Riadh Gouider

Professor of Neurology, Head of Neurology Department

Riadh Gouider is Professor of Neurology and Head of the Neurology Department at Razi University Hospital in Tunis, where he also leads the Multiple Sclerosis and Alzheimer's Centre. He graduated from the Faculty of Medicine of Tunis in 1993, obtained a diploma in clinical neurophysiology from Paris VI in the same year, trained in peripheral nerve diseases at La Pitie-Salpetriere Hospital, and earned a master's degree in neurogenetics in Tunis in 1999. He received an American Academy of Neurology International Affairs Committee foreign scholarship in 1994 and has been Professor of Neurology since 2005. Within the World Federation of Neurology he served as Regional Director for the Pan-Arab Region (2008 to 2010) and for Africa (2012 to 2015), as elected trustee from 2014 to 2020, and was elected First Vice-President in October 2025, taking office in January 2026. He became a corresponding foreign member of the French National Academy of Medicine in 2022.