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Overview

11th Middle East Surgery Conference 23rd - 26th January 2012

Arab Health Congress 2012 is introducing the newly reformatted surgery conference as an innovative four days educational event. The 11th Middle East Surgery Conference aims to become the most important surgical educational event in the Middle East by introducing workshops, master classes and surgery video competitions into the conference agenda.

The conference is scheduled to run as a multi-track event, providing delegates the opportunity to choose which sessions to attend, be it on breast, liver, Hepatobilliary or GI surgery. The conference will also feature new sessions on surgical procedures on highly-sensitive population including surgery during pregnancy, obese and elderly patients.

What's new this year?

This year’s conference will run as a multi-track congress, with surgery lectures running in two rooms to accommodate for the interest of all the delegates. The conference will also feature newly introduce Surgery Master Classes, designed to provide delegates with a multi-disciplinary session in management of various diseases such as Breast Cancer, Colorectal, Midnight Disasters etc.

The Young Surgeon Awards will also be introduced during Arab Health 2012 Congress, where young surgeons are given the opportunity to present their research work or video presentation to the audience for a chance to win the Young Surgeon Award during the Arab Health 2012 Awards.

The 11th Middle East Surgery Conference is this year combined with the 2nd Middle East Multi-Disciplinary Approaches to Cancer Therapy, which takes place on the final two days. Please view the agenda here.

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The Cleveland Clinic Foundation Center for Continuing Education is accredited by the Accreditation
Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

The Cleveland Clinic Foundation Center for Continuing Education designates this live activity for a maximum of 23.25 AMA PRA Category 1 CreditTM.

Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity. Participants claiming CME credit from this activity may submit the credit hours to the American
Osteopathic Association Council on Continuing Medical Education for Category 2 credit.

 
Agenda and Tracks:


Day 1: 23rd January 2012

Day 2: 24th January 2012- Track A

Day 2: 24th January 2012- Track B

Day 3: 25th January 2012- Track A

Day 3: 25th January 2012- Track B

Day 3: 25th January 2012- Track C (Oncology)

Day 4: 26th January 2012- Track A

Day 4: 26th January 2012- Track B (oncology)

 
Target Audience:

  • Surgeons of all Specialties
  • Surgical Nurses
  • Oncologist
 
 
Attend this conference and:

  • Discuss the importance of continuous medical education for surgical practice and surgeon career development
  • Assess the latest updates in breast surgery
  • Appraise the latest trends in management of gastric cancer
  • Debate the best approach in surgery of the morbidly obese
  • Evaluate the best method of treating cancer in pregnant patients
  • Critique important issues in leadership and quality of surgery departments and the role of the surgeon
  • Evaluate the fundamentals for the use of safe energy in surgery
  • Illustrate the basic and fundamental issues in cancer management
  • Discuss the newest trends in cancer therapy including optismisation of radio-therapy and radiation oncology
  • Appraise the latest use of human genetics/genomic studies to target cancer
  • Identify future challengess and directions in management of various cancer such as colorectal cancer
  • Discuss recent advances in the treatment of various tumors including Sarcoma

To view the objectives for the 2nd Multi-Disciplinary Approaches to Cancer Therapy, please click here

Organising and Scientific Committee

Organising Committee:

Conference Chairs:

Ali M. Ghellai Jr., MD, FACS, Chairmain of
Surgery and Chief of Surgical Oncology,
Tawam Hospital in Affiliation with Johns Hopkins,
Al Ain, UAE

Haytham N. El Salhat, MD, MBA,
Director of
Breast Center and Consultant Surgeon,
Tawam Hospital in Affiliation with Johns Hopkins,
Al Ain, UAE


Ghodratullah Nowrastch, MD,
Consultant
Surgeon, Tawam Hospital, Al Ain, UAE

Noura Al Ali MD,
Surgery Resident, Tawam Hospital

Amal Suhool, MD,
Surgery Resident, Tawam Hospital

Maisoon Mahmoud, MD,
Surgery Resident, Tawam Hospital

 

Scientific Committee:

Ali M. Ghellai Jr., MD, FACS, Chairman of
Surgey and Chief of Surgical Oncology,
Tawam Hospital in Affiliation with Johns
Hopkins,
Al Ain, UAE

Haytham N. El Salhat, MD, MBA,
Consultant
Surgical Oncologist and Chief of General
Surgery and Deputy Chairmain of Surgery,
Tawam Hospital in Affiliation with
Johns Hopkins, Al Ain, UAE

Dr. David Vogt
, Surgeon, General Surgery
Department,Cleveland Clinic, Ohio, USA

Prof. Karl Miller, MD, FACS,
Associate Prof.
of Surgery and President of the International
Federation for the Surgery of Obesity
and Metabolic Disorder (IFSO), Head
of Surgical Department, Hallein Clinic, Hallein, Austria

Prof. Faheem El Bassiony
, Prof. of
General and Laparoscopic Surgery,Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt

Prof. Hossam Hamdy,
Vice Chancellor for
Medical and Health Sciences College,
University of Sharjah,
Sharjah, UAE

 

The Cleveland Clinic Foundation Centre for Continuing Education has implemented a policy to comply with the current Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education Standards for Commercial Support requiring resolution of all faculty conflicts of interest. Faculty declaring a relevant commercial interest will be identified in the activity syllabus.
Leading Congress Supporter
SEHA - Abu Dhabi Health Services
Supporting Bodies
Organised by
Member of
     
UAE Ministry of Health
Dubai Health Authority
Health Authority - Abu Dhabi