Tareq Salah Attalla Suheimat (Arabic: طارق السحيمات) (23 September 1936 – 21 July 2014), was a distinguished Jordanian physician, nephrologist, military General, and statesman. Born in the historic city of Al-Karak in southern Jordan, Suheimat studied in Amman's schools and then studied medicine in a number of universities, institutes and hospitals in the United Kingdom and the United States of America. He joined the Jordanian Armed Forces where he reached the rank of Major General, and has held a number of senior responsibilities at both medical and governmental levels.[1]
Education
Received his primary and secondary education in the Jordanian capital, Amman.
Chairman of the Board of Directors of Post and Telecommunications of Jordan.
Managed the first successful kidney transplant in Jordan (1972), in Amman military hospital, which is the first of its kind in the Arab World and Jordan. The kidney transplanted was from a non-heart-beating deceased donor.
Accepted the first International Society of Nephrology GO Pioneer Award for the Middle East region. The ceremony took place at the 11th Annual Scientific Meeting of the Jordan Society of Nephrology which was organized from 23 to 25 January 2013 in Amman, Jordan.[3]
Has a number of research and medical articles, has represented Jordan in many conferences and seminars within and outside Jordan.
Amounted to a military career to the rank of Major General, and retired in 1987.
Tareq Suheimat is the son of MP Salah Suheimat and the grandson of Sheikh Attallah Suheimat, a national leader, who was a member of the First Legislative Council of the Emirate of Transjordan in 1929. He is married to Mrs. Randa Murad. He has three children:
His death was announced on 21 July 2014, corresponding to the twenty-third of the Holy Month of Ramadan.[4] He was honored with a military funeral and was buried in Amman, Jordan.
