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Dr. Chokri Mhri

Head of the Department of Neurology
Habib Bourguiba University Hospital
Sfax, Tunisia

Dr. Chokri Mhiri
Dr. Chokri Mhiri

After his medical studies in Sfax faculty of medicine (1979-85), he was resident at the national institute of neurology in Tunis between 1986 and 1988. He obtained a research master in neurosciences in 1990 from the university Pierre Marie Curie in Paris (France). He was assistant-professor than professor of neurology in Habib Bourguiba university hospital in Sfax. In 1996, he was nominated as head of the department of neurology in Sfax faculty of medicine. He assumed several responsibilities in his hospital (President of the medical board of Habib BOURGUIBA University hospital (2008-2013); Director of Clinical Investigation Center (CIC) of Habib BOURGUIBA University hospital since 2015…). He is member of scientific board, Sfax Faculty of Medicine since 2001 and President of Tunisian Society of Neurology between 2002 and 2006. He was the President of the Pan Arab Union of the Neurological Societies (PAUNS) from 2017 to 2019. His fields of interest are inflammatory diseases of CNS, Neurogenetics and neuromuscular disorders. He participated to the publication of about one hundred peer reviewed scientific papers.