Keynote Speakers
Maadh Aldouri
Consultant Haematologist, UK
MBChB, FRCPath, FRCP (UK) Clinical Director of International Activities, The Royal College of Pathologists
Dr Aldouri is the Clinical Director for Cancer, Diagnostics & Clinical Support Services, at Medway Foundation Trust, and Clinical Director of North Kent Pathology Services. He also works as a Consultant Haematologist at King’s College Hospital, London. He is a graduate of the College of Medicine of Baghdad University, Iraq, and has worked in the Middle East for over ten years. He is Fellow of The Royal College of Pathologists and Royal College of Physicians. He was Chair of the Haematology Speciality Group of Kent and Medway Cancer Network 2001-2017, member of South Thames Region of the RCPath Council 2001-2003 and Chair of the Pathology Committee of the Inter-Collegiate Iraq Liaison Group. He became the RCPath International Advisor for the Middle East & North Africa (MENA) region in 2013. He was appointed as the College’s Clinical Director of International Activities in January 2015.
Paul Moss
Professor of Haematology, UK
BMBS, Ph.D, Member of Royal College of Physicians UK, Fellow of Royal College of Pathologists (RCPath), Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences.
Professor of Haematology at the University of Birmingham and Director of Research and Knowledge Transfer in the College of Medicine. Professor Moss is leading the UK Coronavirus Immunology Consortium (UK-CIC), bringing together leading immunologists from 17 UK Universities to understand the immune response to SARS-CoV-2
Mohammad Aziz
Consultant Obstetrician and Gynaecologist, UK
MBChB, Iraqi Board of Obstetrics and gynaecology, MRCOG, RCOG Examiner and trainer, BSCCP Examiner and trainer, and Imperial College Examiner
Dr Aziz is currently working as Consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist at London North West Hospitals NHS Trust, Lead for Acute Gynaecology unit
Tawfik A. M. Khoja
Professor in Health Systems and Quality, KSA
MBBS, DPHC, Fellow of the Royal College of General Practitioners (FRCGP), Fellow of the Faculty of Public Health (FFPH), Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians (FRCP)
Professor Khoja was the Director General, Executive Board, Health Ministers’ Council for the Cooperation Council States for more than 16 years, Family and Community Medicine Consultant, in addition to other job responsibilities including overall development and implementation of PHC, family medicine, public health and development and advancement of health programs and improvement of TQ concepts and patient safety, conduction and coordination of field studies and research in PHC. He held in the MOH Director General of Health Centers, Ministry of Health, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, and appointment as the Director General of the Executive Board, HMC/GCC. Professor Khoja is the General Secretary of the Arab Hospital Federation, as well as Deputy Chairperson of Arab Union Anti -Forgery and Counterfeit.
Walid Al-Wali
Professor and Senior Consultant in Medical Microbiology, Qatar
MBChB, Fellow of the Royal College of Pathologists (FRCPath), MD, FRCPEdin.
Prof. Walid Al-Wali is Senior Consultant Medical Microbiologist at Hamad General Hospital and Al-Wakra Hospital. He is also the Vice-Chair of Infection Prevention and control Committee of Al-Wakra Hospital, Chairman of the Infection Prevention and control Committee of the Ambulatory Care Centre, Vice-Chair of Clinical Pathology, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha, Qatar.
Aussama K. Nassar
Consultant Trauma and Critical Care Medicine, Program Director of the Surgical Critical Care Fellowship, Stanford University, California, USA
MD, MSc, FRCSC, FACS Clinical Assistant Professor of Surgery. Stanford University School of Medicine.
Dr. Nassar, the Program Director of the Surgical Critical Care Fellowship at Stanford, is an assistant clinical professor of surgery. He is triple boarded in general surgery and critical care in Canada and the United States. Dr. Nassar is a true clinician-educator with an MSc degree in Health Sciences Education from McMaster University, one of the prestigious institutions in medical education. Dr. Nassar is a certified health care simulation expert. His research interests are curricula design, team-based communication, relationship patient-centered care, and healthcare wellness and burnout. Among his recent accomplishments is establishing and directing the department of surgery inaugural resident coaching program at Stanford. He also pioneered a communicatio.
Haval M. Saadlla
Consultant of Respiratory, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, US
MD, Fellow of the American Board of Internal Medicine - Pulmonary and Critical Care, Member of the American College of Chest Physicians
Dr Saadlla is a Pulmonary Critical Care Medicine Specialist in Chillicothe, OH and has over 26 years of experience in the medical field. He graduated from University Of Mosul, Faculty Of Medicine medical school in 1994. He is affiliated with medical facilities such as Adena Regional Medical Center and Adena Greenfield Medical Center.
Faraj Howady
Senior Consultant of adult infectious diseases
MMBChB, CABM
Dr Faraj Howady was graduated from Baghdad University, Faculty of medicine and completed his training in internal medicine Arab Board Program in 1990. He was a Faculty Member in College of Medicine, University of Anbar from 1993-1997. He had joined Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha-Qatar in the Department of Medicine, Infectious Diseases Section since 1997. He has 23 years experience in Adult Infectious Disease with main interest in management of Tuberculosis, Leprosy and General Infectious Diseases.
Estefania Ochoa
Clinical Pathologist, Ecuador
MD, MSc in Clinical Microbiology
Medical doctor from Ecuador with a specialty in Clinical Pathology, and a Master degree in Clinical Microbiology. Young Ambassador for the American Society of Microbiology for Ecuador. Former Professor of Clinical Microbiology of the Clinical Biochemist Career in Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador. Currently working as a Clinical Pathologist in the Microbiology area of the private sector.
Peter Forster
Director of Research, Institute for Forensic Genetics, Germany
BSc (Chemistry), PhD in Biology
Peter Forster's research concerns the molecular population genetics of humans. Born in 1967, he studied chemistry at the
universities of Kiel and Hamburg, specialised in genetics at the Heinrich-Pette-Institute of Virology and Immunology
in Hamburg and received his PhD in Biology in 1997. After postdoctoral research at the Institute of Legal Medicine in
Muenster until 1999, he was appointed Research Fellow at the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research in
Cambridge until 2006. In the same period, he became a Founding Member of the interdisciplinary Junge Akademie in
Berlin. From 2006-2009 he was a university senior lecturer in forensics and life sciences.
Peter Forster is currently Director of Research at the Institute for Forensic Genetics in Muenster (Germany), Fellow of the McDonald
Institute for Archaeological Research at the University of Cambridge, and an editor of the International Journal of
Legal Medicine (Springer, Heidelberg).
Samuel Moses
Consultant in Virology and Infection, UK
MBBS, MRCP, FRCPath (Virology), CCT
Honorary Senior Lecturer, University of Kent, East Kent Hospitals University, UK
Yahya Ethawi
Consultant Pediatric and Neonatologist, UAE
MD, Diploma in Child Health (DHC), Arab board of paediatric, Neonatal-Perinatal fellowship (Australia), Neonatal-Perinatal Fellowship (Canada), Neonatal Transport Fellowship (Canada)
Dr. Yahya Ethawi consultant neonatologist, graduated from medical school 1993, granted specialty in pediatrics 2001, Assistant professor of pediatric 2003, Neonatal-Perinatal fellowship from The University of Melbourne, Australia 2010. Neonatal Perinatal fellowship from the University Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada 2014. Neonatal Transport fellowship form The neonatal transport program of Manitoba 2014. In house neonatologist and general pediatrician at Winnipeg regional health Authority from 2014 till 2018. Appointed as a director of the Arab Board Neonatal Perinatal Fellowship program of ministry of health and prevention 2019.
Ali Omrani
Senior Consultant Adult Infectious Diseases, Qatar
MBBCh, MSc, Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians (FRCP), Fellow of the Royal College of Pathologists (FRCPath).
Dr Omrani is a Senior Consultant Adult Infectious Diseases, Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha. He completed his specialist training in adult infectious diseases and medical microbiology at the University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff, followed by consultant positions in the United Kingdom and Saudi Arabia, before moving on to Qatar in July 2018. Dr Omrani’s clinical and research interests focus on the management of infections caused by extensively resistant pathogens, infections in immune compromised hosts and infections in critically ill patients.
Abdul Hameed Abdul Majeed Hamad AL Qaseer
Vice President of Iraqi cardiothoracic society (twice)
M.B.Ch.B. (Baghdad), M. D. ( F.I.C.M). Professor in internal medicine and respiratory diseases sub specialty, AL-Mustanseryia college of medicine.
He is a Consultant in internal medicine and respiratory medicine of Al Yarmouk teaching hospital Twenty two published researches. Member of the National Diabetic Center. Member in IRAQI cardiothoracic society. Participate in writing IRAQI guideline of asthma. Member in IRAQI hypertensive society. Participate in writing Iraqi guidelines. Examiner & supervisor in Iraqi committee for medical specialization of internal medicine. Examiner & supervisor in Iraqi committee for medical specialization of respiratory medicine subspecialty. President of chest and respiratory specialty, vice president of cardiothoracic society.
Monem Makki Alshok
Professor of Clinical Medicine
MBChB, DM in medicine, Arab Board in internal Medicine (CABM), FRCP, Member of ISGH in Iraq, Member of Iraqi Diabetes Association, Member of Cardiology and Chest Diseases Association, Member of European Society of GI endoscopies (ESGE)
Professor of Clinical Medicine, College of medicine, University of Babylon. Consultant physician in Merjan Teaching Hospital Babylon. Member of Iraqi Medical Board for Medical Specialties, and Supervisor of Postgraduate Babylon Training Centre for Medical Specialties. Chief of Department of scientific and ethical research unit in Babylon health governorate and member of scientific and ethical research committee in the MOH. President of the Scientific Counsel of Iraqi Board of internal medicine speciality, Baghdad, Iraq.
Abdulsalam Al-Ani
Consultant Haematopathologist
MBChB and Fellow of the Iraqi Board for Medical Specialization in Haematopathology (FIBMS / Haematopathology). Member of British Society for Haematology (BSH) and The Royal College of Pathologists (RCPath).
Dr Abdulsalam Al-Ani is a consultant Haematopathologist and worked as a head of the Pathology Department and the Dean of the College of Medicine, University of Anbar. Graduated from Mosul College of Medicine 1990, awarded specialty in haematology 1999 and Assistant professor of haematology, 2003. He is a member of Iraqi Society of Haematology (ISOH), British Society for Haematology (BSH), the Royal College of Pathologists (RCPath), Pan Arab Hematology Association, the European Society of Cardiology (ECS), and International Academy for Clinical Hematology (IACH).
Aamr F Al-Ubaidi
Consultant General Surgeon
MBChB, FIBMS
Aamr F Al-Ubaidi is an assistant professor in the Department of Surgery, College of Medicine, University ff Anbar, Iraq. He received his MBChB degree in 1985/ Mosul University. In 1994 he received his fellowship degree in general surgery (FIBMS)/ Iraq. He works as a general surgeon and consultant in Al-Ramadi Teaching Hospital and Fallujah General Hospital. The main fields of clinical expertise and scientific interests are thyroid and trauma surgery. He is an executive manager of Al-Anbar Medical Journal since March 2019.
Haitham Noaman Eyada
Professor of internal medicine
MBChB (Baghdad), Arab Board of Medicine (FCABM)
Professor of internal medicine in the Department of Medicine, College of Medicine, University of Anbar. Consultant of internal medicine and infectious diseases in Al Yarmouk Teaching Hospital, Department of Medicine. Trainer of Iraqi and Arab Board students in internal medicine. Prof Eyada has conducted and published many researches in collaboration with international universities in the field of infectious diseases. Participating in writing Iraqi guidelines of HIV/AIDS, participating in Arab strategy of cancer management in Arab land in Cairo university, participating in Dar Alsalam COVID-19 hospital strategy in Baghdad main hospital of SARS2 now, member of Iraqi cardiothoracic society, TB. Society, Diabetic society, Arab health society.