Kamel Ajlouni
Kamel Mohammed Saleh Ajlouni, M.D. is a physician in the field of endocrinology. He earned a doctor of medicine degree from the Heidelberg University School of Medicine in 1967. Ajlouni became professor of endocrinology in the Department of Internal medicine at the University of Jordan in 1985. Professor Ajlouni has written more than 120 professional papers in the field of endocrinology. In recognition of his contributions, the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists presented him with the International Clinician Award in 2008.
Ajlouni has worked in numerous posts, mainly as minister of health from 1984 to 1985. He is one of the founders of the Jordan University of Science and Technology and was its president from 1986 to 1995. Ajlouni is the president of the National Center for Diabetes, Endocrinology & Genetics in Jordan since 1996. Professor Ajlouni was also a senator in the Jordanian Congress from 1996 to 2001.Education
Ajlouni went through school in Rashidiah College in Jerusalem from 1955 to 1958, then high school in Hussein College, Amman from 1958 to 1960. He later attended Studien Kollege, University of Heidelberg, West Germany, from 1961 to 1962, and then went to the medical school from 1962 to 1967. He graduated on 11 December 1967. He got his doctor of medicine degree in anatomy from the University of Heidelberg, on 16 February 1968.
