Emile Riachi

Professor Emile Riachi (born 1926 in Beirut, Lebanon) is a renown orthopaedic surgeon in the Lebanon.

Riachi graduated from the "Faculte Francaise de Medecine" in Beirut in 1950 as MD and then moved to Chicago to specialize in Orthopaedic Surgery at Cook County Hospital with Professor Kelikian.

Back to Lebanon in 1954, Riachi founded the first service of Orthopaedic Surgery and Traumatology in the Middle-East, within Beirut's St George Hospital.

Riachi is the founder and first President of the Lebanese Orthopaedic Association. He is also a founding member of the SOFCOT (Societe Francaise de Chirurgie Orthopedique et Traumatologique), the French Orthopaedic Association.

Lebanese Ski Federation
In 1960, Emile Riachi, a passionate skier, founded the Lebanese Ski Federation and became its first President until 1996. Under his leadership, Lebanon has become a destination for high level ski champions. From 1962 until 1975 when the civil war in Lebanon erupted, the famous championships known as "Semaine Internationale de Ski au Liban" attracted the best champions from alpine countries.

Faraya-Mzaar Ski Resort
Emile Riachi, with a group of pioneers, including Sami Geammal, Robert Nassif and Dr Georges Zebouni, started in the early 1960's the development of the Faraya-Mzaar ski resort, building the fist ski lifts (including the famous "Le Refuge") and the first residential "Chalets" designed by renowed architect Raoul Vernet, kicking off a period of undiscontinued real estate development in the whole area of Kfardebiane.The resort is today the most proeminent ski resort in the Middle-East

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