism?

Karim Vessal

Iran

15:30

Coffee/Tea Break

   

16:00

PANEL DISCUSSION: How to Establish Regional Journals?

Moderator: Najeeb
Al-Shorbaji

 

17:00

Shopping at Vakil Baazar

Buses will leave from Conference Venue

20:30

Gala Dinner

 

 

Sunday 01/29/2006

Peer Review 

 

 

8:00

Peer review among young doctors

Ahmed Mohamed 
El- Hassan

Saudi Arabia

8:10

Characteristics and quality of reviewers

Shaukat
Ali Jawaid

Pakistan

8:20

Journal of Tropical Nephro- Urology: a new trend in the medical literature

Hussein M. Al-Kaff

Yemen

8:30

PANEL DISCUSSION:
How to Improve the Peer Review Process in the Region?

Moderator: Farrokh Habibzadeh

 

9:00

EMAME General Assembly

 

 

10:00

Coffee/Tea Break

 

 

Indexing and Evaluation Systems 

10:30

Iranian Journal of Biotechnology: a successful experience in development of a quality journal in the Region

Abdolamir Allameh

Iran

10:40

National Criteria for the Egyptian Medical Journals

M.Farid El-Asmer

Egypt

10:50

Five-year activity at a glance: Iranian Journal of Medical Education

Tahereh Changiz

Iran

11:00

Quality is our aim

Ahmed Said El Morsy

Egypt

11:10

Palestinian Medical Journal

Fawzy Khalil Sharaf

Palestine

11:20

Bibliometric indicators from Index Medicus for the Eastern Mediterranean

Najeeb Al-Shorbaji

WHO/EMRO

11:30

Cochrane Collaboration

Zbys Fedorowicz

Bahrain

Ethics in Biomedical Journalism

11:50

Publishing Ethics

Harvey Marcovitch

United Kingdom

12:20

Sending a paper simultaneously to more than one journal: challenges and clarifications 

Mohammad Bagher Rokni

Iran

12:30

Ethical issues in biomedical publishing: EMHJ experiences and responses 

Ahmed Ezzat Abdou

WHO/EMRO

12:40

Copyright and issues of rights in journal publishing

Pippa Smart

United Kingdom

13:00

Prayers and Lunch

 

 

Evidence-Based Medicine and other Topics 

14:00

Do we really need EBM in developing countries? What are the obstacles?

Mohammad Tarawneh

Jordan

14:10

Birth of an article

Chemao El Fihri

Morocco

14:20

Hand-searching of the Eastern  Mediterranean Health Journal for reports of randomized controlled trials by the Bahrain branch of the UK Cochrane Center

Amani Ali Al-Hajeri

Bahrain

14:30

Authorship for scientific papers

Hassan Al Hail

Qatar

14:40

Why a history of medicine journal?

Abdul Nasser Kaadan

Syria

14:50

Regional scientific journals: a developing process

Mohammad Reza Masjedi

Iran

15:00

WAME, EMAME, FAME: A vision to the future

Peush Sahni

Ahmed

Jamal/Farhad Handjani


Siaka Sidibe

WAME

 


EMAME

 


FAME

 

15:30

Coffee/Tea Break

 

 

16:00

Poster summaries and presentation of best poster award

Karen Shashok

Peush Sahni

Spain

WAME

 16:10

Recommendations and  Closing Ceremony                                                                   

Abbas Sadri

Najeeb Al-Shorbaji

Farhad Handjani

Mohammad Reza PanjehShahin 

ISESCO

 WHO/EMRO


Iran/EMAME

Iran

POSTER PRESENTATIONS 

 

 

 

 

1

Publications status in Isfahan University of Medical Sciences 

Amir Zargarzadeh

Iran

2

Review the situation of Maternity and Child Welfare Association of Pakistan Journal of Mother & Child 

Zahur Iqbal Khan

Pakistan

3

Which are the leading journals in Iranian biomedical research? A citation analysis (1997-2000) 

Abolghasem Aghili

Iran

4

Clinical Trial Registration: The Differing Views of the WHO and the Ottawa Group

Amani Al-Hajeri

Bahrain

5

The Saudi Dental Journal:17 years of experience 

Nazeer Khan

Saudi Arabia

6

Twelve years experience with an innovative journal of family and community medicine

Hassan Bella

 

Saudi Arabia

7

How to write a manuscript

Ali Akbar Nekooeian

Iran

8

Birth of an article 

Chemao El Fihri

Morocco

9

Scientific output of Shiraz University of Medical Sciences (School of Medicine) in Pubmed over the last 16 years 

Ahmad Reza Rasekhi

Iran

10

Iran's contribution to dermatology world literature 

Alireza Firooz

Iran

11

The construction of Iranian Medical Science Citation Index (IMSCI) 

Ali Rashidi

Iran

12

Parsmedline: establishment of a web based bibliographic database related to Iranian health and medical research 

Omid Beiki

Iran