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Medical Genetics in various cities of the Arab world, including the Joint Symposium of the Institut Pasteur de Tunis and MEGA (1997). He worked for the establishment and progress of genetic programs in Kuwait, Qatar, and Saudi Arabia, where he founded the Genetic Counseling Program at King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center in Riyadh.
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Genetics Consortium. He was also the original curator (at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto) of the now-defunct Arab Genetic Disease
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Editorial Board of the American Journal of Medical Genetics (2004โ10) and Clinical Genetics (2005โ10). He was a Founding and Editorial Board member of Clinical
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Teebi had nearly 300 articles published, and over 25 chapters included in significant textbooks. His most significant contribution was arguably the publication (in 1997, with T.I. Farag as co-editor) on
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