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Emergency Medicine Physician with interest in Extreme Environmental Medicine and Diving Medicine.

Dr. Sami is a full-time consultant in emergency medicine at Sheikh Shakhbout Medical City (SSMC), Mayo Clinic, Abu Dhabi, UAE. He is also the medical director for patient safety at SSMC. He is the quality lead for the emergency department in his hospital. He also works as a medical appraiser for MEDSU (an independent medical appraisal company) in the UK. He is an examiner for the Royal College of Emergency Medicine UK. He is a member of the Emirates Society of Emergency Medicine scientific committee. He is a speaker at many international conferences.

He completed medical school at King Edward Medical College, Lahore, Pakistan, in 1999. He moved to the United Kingdom in 2002. He spent five years working as a junior doctor in different hospitals across England and Scotland. In 2007 he became a registrar in Emergency Medicine in North London. He passed his fellowship in emergency medicine while working in London and became a consultant in 2011 in the UK. He worked as a consultant at Medway Maritime Hospital in Kent, UK, for three years. He was the governance lead for the emergency department at Medway. He moved to Abu Dhabi in 2014 and has been working at SSMC in Abu Dhabi, UAE.

His main area of work is being a patient safety officer at SSMC. He is responsible for implementing and improving patient safety at the hospital. He oversees any safety incidents and the hospital level. He works in partnership with the director of quality and quality officer to provide governance around quality and safety in the hospital. He leads the care review conference, where clinical cases are discussed with senior hospital team members for review, and decisions are taken to improve patient safety.

He is also a core faculty member of the emergency medicine residency program at SSMC. He is an Instructor for the Advanced Trauma Life Support Course and Advanced Life Support Course UK. His areas of interest are trauma, emergency ultrasound, emergency radiology quality, and safety in the emergency department. Currently, he is working on MBA in healthcare management from Johns Hopkin University.

Consultant Emergency Physician with;
Medicine Bachelor and Bachelor of Surgery from UAEU -2009
Jordanian Board of Emergency Medicine -2015
Executive Master of Healthcare Administration from ZU - 2017

Currently working as attending EM specialist, Deputy and Associate Program Director of Emergency Medicine Residency Program at Tawam Hospital.

As well as carrying responsibility for ED administrative duties. Such as member of the following committees: blood utilization committee, M & M hospital wide committee, Preparedness & business continuity committee, activity-based mandate committee, graduate medical education committee.

Also, a member of the UAE National Institute of Health Specialties – Emergency Medicine of the UAE ministry of Health & Higher Education.

Ives Hubloue, MD, PhD, CEDE, FESEM.

Chair of the Department of Emergency Medicine of the Universitair Ziekenhuis Brussel (UZ Brussel) and of the Research Group on Emergency and Disaster Medicine at the Medical School of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (ReGEDiM Brussels).

He graduated in Medicine at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Belgium) in 1988 and started a residency in Internal Medicine (finished in 1993) followed by a training in emergency, intensive care and disaster medicine (finished in 1995). In 2003 he obtained his PhD in Medical Sciences. As professor at the medical school of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel he is involved in the teaching program for medical students (undergraduate and graduate). He is also the program director for the residency training in emergency medicine training (postgraduate) at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel. Besides this he is a Faculty member and Chair of the Strategic Management Board of the European Master in Disaster Medicine (EMDM, www.dismedmaster.com) course.

Dr Mahmoud Ghanaim is Consultant and Head of the Emergency Department, Dubai HospitalDubai-UAE. He completed his undergraduate and initial postgraduate training at Kuwait University, Kuwait, training in general medicine and cardiology, followed by further training in the United Kingdom. He then joined the Cardiology Department of Dubai Hospital in 1990 in addition to his post as Senior Physician in the Intensive Care Unit. He was appointed as head of emergency Department October 2010.

Dr Ghanaim’s main clinical interests are acute cardiac care and acute medicine.

He actively participated in many national and international emergency medicine and cardiology conferences.

Nadeem Qureshi, MD, FAAP, FCCM is Professor of Pediatric Emergency Medicine at St Louis University School of Medicine in St Louis, Missouri, USA. He has been actively involved in Pediatric Emergency Medicine for nearly 25 years - He's been an educationalist, mentor and an expert in quality management in pediatric emergency medicine. He has been the founding member of the Pediatric Emergency Medicine for the European Society of Emergency Medicine, developing the curriculum of Pediatric Emergency Medicine for EUSEM and organizing research projects in REPEM. He has served as Scientific Chair for multiple International Emergency Medicine meetings and has also overseen the Emirati Society of Emergency Medicine Scientific Assembly. He has spoken at multiple international and national emergency medicine meetings. He has been working with different organizations specially Childlife Foundation in Pakistan to improve the quality of pediatric emergency medicine services in low income countries.

Award winning Emergency physician. MBBS at King Abdulaziz Uni in Jeddah, and FRCS, FRCEM and CCT in London, including with the Helicopter Emergency Medical Service HEMS. Since 2014 in the UAE and worked as Consultant Emergency and HOD at Sheikh Khalifa Hospital UQ and Al-Qassimi in Sharjah as well as Adj Asst Prof at the Uni of Sharjah. ATLS (and life support) instructor since 2003. Interests include Resuscitation, ER procedures and ER Quality improvement, Education. Scientific committee of ESEM and several other international organizations.

MBBS, FACEP, ARDMS

Dr. Buhumaid is an Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at Mohammed Bin Rashid University of Medicine & Health Sciences. She is the general secretary of the Emirates Society of Emergency Medicine. She completed her residency training in Emergency Medicine at George Washington University, Washington D.C., as well as an Emergency Ultrasound fellowship in Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, USA. Currently she is pursuing Masters of Medical Education from Dundee University. Dr. Buhumaid is active in point of care ultrasound education in the Middle East region and has taught numerous regional and international workshops.

Dr. Fares Al-Ali is the first Canadian and American board-certified emergency physician from the UAE. He completed his medical education at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland in 2000. He then completed the Royal College Emergency Medicine Residency Program at McGill University in Montreal, Canada (2002-2007). In 2008, he completed a fellowship in clinical Emergency Medicine and Emergency Medical Services (EMS) at the University of Toronto in Canada followed by a Disaster Medicine Fellowship at Harvard Medical School in Boston, USA as Harvard’s first Disaster Medicine fellow and as co-founder of the program (2009). In May 2011, he obtained his Master of Public Health (MPH) from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and obtained his DrPH in Health Care Management and Leadership from the same school (May 2021). His project during the MPH/DrPH is the Emergency Medical System framework in the Emirate of Abu Dhabi.
Dr. Fares Al-Ali is former Head of the Emergency Department and the former Program Director at Zayed Military Hospital. He is the founder and former chairman of the Trauma System Initiative of the Emirate of Abu Dhabi and also the founder and past president of the Emirates Society of Emergency Medicine (ESEM) with several community activities. Dr Fares Al-Ali was able to establish several Trauma initiatives including the first official Trauma Registry in the Emirate of Abu Dhabi. He coordinated the efforts to establish Abu Dhabi STEMI network involving the different stakeholders. He was able to lead ESEM’s efforts with the Ministry of Health to pass an equivalence of the “Good Samaritan Law”, which is considered the first law of its kind in an Arab Country. He led the Emirates society of Emergency Medicine Conference to be the largest Emergency Conference in the MENA region and one of the top conferences world-wide. He led the Emirates society of Emergency Medicine to win the bid and successfully host the International Conference for Emergency Medicine (ICEM21) for the first time in the MENA region, with over 2500 delegates. He Introduced the idea of the Gulf Federation of Emergency Medicine which was officially announced in 2017 and now coordinating all the Emergency Medicine efforts in the Gulf Region. He is the winner of the “Founders Award” which was awarded by the American Academy of Emergency Medicine and the Mediterranean Academy of Emergency Medicine at the Xth Mediterranean Congress of Emergency Medicine, Dubrovnik, Croatia in September 2019. He was recently awarded fellowships by the International Federation of Emergency Medicine and the Faculty of Sports and Exercise Medicine in Ireland, a Faculty under governance of both Royal College of Physicians of Ireland and the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland. Dr Fares Al-Ali is leading important efforts to advance the Disaster Medical Preparedness in the UAE. In 2009, he introduced “Hospital Incident Command System or HICS” to all Governmental Hospitals in Abu Dhabi along with other key recommendations. He chaired the Ministry of Health Team on Prehospital Care development. He was recently appointed as the Executive Director of the Center of Emergency Preparedness and Response (CEPAR) at the Department of Health – Abu Dhabi in April 2021. Dr Fares Al-Ali has contributed to several international textbooks and peer-reviewed articles in the field of Emergency Medicine and Disaster Medicine, and has presented in several conferences regionally and internationally.

MD, FAAEM, FACEP, FACMT, FAACT

Dr. Kazzi trained in Emergency Medicine at Emory University in Atlanta (2000-03) where he served as a chief resident before completing a subspecialty fellowship in Medical Toxicology at Emory University, Georgia Poison Center and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta. He is board certified in both Emergency Medicine and Medical Toxicology. Dr. Kazzi joined the Department of Emergency Medicine at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) between 2005 and 2008 where he served as a Medical Toxicologist for the Regional Poison Control Center in Birmingham and the Alabama Poison Center. Currently, he is an associate professor at the department of Emergency Medicine at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia as well as the director of the International Toxicology Fellowship Program at Emory University. He is also the assistant medical director of the Georgia Poison Center and a guest researcher at the National Center for Environmental Health at the CDC where he participates in emergency preparedness and response activities in radiation.

As an emergency physician and toxicologist, Dr. Kazzi specializes in the recognition, triage, and management of poisonings and holds a deep interest in the areas of Radiation and International Toxicology. He founded and chaired the American Academy of Clinical Toxicology Radiation Interest Group since 2009. He is currently serving as a board member of the American College of Medical Toxicology (ACMT) and the Medical Toxicology Foundation. He chairs the ACMT Clerkship Council and International Committees. Dr. Kazzi has extensively lectured at National and International conferences and developed several curricula and training programs in emergency preparedness and response. He is an active and founding board member of the Middle East North Africa Toxicology Association and currently serves as its President.

Dr.Basmah Al Zahmi, is an emergency specialist, who contributed in ESEM quality team since 2014, interested in Organization, management skills & leadership. ESEM for her is the reflection of emergency medicine image & promising future at UAE & the whole world.

Currently Specialist Emergency Physician at Rashid hospital Master of Science in Hospital Management From Hamdan Bin Mohammad Smart University in 2021.
Worked as Emergency medicine specialist at Tawam Hospital From 2018-2021 Arab board Certified Completed Residency training in Emergency medicine accredited by : the Arab board and the Accreditation Council for Graduate medical Education-international ACGME-I in 2017 UAE university Graduate 2012 in MBBS.

Consultant Emergency Physician with;
Medicine Bachelor and Bachelor of Surgery from UAEU -2009
Jordanian Board of Emergency Medicine -2015
Executive Master of Healthcare Administration from ZU - 2017

Currently working as attending EM specialist, Deputy and Associate Program Director of Emergency Medicine Residency Program at Tawam Hospital.

As well as carrying responsibility for ED administrative duties. Such as member of the following committees: blood utilization committee, M & M hospital wide committee, Preparedness & business continuity committee, activity-based mandate committee, graduate medical education committee.

Also, a member of the UAE National Institute of Health Specialties – Emergency Medicine of the UAE ministry of Health & Higher Education.

Dr. AlKhaldi is a Consultant Emergency and Disaster Medicine and EMS physician in SEHA Abu Dhabi. Dr. AlKhaldi is a UAE Graduate from the Medical School of UAE University and board certified Emergence Medicine from Rennes University-France. Dr. AlKhaldi completed 3 fellowships in BIDMC-affiliated with HARVARD medical school USA. The Disaster Medicine and Emergency Management fellowship, International EMS and Pre-Hospital Care fellowship and Crisis leadership Fellowship. He was involved in evaluating the medical response in the Federal Capstone Exercise 2014: Alaska Shield, a federal disaster drill, and worked as a section author on the new edition of Dr. Gregory R. Ciottone's Disaster Medicine Book. Further he is an evaluator in UAE government excellence program. His particular interests within the realm of disaster medicine include Mass Gathering Medicine, International EMS, and Disaster Preparedness. Dr. AlKhaldi participated in many disaster drills. Also, he has an extensive experience in emergency and healthcare management. Demonstrated exemplary leadership credentials and organization skills whilst working for the Abu Dhabi Health Services Company (SEHA). An expert in emergency field and possess the key skills necessary for exemplary leadership in EMS and Emergency & Disaster Medicine. A dedicated individual with a proven track record in successful directing the execution of strategies and ensuring the effective delivery of safe and reliable healthcare across the SEHA entities through Health care related projects. Dr. AlKhaldi has held many leadership positions while working in Corporate SEHA (for example Executive Project Manager and Acting Deputy Chief of Total Quality Division).

Dr. Khalifa Saeed Alqaydi earned his medical degree from Manchester University (UK) and underwent initial medical training in the UK. Later, he pursued postgraduate residency training in Emergency Medicine at McGill University (Canada) in 2019, followed by a Trauma Team Leadership fellowship in 2020 at the same institution. Additionally, he holds a Resuscitation Leadership fellowship from the Resus Leadership Academy (USA).

Currently serving as a Consultant in Emergency Medicine, Director of the Emergency Medicine Residency Program, and Head of the Emergency Department at Zayed Military Hospital in Abu Dhabi under the Ministry of Defense, Dr. Alqaydi demonstrates strong leadership in military healthcare.

His professional interests lie in caring for critically ill patients in the Emergency Department and contributing to trauma system improvement. Notably, Dr. Alqaydi serves as the CO-Chair of the Education Sub Task Force within the Abu Dhabi Emergency Medicine Task Force, focusing on enhancing the quality of medical education in the emirate. This reflects his commitment to shaping the education and training of healthcare professionals in Abu Dhabi. Overall, Dr. Khalifa Saeed Alqaydi plays a multifaceted role, combining clinical expertise, leadership in emergency medicine, and a commitment to advancing medical education in Abu Dhabi.

Dr. Lateefa is currently a consultant emergency physician at Sheikh Khalifa General Hospital . She is graduate of master of science in hospital management from Hamdan bin Mohammed Smart University 2021. Other affiliations include

• Worked as emergency medicine specialist at Tawam hospital from 2018-2021.
• Arab board certified 2018 , Jordanian board certified 2018.
• Completed residency training in emergency medicine accredited by : The Arab Board and accreditation council for graduate medical education international ACGME-I in 2016.
• RAK MHSU Graduate 2011 in MBBS.

Dr. Anzal Rehman graduated from Avalon University School of Medicine in the Caribbean, including training in the U.S., Seychelles, and Philippines.

He completed his post-graduate internship at the Dubai, Latifa and Rashid Hospitals under the Dubai Health Authority (DHA), following which he completed his Emergency Medicine residency training at Zayed Military Hospital in Abu Dhabi. During his time in Abu Dhabi, he served as Chief Resident and actively participated in teaching residents, interns, and medical students at the Emergency Department.

Dr Anzal is the Founder and President of the Emirates Collaboration of Residents in Emergency Medicine (ECREM), host of the ‘ECREM|talks’ educational podcast, Editor-in-Chief for the Emirates Society of Emergency Medicine (ESEM) Monthly Newsletter, Guest Editor for the PLOS One Medical Journal, Adjunct Clinical Lecturer at the Mohammed Bin Rashid University Of Medicine and Health Sciences (MBRU), as well as a Member of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine (MRCEM).

Currently Specialist Emergency Physician at Rashid hospital Master of Science in Hospital Management From Hamdan Bin Mohammad Smart University in 2021. Worked as Emergency medicine specialist at Tawam Hospital From 2018-2021.

Arab board Certified 2018 Completed Residency training in Emergency medicine accredited by : the Arab board and the Accreditation Council for Graduate medical Education-international ACGME-I in 2017, university Graduate 2012 in MBBS.

MBBS, FACEP, ARDMS

Dr. Buhumaid is an Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at Mohammed Bin Rashid University of Medicine & Health Sciences. She is the general secretary of the Emirates Society of Emergency Medicine. She completed her residency training in Emergency Medicine at George Washington University, Washington D.C., as well as an Emergency Ultrasound fellowship in Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, USA. Currently she is pursuing Masters of Medical Education from Dundee University. Dr. Buhumaid is active in point of care ultrasound education in the Middle East region and has taught numerous regional and international workshops.

MD, MPH, FRCPC(EM), FAAEM, FACEP Dr. Fares is the first Canadian and American board-certified emergency physician from the UAE. He completed his medical education at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland in 2000. He then completed the Royal College Emergency Medicine Residency Program at McGill University in Montreal, Canada (2002-2007). In 2008, he completed a fellowship in clinical Emergency Medicine and Emergency Medical Services (EMS) at the University of Toronto in Canada followed by a Disaster Medicine Fellowship at Harvard Medical School in Boston, USA as Harvard’s first Disaster Medicine fellow and as co-founder of the program (2009). In May 2011, he obtained his Master of Public Health (MPH) from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health at which he is currently enrolled in a DrPH program in Health Care Management and Leadership. His project during the MPH/DrPH is the Emergency Medical System framework in the Emirate of Abu Dhabi. Dr. Fares is currently a Consultant and Head of the Emergency Department at Zayed Military Hospital and is the founder and chairman of the Trauma System Initiative of the Emirate of Abu Dhabi. He is also the founder and president of the Emirates Society of Emergency Medicine (ESEM) since 2012 with several community activities. Dr Fares was able to establish several Trauma initiatives in Abu Dhabi including the first official Trauma Registry in the Emirate of Abu Dhabi with over 20 thousand cases to date. He coordinated the efforts to establish Abu Dhabi STEMI network involving the different stakeholders. He was able to suggest a Good Samaritan Law draft, through the Emirates Society of Emergency Medicine, to the Ministry of Health which is moving forward now and should be announced in the near future. This will be considered the first law of its kind in an Arab Country. He led the Emirates society of Emergency Medicine Conference to be the largest Emergency Conference in the MENA region and one of the top conferences world-wide. He led the Emirates society of Emergency Medicine to win the bid on hosting the International Conference for Emergency Medicine (ICEM 2021) for the first time in the MENA region. He Introduced the idea of the Gulf Federation of Emergency Medicine which was officially announced in 2017 and is coordinating all the Emergency Medicine efforts in the Gulf Region. He is the winner of the “Founders Award” which was awarded by the American Academy of Emergency Medicine and the Mediterranean Academy of Emergency Medicine at the Xth Mediterranean Congress of Emergency Medicine, Dubrovnik, Croatia in September 2019. Dr Fares is leading important efforts to advance the Disaster Medical Preparedness in the UAE. He introduced “Hospital Incident Command System or HICS” to all SEHA Governmental Hospitals - Abu Dhabi along with other key recommendations and he is currently chairing the Ministry of Health Team on Prehospital Care development. Dr Fares has contributed to several international textbooks and peer-reviewed articles in the field of Emergency Medicine and Disaster Medicine, and has presented in several conferences regionally and internationally.

Dr. Ahmed Humaid is a UAE Emergency Physician Consultant, graduated from Ottawa, ON, Canada. He is currently the commanding officer for School of Health Affairs where he is leading the medical military training requirements for UAE Armed Forces. He has initiated the project of Tactical Medical Simulation capabilities for the Joint Logistic Command. He used to be an Emergency Department chairman and Field Hospital Commander from 2007 till 2013. He has been actively involved in many emergency medicine academic events including National and International Emergency Medicine Conferences, as a speaker, and he is a member of ESEM. His main interest is in tactical and military emergency medicine topics and research.

A pediatric emergency consultant at King Fahad Medical City (KFMC)

Chairperson of life Support and STARS and Operation Department at (CRESENT) in KFMC

Advanced Trauma Life Support (ATLS) instructor

A board member of SSSH Head of publicity and advertisement

An organizer of the volunteer group in the pediatric residency program (Cheerful Children Cain). I am also the simulation Pediatric emergency fellowship director since March 2018, I run simulation courses for pediatric residents, Pediatric emergency departments, and the founder of the PASS Course in CRESENT, FDSIM-Advance Debriefing course.

A graduated from the KFMC pediatric residency program then pediatric emergency fellowship, pediatric emergency Fellowship at Sickkids, Toronto, 2013. Simulation fellowship at University of Calgary, Alberta Children Hospital, KIDSIM Pediatric Simulation, 2014.

Speaker in several conferences regionally and internationally, focusing in medical simulation such as in IMSH2014, IMSH2016, W21C SIMposium in Calgary 2014, simulation summit Toronto2014, 1st Saudi Health Simulation Conference workshop 2015, Princess Nourah bint Mohamed bin Saud Al Saud, Nov2017, Saudi Health Simulation Conference workshops 2018, Saudi Health Simulation Conference workshops. Board members in the scientific committee in conferences such as SASEM2018, SASEM2021.

Examiner at the Saudi Council for Health Specialties

Faculty in Simulation courses at KFMC:

-Instructor/cofounder at workshop Basic Medical Simulation Course for Educators at KFMC

-Instructor/cofounder at workshop FDSIM (faculty development of simulation

- br/eaking bad news simulation workshop instructor as well cofounder

- Lumbar Puncture simulation hands on course as facilitator

- Intensive Simulation for Pediatric R1 Intensive Simulation for Pediatric R1

- PASS (Pediatric Advance simulation scenarios workshop (founder, facilitator)

-FDSIM- advance debriefing like an expert (founder, facilitator)

Dr Al Hatali is the head of the poison control section, Environmental and Occupational Health Department, at the Ministry of Health in Sultanate of Oman. She also serves as the Middle East and North Africa Association of Medical Toxicology (MENATOX) President. She is a consultant in the Emergency Medicine Department at Royal Hospital and the Emergency Medicine Program Director at Oman Medical Specialty Board. She graduated from Oman Medical Specialty Board in 2012 as well as certified by the Arab Emergency Medicine Board. She finished her Post Doctoral Fellowship in medical toxicology at Emory University and the Georgia Poison Center in Atlanta, GA USA in 2014. She has lectured in countries around the world and has numerous awards to her credit. Dr Al Hatali has a true passion for Toxicology and field development in the Region.

Dr. Danish Muhammad Sami is a Consultant for Emergency Medicine at Sheikh Shakhbout Medical City, Abu Dhabi. With 16 years of experience, he specializes in Trauma Care as well as Adult and Pediatric Resuscitation.

He completed MRCS in 2007 from Royal College of Surgeons in Glassgow, UK. Further to this, he completed MRCEM and FRCEM from Royal College of Emergency Medicine, UK in 2007 and 2011, respectively. He is a certified Medical Appraiser, an ATLS Instructor and Speaker at International Conferences.

Dr. Revue is the head of the ED in Lariboisiere ‘s hospital (Assistance Publique -Hopitaux de Paris) specialized in prehospital EMS, disaster medicine , toxicology . Research and study areas include Lean Management , organization of ED, overcrowding,hyperbaric scuba-diving accidents, trauma imaging, and new technologies. He was a medical doctor in the French Army for 2 years in the South Pacific army in New Caledonia .He is involved with the international development of emergency medicine as Chair of the prehospital section of EUSEM , member of the French Society of Emergency Medicine (SFMU) and editorial board of the Turkish Journal of EM , Canadian Journal of EM.

Dr Hamid Aizaz Chatha MRCS, MRCEM, FRCEM, Msc (UCL), MD. Consultant Emergency Medicine Ad. Assistant Professor at UAE University Qualifications: MRCS, MRCEM, FRCEM, MSc (UCL).

Hamid Chatha is a Consultant in Emergency Medicine at the Tawam Hospital and also holds Adjunct Assistant Professor position at UAE University, Al Ain, UAE. He graduated in 2002 and completed his CCT in Emergency Medicine, in Manchester, United Kingdom.

Dr Chatha has been consultant in EM since 2015. During his training he worked in three Major Trauma centers in Manchester. He also completed MRCS from Royal College of Surgeons, Edinburgh and MSc in Musculoskeletal Sciences from the university college London, UK.

Dr Chatha has special interest in Trauma, sports injuries & education. He has regularly presented at international conferences in last few years. He is a fellowship examiner for the Royal College of Emergency Medicine and EM Specialty Exam for Department of Heath Abu Dhabi. He is an ATLS, ACLS, PALS Instructor. Dr Chatha is a keen educator and is part of core faculty for Tawam ER Residency program.

Ives Hubloue, MD, PhD, CEDE, FESEM.
Chair of the Department of Emergency Medicine of the Universitair Ziekenhuis Brussel (UZ Brussel) and of the Research Group on Emergency and Disaster Medicine at the Medical School of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (ReGEDiM Brussels).
He graduated in Medicine at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Belgium) in 1988 and started a residency in Internal Medicine (finished in 1993) followed by a training in emergency, intensive care and disaster medicine (finished in 1995). In 2003 he obtained his PhD in Medical Sciences. As professor at the medical school of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel he is involved in the teaching program for medical students (undergraduate and graduate). He is also the program director for the residency training in emergency medicine training (postgraduate) at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel. Besides this he is a Faculty member and Chair of the Strategic Management Board of the European Master in Disaster Medicine (EMDM, www.dismedmaster.com) course.

Dr.Jufaili works at Sultan Qaboos University Hospital & College of Medicine as Senior consultant Emergency Physicians and the current HOD of the emergency department, completed Med school at SQU in 1997, Residency and Fellowship in sports medicine from McGill University 2008. Enrolled in Master program of Med education at Maastricht University. Previous program director of EM program at Oman Medical Specialty Board , Director of Education department. The former HOD of Royal Hospital Emergency Department. Holds the position of chairman of the Sports medicine committee of Oman Olympic committee & the team physician for the Oman national football team. FFSEM fellow at the Faculty of Sports and Exercise Medicine, RCPI & RCSI, had several publications in local and international journals and worked as reviewer for several journals. Presented at a number of local and international conferences.

OSAMA KENTAB, M.D., FAAP, FACEP

Consultant Pediatric Emergency Medicine

King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz University Hospital

Clinical Associate ProfessorPrincess Nourah Bint AbdulRahman University, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Educational Background:

College of Medicine, King Saud University - MBBS

Specialty, Subspecialty and Years of Experience:

Board certification in Emergency Medicine (FAAEM) – December 2010

American Board of Pediatric Emergency Medicine (FAAP) – October 2000

Fellowship in Pediatric Emergency (FAAP-PEM) – June 1999

American Board of Pediatrics (ABP) – October 1997

Arab Board of Pediatrics (ArabBP) – April 1995

King Saud University Fellowship in Pediatrics (KSUF-P) – December 1994

Dr Omar Ghazanfar

M.B.B.S

European Board Certified in Emergency Medicine (EBCEM)

MSc Disaster Medicine EMDM

FInstLM

Fellowship in Appraisal Oxford UK

ATLS,ACLS,PALS,BLS

Point on Care Ultrasound Trainer

Dr Omar Ghazanfar has completed his MBBS at the age of 25 years from Karachi University and subsequently spent 13 years in the UK at initially in Surgery and subsequently Emergency Medicine before moving to the U.A.E in 2015 as an Emergency Medicine Physician His sub-specialty interest is disaster medicine and he has completed the Advanced Masters in Disaster Medicine (EMDM) which is a dual Masters from the University of Del Piemonte Italy and the Vrije University in Brussles. He has also completed a fellowship from Oxford in appraisals and performance management before working for NHS England in an advisory role. He is Co-Chair of Trauma at the Zayed Military Hospital and Chief Editor of the Emirates Society of Emergency Medicine Published monthly .Dr Ghazanfar has also a keen interest in Medical Leadership and has completed the Edward Jenner Leadership degree from the NHS Leadership Academy.He is also a Fellow of the Institute of Leadership and Management.

Dr Ghazanfar has presented widely in international conferences and served as a faculty member of various forums. He is also a member of the IFEM NATSIG committee looking at the use of technology in Emergency Medicine as well as a member of the Disaster Committee at the European Society of Emergency Medicine.

Assistant Professor and Section Head Emergency Medicine at Aga Khan University Hospital Karachi, Pakistan. Dr Waheed is the first trained emergency medicine physician from the College of Physicians and Surgeons Pakistan (CPSP). He is the author of 50 peer reviewed publications and the recipient of many intramural and extramural grants. He is a PhD scholar in clinical sciences and Fogarty Trauma Violence and Injury Prevention Fellow. His area of interests are resuscitation, airway management and emergency medicine education. He is an Fellow Higher Education Academy (FHEA) UK and his medical education innovations has been appraised in medical literature and many FOAM resources.

MBBS; MS; DNB; DCH; FRCS(Surg); FRCS (A/E) Ed; FRCEM; PGCHCL; CEDE; CMQ; FInstLM

Chairman & Consultant in Adult & Pediatric Emergency Medicine

Adjunct Assistant Professor UAE University

Director EM Residency Program Emergency Department Tawam Hospital Al Ain UAE

-Published numerous peer reviewed EM related articles.

-Section Editor & Chapter Author for various books including the Oxford Handbook for Medical School.

-Invited speaker in numerous national and international conferences.

-Instructor in various life support courses.

-Medico-legal & Clinical Negligence Expert

MD, FAAEM, FACEP, FACMT, FAACT

Dr. Kazzi trained in Emergency Medicine at Emory University in Atlanta (2000-03) where he served as a chief resident before completing a subspecialty fellowship in Medical Toxicology at Emory University, Georgia Poison Center and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta. He is board certified in both Emergency Medicine and Medical Toxicology. Dr. Kazzi joined the Department of Emergency Medicine at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) between 2005 and 2008 where he served as a Medical Toxicologist for the Regional Poison Control Center in Birmingham and the Alabama Poison Center. Currently, he is an associate professor at the department of Emergency Medicine at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia as well as the director of the International Toxicology Fellowship Program at Emory University. He is also the assistant medical director of the Georgia Poison Center and a guest researcher at the National Center for Environmental Health at the CDC where he participates in emergency preparedness and response activities in radiation.

As an emergency physician and toxicologist, Dr. Kazzi specializes in the recognition, triage, and management of poisonings and holds a deep interest in the areas of Radiation and International Toxicology. He founded and chaired the American Academy of Clinical Toxicology Radiation Interest Group since 2009. He is currently serving as a board member of the American College of Medical Toxicology (ACMT) and the Medical Toxicology Foundation. He chairs the ACMT Clerkship Council and International Committees. Dr. Kazzi has extensively lectured at National and International conferences and developed several curricula and training programs in emergency preparedness and response. He is an active and founding board member of the Middle East North Africa Toxicology Association and currently serves as its President.