Keynote Speakers

Emmanouil S. Brilakis
Director-Center for Complex Coronary Interventions, Chairmain- Center for Coronary Artery Disease
Minneapolis Heart Institute
United States

Eugene Braunwald
Professor, Harvard Medical School
Chairman, TIMI Study Group at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital
United States

James Januzzi
Physician - Medicine, Cardiology
Massachusetts General Hospital
United States

Pepe Zamorano
Professor of Medicine
University Clinic San Carlos
Spain

Peter Libby
Cardiovascular Specialist,Brigham and Womens Hospital Mallinckrodt Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
President, International Atherosclerosis Society
United States

Robert P. Giugliano
Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Cardiovascular Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital
United States

Stefan Jacob
Endocrinologist/Diabetologist
University of Tuebingen
Germany

Faculty

Abdul Majeed Al Zubaidi
Interventional Cardiologist
Burjeel Hospital
United Arab Emirates

Abdullah Shehab
Professor of Medicine
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United Arab Emirates

Ahmed Mounir
Cardiology
Mediclinic Hospital - Previously Nour Hospital - Al Markaziyah
United Arab Emirates

Alaaeldin Bashier
Consultant Endocrinologist
Dubai Hospital
United Arab Emirates

Altaf Ashour
Specialist Cardiology
Sheikh Khalifa Medical City
United Arab Emirates

Amr El Faramawy
Consultant Interventional Cardiologist
Fujairah Hospital
United Arab Emirates

Amrish Agrawal
Consultant
Fujairah Hospital
United Arab Emirates

Anwar Alzaabi
Consultant, Non-Invasive Cardiologist
Tawam Hospital
United Arab Emirates

Arif Al Nooryani
Consultant Interventional Cardiologist, Chief Executive Office & Head of Cardiology
Al Qassimi Hospital
United Arab Emirates

Ashutosh Wechalekar
Senior Lecturer and Honorary Consultant Haematologist
University College London and the Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust
United Kingdom

Asma Aljaberi
Consultant Endocrinologist in The Department of Medicine at Tawam Hospital and an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the College of Medicine and Health Sciences
Tawam Hospital
United Arab Emirates

Bader Almustafa
Consultant of Family Medicine & Primary Care
Middle East Regional Director, World Hypertension League (WHL)
Saudi Arabia

Basaam Al Baba
Consultant of Cardiology and Interventional Cardiology
EHS
United Arab Emirates

Cijo Oommen
Clinical Pharmacist
Kalba Hospital
United Arab Emirates

Dawlat Hussein
Nephrology Consultant and Head of Medical Department
Kalba Hospital
United Arab Emirates

Fatima Al Ameeri
Nurse
Kalba Hospital
United Arab Emirates

Fekry Eldeeb
Cardiology
NMC Royal Hospital
United Arab Emirates

Feras Bader
Clinical Professor of Medicine | Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University Chairman, Department of Cardiovascular Medicine. Director, Section of Heart Failure and Transplant Heart, Vascular, and Thoracic Institute
Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi
United Arab Emirates

Fereidoon Shafiei
Electrophysiologist
Mediclinic City Hospital
United Arab Emirates

Gamal Hewidi
Consultant of Anesthesia and Surgical Intensive Care Unit
Kalba Hospital
United Arab Emirates

Ghadeera Al Mansoori
Consultant Cardiology, Adult Congenital Heart Disease, Genetic Heart Disease, Heart Disease in Pregnancy
Sheikh Shakhbout Medical City (SSMC), Sheikh Khalifa Medical City , Corniche Hospital
United Arab Emirates

Gianfranco Parati
Honorary Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy
Secretary General, World Hypertension League
Italy

Hani Sabbour
Consultant Cardiologist/Electrophysiologist
Heart & Vascular Institute Cleveland Clinic
United Arab Emirates

Hisham Nemr
Cardiologist
Kalba Hospital
United Arab Emirates

Hosam Zaky
Consultant Cardiologist
Dubai Hospital
United Arab Emirates

Hussien Heshmat
Consultant Interventional Cardiologist
Fujairah Hospital
United Arab Emirates

Jan Steffel
Senior Consultant, Electrophysiology and Cardiac Devices, Hirslanden Clinic
Professor of Cardiology, University of Zurich
Switzerland

Juwairia Al Ali
Consultant Non-Invasive Cardiologist
Rashid Hospital
United Arab Emirates

Kashif Bin Naeem
Consultant Cardiologist
Al Kuwait Hospital, Dubai
United Arab Emirates

Khalid Al-Rasadi
President, Oman Society of Lipid and Atherosclerosis (OSLA)
Sultan Qaboos University, Director of the Medical Research Center
Oman

Madelaine Pascua Alcos
RN-CN
CCU- Fujairah hospital
United Arab Emirates

Mahmoud Korashy
Cardiologist
Fujairah Hospital
United Arab Emirates

Mario Njeim
Consultant Cardiologist & Cardiac Electrophysiologist
Sheikh Shakhbout Medical City
United Arab Emirates

Mervat Suliman
Cath Lab Nurse Incharge
Fujairah Hospital
United Arab Emirates

Moataz El Kadri
Consultant Cardiac Electrophysiologist
Mediclinic (Abu Dhabi), Valiant Clinic (Dubai)
United Arab Emirates

Mohamed Al Jaabari
Staff Physician, Cardiology, Heart & Vascular Institute
Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi
United Arab Emirates

Mohamed Magdy
Head/Consultant of EPS
Al Qassimi Hospital
United Arab Emirates

Mohamed AbdAllah Ibrahim
Consultant Cardiologist, Fujairah hospital
Lecturer of Cardiology, Faculty of Medicine, Ain Shams University
United Arab Emirates

Mohamed Salah
Consultant Cardiologist
Head of Cardiology Unit, Kalba Hospital
United Arab Emirates

Mohamed El Harari
Consultant Cardiologist
Tawam Hospital, Al Ain
United Arab Emirates

Mohammed Riyazuddin
Physiotherapist
Kalba Hospital
United Arab Emirates

Mohammed Zubaid
Professor of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Kuwait University
President, Gulf Heart Association
Kuwait

Mousa Akbar
Consultant Interventional Cardiologist
Al Sabah Hospital
Kuwait

Muhamed Al Rohani
Head of Medical Department
EHS, MOH
United Arab Emirates

Muhammad Hagrass
Cardiology Specialist
Khorfakkan Hospital
United Arab Emirates

Najiba M Abdulrazzaq
Consultant Internist
Al Kuwait Hospital – Dubai
United Arab Emirates

Nour Majed
Clinical Dietitian on Intensive Care Unit Ward
Fujairah Hospital
United Arab Emirates

Omar Al Falasi
Director of Cardiac electrophysiology
Rashid Hospital
United Arab Emirates

Omar Hallak
Head of Cardiology Department
King’s College Hospital
United Arab Emirates

P C Manoria
Director
Manoria Heart & Critical Care Hospital
India

Paul K. Whelton
Show Chwan Chair in Global Public Health, Department of Epidermiology
Tulane University School of Public Health & Tropical Medicine, Tulane University of Medicine
United States

Philip Kalra
Consultant Nephrologist and Professor
Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust and University of Manchester
United Kingdom

Rajeev Gupta
Consultant Cardiologist
Mediclinic Al Jowhara, and Mediclinic Al Ain Hospital, Al Ain
United Arab Emirates

Refai Wael
Consultant Internal Medicine, Head of Internal Medicine Department
Kalba Hospital
United Arab Emirates

Safaa Al Mohdar
Head of Cardiology
Zayed Military Hospital
United Arab Emirates

Salem AlKaabi
Electrophysiologist and Interventional cardiologist, Head of the cardiology department
Zayed Military Hospital
United Arab Emirates

Samia Mora
Professor of Medicine
Harvard Medical School
United States

Shady Hamouda
Head of Cardiology Department
Ibrahim Bin Hamad Hospital
United Arab Emirates

Sherif Bakir
Consultant Cardiologist
Head of adult Cardiology, Kidsheart & Adult Cardiology Center Abu Dhabi & Dubai
United Arab Emirates

Tarek Abdelaziz
Senior Specialist Registrar
Cardiac Surgery Unit, Dubai Hospital
United Arab Emirates

Tawfik Khalid Albassam
Consultant In Internal Medicine/ Clinical Hypertension Specialist / Deputy head of Saudi Hypertension Management Society (SHMS).
Medical Reference Center,
Saudi Arabia

Thair Fadhel Kuzhiem
Head of Cardiology Department
Fujairah Hospital
United Arab Emirates

Vivian Arellano
Charge Nurse - Cath Lab MOH-NFH
Fujairah Hospital
United Arab Emirates

Wael Aboushokka
Consultant Intervention Cardiology
Al Qassimi Hospital
United Arab Emirates

Wael AlMahmeed
Consultant Cardiologist
Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi
United Arab Emirates

Wael Ahmed Shalaby
Consultant of internal medicine
Ain Shams University | Kalba Hospital
United Arab Emirates

Wahid Farid Eladawy
Consultant cardiology
MOH
United Arab Emirates

Waleed Kadro
Chief of Cardiology & Interventional Cardiology Senior Consultant Interventional Cardiologist,
RAK Hospital
United Arab Emirates

Walid Saleh
Consultant of Internal medicine and Endocrinology
Kalba Hospital, EHS
United Arab Emirates

Zeenat Naseeb
Consultant Endocrinology and Diabetes
Al Qassimi Hospital
United Arab Emirates