Dr. Ghassan Watffa

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gw.watfa@ksmc.med.sa

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Dr. Ghassan Watffa

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Dr. Ghassan Watfa currently working in KSMC (Riyad) as a consultant Geriatrician & Director of Home Health Care (HHC) Administration from august 2015; In 2019-2020, he was the lead of Last Phase (System of Care) and HHC services in the Riyadh Health Cluster one. He initiated and developed geriatric activities starting by Geriatrics and Memory Clinics, and Multidisciplinary Geriatric Team. He has an active role in the training of undergraduate and postgraduate students including physicians, nurses and health allied staff. He is trainer in the Saudi Board of Family Medicine. Before joining KSMC, he served, for 6 years, as Geriatrics consultant at the Department of Geriatrics of Nancy University hospital in France and participated in their clinical and pedagogical activities including check-ups, home care, preventive evaluations, ambulatory and inpatient tasks. In partnership with the Nancy University Hospital & INSERM Clinical Investigation Centre, he conducted his research, in the area of physiopathology and pharmacotherapeutics of decline cognitive, hypertension and aging, as well as Epidemiology, genetics, fragility and nutrition and treatment of the age-related changes of large arteries and wound care. He has accepted research projects in Europe and KSA. After the basic medical training, he did his Internal Medicine Residency training in 2007 and Geriatrics specialty in 2010 from Nancy University Hospital, France. He is French and Luxembourg Board Certified in Geriatric Medicine. He obtained his MSc from the University of Paris VII (2008) and his PhD from the University of Nancy (2011). He has authored more than 20 papers published in peer-reviewed international scientific journals and has participated in several international conferences. He has contributed published 2 books (chapters) in Hypertension management in elderly. He is member of several national and international medical societies such as Saudi Society of HHC, French Society of Internal Medicine (SNFMI), French Society of Hypertension (SFHTA), French Society of Gerontology and Geriatrics (SFGG), European Society of Cardiology (ESC), European Society of Hypertension (ESH), International Association of Gerontology and Geriatrics (IAGG) and Saudi Geriatrics Society (SGS). He is member of many national and international committees and working groups in Geriatrics and HHC (MOH-KSA) and in cardiovascular the European Society of Hypertension Working Group on Hypertension and Cardiovascular Risk in Low Resource Settings, and the European Society of Hypertension Working Group on Hypertension and the Brain.