Speakers - Organ Donation & Transplant Track
Dr. Ali Al Obaidli
Chief Medical Officer, SEHA Kidney Care,
Abu Dhabi Health Services (SEHA)
UAE Chairman, UAE National Organ
Donation and Transplantation Committee
Abu Dhabi, UAE
Dr. Maria Paula Gomez
Director – Organ Transplant Expert,
The National Center for Regulating
Donation and Transplantation of Humans
Organs and Tissues, Ministry of Health
and Prevention (MOHAP), UAE
Dr. Mohamed Nassef
Head of Organizing Committee
Consultant Critical Care Medicine
Al Qassimi Hospital, Sharjah (EHS), UAE
Dr. Tambi Jarmi
Chair, Kidney & Pancreas Transplant
Division, Medical Director,
Kidney & Pancreas Transplant,
Department of Transplantation,
Mayo Clinic, Florida, USA
Dr. Bashir Sankari
Chair,
Surgical Subspecialties Institute,
Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi, UAE
Prof. Maher Baz
Professor of Medicine,
Mayo Clinic Florida, USA
Ms. Nimeh Mahmoud
Assistant Nurse Manager,
Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi,
UAE
Mr. Ayman Ishaq Ibrahim
Organ Donation Systems and Planning
Services Manager,
Emirate Organ and Tissue Center, UAE
Dr. Parag Patel
Chair, Division of Advanced Heart Failure
and Heart Transplantation
Mayo Clinic Florida, USA
Mr. Hisham Jamil Abou Alloul
Organ Donation Coordinator
National Center for Regulating Donations
and Transplantation of Humans Organs and
Tissues Ministry of Health and Prevention,
Dubai, UAE
Dr. Michael McLaughlin
Director of ICU. Consultant Intensivist/
Anesthesiologist, American Hospital,
Dubai, UAEDirector of ICU. Consultant Intensivist/
Anesthesiologist, American Hospital,
Dubai, UAE
Ananthanayagi Purushothaman
Senior Organ Donation Coordinator
Sheikh Shakhbout Medical City, UAE
Dr. Waldo Concepcion
Deputy Medical Director
Chief of Transplantation
Al Jalila Children’s Specialty Hospital
Consultant- Transplant Surgery
Mediclinic City Hospital – Dubai Hospital
Dr. Husain A Alawadhi
Consultant Infectious Diseases & Intensivist
Sheikh Khalifa Medical City, Ajman, UAE
Dr. Anas Massad
ICU Consultant Physician, Acting HOD
Al ZAHRA Private Hospital Dubai UAE
Dr. Muhammad Badar uz Zaman
Head Transplant and HPB Service,
SKMC, Abu Dhabi UAE
Dr. Reginaldo Boni
Senior Expert – Organ and Tissue Donation
Emirates Organ And Tissue Center (EOTC),
UAE
Dr. Devdutt Nayak Kotekar
Senior Consultant Neurologist,
Kuwait Hospital Sharjah, EHS, UAE
Dr. Mohamed Yahya Alseiari
Consultant Transplant Nephrology
Chair of SEHA Renal & Transplantation Council
Sheikh Khalifa Medical City
Adjunct Clinical Assistant Professor
Khalifa University, UAE
Dr. Nageswar Bandla
Consultant in Critical Care and Anaesthesiology
King's College Hospital London, Dubai UAE
Prof. Basset ElEssawy
Prof of Internal Medicine and Nephrology-
X- Associate Dean RAKMHSU & Professor
Al-Azhar University, Sharjah University
& Fakeeh University Hospital (UAE);
Visiting Professor in Medicine,
Harvard Medical School;
Scientist Brigham and Women's Hospital, USA
Dr. Farhad Kheradmand Janahi
Consultant - Urologist, Assistant Professor,
Mohammad bin Rashid University of Medicine
and Health Sciences, UAE
Dr. Essa M. Aleassa
Staff Physician, General Surgery,
Digestive Disease Institute
Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi UAE
Dr. Tamer Abdelhak
Vascular Neurology
Trinity Health IHA Medical Group, USA
Dr. Matthew J. Weiss
Medical director, organ donation at Transplant Québec
Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics,
Université Laval, Québec, Canada
Dr. Amna Khalifa Alhadari
Consultant Nephrologist,
Head of Department of Nephrology
Dubai Hospital, Duabi UAE
