Emergency Physicians
King Saud University

Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at King Saud University College of Medicine. He completed his Emergency Medicine residency at The George Washington University in Washington, DC. Afterward, he moved to California to complete Anesthesiology Critical Care and Emergency Ultrasound Fellowships at the University of California San Diego. He is Board Certified in Emergency Medicine and Critical Care by the American Board of Emergency Medicine. He is also certified by the National Board of Echocardiography in Critical Care Echocardiography and holds the International Diploma in ECMO and Short-Term Respiratory and Circulatory Support. His academic interests include cardiac critical care, mechanical circulatory support (ECPR/ECMO), resuscitative TTE/TEE and utilization of telemedicine in acute resuscitation & critical care management.

Consultant Emergency Medicine,
Zayed Military Hospital

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

Emergency Medicine Consultant
United Arab Emirates

Assistant Professor Of Emergency Medicine
King Saud University

Abdulaziz Abdulrahman AlRabiah

• Assistant professor and Consultant of Emergency Medicine
• Trauma and Emergency Medical Services Fellow
• Fellowship of Australasian College of Emergency Medicine
• Saudi Board Certified in Emergency Medicine.
• European Board Certified in Emergency Medicine (EBCEM)
• European Master in Disaster Medicine
• Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine, College of Medicine

King Saud University Medical city
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Dr.Abdulaziz AlRabiah Completed His Emergency Medicine Training in Australia, followed By a Fellowship in Trauma and Emergency Medical Services.

Working Now as an Assistant Professor and Consultant of Emergency Medicine at King Saud University Medical city in Riyadh Saudi Arabia.

Dr. AlRabiah has special interest in Trauma ,Out of Hospital Care and Retrieval Medicine.

Specialist Emergency Medicine,
Zayed Military Hospital /Sheikh Shakhbout Medical City

Specialist in Emergency medicine, studied in United Arab Emirates University and did my residency in Tawam Hospital in Al Ain, Graduated in 2019 and currently Jordanian Board Certified with a license working in both Zayed Military Hospital and Sheikh Shakhbout Medical City. I have written few publications that were published in multiple journals both national and international. Did few talks over the years for both residents and senior physician with the latest being in 2019 April in Al Ain “a TED Rhapsody under the title “burnout among physician””. Hobbies include Soccer, Running, swimming and paddle.

Chief Executive Officer
ChildLife Foundation

Dr. Ahson Rabbani is the CEO of ChildLife Foundation since 2014, an ISO certified nonprofit based in Pakistan. ChildLife provides pediatric emergency care to a 1.5 million children annually – free of cost – through a network of 100+ public sector hospitals.

With a passion for learning, he acquired bachelors, masters and doctorate education from USA focusing on technology and management. His research interest is sustained behavior change for improved health.

In the first decade of his career, he worked at Fortune 500 companies at senior regional management roles honing his skills for managing large teams. For the last two decades he has played leading roles at some of Pakistan's largest philanthropic foundations in education and health.

His forte is leveraging local philanthropy and creating public-private partnerships for scaled impact.

MBBCH, CCFP (EM), EMHCA
Emergency Physician Consultant
Zayed Military Hospital - Abu Dhabi
School of Health Affairs Commander
Joint Logistic Command
UAE Armed Forces

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.

MD, MPH, PhD, FACEP, FCCM, FSEM-RCSI

• Professor (Emergency Medicine and Epidemiology)
• Vice-Chair for Operational Medicine/ Director Center for Operational Medicine
• Department of Emergency Medicine
• Medical College of Georgia, Augusta University

EMERGENCY PHYISICIAN
Iraqi Society for Emergency Medicine (ISEM)

Hospital/ Allkindy teaching hospital , Emergency department Director
Specialty Board Certificate Emergency Medicine. Position: Head of Emergency Department of Head of Iraqi Society of Emergency Medicine

Qualifications
Qualification 1: M.B.Ch.B.
Awarding Body College of Medicine University of Baghdad
Qualification 2: (Accidents And Emergency Medicine) Specialization.
Awarding Body: Jordan Medical Council

Consultant ,
King Fahad Medical City

• Pediatric Emergency Consultant at King Fahad Medical City (KFMC)
• Chairperson of Life Support Department and STARS at Center for Research Education and Simulation Enhanced Training (CRESENT) in KFMC
• Chairperson of the Advertisement and publicity at the Saudi Society for Simulation in Healthcare SSSH
• An organizer of the volunteer group in the pediatric residency program (Cheerful Children Cain)
• Simulation Pediatric emergency fellowship director from March 2018 till 2021
• Examiner at the Saudi Council for Health Specialties
• Pediatric Emergency Fellowship Program Director till Dec 2020
• Advanced Trauma Life Support (ATLS) instructor
• Instructor in communication course titled Enhance Physician Communication Skills (EPCS) at KFMC
• Speaker in several conferences regionally and internationally, part of the scientific and organizing committee in couple of conferences national and international focusing on Simulation and Pediatric emergency topics

Dr. Amjad Obeid is Double Emergency Medicine Board Certified since 2008 with Experience in Emergency Medicine for more than 25 years. Holding Master degree in Disaster Medicine (EMDM -Italy) and Master of Business Administration from ESSEC university in France. Certified Executive EM leader by Harvard University.

Currently working as Consultant Adult Emergency Medicine & Head of Emergency Department in Dr Sulaiman Al Habib Hospital in Khobar.

In Addition to that Dr Obeid is Chief Medical officer of Bahrain Motor Federation responsible for Bahrain Grand Prix Race ( F1 ) and all the FIA car racing since 2006 and a member of the FIA medical Commission since 2008 . Was also nominated to be the Chief medical officer (CMO) for India Grand Prix for 2011 2012, Chief Medical Officer of Baku and CMO for Addriyah Formula E in Riyadh in 2018 -2021.

Dr. Obeid has a good knowledge and work experience in Road Safety and Injury Prevention and worked as WHO focal point for seven years and was the National data co-ordinator for the three global reports on Road Safety published by WHO.

Dr Obeid is a senior instructor certified by American Heart Association for BLS,ACLS , PALS & PEARS & a certified instructor by the American College of Surgeon for PHTLS & ATL S and I am one of the teaching faculty of the Saudi Board Residency Program (SBEM).

Consultant Pediatrician And Senior Clinical Instructor
Childlife Foundation

MD , FRCPC, FAAEM

• Consultant of Emergency Medicine, ICU ,Trauma, EMS and Disaster Medicine .
• Program Director of Emergency Medicine Residency Program at Johns Hopkins Aramco Healthcare ( JHAH), KSA
• Assistant Professor at Weill Cornell Medical College, USA
• Editor in Chief of Saudi Journal Of Emergency Medicine (SJEM).
• Former General Secretary of Gulf Federation Of Emergency Medicine (GFEM).

Consultant Toxicologist
Sheikh Khalifa Medical City
United Arab Emirates

MRCP (UK), MRCP (UK)-Acute Medicine, Advanced Fellowship in Clinical Toxicology, MSc Medical Toxicology, Intermediate training in intensive care, M.B.B.Ch

Ashraf Kamour graduated from Tripoli University in Libya. Following his internship in Tripoli, he moved to the UK where he completed his core medical and higher speciality training in Acute and General Medicine. He completed a Postgraduate Diploma in Medical Toxicology and a Master degree, with a distinction. He possesses an Advanced Clinical Fellowship in Clinical Toxicology from Newcastle-UK. He worked in Cardiff, UK, as acute physician and clinical toxicologist before moving to Abu Dhabi where he works in Sheikh Khalifa Medial City

Clinical Nursing Instructor
Child life Foundation

Emergency Nurses,
SEHA

MD, MPH, PhD, FACEP, FCCM
Professor

Badr Aldawood, MBBS, FRCPC
Chairman Dept. of Emergency Medicine
Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine & Critical Care Medicine
Consultant Emergency Medicine & Critical Care Medicine
King Saud University
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Dr. Aldawood works as an assistant professor and consultant in the Department of Emergency Medicine at King Saud University Medical city in Riyadh Saudi Arabia, He also works as a consultant in the Critical Care Department at the same institute. Involved in the teaching and educational activities for students postgraduate trainees. He did his medical school training at the same institute (King Saud University), then pursued his training in Emergency Medicine at McGill University followed by a fellowship in Critical Care Medicine also at McGill University. In addition, He is the chairman of Department of Emergency Medicine at King Saud University Medical City. He has special interest in critical care and resuscitation, Point of Care Ultrasound and Emergency Medical Services.

Head Of Poison Control Section
Ministry of Health

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

MD
Associate Director of Operations BID-Needham Attending Physician Department of Emergency Medicine, BIDMC Clinical Instructor Emergency Medicine, Harvard Medical School,
United States

Bryan Stenson, MD is an attending physician in emergency medicine. He serves as Associate Director of Operations at Beth Israel Deaconess - Needham. He completed his residency and chief residency at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, followed by a 1-year fellowship in Clinical Operations. His interests include emergency department throughput, radiology flow, and staffing models. He completed his undergraduate studies at Northwestern University and received his medical degree from the University of Connecticut School of Medicine.

USA

Dr. Brent W Morgan is a Professor and Vice Chair in the Department of Emergency Medicine at Emory University in Atlanta, GA USA. Dr. Morgan obtained his M.D. degree from The Ohio State University College of Medicine in 1991. He completed an Emergency Medicine residency in 1994 at MetroHealth Medical Center in Cleveland Ohio and a Medical Toxicology fellowship at Carolinas Medical Center in 1996. He is board certified in Emergency Medicine, Medical Toxicology and Addiction Medicine. In 2000, Dr. Morgan founded a combined Medical Toxicology fellowship training program with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Emory University and the Georgia Poison Center in Atlanta, Georgia. He serves as the Director of the Medical Toxicology fellowship, the Associate Medical Director of the Georgia Poison Center and the Chief of the Medical Toxicology section in the Department of Emergency Medicine. Dr. Morgan established the Georgia Occupational and Environmental Toxicology clinic at Grady Memorial Hospital. It is the only clinic in the state Georgia certified by the Association of Occupational and Environmental Clinics. Dr. Morgan is the Director of the Southeastern United States for Advanced Hazmat Life Support. Through this educational program Dr. Morgan has instructed > 1000 health care providers in the proper care of the hazmat patient. Dr. Morgan is an internationally known expert in Medical Toxicology. He has delivered lectures in numerous countries including Croatia, India, Italy, France, Greece, Lebanon, Oman, Portugal, Spain, Thailand, Turkey and the United Arab Emirates. He has trained physicians from Lebanon, Pakistan, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Thailand and Turkey in the practice of medical toxicology.

Consultant Neurologist
Sheikh Khalifa Medical City (SKMC)

Dr Carl-Johan Ramberg is a Consultant Neurologist at Sheikh Khalifa Medical City Ajman, offering thrombolysis for stroke 24/7. After completing his training at the University Hospitals of Linköping, Örebro and Umeå in his native country Sweden, he became a Consultant Neurologist in 2005 and has previously also worked in Norway and Dubai. He spent the autumn of 2010 in The National Hospital of Neurology and Neurosurgery, Queen Square, London, UK, following a lot of clinics. In 2014, he helped to improve the door-to-needle time for thrombolysis from 75 to 23 minutes in one of the largest hospitals in Norway.

MBBS, MRCS (Glasgow), FRCEM (UK)
Consultant Emergency Medicine
SSMC, Mayo Clinic

MBBS, MRCS (Glasgow), FRCEM (UK)
Consultant Emergency Medicine.
SSMC, Mayo Clinic, UAE, Abu Dhab

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.

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.

Associate Director & Head of Emergency Department
Sarvodaya Hospital & Research Institute

SPECIALITY

• Emergency & Intensive Care Medicine
• Emergency Medical Services
• Pre-Hospital Care
• Disaster Medicine
• Occupational and Industrial Health

EDUCATION

• ATLS (Advance trauma life support)
• ACLS/BLS INSTRUCTOR (American Heart Association)
• MBA (Hospital Administration) Swami Vivekanand Subharti University
• FICM Fellowship (Intensive Care Medicine), Apollo Hospital, New Delhi
• MBBS, Jiwaji University Gwalior

EXPERIENCE

• More than 20 years of experience in Emergency & Trauma Services
• Head, Emergency, Reliance Corporate Medical Services (Reliance Industries Limited)
• Associate Director and Head, Emergency Department, Medanta, Medicity, Gurgaon
• Head of Department, Emergency & Trauma Care, Fortis Hospital, Noida
• Associate Partner, Emergency Management, Research Institute, Dehradun
• Senior Emergency Physician, Max Super Specialty Hospital, New Delhi
• Registrar Critical Care, Indraprastha Apollo Hospital, New Delhi
• Senior Resident, Internal Medicine, Critical Care, St. Stephen's Hospital, New Delhi

Publications:

• Editor-in-Chief: Textbook of Emergency Medicine including intensive care and Trauma (Jaypee Medical
  Publishers) 2022 2nd Edition
• Editor-in-Chief: Text Book of Emergency & Trauma Care (Jaypee Medical Publishers) 2018 1st Edition
• Editor-in-Chief: Signs & Symptoms in Clinical Practice 2020
• International editor of Saudi Journal of emergency (SJEMED)
• Clinical & Laboratory evaluation of hypothyroidism in elderly (Published in – JAPI – Vol 51 Dec 2003)

Emergency Medicine Specialist
Mediclinic Parkview Hospital

Dr. Dina Mahmassani is an Emergency Medicine Specialist at Mediclinic Parkview Hospital – Dubai. She received her Doctor of Medicine degree from the American University of Beirut, after completing a Bachelor’s degree in nursing. She completed residency training in Emergency Medicine at the American University of Beirut Medical Center, where she also served as Emergency Medicine Chief Resident.

She then joined the International Committee of the Red Cross as an emergency medicine specialist providing acute care to vulnerable patients of all ages and teaching residents at the emergency department of the Rafic Hariri University Hospital, Beirut’s largest governmental hospital. Dr. Mahmassani also served as a clinical associate at the emergency department of the American University of Beirut Medical Center, providing clinical service and upholding her research work. She is currently pursuing a master’s degree in health research at the American University of Beirut Scholars in Health Research Program.

Emergency Medicine Specialist
GHQ, Medical Services Corps

Technical Officer (Antivenoms)
World Health Organization (WHO)

Trauma Program Manager
Trauma, Burn, Rehabilitative Medicine

LTC Elwood Conaway member of the Trauma, Burn Rehabilitative Medicine Team and is the Deputy of Nursing Trauma Program Manager. LTC Conaway has served over 35 years in the United States Army. He has over 20 years of trauma training and education from the University of Maryland Shock Trauma. LTC Conaway was the Director of Critical Care of Sinai Hospital in Baltimore before arriving in Abu Dhabi. He holds a Bachelor of Science in nursing and a Masters of Nursing in Nurse Anesthesia from the University of Maryland. He also has a Master's degree in executive leadership and is currently a PhD candidate in Public Policy.

Head Of The ED Prehospital EMS (SMUR Lariboisiere SAMU Of Paris)
Scientific Committee SFMU,
Chair Prehospital Section EUSEM
Co-Chair CPC IFEM

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 .

Adult & Pediatric Emergency Medicine Consultant,
SEHA Tawam Hospital

Dr. Faheem Obaidullah MBBS FRCEM MSc (Advanced Pediatrics) EMBA, PGDip Med Ed
(current)
Dr. Faheem Obaidullah is an Adult and Pediatric Emergency Medicine Consultant from the UK and has over 8 years’ experience as a Consultant. He subspecialized into Pediatric Emergency Medicine and has worked in various hospitals in the UK including Major Trauma Centres and Medical Toxicology Units. He obtained his MSc in Advanced Pediatrics from King’s College London and completed his EMBA with a focus on healthcare technology in 2021. He is an ACLS, PALS, ALS, APLS, ATLS and ETC instructor and is also an examiner for the Royal College of Emergency Medicine. He currently works as a Consultant Physician in Emergency Medicine at Tawam Hospital, Al Ain.

Charge Nurse
Sheikh Khalifa Medical City (SKMC)

Charge Nurse educator in the Emergency Department SKMC
Holder of bachelor's degree in science of nurse
Currently Studying MBA in healthcare management
BLS instructor
Organized ED symposium 2 years in a row
Volunteered in Hajj Mission
Trained over 100 staff in the past 2 years

Deputy Head - Education And Clinical Assistant Professor For Emergency Medicine
University of Calgary

Fareen Zaver, MD is the Deputy-Head of Education and an Assistant Professor at the University of Calgary in Emergency Medicine. She has received numerous awards and honours for her education, curriculum, teaching and leadership including the Top 40 under 40 in Calgary, Royal College Maudsley Scholarship through the Canadian Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons and the Canadian Association of Emergency Physicians Best Educational Innovation Award. She has led chief resident curriculum via the ALiEM Chief Resident Incubator, senior level emergency medicine content with the ALiEM AIR-Pro series and led the CanadiEM Digital Scholarship Fellowship. Her masters thesis in medical education explores medical education through the lens of digital innovation as well as the transition to independent practice.

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

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.

Acting Division Chief
Sheikh Khalifa Medical City

Pediatric Emergency
Sheikh Khalifa Medical City

Fatima Al Jaberi is a Pediatric Emergency attending at SKMC since November 2017. She is a simulation education program co-lead as well as a core faculty at Pediatric Emergency Medicine Fellowship program at SKMC. Graduated from the United Arab Emirates University in 2012 with a Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery. Joined the Pediatric Emergency department after residency as a specialist physician.

Completed fellowship in Pediatric Emergency & Simulation in 2021 at Sickkids hospital, University of Toronto, Canada.

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.

Emergency physician in Royal hospital
Oman medical specialty board
MD, Oman medical college

Chief Resident - Emergency Medicine Residency Program PGY-4, Sheikh Khalifa Medical City.

Associate Staff Physician
Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi

Dr. Hassan Nabhani, MD, is an Associate Staff Physician in the Emergency Medicine Institute at Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi. Prior to joining Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi, Dr. Nabhani served as a Specialist Physician in the Emergency Department at Alrahba Hospital in Abu Dhabi.

Dr. Nabhani received his medical degree from Moscow Medical Academy. He completed his four year residency program in Emergency Medicine at Damascus Hospital in Damascus, Syria, then joined the Critical Care Fellowship Program. Dr. Nabhani has been certified by the Syrian board in Emergency Medicine since 2004.

Dr. Nabhani is certified in providing advanced trauma life support and instructor in advanced cardiac life support and pediatric advanced life support.

Dr. Nabhani resides in Abu Dhabi with his family, enjoys international travel, sports and outdoor activities.

Emergency medicine consultant
Division Chief of Adult Emergency at SKMC
Graduate of the Royal college of surgeons in Ireland, Dublin.

Chair Emergency Department and Research Group on Emergency and Disaster Medicine,
University Hospital Brussels

Ives Hubloue is the chairman of the Department of Emergency Medicine of the Universitair Ziekenhuis Brussel (UZ Brussel) and of the Research Group on Emergency and Disaster Medicine (ReGEDiM) at the Faculty of Medicine and Pharmacy of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB, Belgium).
He graduated in Medicine at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel 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). He is Board Certified in Internal Medicine, Emergency Medicine and Intensive Care Medicine.
In 2003 he obtained his PhD in Medical Sciences at the VUB. His PhD thesis was entitled : Humoral control of the pulmonary circulation in animal models.
As associate professor at the medical school of the VUB he is responsible for the medical skills training for medical students (undergraduate and graduate). He is also the program director for the residency training in emergency medicine at the VUB. Besides this he is a Faculty member and Chairman of the Strategic Management Board of the European Master in Disaster Medicine (EMDM) course. With regards to education his interest is mainly focused on the integration of innovative technologies and methodologies such as blended learning, e-learning, virtual reality, augmented reality and computer simulation in educational programs.
In 2011 he founded ReGEDiM, the Research Group on Emergency and Disaster Medicine. ReGEDiM is the organizing body of the master after master program in Emergency Medicine (Master in Emergency Medicine) and from the Master of Science in Disaster Medicine (European Master in Disaster Medicine, EMDM), both accredited by the Flemish Government. The mission of ReGEDiM is to bring emergency and disaster medicine to a higher level by creating and sharing scientific research, field expertise and knowledge. In order to further professionalize research activities and developments in the field of disaster and humanitarian medicine he initiated in 2018 a PhD-program in Global Health, Humanitarian Aid and Disaster Medicine in association with the Research Center in Emergency and Disaster Medicine (CRIMEDIM) of the Università del Piemonte Orientale (UPO).
Ives Hubloue and the ReGEDiM team members are also investing in practical spin-offs from the performed research activities, among which are examples: The Utstein-style template for uniform reporting of acute medical response in disasters, ISEE OnScene and In-Hospital™ (Table Top education and training software program development, based on real and simulated disaster patients), and CrisisData© (the design and development of a universal and versatile disaster patient individual medical record, based on scientific evidence), DEMis© (Information technology applications in emergency and disaster medicine), SIMEDIS© (Simulation for the assessment and optimalisation of medical disaster management), mathematical tools for logistical decision aid in acute onset disaster medical response, etc….
Ives Hubloue is author and/or co-author of several peer-reviewed papers and abstracts. He has also presented the results of his scientific work in a large series of oral communications and posters at several national and international conferences. He is the promotor/co-promotor of PhD theses in different fields of emergency and disaster medicine.

MD, MBA, CMQ,FAAEM, FACEP
King Abdulaziz University
Ed Chairman

• American Board of Emergency Medicine,
• American Board of Medical Quality Improvement,
• Master of Business Administration,
• Hospital Leadership and Operation Fellowship,
• Chairman of King Abdulaziz University, Emergency Medicine Department.
• Deputy Director of Quality and Accreditation Unit of King Abdulaziz University, Medical School.
• Assistant Professor & Consultant of Emergency Medicine
• King Abdulaziz University.

Emergency Medicine Consultant
Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi

Dr. Luis Robles BSc, MD, FRCPC, FAAEME, FACEP, FCRP, is a Consultant in the Emergency Medicine Institute at Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi.

He is an assistant Professor Cleveland Clinic Learner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University.

Prior to joining Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi, Dr. Robles was an Assistant Professor at the University of Toronto, Canada. He previously held a Senior Consultant position in the Emergency Department at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Center, a regional Cardiac, Stroke and level one Trauma center. During this time, he was actively involved in the academic teaching of undergraduate medical students, postgraduate residents, trauma and EMS fellows and his peers.

In addition, Dr. Robles also worked as an Attending Staff Physician in the Emergency Department at St. Michael's Hospital, Toronto University Health Network and Hamilton General Hospital in Ontario.

Dr. Robles completed the Canadian International Health Postgraduate Program and completed an Internship at Queens University, Kingston Ontario, Canada. Subsequently, he was accepted into a five-year Emergency Medicine Residency Program at the University of Toronto. In his final year of training with the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada (FRCPC), he chose to complete a fellowship in Emergency Medicine Clinical Cardiology. During this time, he was instrumental in developing the concept of an Emergency Chest Pain Unit within the Emergency Department at Sunnybrook Hospital.

Dr. Robles holds dual certifications as Fellow of the Division of Emergency Medicine, Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada (FRCPC) and as Diplomate of the American Board of Emergency Medicine (ABEM) USA.

He is a Fellow of the Association of Clinical Research Professionals (FCRP) and holds certification for the Association of Clinical Research Professionals. As Qualified Principal Investigator, he safely conducted Phase One and Phase Two clinical trials of new investigational products in the areas of oncology, drug abuse and liability, psychotropic, non-alcoholic steatohepatitis and influenza vaccine.

Dr. Robles has obtained Certification as an advanced Independent Point of Care Ultrasound Practitioner.

Dr. Robles has also been actively involved in many areas of Academic Emergency Medicine, as an International presenter and keynote speaker at numerous conference and undergraduate and postgraduate seminars. He has lectured at, inter-hospital and city-wide academic grand rounds. He also has conducted several formal and informal teaching seminars and emergencies and Ultrasound simulation workshops.

Dr. Robles has been recognized as a Royal College examiner by the Emergency Medicine Examination Committee of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada. His areas of expertise are Cardiology, Critical Care, Trauma and Toxicology.

Dr. Robles is an advocate of the development of standardized medical treatment to strive towards excellence in clinical practice and the management of ongoing flow crisis within the Emergency Department. He possesses a keen interest in critical care inter-hospital transfers, Cardiology, Trauma, Toxicology, and Emergency Ultrasonography.

MD, MPH, FACEP, FAAEM, CHSE

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

Associate Director - Global Health Institute

University Of Wisconsin Emergency Medicine

Janis Tupesis completed his residency training at the University of Chicago Hospitals and Clinics where he served as the Associate Residency Program Director, a position he held until joining the Emergency Medicine faculty at the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine & Public Health. He served as the Department of Emergency Medicine's Residency Program Director until 2014, overseeing the program's initial accreditation and expansion to its current form. At the same time, he served as the chairperson of UW Health's Graduate Medical Education Global Health Committee and one of the Associate Directors of the University of Wisconsin-Madison's Global Health Institute, positions he continues to hold today.

He is involved in projects involving establishing graduate medical education programs in resource limited settings in both Liberia, Ethiopia and South Africa – partnering with multiple other academic institutions. In 2018, he begun work with the World Bank and the Association of African Universities on the Africa Centers of Excellence for Development (ACE Impact) Project, which aims to improve the quality, quantity and development impact of postgraduate education in selected universities through regional specialization and collaboration.

Since 2015, he has been working as a volunteer technical consultant at the Emergency, Trauma and Acute Care Programme within the Department for Management of Noncommunicable Diseases, Disability, Violence and Injury Prevention at the World Health Organization. He continues to work as one of the founding faculty members of the newly formed Academic Consortium for Emergency Systems (ACES), a consortium of academic global health programs to support the work of aforementioned WHO Programme.

He serves on multiple international global health education committees, including the International Federation of Emergency Medicine (IFEM), African Federation of Emergency Medicine (AFEM), American College of Emergency Medicine (ACEP) and the Society of Academic Emergency Medicine – Global Emergency Medicine Academy (GEMA). In 2018, he was awarded the Presidential Lifetime Achievement Award by GEMA for his work on emergency care health/education systems development.

Consultant Emergency Physician and HOD
Mediclinic Parkview Hospital

Dr Jeff Keep is currently a Consultant Emergency Physician and HOD at Mediclinic Parkview Hospital in Dubai where he has been working since April 2019 to build a modern Emergency Department capable of managing all emergencies including time critical illnesses for the population of southern Dubai. This huge challenge has only been possible with the help of his amazing team of doctors, nurses and support staff.

Prior to moving to the Middle East, he worked as a consultant at King’s College Hospital in London, a regional Cardiac Centre, Major Trauma Centre and Hyperacute Stroke Centre, for 15 years where he was the lead for Resus, Stroke, Clinical Governance and Research. He chaired the Quality Assurance and Improvement Committee at the Royal College of Emergency Medicine and was the national lead for Sepsis and was awarded the College Medal in 2019.

CEmergency Medicine Physician/Trauma Team Leader,
McGill University Health Center

Dr. Nemeth completed his training in the US and Europe. He has been working at the McGill University Health Centre since 2001.
He is an Associate Professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine at McGill. He is the Fellowship Director of the Trauma Fellowship for Emergency Medicine physicians. He divides his clinical work as an emergency medicine physician and trauma team leader between the Montreal General and Montreal Children’s Hospitals. His academic interests include trauma, PEM, education and global health.

Specialist Emergency Medicine Society
Ghana/ AFEM

Dr. Joe Bonney (MBChB, MPH, MSc DM, MGCPS) is an Emergency Medicine Specialist at Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital with a Masters degree in Public Health (MPH) and Disaster Medicine (MSc DM). Dr Bonney also works as a research fellow at the Global Health and Infectious Diseases Research Group, Kumasi Collaborative Center for Research in Tropical Medicine and plays leading roles in the Clinical Characterization Protocol of COVID-19 (CCP) and Healthcare workers' Survey on COVID-19. As a member of The Africa CoaLition for Epidemic Research Response and Training (ALERRT), he supports coordinating the above projects. Joe leads the implementation of the Ghana Critical Care registry, is a Co-Investigator for RECOVERY Trial Ghana, COVID-19 Vaccine trials and is the Site Principal Investigator for the ANTICOV Clinical Trial for COVID-19, among others.

Dr Bonney is the Current President of the African Federation for Emergency Medicine, a member of CRIMEDIM and a WADEM Board member

Professor of Medicine & Emergency
Medicine, Harvard Medical School

Dr. Edlow is a Professor of Medicine and Emergency Medicine at Harvard Medical School. He lectures nationally and internationally on topics such as stroke, TIA, subarachnoid hemorrhage, and various causes of weakness and dizziness. He is an internationally renowned expert on neurological emergencies. Dr. Edlow's ED operational specialty areas include ED quality assurance, ED physical layout and facilities redesign, physician professional development, and the creation and implementation of clinical practice guidelines. For the past 15 years, Dr. Edlow has contributed to the international development of emergency medicine in a variety of countries, participating in educational, quality assessment, and emergency care systems consulting projects. Practicing medicine since 1981, he is board-certified in both emergency medicine and internal medicine.

Consultant Emergency Physician & Head of Department,
Sheikh Khalifa Medical City Ajman

Dr. Kamil Vallabh is a South African trained Emergency Physician. Educator and life-long learner passionate about teaching, medical education and simulation based learning. My clinical interests include resuscitation, emergency cardiology with a focus on ECG interpretation and point of care ultrasound.

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.

Consultant Emergency Medicine,
Zayed Military Hospital

Dr. Alqaydi received his medical degree from Manchester University (UK) and worked in the UK for the first part of his medical training. Then he pursued his postgraduate residency training in Emergency Medicine at McGill University (Canada) in 2019, followed by a fellowship in Trauma Team Leadership also at McGill University in 2020. Dr. Alqaydi also hold a fellowship in Resuscitation Leadership from the Resus Leadership Academy (USA) . Dr. Alqaydi is interested in caring for the critically ill patient in ED and trauma system improvement

Emergency Physician,
Dubai Healthcare Authority

Emergency Medicine Consultant
Sheikh Shakbout Medical City

Laila Hussein is an Emergency Medicine Consultant at Sheikh Shakbout Medical City. She is the POCUS director, clerkship director for medical students and residency core faculty. Laila is an MBBS graduate from University of Jordan since 2009. She finished residency in EM under Dubai Health Authority at Rashid Hospital, with completing the Arab Board and the European Board in EM. She has completed Master’s degree in ultrasound at Teesside University. She has several publications and a book chapter on POCUS use in critical care.

Emergency Physician
Sultan Qaboos University

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.

Consultant Emergency Physicians
Dubai Health Authority
United Arab Emirates

Dr Mahmoud Ghanaim is Consultant and Head of the Emergency Department, Dubai Hospital, Dubai, 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.

Medical Director
Dubai Corporation for Ambulance Services

Dr.Maryam AlMansoori is the Medical Director at DCAS with extensive experience in prehospital and in-hospital emergencies. She is an Arab board certified emergency medicine specialist with a masters degree in leadership and innovation in Healtcare from the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland. She is extremely passionate about empowering EMS providers through engagement and training.

Consultant Emergency Medicine,
Director of Training Department
Abu Dhabi Civil Defense Authority

Colonel Dr. Maitha Al Darei is the Director of Training Department in Abu Dhabi Civil Defense Authority (ADCD). She is a Consultant in Emergency Medicine holding the Arab Board Certificate in her specialty. She also got two Master degrees; the Executive Master degree in Health Care Administration (EMHCA), and the Master of Science in Organizational Excellence.

Dr. Maitha is a Pioneer in the EMS field in Abu Dhabi. She served in this field for more than 7 years, where she worked as the Director of the Ambulance Department in ADCD and as the Medical Director of EMS in Abu Dhabi Police previously. She developed the Scope of Practice of EMS personnel and aided her colleagues and department to improve the services. She is a member of multiple local teams to help achieve our nation's vision.

Dr. Maitha is an international speaker in emergency medicine who participated in local and international conferences, and in multiple educational events.

Emergency Medicine Specialist
Mediclinic City Hospital

Dr. Anzal is an EM Residency Graduate from Zayed Military Hospital in Abu Dhabi, UAE. He is the Founder/President of the Emirates Collaboration of Residents in Emergency Medicine (ECREM). Editor-in-Chief for the Emirates Society of Emergency Medicine (ESEM) Monthly Newsletter. Dr. Anzal has interest in sharing updated knowledge and developing teaching tools. As a healthcare professional, he continually strives to incorporate the newest clinical research into practice and is an active advocate for the use of Point of Care Ultrasonography (POCUS) in the ED.

Medical Director,
Harvard Medical School, Baylor Scott & White

Dr. Qureshi is an emergency medicine physician in Dallas, Texas. He grew up in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia and attended the American International School. From there he went on to complete his undergraduate and medical education at the University of Missouri in Kansas City as part of the prestigious 6 year BA/MD program. He went on to complete his residency in emergency medicine at Penn State University. Whilst there, he also completed his MBA and then went on to further complete a fellowship in disaster medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School in Boston, Massachusetts. He was then recruited to be the medical director of a community hospital in Dallas and has since been there implementing disaster preparedness protocols and working on streamlining traditional throughput and triage processes.

Medical Director
Childlife Foundation

Dr Irfan Habib is Medical Director in ChildLife Foundation, Pakistan, a public private partnership in 95 hospitals across the country with 12 Pediatric Emergency Rooms in government teaching hospitals of Pakistan and 84 Telemedicine satellite centres in district level hospitals.

Dr. Habib is contributing for the last 10 years with his experience in the field of Emergency Med.
His main role there is to Direct, Plan and Strategise for the best possible healthcare delivery with support of his clinical team and in relationship with government. He has several research papers in International and National journals. His areas of interest are Triage, Resuscitation, Telemedicine & Digitalisation.

Emergency Medicine Consultant
Mediclinic Parkview Hospital

Dr. Musab Alkhateeb is an Emergency Medicine consultant holding both Arabic and European board certifications in Emergency Medicine.
Dr. Musab graduated from the University of Baghdad / College of Medicine in 2006 then completed his specialty training in Emergency Medicine at the Medical City Complex in Baghdad, Iraq in 2014.
Dr. Musab started his journey in UAE w Mediclinic City Hospital in 2015 as an Emergency Medicine Specialist until 2018, when he joined the Mediclinic Parkview Hospital
Currently working as EM consultant since 2020
Dr. Musab is also an assistant professor of Emergency Medicine at Mohammed Bin Rashid University for Health Sciences.
Core interests are Bedside US, Bedside teaching, Adult and pediatric emergency medicine.

Dr. Malcolm Borg completed his undergraduate training at the University of Malta before moving to London, UK in 2007 where he undertook his Specialist Training in Emergency Medicine and sub-specialty training in Pediatric Emergency Medicine. He worked as a Consultant and then as Lead Consultant for Pediatric Emergency Medicine in St George’s Hospital, one of London’s four Major Trauma Centres between 2011 and 2014. In 2014 he joined the ED at Sheikh Khalifa Medical City and over the subsequent years served as Pediatric ED Division Chief and then Chair of the Emergency Department. In May 2022 he joined Sheikh Shakhbout Medical City as Chair of the Emergency Department. He is a Member of the College of Surgeons of Edinburgh (MRCSEd), a Member of the Royal College of Physicians of the UK (MRCP(UK)), a Fellow of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine (FRCEM) and has a Diploma in Child Health from the Royal College of Pediatrics and Child Health (DCH).

Dr Martin Joseph graduated from RAK medical and health sciences university and currently works as a senior EM resident in Zayed military hospital.He is a passionate educator , POCUS curious and aims to pursue a fellowship in critical care.

Vice President, Clinical Excellence
​​ Chief Clinical Shared Services​​
Executive Director, Emergency Medicine Service Line​​

Dr. Nada Khogali, MD, is a Staff Physician of the Emergency Medicine Institute at Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi. Prior to joining Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi, Dr. Khogali held several positions as an Emergency Physician at hospitals in the greater Detroit Michigan area. During her time at the University of Michigan and Wyandotte Hospital, US, she also provided education and guidance to medical residents.

Dr. Khogali is board certified by the American Board of Emergency Medicine (ABEM) and has over nine years’ experience in the field of Emergency Medicine.

Dr. Khogali earned her medical degree from Michigan State University College of Human Medicine, US. She completed her residency in Emergency Medicine at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, US.

Prior to her medical career, Dr. Khogali was a Medical Technologist and owned a bakery. She is passionate about community service and enjoys volunteering. Dr. Khogali has three sons and enjoys traveling.

Professor
Saint Louis University

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.

International SOS

Former Clinical Director and Training Program Director at Al-Qassimi Hosp. Sharjah 2021-22 and former Consultant & HoD ED - Sheikh Khalifa General Hospital – Umm Al Quwain 2014-2021

After MBChB from Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, He completed FRCS(Ed) and an MSc in Surgical Sciences before completing Emergency Medicine Specialty training in London. His interests are in resuscitation and management of Critical Illness and Injury, ED Quality and metrics, as well as medical education.

He was a pioneer of the STEMI network in the Northern Emirates of the UAE and helped develop the trauma response and major hemorrhage protocol. In addition organized workshops on ECG and POCUS been involved in ATLS teaching since 2003

Emergency Physicians
Sheikh Khalifa Medical City- Abu Dhabi

Dr Nasser completed his training in Emergency Medicine in Oxford & London in the United Kingdom. In addition, he completed his Fellowship from the Royal College of Emergency Medicine (RCEM) in the UK and has a postgraduate certificate in simulation.

He is a consultant in Emergency medicine and Program Director of the Emergency medicine residency program at SKMC Abu Dhabi. His other roles include Co-chair of the Education, Outreach & injury prevention sub-committee of the Abu Dhabi trauma systems committee, Adjunct senior lecturer at Khalifa University.

President (OSEM)
Senior Consultant (Emergency Medicine), LLM Medical Law & Ethics
Oman Society of Emergency Medicine (OSEM)

Nasser Al-Azri is a graduate of Sultan Qaboos University College of Medicine. He holds a dual specialization in Emergency Medicine and Medical Law and Ethics. Al-Azri is a qualified Senior Consultant emergency physician, and he is also the President of Oman Society for Emergency Medicine (OSEM).

Al-Azri holds LLM Master of Science in Medical Law and Ethics from the University of Edinburgh, and is actively involved in teaching medical law and medical ethics and a member of several international medical law associations. Currently, he is actively involved in emergency medicine as well as medical law and ethics through education, practice, and academic activities in the Ministry of Health, Oman Medical Specialty Board (OMSB) and National Bioethics Committee.

In addition, Al-Azri is publishing on the topic of emergency medicine, medical humanities and medical law and ethics in national as well as international journals. He has been also a guest speaker and presenter on emergency medicine, medical law and bioethics topics in several national, regional and international symposia and conferences.

Asst.Professor and Consultant Emergency Medicine-trauma & Disaster Management
Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University

Nisreen Maghraby
MBBS, FRCPC(EM), MM, MA
Nisreen Hamza Maghraby graduated from the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada as an Emergency Medicine Specialist. Completed a two-year fellowship in Trauma & Disaster Management at McGill University. Dr. Nisreen holds two master's degrees from McGill University. A Master of Arts (Education Psychology / Health Profession stream) & a Master's in Management (International Masters for Health Leadership).
She is the Founder of the ED ECMO Team the 1st to our knowledge in the kingdom in addition to the EM Sim Team at KFHU/Alkhobar, which is an active team that provides education sessions via simulation for undergrad, postgrad & faculty members (Multidisciplinary in situ simulations). She is also the Founder & Former Chairperson of the Emergency & Disaster Preparedness Unit at King Fahd University Hospital, Al-Khobar.
Currently, Nisreen is an Assistant Professor & Consultant in EM/Trauma & Disaster Management at Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University (IAU). She was recently appointed as the Chairperson of the Simulation & Clinical Skill Center at the college of Medicine/IAU. In addition she is the Chairperson for the EM Saudi Board Exam Committee at Saudi Commission for Health Specialties. She is an active National/International speaker & has joined several conference scientific Committees. She is an Editor for the Saudi Journal of Emergency Medicine, an international, peer-reviewed Journal & the Eurasian Journal of Emergency Medicine, an open access, scientific publication of the Emergency Medicine Physicians Association of
Turkey.
Her academic interests are Trauma, Health care facilities Disaster Preparedness, Medical Education/Simulation, Faculty Development & Research.

Emergency Physician,
Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi

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.

Consultant
King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz University Hospital

Consultant Pediatric Emergency Medicine
King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz University Hospital
Clinical Associate Professor
Princess 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. Pauline Convocar is the Immediate Past President of the Philippine College of Emergency Medicine (PCEM). She now leads PCEM’s Section on Advocacy in addressing national and global emergency care disparity issues and developing inclusive health systems for the disadvantaged. She is instrumental to the organization of PCEM’s Section on Gender Equity and Empowerment to ensure inclusivity and diversity in the field of emergency medicine. She is currently the President-Elect of the Asian Society of Emergency Medicine and the Chair of the Specialty Implementation Committee of the International Federation of Emergency Medicine.

As a diplomate of the Philippines College of Occupational Medicine, her other advocacies include promotion of occupational safety and health among emergency healthcare workers.

She finished her post-graduate studies on Magistratum Sanitatis Communitatis Administrationis (Masters in Community Healthcare Management) with honor distinction and proceeded to finish her training in emergency medicine specialty from the University of the Philippines-Philippine General Hospital. She is currently pursuing her doctorate degree in Public Heath – Health Promotion and Education from the University of the Philippines – Manila.

She is an active clinician and is currently Chair of the Emergency Department Services and Head of the Resuscitation Section of its Occupational Safety and Health Committee of the Manila Doctors Hospital. Her other affiliations include being the Vice-Chair and Training Program Director of the Department of Emergency Medicine of Corazon Locsin Montelibano Memorial Medical Hospital (CLMMRH) and Vice-Chair for Patient Services and Coordinator for Telemedicine of the Department of Emergency Medicine of Southern Philippines Medical Center (SPMC. She has established pioneering these emergency medicine residency programs for both CLMMRH and SPMC and both institutions remained to be the first and the only current residency training programs in the Western Visayas and the entire Mindanao regions, respectively.

Associate Professor,
University of Toronto

Dr. Rahim Valani has been practicing emergency medicine in some of Canada’s busiest emergency departments for over 18 years. He is Associate Professor at the University of Toronto and is also the Chair of the Best Evidence in Emergency Medicine program. He holds a Masters in Medical Education and an MBA from the Wharton School of Business, with specializations in operations, finance and strategic management. He is currently implementing data driven decision processes.

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

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.

MBBS, FACEP, ARDMS
Consultant Emergency Physician,
Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine,
Mohammed Bin Rashid University of Medicine & Health Sciences,
President, Emirates Society of Emergency Medicine (ESEM)

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.

EM and toxicology consultant
Kind Fahad Medical

• EM and toxicology consultant in King Fahad Medical City.
• Master of science (MSc) in Analytical biochemistry, Alfaisal university.
• Program director Saudi board EM 2nd Cluster.

Mediclinic

Dr Rishi Prasad is an Enthusiastic and dedicated Emergency Physician. He was born and brought up in the UK and did his medical training at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne. He did his Higher Specialist training in the Northern Deanery and East of England. He worked at the Princess Alexandra Hospital as a practicing Physician, Clinical Director for Non-Elective Pathways, Chief Clinical Information Officer and Associate Medical Director. He then moved to Abu Dhabi for the last 5 years where he initially worked at Mafraq and then Sheikh Shakhboot Medical City (Seha-Mayo clinic collaboration). Here he provided direct clinical care to many patients at this busy regional Major trauma and burns centre. In addition to his clinical role he worked as Director for Patient Safety across the Hospital, ensuring and advocating for better patient care. He is now working as a hands-on Head of Department at Mediclinic City

Assistant Professor,
Pediatric Emergency Consultant King Abdulaziz University

Pediatric emergency consultant
Assistant professor, Faculty of Medicine, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, KSA,
Head of Pediatric Emergency Department, KAUH,
Head of PEM section in SASEM.

Lieutenant Colonel (LTC) Ruth Browne is the Director for Trauma Nursing for the Trauma Burn and Rehabilitative Medicine Team. LTC Browne has served over 17 years in the United States Army Nurse Corps. Before coming to Abu Dhabi, LTC Browne was the Clinical Nurse Specialist at Brooke Army Medical Center and an instructor for the Critical Care/ Emergency Nursing Course. She obtained her Doctorate of Nursing Practice from the University of Virginia as an Acute Care Clinical Nurse Specialist.

Dr. Salama Alneyadi , Emergency Medicine specialist at SKMC Abu Dhabi , completed emergency training at SKMC program and a fellowship training in Acute care POCUS at western university Canada. Have a special interest in resuscitation and medical education.

Consultant Emergency Medicine
SEHA

Consultant Emergency Medicine ( Montreal, Canada)
Medical Educator (MEHP, Johns Hopkins)
International Speaker

Special Interests: development of Medical Curriculum, Post Graduate Training, and Continous Medical Education Programs.

Emergency Medicine Specialist
Mediclinic Parkview Hospital

Dr. Sandra was born in Beirut, Lebanon. She obtained her medical degree at the Lebanese University, School of Medicine in Beirut, Lebanon. She finished her residency training in Emergency Medicine at the American University of Beirut, Lebanon where she also completed her fellowship training in Emergency Medical education. Dr. Mrad obtained her master's degree in medical education in the health professions in Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland. She practiced Emergency Medicine in the American University of Beirut Medical Center, Beirut and then joined Mediclinic Parkview hospital, Dubai in 2020 where she is currently practicing as an Emergency Medicine specialist.

Consultant Emergency Medicine and Pediatric Emergency Medicine
Tawam Hospital

Professor of Emergency and Critical Care Medicine
University of Ghent

Executive Director,
Department of Health Abu Dhabi

Dr. Fares Al-Ali is the first Canadian and American board-certified emergency physician from the United Arab Emirates. 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.

Emergency Medicine Specialist
Luton & Dunstable NHS University Hospital

Dr. Sajjad Pathan has completed his MBBS from Maharashtra in 2002 and has obtained a Master's in Health Services Administration from the Midwestern State University, Texas in 2010. He has obtained his Membership and Fellowship from the Royal College of Emergency Medicine, UK. He's also a European Board Certified in Emergency Medicine. After gaining some EM and Trauma experience in the US, he had relocated to India to advance his career. Later, he worked at the beautiful city of Abu Dhabi at ZMH as an EM Physician for more than 2 years. Currently, he is working at the Luton & Dunstable NHS University Hospital as an EM Specialty Physician. His professional interests are Emergency Ultrasound, Difficult airway management, & medical education. Throughout his emergency medicine shifts, he cherishes the challenge to make aggressive, life-changing decisions determining the welfare of my patients during their most frightening times.

Mission Statement:
Education and Knowledge should flow freely to cherish the minds and empower the young brigade of Emergency Medicine Physicians worldwide.

MBBS, MD, MBA, PGD (Medical Law and Ethics)
Unit Head, Consultant - Emergency Medicine
National Secretary, Society for Emergency Medicine India (2020-2022)
President Elect (2022-2024)

Dr. Saravana Kumar completed his Emergency Medicine Training from India .He is an active member of International Federation of Emergency Medicine Special Interest Groups for Quality and is the current chair of Quality and patient safety SIG,IFEM and Vice chair of Specialty Implementation committee (SIC) of IFEM.

Has many awards and guest lecturers to his credit in India and abroad and his areas of interest include Leadership, Quality and Patient Safety, Technology and Innovation, Medical Law.

Assistant Professor
Aga Khan University Hospital

Dr Shahan Waheed is an Assistant Professor and Program Director of Emergency Medicine Residency Program Aga Khan University Hospital. He is a clinical researcher and an academician. He has 40 plus peer reviewed publications onto his credit. He is Fogarty Trauma Violence and Injury Prevention Scholar and a PhD Scholar. He is the first graduate of College of Physicians and Surgeons in Emergency Medicine.

Vice-Chair, Healthcare Quality,
Department of Emergency Medicine,
BIDMC
Associate Professor of Emergency
Medicine, Harvard Medical School

As an emergency physician and cardiologist Dr. Grossman's research centers around developing evidence-based data to avoid critical cardiac misdiagnoses in emergency department patients and novel approaches to avert error. His administrative responsibility as vice-chair of healthcare quality reflects this evidence-based approach. Dr. Grossman draws on his dual training to improve healthcare delivery through research, patient education, and implementation of new models of emergency medical care. He spearheaded the development of the clinical decision unit and the cardiac emergency center at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. He is the author of three emergency medicine textbooks including Cardiac Problems on Emergency Medicine and serves as the cardiac emergency editor for Scientific American. Dr. Grossman completed a residency in emergency medicine residency at MGH/Brigham & Women's, Harvard Medical School as well as a residency in internal medicine at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, and a cardiology fellowship at Boston University Medical Center.

Emergency Medicine Specialist
Mediclinic Parkview Hospital

Shafeek worked as a firefighter/paramedic in the US before starting medical school in Lebanon at the American University of Beirut.

He then worked in Disaster Management for 2 years before doing his residency in Emergency Medicine at the American University of Beirut Medical Center. After graduating, he moved to Dubai and started working as an Emergency Medicine Specialist at Mediclinic Parkview Hospital in 2019.

Emergency Medicine Specialist
Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi
United Arab Emirates

Dr. Shaza Karrar is a certified Emergency Medicine Physician at Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi and a Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine at Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University in Ohio, USA. Originally a graduate of Sharjah University School of Medicine, and Zayed Military Hospital Residency program, with multiple local and regional awards. Dr. Karrar Advocates for Medical Education, serving as a residency program core faculty and has created multiple regional educational platforms, such as NEEMRA (National Emirates Emergency Medicine Residents Assembly); the first virtual emergency Medicine national residents assembly with over 30 speakers and 400 attendees on a yearly basis, as well created the first EM Podcast in the MENA region EMSpaceCast supporting FOAMed and FOAMTox. She's actively involved in promoting Tox services and education in the region

Emergency Medicine Consultant & Lead for Disaster Medicine
Sheikh Shakhbout Medical City

Dr Sudeshna Byng is currently an Emergency Medicine Consultant & Lead for Disaster Medicine in the ED - at Sheikh Shakhbout Medical City ,Abu Dhabi. Sudeshna trained in the UK and worked as Consultant at the Countess of Chester Hospital before moving to UAE. In UK she was inter gray to the team setting up the North West Trauma network and Regional Stroke network. She has a keen interest in Disaster Medicine and has a European Masters in Disaster Medicine.

She is also active in post graduate medical training and is Core Faculty for ED resident training in UAE.

Sheikh Shakbout Medical City

Dr Sanjay Ayathan is a UK trained Emergency Medicine Consultant and Program Director of the Emergency medicine Residency Program at Sheikh Shakbout Medical city in Abu Dhabi , a tertiary care Hospital and regional Trauma and Burns center.

He is a Fellow of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine UK (FRCEM). He is an ATLS instructor. His interest and expertise are in resuscitation, Trauma care , simulation training and medical education and Residency training.

He has a keen interest in Human factors in medicine and the in use of simulation in improving patient safety. He is passionate about quality and performance improvement and in Emergency Medicine.

He has been a part of the ESEM family for the last 8 yrs and continues to contribute towards its success as a leading Emergency Medicine Conference in the MENA region.

Board Member and Chief Functionary
Heart and Stroke Foundation

Prof (Dr.) Tamorish Kole is the Board Member and Chief Functionary of Heart and Stroke Foundation of India (A subsidiary of the American Heart Association - AHA); advisor for emergency care training at Healthcare Sector Skill Council of India, the Immediate Past President of Asian Society for Emergency Medicine, Past President of the Society for Emergency Medicine, India, & Chair of Disaster Medicine Special Interest Group (SIG) of International Federation for Emergency Medicine (IFEM). He also serves as a Visiting Professor at University of South Wales in UK and is a member in IFEM’s Governance Committee, Quality SIG and IFEM-WHO Taskforce. Dr Kole is an alumnus of The International Visitor Leadership Program of US Government for the year 2013 in Crisis and Disaster Management. He is recently nominated as an expert of International Society for Quality in Health Care (ISQua) from India. His interest areas are emergency care system development, Emergency department accreditation, academic emergency medicine, Climate change and health, resuscitation Science, trauma care and pandemic response.

Consultant Emergency Medicine and Pediatric Emergency
King Saud University Medical City

Dr.Tariq AlThobaiti, MBBS

Clinical Assistant Professor and Consultant Of Emergency Medicine AND Pediatric Emergency Medicine in King Saud University.

Dr Althobaiti, is working as an consultant OF EM AND PEM , section head of PEM at king Saud university medical city and college of medicine ,Riyadh ,KSA. He is Secretary General Of Saudi Society Of Emergency Medicine.

Dr Althobaiti has special interest in medical quality , Emergency Medicine operations and management.

Adjunct Professor / Emergency Physician
University of Maryland School of Medicine Dept of Emergency Medicine

Terrence M. Mulligan DO, MPH, FIFEM, FACEP, FAAEM, FACOEP, FNVSHA, FFSEM, HPF is an Adjunct Professor at the University of Maryland School of Medicine and was the Director of the University of Maryland International EM Program for 10 years. He is a graduate of the Harvard Business School in 2021. Prof Mulligan is also a Visiting Professor in China, South Africa, India and Ireland. He is a graduate of the Harvard Business School GMP in 2021. He is a Board Member of the American Academy of Emergency Medicine (AAEM), and the Vice President of the International Federation for Emergency Medicine (IFEM). Prof Mulligan is double-board certified / double-residency trained, with a Masters in Public Health, 4 subspecialty fellowships, and graduate work towards a Masters in Health Economics, Policy and Law. Dr. Mulligan has lived and worked in over 50 countries in the last 20 years, working on multiple levels of emergency medicine, trauma and acute care systems development in low-, middle- and high-income countries. He is the recipient of multiple awards for excellence in EM and in EM education, has published over 150 peer-reviewed manuscripts, chapters, abstracts and other articles, and has delivered over 1000 lectures at conferences, symposia, courses and workshops in over 50 countries.

Chairman & Consultant
TAWAM HOSPITAL

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

Dr Srinath Kumar T S is an Sr. Consultant, Group Head, Emergency Department which has a chain of Hospitals across India. With more than 20 years of experience in Emergency Medicine has a passion to improve care of Emergency Medicine across India. With his passion for Academics along with other SEMI board Members he could link more than 300 Hospitals including Medical Colleges across India to encourage Emergency Medicine by which the Emergency Care can been improved.

He was one of the first Special Advisory Board Members for National Board of Examinations – DNB Emergency Medicine and established the Curriculum for DNB. He was been awarded the highest honour “Distinguished Postgraduate Teacher of Emergency Medicine”. Currently he holds – National Academic Coordinator for all DNB specialities with ANBAI which is an Association of NBE accredited Hospitals in India.

He was the President of SEMI 2014 -16 and currently the Academic Chair, was in various Positions of SEMI since 2010. In IFEM, he is the current Treasurer.

He was involved in setting up of Emergency Departments to start DNB Emergency Medicine and training of Doctors in Public sector hospitals which caters in Taluks and villages in Karnataka & Tamilnadu. Train the Doctors from Madhya Pradesh. He was been involved in reviewing Trauma & Emergency management in Karnataka and Tamilnadu states.

He is in the Asian Society for Emergency Medicine – Board, 2015 as Asst. Treasurer, Asst. Secretary and current Treasurer.

He was an Examiner for MD and for DNB, SEMI certification programs, International Examiner – MRCEM, George Washington and Upstate and has many articles published.

His passion is to create Emergency Physicians to serve 1.3 billion people in India, in oversees he works closely with the Asian Countries and Turkey. Our aim is “Each one, teach one to save more lives.

Specialist Registrar,
Rashid Hospital

The Section Head for the Cardiothoracic ICU
Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi

Dr. Vivek Kakar is a Staff Physician in Critical Care and currently also the Section Head for the Cardiothoracic ICU and the ECMO Program at Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi. He completed formal training in internal medicine, anaesthesia, and critical care from some of the best and busiest hospitals in India and the UK. He also holds a master’s in medical ethics and law as well as a master’s in public health.

Prior to moving to the UAE in 2016, He was a Critical Care, ECMO, Anaesthesia, and Major Trauma Consultant at the King’s College Hospital, London. He helped set up a successful ECPR service at King’s and over the past 5-years, He has helped build one of the most comprehensive ECMO services in the region.

Clinical Assistant Professor
Ajou University School of Medicine

Yura Ko is currently working as a clinical assistant professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine, Ajou University School of Medicine. Her sub-specialization is pediatric emergency care and critical care medicine.

Senior Clinical Instructor,
Childlife Foundation

Zareen Qasmi has been working with Childlife Foundation for last 5 years. She has keen interest in the field of pediatric emergency medicine and has been working as passionate physician. Her job’s responsibility is to train and teach ED physicians, leading the academics, doing audits and reviewing the morbidity and mortality cases.

Professor, Emory University

Born and raised in Lebanon, Dr. Kazzi completed his medical school studies at the American University of Beirut prior to moving to the US where he completed a residency in EM at Emory University followed by a fellowship in medical toxicology at the Emory-CDC Program. He is the past president of MENATOX and the secretary treasurer of ACMT. He is an adjunct professor at the American University of Beirut where he co-directs the Clinical Toxicology Services.

EMS Director
US military’s Trauma, Burn, and Rehabilitative Medicine

Dr. Zachary T. Brady is a board-certified emergency medicine (EM) and emergency medical services (EMS) physician currently serving as the EMS Director for US military’s Trauma, Burn, and Rehabilitative Medicine Team in Abu Dhabi, UAE. He is assisting in the development of an accredited Level I trauma system within the Emirate. Prior to his current position, he served as the EMS Medical Director for Joint Base San Antonio, the largest EMS system in the US Department of Defense. Dr. Brady completed his EM residency at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo and his EMS fellowship at the University of Tennessee in Chattanooga. He has been a member of the United States Air Force since 2019 and served as the lead physician for the Critical Care Air Transport Team during a deployment to Afghanistan from October 2020 to April 2021. He flew a total of twenty-six missions, including five mass casualty events, and transported sixty-eight patients, most critically ill. He is a fellow of the American College of Emergency Physicians and a member of the National Association of EMS Physicians.

Dr. Salama Alneyadi , Emergency Medicine specialist at SKMC Abu Dhabi , completed emergency training at SKMC program and a fellowship training in Acute care POCUS at western university Canada. Have a special interest in resuscitation and medical education.