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Physician and Wikimedian
Alaa Najjar
علاء نجار
Najjar in 2022
EducationAlexandria University (MB BS)
Occupations
AwardsWikimedian of the Year (2021)

Alaa Najjar (Arabic: علاء نجار, romanized: ʿAlāʾ Najjār, pronounced [ʕalaːʔ nadʒːaːr]) is an Egyptian physician, Wikipedian and internet activist. He was named the Wikimedian of the Year at Wikimania in August 2021 by Misplaced Pages co-founder Jimmy Wales for his pioneering role in the development of the Arab and medical communities as well as for his role in the development of COVID-19 topics.

Najjar is an active contributor to WikiProject Medicine and a volunteer administrator in the Arabic Misplaced Pages and a Wikimedia steward. He is a board member of Wikimedians of the Levant User Group and an editorial board member of the WikiJournal of Medicine.

Education and career

Najjar graduated from Alexandria University, faculty of medicine in January 2021 with a Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery (MB Bch). In 2021, he told The National that he was employed in “a very busy public hospital”.

Misplaced Pages and Wikimedia activities

Najjar presenting about WikiProject Medicine at WikiArabia 2019

Najjar is an active contributor since 2014, and most of his edits focus on medicine-related articles. He also serves as an administrator on Arabic-language Misplaced Pages and in several other roles on different projects of Wikimedia Foundation. He is also a board member of Wikimedia Group in the Levant and editorial board member of the WikiJournal of Medicine since December 2018. Also, he is a member on the Arabic Misplaced Pages's official social networking team.

He spearheaded the COVID-19 project on the Arabic encyclopedia and majorly contributes to the WikiProject Medicine. Najjar's work helps to combat medical misinformation and confront the pandemic with reliable, fact-checked information.

He was named the Wikimedian of the Year on 15 August 2021 by Misplaced Pages co-founder Jimmy Wales. Najjar was praised for his pioneering role in the development of the Arab and medical communities as well as for his role in the development of COVID-19 topics. Because of travel restrictions, Wales could not personally deliver the award to Najjar as per standard practice, but instead spoke to him in a surprise Google Meet call.

Publications

  • Sellar Xanthogranulomatosis in a Two-Year-Old Girl: A Case Report. Cureus, 2023.
  • Complex presentation of a left Fronto-zygomatic Dermoid cyst: a case report. Journal of surgical case reports, 2024.
  • Glioblastoma multiforme in a patient with neurofibromatosis type 1: a case report and review of literature. Journal of surgical case reports, 2024.

See also

References

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  3. ^ Bedirian, Razmig (16 August 2021). "Arab medical professional Alaa Najjar honoured by Misplaced Pages for Covid-19 coverage". The National. Archived from the original on 2021-08-16. Retrieved 2021-08-19.
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  9. "Alaa Najjar (Orcid ID: 0000-0001-6362-8899)". Archived from the original on 2020-11-17. Retrieved 2021-08-19.
  10. بن ساسي, أوسمان (26 October 2017). "مؤتمر «ويكيبديا عربية 2017 » يبحث إثراء المحتوى العربي". Alwasat News (in Arabic). Archived from the original on 2018-11-14. Retrieved 2021-08-19.
  12. Sharma, Unnati (2021-08-17). "3 Indians win Wikimedia awards for helping provide free, accessible knowledge on the internet". ThePrint. Archived from the original on 2021-08-17. Retrieved 2021-08-17.
  13. Laith A. Ayasa; Sara Rahhal; Ala'a K. Najjar; Asad Aldarawish; Izzeddin A. Bakri (2023). "Sellar Xanthogranulomatosis in a Two-Year-Old Girl: A Case Report". Cureus. 15 (11): 1–8. doi:10.7759/CUREUS.49405. ISSN 2168-8184. OCLC 10076512449. PMC 10749890. PMID 38149166. S2CID 265493967. Wikidata Q123555228.
  14. Laith A Ayasa; Sara Rahhal; Alaa Khaled Najjar; Mohammed Aliwaiai; Asad Aldarawish; Izzeddin Bakri (2024). "Complex presentation of a left Fronto-zygomatic Dermoid cyst; a case report". Journal of surgical case reports. 2024 (4): 1–4. doi:10.1093/JSCR/RJAE218. ISSN 2042-8812. OCLC 10206810991. PMC 11008912. PMID 38605690. S2CID 269085352. Wikidata Q125446565.
  15. Laith A Ayasa; Sara Rahhal; Alaa Khaled Najjar; Bashar N Suboh; Mohammed Aliwaiai; Ahmad M Daqour; Izzeddin Bakri (2024). "Glioblastoma multiforme in a patient with neurofibromatosis type 1: a case report and review of literature". Journal of surgical case reports. 8: 1–4. doi:10.1093/JSCR/RJAE517. ISSN 2042-8812. OCLC 10357667587. PMC 11358049. PMID 39211378. S2CID 272201530. Wikidata Q130049159.

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