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Faculty

Co-Activity Directors and Organising Committee Members:
 

Dr. Mansour Al-Zarouni, Consultant Medical & Molecular Microbiologist, Head of Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Sharjah Medical District-Ministry of Health, Sharjah, UAE

Mr. Carlo Kaabar, Laboratory Technical Director, American Hospital Dubai, Dubai, UAE (Track A)

Prof. Debadatta Panigrahi,
Vice Dean and Chairman of Clinical Services, Prof. of Clinical Microbiology, College of Medicine,University of Sharjah (Track B)

Dr. Shweta Uppal,
Laboratory Director and Head of Histopathology and Cytology Department, Super Religare Laboratories, Dubai, UAE (Track C)

Dr. B.R. Das,
President of Research and Innovation, Mentor of Molecular Pathology and Clinical Research Services, Super Religare Laboratories Ltd, Mumbai, India (Track D)

Dr. Aparna Jha Ahuja,
Laboratory Director, Clinical Reference Lab, Super Religare Diagnostics, Gurgaon, India (Track E)

Dr. Imran Mirza,
Section Head, Molecular Diagnostics Laboratory, Pathology and Laboratory Medicine Institute, Sheikh Khalifa Medicial City, Abu Dhabi, UAE (Track F)

Dr. David Spence, Consultant Clinical Haematology, Medical Institute, Sheikh Khalifa Medical Institute, Abu Dhabi, UAE and President of the Emirates Society of Haematology (Track F)

 
 Faculty:
 

Track A: Laboratory Management

Dr. Laila O. Abdel-Wareth,
Chair, Laboratory Medicine Department, Sheikh Khalifa Medical City, Abu Dhabi, UAE

Dr. Sameh Al Shaikh, Chief Executive Officer, Al Borg GCC, Saudi Arabia

Chris Charlton,
Pathology Service Manager and Assitant Divisional Manager, Assessment and Disgnostics Division, Gateshead Health NHS Trust, UK
 

Mr. Samer Dahshi, Laboratory Manager, KFSH & RC, Jeddah, KSA

Dr. John Goepel, Consultant Histopathologist, Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, and Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer to Sheffield University & Chairman of Professional Advisory Committee of CPA (UK) Ltd, London, UK

Dr. Ibrahim Mansour, Chairman, Department of Pathology and Lab Med, International Medical Center, Jeddah, KSA

Dr. Senthil Meerrajan, Internal Medicine, American Hospital Dubai, Dubai, UAE

Dr. Najat Rashid,
Section Head, Ministry of HEalth, Sharjah, UAE

Dr. Stanley J. Robboy,
President, College of American Pathologists, USA

Andy Saleh,
Chief Quality Officer (CQO), Medlabs Consultancy Group, Amman, Jordan


Track B: Microbiology

Prof. Arunalok Chakrabarti, Professor
of Medical Mycology and Incharge of Mycology Section, Department of Medical Microbiology, Postgraduate Medical Institute, Chandigarh, India

Dr. Nihar Dash,
Department of Clinical Sciences, College of Medicine, University of Sharjah, Sharjahm UAE

Prof. Dr, Ulf B, Gobel,
Institution of Microbiology and Hygiene Charity,University Medicine, Berlin, Germany

Dr. Stefan Niemann,
Head Molecular Mycobacteriology Group, National Reference Center for Mycobacteria, Borstel, Germany

Dr. Agnes Sonnevend Pal,
Assistant Professor, Consultant Clinical Microbiologist, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, FMHS, UAE University, Al Ain, UAE

Dr. Tibor Pal,
Professor of Microbiology and Immunology, UAE University, Al Ain, UAE

Dr. Martin Pitout,
Section Head of Microbiology, Sheikh Khalifa Medical City, Abu Dhabi, UAE

Dr. Ashok Rattan,
MD, MAMS, Chairman; Laboratory Medicine, Medanta Medicity, Gurgaon, India

Prof. Meera Sharman, Professor and Chairperson, Department of Medical Microbiology, Postgraduate Medical Institute, Chandigarh, India


Track C: Histopathology

Dr. Tom Budd,
Head of Medical Oncology, Cleveland Clinic, Ohio, USA

Dr. Aseel Fattah,
Senior Consultant Histopathologist, Super Religare Laboratories, Dubai, UAE

Dr. John Goepel,
Consultant Histopathologist, Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, and Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer to Sheffield University & Chairman of Professional Advisory Committee of CPA (UK) Ltd, London, UK

Dr. Aaron Hon,
Chief of Department of Pathology and Med Laboratory, American Hospital Dubai, Dubai, UAE

Dr. David Munoz,
Head of Anatomic Pathology Department, St. Michael's Hospital, Toronto, Canada
 

Dr. Stanley J. Robboy, President, College of American Pathologists, USA

Dr. Lisa Yerian,
Medical Direction - Continuous Improvement in the Division of Medical Operations and Pathology and Laboratory Medicine Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, USA


Track D: Molecular Diagnosis

Dr. Andrew J. Conrad,
Chief Science Officer, LabCorp and National Reference Laboratory, UAE

Dr. Saad Baher El Badawi,
Laboratory Director, Dr. Erfan & Bagedo General Hospital, Jeddah, KSA

Dr. Imran Mirza,
Section Head, Molecular Diagnostics Laboratory, Pathology and Laboratory Medicine Institute, Sheikh Khalifa Medical City, Abu Dhabi, UAE

Dr. Ali Rabaan,
M.Med. Sci, PhD, Head of Molecular Microbiology Laboratory, Saudi Aramco Medical Services Organisation, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia

Dr. Renjini Nambiar,
Cytogeneticist, SRL International, Dubai, UAE

Dr. Hisham Shams, Group Medical Director, Al Borg Medical Laboratories, Saudi Arabia

Prof. P.K. Uppal, India

Dr. Waheed Uz Zama Tariq,
Consultant Microbiologist and Virologist, Tawan Hospital, Al Ain, UAE


Track E: Clinical Chemistry

Dr. Laila Abdel Wareth
, Chair of Laboratory Medicine Department, Sheikh Khalifa Medical City, Abu Dhabi, UAE

Dr. Aparna Jha Ahuja,
Laboratory Director, Clinical Reference Lab, Super Religare Diagnostics, Gurgaon, India

Dr. Gurdeep Dhatt,
Chairman, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Consultant, Clinical Biochemistry, Tawam Hospital, Al Ain, UAE

Dr. William D. Fraser,
Professor of Medicine, Norwich Medical School, Norwich, UK

Dr. Farooq Ghani,
Section Head and Associate Professor & Director Outreach, Department of Pathology, Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan

Dr. Brajesh Mittal,
Interventional Cardiologist and Head of Department, Medcare Hospital, Dubai, UAE

Dr. Thuppil Vankatesh,
Director, National Referral Center for Lead Poisoning in India, Principal Advisor, QCI, Principal Assessor, NABH; Lead Assessor, NABL; Visiting Scholar, University of Cincinnati & Professor Emeritus, St. John's Medical College, Bangalore, India


Track F: Haematology

Dr. Arif Alam,
Consultant-Haematology/Oncology, Tawam Hospital in Affiliation with Johns Hopkins, Al Ain, UAE

Dr. Nameer Al Saadawi,
Consultant Haematologist and Head of Clinical Haematology, Sheikh Khalifa Medical City, Abu Dhabi, UAE

Dr. Azzam Al Zoebie,
Head of Paediatric Haematology, Sheikh Khalifa Medical City, Abu Dhabi, UAE

Dr. Khawla Belhowl,
Consultant Haematologist and Director of Thalassemia Center, Dubai Health Authority, Dubai, UAE

Dr. Srdjan Denic, Associate Professor, Department of Internal Medicine, UAE University, Al Ain, UAE

Dr. Talal Mahdi,
Specialist Hematopathologist, Head of Laboratory Department, Khorfakkan Hospital, MOH, Khorfakkan, UAE

Dr. Rania Medhat Seliem,
Consultant Hematopathologist, Head of Pathology Laboratory, Rashid Hospital, Dubai, UAE
 

Dr. Lois Richard, Consultant Laboratory Pathologist, Sheikh Khalifa Medical City, Abu Dhabi, UAE

Andrew Turner,
Laboratory Director, Sheikh Khalifa Medical City, Abu Dhabi, UAE

Faculty Disclosure Statement:
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. 
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