Member since 2017
Professor Belhadj received a diploma of medicine from the University of Algiers in Algeria, specializing in Forensic Medicine (1993). He has been a teacher at the Faculty of Medicine of Algiers (1994-present). He has also been a Pedagogical Director of the specialty of Legal Medicine, Medical and Ethical Law (2012-present). He is also the Chairman of the Scientific Council of the Faculty of Medicine of Algiers, and the Director of Medical and Paramedical Activities of Mustapha University Hospital of Algiers.
Professor Belhadj is a specialist in the reconstruction of crime scenes, teaching at the level of the Superior School of the Magistracy of Algiers. He is responsible for the medical care of the guard at the Mustapha University Hospital of Algiers, and for the medical-judicial emergencies unit and the medical-legal examination of the accused persons. He has also a long experience in the practice of medical-judicial autopsies and expert of the Ministry of Justice in the field of personal injury (1994-present).
Professor Belhadj also participated as Responsible of the Scientific Commission on the management of provoked or natural catastrophes (Algiers attacks 1994-2007, flooding of Bab El Oued 2001, earthquake of Boumerdes 2003, Attack of Tiguentourine in 2013, crash of Ukrainian plane in the south of Algeria in 2014, Case of the monks of Tibhirine in the framework of an international rogatory commission).
Today, Professor Belhadj is the Head of Forensic Medicine Department at the Mustapha University Hospital in Algiers, President of the Algerian Society for the Development of Forensic Sciences, and continues his active involved with the ICRC in training judicial police officers and magistrates in the medical charge of the accused persons and the observance of the rules of procedure regarding the medical examination of persons in custody.