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Key topics: • Bariatric surgery • Metabolic surgery • Gastrointestinal surgery • Hernia surgery • Endocrine surgery • Breast reconstruction • Pancreas and kidney transplantation • Surgical oncology Benefits of attending: • Identify technological advancements in upper and lower gastrointestinal surgery • Evaluate standard current practices in surgical oncology for the general surgeon • Review surgical techniques for hernia • Appraise the latest developments in bariatric and metabolic surgery • Identify evolving trends in endocrine surgery • Discuss challenges in breast surgical procedures • Examine advances in paediatric kidney transplantation 14 th Middle East Surgery Conference 27-29 January 2015 Dubai International Convention & Exhibition Centre 26-29 January 2015 Dubai International Convention & Exhibition Centre Part of Tel: +971 4 336 7334 | [email protected] | www.ahcongress.com Book and pay before 4 December 2014 and save up to US$155 Organised by: Provided by: Leading congress supporter: Supporting bodies:

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The goal is to update surgeons with advancements in technology and innovation, surgical techniques and changes in the socioeconomic and healthcare demands in the region. Broad in its scope, the conference offers an opportunity to gain an understanding of the latest developments in the field of surgery that encompass, hepatobiliary surgery, surgical gastroenterology, bariatric and metabolic surgery, endocrine surgery, surgical oncology, trauma and surgical intensive care. Providing a vast array of educational and networking opportunities with the aim to enhance the care of surgical patients through state-of-the-art educational lectures, this three-day conference will bring attendees up-to-date on cutting-edge knowledge through sessions on key and diverse aspects of surgery. Key themes Bariatric surgery Post-bariatric surgery Metabolic surgery Robotic surgery IT advancement in OR technologies GI Surgery Colorectal Hernia Laparoscopic surgery Adrenals, pancreas and hepatobiliary surgery Endocrine surgery Ethics in surgical practice Breast diseases Trauma

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Key topics: • Bariatric surgery

• Metabolic surgery

• Gastrointestinal surgery

• Hernia surgery

• Endocrine surgery

• Breast reconstruction

• Pancreas and kidney transplantation

• Surgical oncology

Benefits of attending: • Identify technological advancements in upper and

lower gastrointestinal surgery

• Evaluate standard current practices in surgical oncology for the general surgeon

• Review surgical techniques for hernia

• Appraise the latest developments in bariatric and metabolic surgery

• Identify evolving trends in endocrine surgery

• Discuss challenges in breast surgical procedures

• Examine advances in paediatric kidney transplantation

14th Middle East Surgery Conference27-29 January 2015Dubai International Convention & Exhibition Centre

26-29 January 2015 Dubai International Convention & Exhibition Centre

Part of

Tel: +971 4 336 7334 | [email protected] | www.ahcongress.com

Book and pay before 4 December 2014 and save up to US$155

Organised by:Provided by: Leading congress supporter:

Supporting bodies:

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Dear Healthcare Professional,

I am pleased to present you with the programme for the 14th Middle East Surgery Conference, taking place on 27-29 January 2015 at the Dubai International Convention & Exhibition Centre.

Provided by the Cleveland Clinic, this conference is part of the Arab Health Congress, the world’s largest multi-track medical congress. Furthermore, it is one of a handful of events in the region to offer Continuing Medical Education (CME) to attending medical professionals via its scientific exchange.

With the goal of updating surgeons with advancements in technology and innovation, surgical techniques and changes in the socioeconomic and healthcare demands in the region, the scientific agenda is designed to cater for the special interests of surgeons at all levels of expertise, from consultant surgeons to surgical trainees, as well as students and surgical nurses.

The conference offers an opportunity to gain an understanding of the latest developments in bariatric surgery, metabolic surgery, gastrointestinal surgery, hernia surgery, endocrine surgery, breast surgery, pancreas and kidney transplantations and surgical oncology.

Providing a vast array of educational and networking opportunities and aims to enhance the care of surgical patients through state-of-the-art educational lectures, this three-day conference will bring attendees up-to-date on cutting-edge knowledge through sessions on key and diverse aspects of surgery.

On behalf of the organising committee, I look forward to seeing you in Dubai in January 2015.

Yours sincerely,

Dr Faruq M BadiuddinActivity Director14th Middle East Surgery Conference

P.S. Contact the Arab Health Congress registration team directly to learn more about group discounts and early bird rates. Call +971 4 336 7334 or email [email protected].

Who should attend• Bariatric Surgeons

• Breast Surgeons

• Endocrine Surgeons

• Gastro Intestinal Surgeons

• General Surgeons

• Oncologists

• Surgical Nurses

Accreditation statement 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 14.75 AMA PRA Category 1 CreditsTM. 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 for Category 2 credit.

Arab Health Innovation & Achievement Awards 2015Tuesday, 27 January 2015

Excellence in Surgery ServicesThis award is presented to the organisation or department that has made the greatest contribution in the field of surgery.

Young Surgeon of the Year AwardThis award aims to recognise the accomplishments of young surgeons where all surgical residents, fellows, and surgeons up to the age of 40 are eligible to apply for the award.

For more information about the Arab Health Awards 2015, visit www.arabhealthonline.com/awards

AWARDS 2015

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DAY One: Tuesday, 27 January 2015

08:50 Opening remarks by the Chair Dr Faruq M Badiuddin, Specialist General Surgeon, General,

Laparoscopic & Obesity Surgery, Mediclinic Dubai Mall, Dubai, UAE; President, Emirates Obesity and Metabolic Surgery Interest Group, Dubai, UAE

SeSSiOn 1: UPPeR GASTROinTeSTinAL SURGeRYModerator: Dr Matthew Walsh, General Surgeon, Department of General Surgery, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, USA

09:00 Patient with achalasia, laparoscopic Heller vs Peroral Esophageal Myotomy (POEM)

Dr Matthew Kroh, Director of Surgical Endoscopy in the Digestive Disease Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, USA

09:15 Patient with normal duct chronic pancreatitis: Drainage procedure vs total pancreatectomy and auto islets

Dr Matthew Walsh, Chair, Department of General Surgery, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, USA

09:30 Hiatal Hernia: Endoscopic treatment vs laparoscopic surgery Dr Frank Branicki, Chairman, Surgical Institute, Al Ain Hospital,

Al Ain, UAE

09:45 Interactive panel discussion: Surgical vs conservative management of pancreatic cysts

Led by: Dr Matthew Walsh, Chair, Department of General Surgery, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, USA

Dr Frank Branicki, Chairman, Surgical Institute, Al Ain Hospital, Al Ain, UAE

Dr Matthew Kroh, Director of Surgical Endoscopy in the Digestive Disease Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, USA

10:05 Keynote lecture: Impact of diabetes in the society and possible solutions

Dr Paul Stoffels, Chief Scientific Officer; Worldwide Chairman, Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies, Johnson & Johnson, New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA

10:30 COFFEE BREAK

SeSSiOn 2: LOWeR GASTROinTeSTinAL SURGeRYModerator: Dr Katalin Kalmar, Specialist General Surgeon, European Board Certified Colorectal Surgeon, Mediclinic Dubai Mall, Dubai, UAE

11:00 Whatisnewinthesurgicalmanagementofinflammatorybowel disease?

Speaker to be confirmed

11:15 Colorectal stromal tumours: How common are they and how should they be managed?

Dr Faisel Ikram, Consultant General Surgeon and Surgical Gastroenterologist, Mediclinic City Hospital, Dubai, UAE

11:30 Advancesinanorectalfistulatreatment Dr Katharina Kessler, Consultant, General Surgery, Visceral

Surgery and Proctology, ESBQ Coloproctology, Al Ain Hospital, Al Ain, UAE

11:45 Dynamic MRI proctography: Adding precision to the diagnosis ofpelvicfloordisorders

Dr Katalin Kalmar, Specialist General Surgeon, European Board Certified Colorectal Surgeon, Mediclinic Dubai Mall, Dubai, UAE

12:00 Interactive panel discussion: Minimally invasive approaches in rectal cancer management

Led by: Dr Joep Knol, Surgeon, Department of Colon and Rectal Surgery, Jessa Hospital, Hasselt, Belgium

Dr Faisel Ikram, Consultant General Surgeon and Surgical Gastroenterologist, Mediclinic City Hospital, Dubai, UAE

Dr Katharina Kessler, Consultant, General Surgery, Visceral Surgery and Proctology, ESBQ Coloproctology, Al Ain Hospital, Al Ain, UAE

Dr Katalin Kalmar, Specialist General Surgeon, European Board Certified Colorectal Surgeon, Mediclinic Dubai Mall, Dubai, UAE

12:30 LUNCH BREAK

SeSSiOn 3: enDOCRine SURGeRY

Moderator: Dr Rolf Ulrich Hartung, Consultant General Surgeon, BR Medical Suites, Dubai Healthcare City, Dubai UAE

14:00 Thyroid cancer: When is radical neck dissection required? Dr Sadir Al Arawi, Interim Chair, Department of Surgery,

Tawam Hospital, Al Ain, UAE

14:15 Continuous monitoring of nerves during thyroid and parathyroid surgery: Does it improve outcome?

Prof Dr Dietmar Simon, Medical Director and Head of General Surgery, Bethesda Hospital, Duisburg, Germany

14:30 Minimally invasive adrenal surgery Dr Rolf Ulrich Hartung, Consultant General Surgeon,

BR Medical Suites, Dubai Healthcare City, Dubai UAE

15:00 Interactive panel discussion: Is endoscopic surgery for endocrine diseases the future?

Led by: Dr Rolf Ulrich Hartung, Consultant General Surgeon, BR Medical Suites, Dubai Healthcare City, Dubai UAE

Dr Sadir Al Arawi, Interim Chair, Department of Surgery, Tawam Hospital, Al Ain, UAE Prof Dr Dietmar Simon, Medical Director and Head of General Surgery, Bethesda Hospital, Duisburg, Germany

15:30 COFFEE BREAK

SeSSiOn 4: HeRniA SURGeRYModerator: Dr Basim Al Khafaji, Consultant Surgeon, Canadian Specialist Hospital, Dubai, UAE

16:00 Complex abdominal wall reconstruction techniques Dr Matthew Kroh, Director of Surgical Endoscopy in the

Digestive Disease Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, USA

16:15 Incisional hernia repair: Prevention and management of accidental enterotomies

Prof Pradeep Chowbey, Immediate Past President, International Federation for Surgery of Obesity and Metabolic Disorders (IFSO); Chief of Surgery and Director of Institute of Minimal Access, Metabolic & Bariatric Surgery, Max Healthcare, Saket, New Delhi, India

16:30 Meshesandfixationinlaparoscopicventral hernia repair

Dr Tim Tollens, Head of General Surgery Department, Imelda Hospital, Bonheiden, Belgium

16:45 Interactive panel discussion: Irreducible and sliding inguinal hernias: Is laparoscopic treatment feasible?

Led by: Dr Basim Al Khafaji, Consultant Surgeon, Canadian Specialist Hospital, Dubai UAE

Dr Tim Tollens, Head of General Surgery Department, Imelda Hospital, Bonheiden, Belgium

Prof Pradeep Chowbey, Immediate Past President, International Federation for Surgery of Obesity and Metabolic Disorders (IFSO); Chief of Surgery and Director of Institute of Minimal Access, Metabolic & Bariatric Surgery, Max Healthcare, Saket, New Delhi, India

Dr Matthew Kroh, Director of Surgical Endoscopy in the Digestive Disease Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, USA

17:15 END OF CONFERENCE DAY ONE

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DAY TWO: Wednesday, 28 January 2015

SeSSiOn 5: BARiATRiC/ MeTABOLiC SURGeRY Moderator: Dr Faruq M Badiuddin, Specialist General Surgeon, General, Laparoscopic & Obesity Surgery, Mediclinic Dubai Mall, Dubai, UAE; President, Emirates Obesity and Metabolic Surgery Interest Group, Dubai, UAE

09:00 Do we need new metabolic procedures? Dr Alfons Pomp, Leon C. Hirsch Professor of Surgery, Vice

Chairman, Department of Surgery; Chief, GI Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York Presbyterian Hospital, New York, New York, USA

09:20 Definingsuccessandfailureinbariatricandmetabolicsurgery Dr Martin Fried, Professor of Surgery, 1st Faculty of Medicine,

Charles University, ISCARE - Centre for Minimally, Invasive and Bariatric Surgery, Prague, Czech Republic

09:40 Metabolic surgery for non-obese diabetics Dr Mufazzal Ladkawala, Founder of the Centre for Obesity

and Digestive Surgery; Head of the Department of Minimal Access and Bariatric Surgery, Saifee Hospital, Mumbai, India

10:00 The role of endoluminal therapy in metabolic surgery Dr Matthew Kroh, Director of Surgical Endoscopy in the

Digestive Disease Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, USA

10:20 Different techniques and results in the management of post sleeve gastrectomy leaks

Dr Waleed Bukhari, Advanced Laparoscopy, Bariatric and General Surgery Consultant, International Medical Center, Jeddah, KSA

10:40 COFFEE BREAK

SeSSiOn 6: BARiATRiC / MeTABOLiC SURGeRY Moderator: Dr Abdelrahman Nimeri, Head, Division of General, Thoracic, & Vascular Surgery, Director, Bariatric & Metabolic Institute (BMI), Sheikh Khalifa Medical City, Abu Dhabi, UAEDr Girish Juneja, Director, Bariatric Center, International Modern Hospital, Dubai, UAE

11:10 Interactive panel discussion: Abdominal pain in a patient with previous bariatric surgery - Emergency room management

Led by: Dr Fawaz Chikh Torab, Associate Professor, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, UAE University; Senior Consultant General, Trauma and Bariatric Surgery, Tawam Hospital, Al Ain, UAE

Dr Martin Fried, Professor of Surgery, 1st Faculty of Medicine, Charles University, ISCARE - Centre for Minimally, Invasive and Bariatric Surgery, Prague, Czech Republic

Dr Matthew Kroh, Director of Surgical Endoscopy in the Digestive Disease Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, USA

11:30 Interactive panel discussion: The most ‘effective’ metabolic procedure

Led by: Dr Sultan Al Temyatt, President, Saudi Arabia Society of Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery; Consultant Laparoscopic General Surgeon & Bariatric Surgeon, Al Mowasat Hospital, Dammam, KSA

Prof Pradeep Chowbey, Immediate Past President, International Federation for Surgery of Obesity and Metabolic Disorders (IFSO); Chief of Surgery and Director of Institute of Minimal Access, Metabolic & Bariatric Surgery, Max Healthcare, Saket, New Delhi, India

Dr Sung Soo Park, Associate Professor, Korea University College of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea

11:50 Interactive panel discussion: Roux n Y gastric bypass vs Omega loop gastric bypass (Mini gastric bypass): What is the current evidence?

Led by: Dr Alfons Pomp, Leon C. Hirsch Professor of Surgery, Vice Chairman, Department of Surgery; Chief, GI Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York Presbyterian Hospital, New York, New York, USA

Prof Dr Rudolf Weiner, President, International Federation for the Surgery of Obesity and Metabolic Disorders, Frankfurt, Germany

Dr Abdul Wahid Al Wahidi, Consultant General Surgeon, Head of the General Surgery Department and Deputy Technical Director, Al Qassimi Hospital, Sharjah, UAE

12:10 Interactive panel discussion: Mechanisms of weight regain and management algorithm

Led by: Dr Abdelrahman Nimeri, Head, Division of General, Thoracic & Vascular Surgery, Director, Bariatric & Metabolic Institute (BMI), Sheikh Khalifa Medical City, Abu Dhabi, UAE

Dr Mohammed Al Jarallah, President, Gulf Obesity Surgery Society, Kuwait, Kuwait

Dr Ali Khammas, Consultant General Surgeon, Rashid Hospital, Dubai, UAE

12:30 LUNCH BREAK

SeSSiOn 7: SURGiCAL OnCOLOGY FOR THe GeneRAL SURGeOnModerator: Dr Haytham El Salhat, Chief of Surgical Oncology and General Surgery, Tawam Hospital, Al Ain, UAE

14:00 Heated chemo perfusion in peritoneal surface malignancy Dr Tarek Amin, Senior Distinguished Consultant, Surgery,

Oncology Centre, King Faisal Specialist Hospital, Riyadh, KSA

14:20 Staging of gastric cancers: Methods and value in long-term survival

Dr Sung Soo Park, Associate Professor, Korea University College of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea

14:40 Managing metastatic disease in colorectal cancer Dr Haytham El Salhat, Chief of Surgical Oncology and General

Surgery, Tawam Hospital, Al Ain, UAE

15:00 Interactive panel discussion: How low is low for abdominoperineal resection?

Led by: Dr Haytham El Salhat, Chief of Surgical Oncology and General Surgery, Tawam Hospital, Al Ain, UAE

Dr Sung Soo Park, Associate Professor, Korea University College of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea

15:30 COFFEE BREAK

SeSSiOn 8: ADVAnCeS in BReAST SURGeRYModerator: Dr Annett Al Hamadi, Consultant General Surgeon, Mediclinic City Hospital , Dubai , UAE

16:00 Immediate reconstruction using implants Dr Tina Schoenau, Surgeon, Wilhelminen Spital Wien,

Vienna, Austria

16:20 Oncoplastic breast surgery Dr Christoph Tausch, Surgeon, Breast Center, Zurich,

Switzerland

16:40 BreastCareCentre:Benefitsandstructure;Europeanguidelines

Dr Christoph Tausch, Surgeon, Breast Center, Zurich, Switzerland

17:00 Sentinel lymphnode biopsy in adjuvant and neoadjuvant setting

Dr Stefan Paepke, Breast Surgeon, Women’s Clinic and Polyclinic of the Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany

17:20 Intra-operative radio therapy Dr Christian Kolberg, Surgeon, Gynecologist, St. Mary’s

Hospital, Bottrop, Germany

17:40 END OF CONFERENCE DAY TWO

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DAY THRee: Thursday, 29 January 2015

SeSSiOn 9: ReCenT ADVAnCeS in SURGeRYModerator: Dr Faruq M Badiuddin, Specialist General Surgeon, General, Laparoscopic & Obesity Surgery, Mediclinic Dubai Mall, Dubai, UAE; President, Emirates Obesity and Metabolic Surgery Interest Group, UAE

09:00 Robotic surgery: Where are we today? Dr Brian Gill, Consultant Surgeon, UAE University, Al Ain, UAE

09:15 Surgeonsandflexibleendoscopy:How,why,andwhat’snext? Dr Matthew Kroh, Director of Surgical Endoscopy in the

Digestive Disease Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, USA

09:30 Endoscopic intra uterine foetal surgery Dr Jose Peiro, Endoscopic Foetal Surgery Director, Cincinnati

Fetal Center Paediatric Surgeon, Division of General and Thoracic Surgery, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA

09:45 Transplant options for the diabetic patient: The role of pancreas transplantation

Dr Mikel Prieto, Surgical Director, Kidney and Pancreas Transplant Program and Paediatric Kidney Transplantation, Medical Director, International Practice Operations, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA

10:00 Reducing surgical site infections Dr Maged Rizk, Director, Chronic Abdominal Pain Center,

Digestive Disease Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, USA

10:20 COFFEE BREAK

SeSSiOn 10: ‘HOW i DO iT’ SURGiCAL ViDeOSModerator: Dr Ali Reza Egthedari, Specialist Senior Registrar, General Surgery, Canadian Hospital, Dubai, UAE

Video presenters are to be confirmed

11:00 Approaching the rectum from below: Transanal Endoscopic TME

11:15 Incisional hernia repair

11:30 Peroral Esophageal Myotomy (POEM)

11:45 Omega loop gastric bypass

12:00 Endoscopic duodenal sleeve

12:15 LUNCH AND CLOSE OF CONFERENCE

Gold: KARL STORZ GmbH & Co KG

Richard Wolf Endoscopes Middle EastSiemens AG Healthcare

Grantor acknowledgementThe Cleveland Clinic Foundation Center for Continuing Education

acknowledges educational grants for partial support of this activity from:

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Activity Directors:

Dr Faruq M Badiuddin, Specialist General Surgeon, General, Laparoscopic & Obesity Surgery, Mediclinic Dubai Mall, Dubai, UAE;President, Emirates Obesity and Metabolic Surgery Interest Group, UAE

Dr Matthew Walsh, Chair, Department of General Surgery, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, USA

Faculty disclosure statementThe Cleveland Clinic Foundation Center for Continuing Education has implemented a policy to comply with the current Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education Standards for Commercial Support requiring resolution for all faculty conflicts of interest. Faculty declaring a relevant interest will be identified in the activity syllabus.

Speaker faculty:

ScientificCommittee:

Dr Abdul Wahid Al Wahidi, Consultant General Surgeon, Head of the General Surgery Department and Deputy Technical Director, Al Qassimi Hospital, Sharjah, UAE

Dr Abdelrahman Nimeri, Head, Division of General, Thoracic & Vascular Surgery, Director, Bariatric & Metabolic Institute (BMI), Sheikh Khalifa Medical City, Abu Dhabi, UAE

Dr Alfons Pomp, Leon C. Hirsch Professor of Surgery, Vice Chairman, Department of Surgery; Chief, GI Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York Presbyterian Hospital, New York, New York, USA

Dr Ali Khammas, Consultant General Surgeon, Rashid Hospital, Dubai, UAE

Dr Ali Reza Egthedari, Specialist Senior Registrar, General Surgery, Canadian Hospital, Dubai, UAE

Dr Basim Al Khafaji, Consultant Surgeon, Canadian Specialist Hospital, Dubai UAE

Dr Brian Gill, Consultant Surgeon, UAE University, Al Ain, UAE

Dr Christian Kolberg, Surgeon, Gynecologist, St. Mary’s Hospital, Bottrop, Germany

Dr Christoph Tausch, Surgeon, Breast Center, Zurich, Switzerland

Prof Dr Dietmar Simon, Medical Director and Head of General Surgery, Bethesda Hospital, Duisburg, Germany

Dr Faisel Ikram, Consultant General Surgeon and Surgical Gastroenterologist, Mediclinic City Hospital, Dubai, UAE

Dr Fawaz Chikh Torab, Associate Professor, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, UAE University; Senior Consultant General, Trauma and Bariatric Surgery, Tawam Hospital, Al Ain, UAE

Dr Frank Branicki, Chairman, Surgical Institute, Al Ain Hospital, Al Ain, UAE

Dr Girish Juneja, Director, Bariatric Center, International Modern Hospital, Dubai, UAE

Dr Joep Knol, Surgeon, Department of Colon and Rectal Surgery, Jessa Hospital, Hasselt, Belgium

Dr Jose Peiro, Endoscopic Foetal Surgery Director, Cincinnati Foetal Center Paediatric Surgeon, Division of General and Thoracic Surgery, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA

Dr Katharina Kessler, Consultant, General Surgery, Visceral Surgery and Proctology, ESBQ Coloproctology, Al Ain Hospital, Al Ain, UAE

Dr Maged Rizk, Director, Chronic Abdominal Pain Center, Digestive Disease Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, USA

Dr Martin Fried, Professor of Surgery, 1st Faculty of Medicine, Charles University, ISCARE - Centre for Minimally, Invasive and Bariatric Surgery, Prague, Czech Republic

Dr Matthew Kroh, Director of Surgical Endoscopy in the Digestive Disease Institute, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, USA

Dr Mikel Prieto, Surgical Director, Kidney and Pancreas Transplant Program and Paediatric Kidney Transplantation, Medical Director, International Practice Operations, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA

Dr Mohammed Al Jarallah, President, Gulf Obesity Surgery Society, Kuwait, Kuwait

Dr Mufazzal Ladkawala, Founder of the Centre for Obesity and Digestive Surgery; Head of the Department of Minimal Access and Bariatric Surgery, Saifee Hospital, Mumbai, India

Dr Paul Stoffels, Chief Scientific Officer; Worldwide Chairman, Janssen Pharmaceutical Companies, Johnson & Johnson, New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA

Prof Pradeep Chowbey, Immediate Past President, International Federation for Surgery of Obesity and Metabolic Disorders (IFSO); Chief of Surgery and Director of Institute of Minimal Access, Metabolic & Bariatric Surgery, Max Healthcare, Saket, New Delhi, India

Prof Dr Rudolf Weiner, President, International Federation for the Surgery of Obesity and Metabolic Disorders, Frankfurt, Germany

Dr Sadir Al Arawi, Interim Chair, Department of Surgery, Tawam Hospital, Al Ain, UAE

Dr Stefan Paepke, Breast Surgeon, Women’s Clinic and Polyclinic of the Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany

Dr Sultan Al Temyatt, President, Saudi Arabia Society of Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery;Consultant Laparoscopic General Surgreon & Bariatric Surgeon, Al Mowasat Hospital, Dammam, KSA

Dr Sung Soo Park, Associate Professor, Korea University College of Medicine, Seoul, South Korea

Dr Tarek Amin, Senior Distinguished Consultant ,Surgery, Oncology Centre, King Faisal Specialist Hospital, Riyadh , KSA

Dr Tim Tollens, Head of General Surgery Department, Imelda Hospital, Bonheiden, Belgium

Dr Tina Schoenau, Surgeon, Wilhelminen Spital Wien, Vienna, Austria

Dr Waleed Bukhari, Advanced Laparoscopy, Bariatric and General Surgery Consultant, International Medical Center, Jeddah, KSA

Dr Annett Al Hamadi, Consultant General Surgeon, Mediclinic City Hospital , Dubai, UAE

Dr Haytham El Salhat, Chief of Surgical Oncology and General Surgery, Tawam Hospital, Al Ain, UAE

Dr Katalin Kalmar, Specialist General Surgeon, European Board Certified Colorectal Surgeon, Mediclinic Dubai Mall, Dubai, UAE

Dr Rolf Ulrich Hartung, Consultant General Surgeon, BR Medical Suites, Dubai Healthcare City, Dubai UAE

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This year, Arab Health Congress is bringing you 18 conferences across four days.

All conferences are specifically researched and designed to help you obtain information on the latest medical practices and technologies to improve patient outcomes and experience.

Regional and international speakers will present scientific updates through thought-provoking and challenging sessions and stimulating debate, both within the conference programmes and during informal networking opportunities.

The conferences held during the Arab Health Congress 2015 are:

For more information about the conferences, call +971 4 336 7334, email [email protected] or visit www.ahcongress.com.

* These conferences are non-CME accredited

Monday26 January 2015

Tuesday27 January 2015

Wednesday28 January 2015

Thursday29 January 2015

MEDLAB

Diabetes

Paediatrics

Update in Urology

Hypertension

Biomedical Engineering*

Big Data*

Complementary, Alternative and

Integrative Medicine*Leaders in Healthcare*

Orthopaedics

Public Health

Quality Management in Healthcare

Gastroenterology

Cardiovascular Disease and Intervention

Anaesthesia

Respiratory, Critical Care and Sleep Disorders

Surgery

Total Radiology

neW

26-27 January 2015 Dubai International Convention & Exhibition Centre

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