Her Excellency Dr Farida Al Hosani, Executive Director of Infectious Diseases at Abu Dhabi Public Health Centre and Official Spokes person for the UAE Health Sector

Member of WHO PIP Framework Advisory Group. Adjunct Associate Professor UAEU, Board Member of Rahma Cancer Care Association, Board Member of Abu Dhabi Cycling Club.
In her role, she is focused on setting the Centre’s strategic plans and overseeing their implementation in line with the goals and objectives of the Communicable Diseases Sector and the UAE and Abu Dhabi’s strategy.
Building on her extensive experience and knowledge in the healthcare sector H.E. Dr Farida leads the operational and planning elements of communicable diseases surveillance and monitoring including E-Notifications, Premarital Screening, Malaria Control, Vaccinations, Occupational and Environmental Health and outbreak response and management, at ADPHC.
As the Official Spokesperson for the UAE Health Sector, H.E. Dr. Farida holds the responsibility of communicating the latest updates along with public health and safety measures to the community. Leading pandemic preparedness and vaccination initiatives, her role has supported the UAE’s accomplishments as an expert in addressing the pandemic.
H.E. Dr. Farida AlHosani is the first Emirati female to join World Health Organisation’s Pandemic Influenza Preparedness Framework Advisory Group in 2022. She is serving in her personal, expert capacity, for a period of three years. Her key goal as a member is to improve and strengthen the sharing of information about influenza viruses with human pandemic potential, and to increase the access to vaccines and other pandemic related supplies for developing countries.
As a leader in health strategic planning and public health excellence in Abu Dhabi, H.E. Dr. Farida has held numerous leadership positions over the past 12 years, enhancing her comprehensive perspective of the rapidly transforming public health industry.
H.E. Dr. Farida serves as the Head of the UAE Abu Dhabi Research Committee for COVID-19, and the Head of the Executive Team for the COVID-19 vaccine in Abu Dhabi.
She holds a master’s degree and PhD from the John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, USA and a master’s degree in Security and Strategic Studies from the UAE National Defense College.

Vice President of Network Operations,
Harvard Medical Faculty Physicians
Director of Operations/Senior Medical
Director, Emergency Medicine, BIDMC
Instructor in Emergency Medicine,
Harvard Medical School

David Chiu, MD, MPH is the Director of Operations, Department of Emergency Medicine, BIDMC, where he is part of a collaborative team that facilitates the operations of the emergency department including optimization of flow through the department. He is also a a developer for the division of emergency medical informatics. Dr. Chiu also serves as Vice President of Network Operations for the BIDMC physician group, Harvard Medical Faculty Physicians. He completed his residency and chief residency year at the Harvard Affiliated Emergency Medicine Residency at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, followed by a 2-year fellowship in emergency medicine informatics. Dr. Chiu obtained a Master of Public Health in Clinical Effectiveness at the Harvard School of Public Health as part of his fellowship. His interests lie in operational informatics, educational informatics, emergency medicine operations, and medical education.

M.D., ABEM, FRCP(C)
Chairman, Sheikh Khalifa Medical City Emergency Department

Dr. Ken Dittrich is a Canadian, Consultant ER physician with over 35 years post residency experience. He has been working at the Sheikh Khalifa Medical City in Abu Dhabi since 2003. Presently is the Chairman (A) of theEmergency department. Prior to his employment at SKMC, he worked 16 years at the King Abdulaziz Medical City in Riyahd, Saudi Arabia.
He completed his residency training in Emergency Medicine , at the Oregon Health Science University, USA in 1984. He has his American Boards in Emergency Medicine, and as well is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians ( Specialty in Emergency Medicine ) of Canada. He has a special interest in Trauma care and in education.

President, International Federation for Emergency Medicine
Consultant Emergency Physician, University Hospitals of Leicester
UK

Dr Ffion Davies is President of the International Federation for Emergency Medicine and works as a Consultant Emergency Physician at the University Hospitals of Leicester, UK. She is sub-specialist trained in Paediatric Emergency Medicine. Ffion’s main clinical interest is in multi-professional education.
For over 20 years Ffion has acted in leadership roles or as advisor at national level in the UK. She is the Medical Lead for The Children’s Air Ambulance charity, a national PICU/NICU helicopter retrieval and ECMO service.
Ffion has worked within IFEM for 13 years and was elected as President in 2022. IFEM’s vision is “A world where all people, in all countries, have access to high-quality emergency medical care”. IFEM works to connect and help those working in emergency care, promote the development of a trained workforce who are skilled and recognised as qualified specialists, and to use its global influence to assist its member national societies in continuously improving their service to patients.

MD, Chief of Emergency Medicine, BIDMC Associate Professor of Emergency
Medicine, Harvard Medical School
USA

Wolfe has been the Chief of Emergency Medicine at BIDMC since 1999. He trained for three years in emergency medicine at Denver General Hospital, where he subsequently became Associate Residency Director and Residency Director for Emergency Medicine. In 1994, he became the Residency Director for the Harvard Affiliated Emergency Medicine Residency for Brigham and Women's Hospital / Massachusetts General Hospital. Dr. Wolfe teaches internationally and nationally in ED operational topics such as designing integrated emergency departments, ED quality, ED workflow management, ED leadership, and the relationship between emergency medicine specialty training with ED quality of care and operational efficiency.

Head of the Emergency Dept and prehospital EMS Lariboisière Hospital,SAMU of Paris,
France

Chair of the prehospital section of EUSEM
Scientific Committee of the French Society of Emergency Medicine.
Experience in Disaster Medicine, Management and Leadership ,Toxicology, Scubadiving and Hyperbaric accidents.

MD, MPH, FACEP, FAAEM, CHSE
Saudia Arabia

Associate Professor and Consultant of Emergency Medicine.
President, Saudi Society of Emergency Medicine.
General Supervisor, The National Emergency Operation Center, and Ambulance Services.