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Advisory Board

Abdul Rahim Mustafawi
Consultant Pediatric Surgeon, Al Latifa
Paediatric and Maternity Hospital, Dubai
UAE
Abdulla Aldohayan
Vice President ELSA
KSA
       
Ahmad Al Jaziri
Director of Surgical Department,
Rashid Hospital Dubai
UAE
C Palanivelu
Director of Surgery, GEMS Insitite,
Coimbatore, India
       
Christian Singer
Consultant Gynecologist and
Breast Surgeon, University Vienna
Austria
Davide Lomanto
President ELSA, IFSO
Singapore
       
Dietmar Simon
Director of Surgery Bethesda Hospital
Duisburg Germany
Frank Branicki
Professor of Surgery,
FMHS UAE University, Al Ain
UAE
       
Holger Strunk
Consultant Radiologist University
Bonn
Germany
Hussain Al Rahma
President EICS,
Head of ICU Dubai Hospital
UAE
       
Ian Anderson
President, Royal College of
Surgeon and Physician of Glasgow
UK
Jakob Izbicki
Director of Surgery Eppendorf University Hospital, Hamburg
Germany
       
John McGregor
Royal College of Physicians and
Surgeons of Glasgow
UK
John Thanakumar
President Elect of IAGES,
Head Dept of Minimal Access Surgery,
Global Hospitals, Chennai, India
       
Karl Miller
Chief of Surgery, Hallein Hospital,
Hallein Austria
Martin Strik
President of CAMIC,
Director of Surgery Helios Klinikum
Berlin, Germany
       
Michel Gagner
Clinical Professor of Surgery
Chief, Bariatric and Metabolic Surgery
Canada
Michael Parker
Royal College of Surgeons of England
UK
       
Muffazal Lakdawala
Director Centre of Obesity and
Diabetes Surgery, CODS,
Mumbai, India
Peter Goretzki
Director of Surgery Lukas Hospital
Neuss, Germany
       
Pradeep Chowbey
President Elect of IFSO
Director Max Hospital
New Delhi , India
Son Truong
Head of Surgical Endoscopy University
Aachen, Germany
       
Suresh Deshpande
President IAGES, Consultant Surgeon,
Kolhapur, India
Thomas Musholt
President of CAEK
Germany
       
Wolfgang Heinz
Consultant and Head of Medical Department, Internal Medicine Hospital
Leonberg Germany
Younis Kazim
Director – Medical Affairs &
Head of Vascular Surgery Unit -
Rashid Hospital UAE
       
Zaid Al Mazam
Consultant Surgeon,
Dubai Hospital, UAE
   
       

Keynote Speakers

           
Ali Numairy
President Plastic Surgery
Society EMA,
World Vice President ICS
UAE Section, UAE
C K Huang
Senior Consultant Surgeon,
Taiwan
Faruq Baduiddin
Consultant Surgeon,
The Dubai Mall Medical Centre,
UAE
           
Ian Anderson
President, Royal College of
Surgeon and Physician of Glasgow
UK
M C Mishra
AIIMS New Delhi and Program Director ATLS, India
Michael Parker
Royal College of Surgeons of England, UK
           
Pradeep Chowbey
Vice Chairman of Max Healthcare, President Elect of IFSO, India
Rolf Ulrich Hartung
President of ESLES and
GCC Hernia Society,
UAE
   

Advanced Trauma Life Support

Abdel Hakim Elkholy
Consultant, ENT, Director, ELSTC-Cairo and Chairman, ATLS Egypt
Abdullah Al Harthy
Consultant Trauma Surgeon, Sultan Qaboos University Hospital, Muscat, Oman
David Solomon
Emergency Medicine Consultant, SKMC, Abu Dhabi, UAE
 
Diane Chetty
ATLS National Coordinator,
UAE
Faisal Al Ghanem
Consultant, Emergency Medicine, MOH,
Kuwait
Fikree Abu Zaidan
Professor of Surgery, FMHS UAE Univeristy
UAE
           
Frank Branicki
Professor of Surgery, FMHS UAE University, Al Ain, UAE
George Abi Saad
Director Accident and Emergency Services, AUB Hospital, Lebanon
Glyn Barnett
Emergency Medicine Consultant SKMC, Abu Dhabi, UAE
           
Hani Al Qadhi
Consultant Trauma Surgeon, Sultant Quboos University Hospital, Muscat, Oman
Hassan Althani
Senior Trauma and Vascular Surgeon, Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha, Qatar
Jamal Saleh
Consultant Orthopedic Surgeon, Bahrain, Bahrain
           
Jameel Ali
Professor of Surgery, University of Tronto, Canada
Jehad Al Shawi
Consultant, Surgical Oncology, KAMC, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
Karen Brasel
Professor Medical College of Wiscosin, USA
           
Peter Mesmer
Emergency Medicine Consultant, SKMC, Abu Dhabi,
UAE
Khaled Al-Ahmadi
Consultant, Trauma Surgeon, KAMC, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
Khalil Alizadah
Consultant, Orthopedic Surgeon & CEO, Atieh Hospital, Tehran
Iran
           
Majin Al Saadi
Consultant Surgeon, Ruwais Hospital, UAE
M C Mishra
AIIMS New Delhi and Program Director ATLS, India
Mohammad Haddad
Senior Consultant Surgeon, SKMC, Abu Dhabi, UAE
           
Moin Fikree
Medical Director, Rashid Trauma Center, UAE
Murray Van Dyke
Director Emergency Services SKMC Abu Dhabi, UAE
Peter Mesmer
Emergency Medicine Consultant, SKMC, Abu Dhabi, UAE
           
R A Sastry
Professor of Surgery, Hydrabad
India
Richard Loffhagen
Emergency Medicine Consultant, SKMC, Abu Dhabi
UAE
Robert Hoffman
Emergency Medicine Consultant, SKMC, Abu Dhabi, UAE
           
Saud Al Turki
Section Head & Consultant, Vascular Surgery and Assoc Professor of Surgery,
Saudi Arabia
Subash C Gautam
Consultant Trauma Surgeon, Fujairah Hospital, Fujiarah
Chairman, ATLS MENA
UAE
Suhail Kazim
Sr.Consultant & Medical Director Medcare Hospital Dubai, UAE
           
Vilma Cabading
Chief Co-ordinator, Trauma Courses, KSA
VK Kapoor
Professor of Surgery and Consultant Surgeon
UAE
Wesam Talal Abuznadah
Asst. Professor King Abdul Aziz Bin Saud Univeristy & Consultant, Vascular Surgery, Saudi Arabia
           
Will Chapleau
Manager, ATLS Division, American College of Surgeon
USA
Yasser Abdulrazak
Consultant ENT and Medical Director, HAMA
Syria
Zeina Kassem
President, Roads for Life Foundation, Lebanon

Breast Session

Ava Kwong
Consultant Surgeon, Hong Kong University Hong Kong
Cheng Har Yip
Consultant Breast Surgeon, Kualalumpur, Malaysia
Christian Singer
Gynecologist & Breast Surgeon, University Hospital Vienna, Austria
 
Haytham El Salhat
Consultant Oncology Surgery Tawaam Hospital
UAE
Michael McKirdy
Consultant Breast Surgeon, Scotland
Scotland
Mustafa Kutyanwala
Consultant Surgeon, Sharjah
UAE
           
Ritu Khare
Specialist Surgeon,
Dubai UAE
Salim Chaib Rassou
Consultant Radiologist, Tawam Hospital, Al Ain, UAE
Sukrith Shetty
Surgical Oncologist, NMC Specialty Hospital, Dubai
UAE
           
Zaid Al Mazam
Consultant Surgeon,
Dubai Hospital, UAE
       

Endocrine Session

Abdulkareem Al Fahim
Medical Director of Mafraq Hospital, UAE
Abdul Razzaq Ali Al Madani
CEO of Dubai Hospital
UAE
Abhay Dalvi
Vice-President of IAGES
India
 
Davide Lomanto
President of ELSA and APHS
Singapore
Deepraj Bhandarkar
Treasurer of IAGES
India
Dietmar Simon
Director of Surgery Bethesda Hospital, Germany
           
Hassan Hotait
Consultant Pathologist Dubai Hospital UAE
Martin Strik
President of CAMIC HOD Helios Klinikum Berlin Germany
Paul Sungler
Medical Director of Welcare Hospital, UAE
           
Peter Goretzki
Director of Surgery Lukas Hospital Germany
Rolf Ulrich Hartung
President of ESLES and GCC Hernia Society, UAE
Salah Abdulqader Al Arnawoot
Consultant Surgeon Welcare Hospital, UAE
           
Thomas J Musholt
President of CAEK
Germany
       

Gastro Intestinal Surgery

A K Al Fahim
Medical Director Mafraq Hospital Abu Dhabi
UAE
Abdelrehman Nimeri
Director BMI,
Consultant Surgeon,
SKMC, Abu Dhabi, UAE
Abdul Wahid Alwahedi
Head Of General Surgery, Al Qassimi Hospital, Sharjah, UAE
 
Abdulla A Dohayan
Vice President ELSA
KSA
Adarsh Chaudhary
Chairman of Surgery Medanta Medicity Hospital, Gurgaon, India
Adil Al Qaysi
Consultant Radiologist Consultant Medical Center
UAE
           
Ahmet Karahaliloglu
Proctology Department, Private Çalli Meydan Medical Center, Turkey
Anil Sharma
Secretary General of APHS
India
Basim Al Khafaji
Consultant Surgeon, Vice President ESLES, UAE
           
C Palanivelu
Director of Surgery, GEMS Institute, Coimbatore, India
Carl Davis
Consultant Pediatric surgeon, Scotland
UAE
Damon Bizos
President of South African Society of Endoscopic Surgeons, South Africa
           
Davide Lomanto
President of ELSA and APHS
Singapore
Deepraj Bhandarkar
Consultant Surgeon, hinduja Hospital, Mumbai
India
Esko Janatuinen
Head of Gastroentorlogy Al Noor Hospital, Abu Dhabi
UAE
           
Faisel Ikram
Specialist Surgeon, City Hospital, Dubai, UAE
Frank Branicki
Chairman of Surgery UAE University Al Ai, UAE
G Srikanth
Head GI Services, Global Hospital,Begaluru, India
           
Hassan Hotait
Consultant Pathologist Dubai Hospital, UAE
Haytham El Salhat
Consultant Surgical Oncology, Tawam Hospital Al Ain, UAE
John McGregor
Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow, UK
           
John Thanakumar
President of IAGES, Consultant Surgeon Global Hospital, Chennai, India
Karl Miller
Past-President IFSO, Chairman of Surgery Hallein Hospital, Austria
M Azzam Kayasseh
Consultant Gastroenterologist, Dubai, UAE
           
Massimo Cristaldi
Consultant Surgeon SKMC, Abu Dhabi, UAE
Mustafa Sabri
Gastroenterologist, Dubai
UAE
Michael Parker
Royal College of Surgeons of England, UK
           
Nihar Dash
Surgical Gastroeneterologist, AIIMS, New Delhi
India
P Jagannath
Chairman of Surgical Oncology Lilavati Hospital Mumbai
India
Peter Goretzki
Director of Surgery Lukas Hospital Neuss, Germany
           
Pradeep Chowbey
Vice Chairman of Max Healthcare, President Elect of IFSO, India
Rajesh Khullar
Consultant surgeon, Max Hospital, new Delhi, India
Sadiq S Sikora
Head of Surgery Manipal Hospital Bangalore, India
           
Safwan Taha
Consultant Surgeon, Medical Director, Al Noor Hospital,
UAE
Sanjiv Haribhakti
Consultant Surgical Gastroenterology, Ahmedabad,
India
Son Truong
Head of Surgical Endoscopy University Aachen, Germany
Germany
           
Suresh Deshpande
Past-President IAGES, Kolhapur, India
Wagdy Mikhail
Consultant Gastroenterologist Dubai
UAE
   

Hernia Session

Anil Sharma
Secretary General APHS, Consultant Surgeon Max Hospital, New Delhi, India
Davide Lomanto
President APHS and ELSA
Singapore
Fawaz Torab
President of OMSIG, Consultant Surgeon, Al Ain University,
UAE
 
Giampiero Campanelli
Secretary General of EHS
Italy
K G Mathew
Consultant Surgeon,
NMC Dubai , UAE
Karl Miller
Consultant Surgeon &
HOD Hallein Austria
           
Martin Strik
President CAMIC
Germany
Massimo Cristaldi
Consultant Surgeon SKMC Abu Dhabi, UAE
Pradeep Chowbeyu
Vice Chairman, MaxHealthcare, Founder President APHS
India
           
Rajesh Khullar
Senior Consultant Surgeon, Max Hospital, New Delhi
India
Subhash Gautam
Consultant Surgeon & HOD Fujairah Hospital, UAE
Suresh Baliga
Specialist Surgeon
Dubai Hospital, Dubai
Inida
           
Tim Tollens
Consultant Surgeon & HOD, Immelden, Belgium
Parveen Bhatia
Consultant Surgeon
Sir Ganga Ram Hospital,
New Delhi, India
   

Hepato-Pancreatico-Biliary Surgery

Adarsh Chaudhary
Consultant Surgeon, Medanta Hospital, Gurgaon, India
Deepak Mital
Transplant Surgeon
Chicago,
USA
Deepraj Bhandarkar
Consultant Surgeon Hinduja Hospital Mumbai, India
 
DJ Gouma
Consultant Surgeon Academic Medical Centre, Amsterdam,
Netherlands
G Srikanth
Consultant Surgeon, Director GI Services, Global Hospital Bengaluru, India
Holger Strunk
Consultant Radiologist University Bonn, Germany
           
Jaikishen Mordani
Specialsit Radiologist, City Hospital, Dubai, UAE
Jakob Izbicki
Director of Surgery Eppendorf University Hospital Hamburg,
Germany
Kaiser Raja
Consultant Transplant Hepatologist, Global Hospital, Bengaluru, India
           
Raj Prasad
Transplant Surgeon Leeds
UK
Mathews Jacob
Consultant Trasnplant Surgeon, Global Hospital, Bengaluru, India
Mohamed Jaloudi
Medical Oncologist, Tawaam Hospital, Al Ain, UAE
           
Mustafa Sabri
Consultant Gastroenterologist, Rashid Hospital, Dubai
UAE
Nihar Dash
Consultant Surgical Gastroenterologist, AIIMS,
New Delhi, India
P Jagannath
Consultant Surgical Oncologist, Lilawati Hospital Mumbai
India
           
Peter Goretzki
Consultant Surgeon, Lukas Hospital Neuss, Germany
Peush Sahni
Head of Surgical Gastroenterology, AIIMS
New Delhi, India
Puneet Dhar
Head of GI Surgery AIMS, Kochi, India
           
R A Sastry
Head of Surgical Gastroenterology, NIMS, Hyderabad, India
Rahul Nathwani
Specialist Gastroenterologist, City Hospital, Dubai,
UAE
Rajesh Khullar
Consultant Minimaly Invasive Surgeon, Max Hospital, New Delhi, India
           
Ritu Khare
Specialist Surgeon, Dubai Mall Medical Centre, Dubai
UAE
Sadiq S Sikora
Head of GI Surgery and Liver Diseases, Manipal Hospital, Bengaluru, India
Sanjiv Haribhakti
Gastroeneterologist,
Kaizen Hospital Ahmedabad, India
           
V K Kapoor
Consultant Surgeon, SGPGIMS, Lucknow, India
       

Intensive Care Session

Ashraf El Houfi
Vice President EICS
UAE
Gary Miller
Head Of ICU American Hospital, USA
Hussain Al Rahma
President EICS
UAE
 
Zainab Obaida
Senior Specialist Intensivist Dubai Hospital, UAE
Zeyad Al Rais
Secretary General EICS
UAE
   

Plastic Surgery

Ali Al Numairy
PresidentPlastic Surgery Society EMA, President ICS UAE Section, UAE
B. Venkata Ratnam
Specialist Plastic Surgeon, NMC Hospital, Abu Dhabi, UAE
Harith Abduljabbar Alani
Specialist Plastic Surgeon, Tawam Hospital, Al Ain, UAE
 
Luiz Toledo
Specialist Plastic Surgeon
Brazil
Michail Salivaras
S pecialist plastic surgeon Amarical Academy of cosmetic surgery,
Greece
Najm Khan
S pecialist plastic surgeon
UK
           
Qasim Ahli
specialist plastic surgeon Rashid Hospital
UAE
Safwat El Hosney
S pecialist plastic surgeon
Egypt
Sanjay Parashar
S pecialist plastic surgeon
India
           
Zahra Refaei
Specialist Plastic Surgeon
German
       

Surgical Oncology

Ali M Ghellai
Consultant Surgeon, Tawaam Hospital, UAE
Adarsh Chaudhary
Consultant GI Surgeon, Medanta Hospital, Gurgaon
India
Amal Suhool
Surgical Resident
UAE
 
Dia Trad
Consultant Medical Oncologist
UAE
Farouk Safi
Consultant Visceral Surgeon
UAE
Ghodratullah Nowresteh
Specialist Surgeon
UAE
           
Hassan Jaafar
Consultant Medical Oncologist
UAE
Haytham El Salhat
Consultant Chief of Surgery
UAE
Hisham Al Maaitah
Oncology Nurse Navigator
UAE
           
Iyad Hassan
Chair of Surgery
UAE
Maisoon Gamal
Surgical Resident
UAE
Mohammed Jaloudi
Chair of Medical Oncology
UAE
           
Omar Bechdache
Specialist Surgeon
UAE
P Jagannath
Consultant Surgical Oncologist, Mumbai
India
Salim Chaib Rassou
Chair of Radiation Therapy
UAE
           
Sayed Siah
Consultant Surgical Oncologist
Saudi Arabia
       

Bariatrics

A Celik
Consultant Surgeon,
Turkey
A Nimeri
Director BMI, Sheikh Khalifa Medical City, Abu Dhabi
UAE
A Wahed
Consultant Surgeon, Al Qasemi Hospital, Sharjah, UAE
 
Abu Salaam Al Taie
Cosnultant Bariatric Surgeon, Al Taie Medical Centre, Dubai
UAE
Ali Al Houni
Consultant Endocrinology, Tawam Hospital,
UAE
Ayman Saleh
Head radiology Department, Tawam Hospital, Al Ain
UAE
           
C K Huang
Senior Consultant Surgeon, Taiwan
C Palanivelu
Director GEMS Hospital Coimbatore ,
India
Emile Hartman
Dietician, Dubai Mall Medical Centre, Dubai
UAE
           
Fawaz Torab
Associate Professor and Consultant Surgeon, UAE University and Tawam Hospital, Al Ain, UAE
Faruq Baduiddin
Consultant Surgeon, The Dubai Mall Medical Centre,
UAE
Gabi Wazz
Laparoscopic and Consultant Surgeon, Dubai
UAE
           
Girish Juneja
Specialist Surgeon,
Al Noor Hospital,
Abu Dhabi, UAE
Hadeel Azam
DHA, UAE
Hasan Aburabia
Consultant Gastroenterologist, Al Ain Hospital, Al Ain, UAE
           
Hikmat Matar
Consultant Surgeon, Abu Dhabi
UAE
Jayshree Todkar
Bariatric Surgeon,
Ruby Hall Clinic,
Pune, India
K.S. Tweden
Vice President, Clinical & Regulatory, EnteroMedics Inc, St. Paul, Minnesota, USA
           
Karl Miller
Chief of Surgery,
Hallein Clinic, Salzburg
Austria
M Lakdawala
Director Centre of Obesity and Diabetes Surgery,
CODS, India
M Narwaria
President Obesity Surgery Society of India,
India
           
M. Yaser Kayyal
Specialist Surgeon and Fellow Bariatric,Tawam Hospital,
Al Ain, UAE
Mazen Taha
Consultant Gastroenterologist, Tawam Hospital, Al Ain, UAE
Michel Gagner
Consultant Bariatric Surgeon, Canada
           
Pradeep Chowbey
Director Max Hospital, New Delhi , India Vice President IFSO, India
Rajesh Khullar
Consultant Surgeon, Max Hospital, New Delhi, India
Dr Surendra Ugale
Bariatric & Metabolic Surgeon, Kirloskar Hospital, Hyderabad, India
           
Safwan Taha
Director Al Noor Hospital, Consultant Bariatric Surgeon, Abu Dhabi, UAE
Shashank Shah
Consultant Bariatric Surgeon, Ruby Hall Clinic Pune, India
Taif Al Sarraj
Head clinical Nutrition, Tawam Hospital, Al Ain, UAE
           
Zuhair Al Fardan
Consultant Plastic Surgeon, Dubai, UAE