2011 Speaker Faculty

Chairman
Muaaz Tarabichi MD, FACS
Head of ENT Department
American Hospital Dubai, UAE

Co-Chairmen
Nabil Fuleihan MD
Director of Facial Plastic Surgery and
Otolaryngology
Clemenceau Medical Center
Beirut, Lebanon

Khalid Hassan Al Malki MD, PhD
Consultant Associate Professor of
Phoniatrics
Supervisor, Research Chair of Voice and
Swallowing Disorders
Head, Communication and Swallowing
Disorders Unit (CSDU)
Deputy Chairman, ENT Department, King
Abdulaziz University, Riyadh, KSA
Head, Communication and Swallowing
Division (CSSD) ORL/HNS Department
Riyadh Military Hospital, Riyadh, KSA

Activity Director
Mumtaz J. Khan MD, FACS
Division Head, Otolaryngology
Head & Neck Surgery
Associate Staff Physician
Head & Neck Institute
Cleveland Clinic Foundation,
Cleveland, Ohio, USA

Organising Committee
Hussein Abdurrahman MD
Chairman, Department of Otolaryngology
Department of Health Hospitals
Dubai, UAE

Mohannad Al-Qudah MD, FICS
FAAOHNS
Assistant Professor Otolaryngology, HNS
Department of Special Surgery, JUST
Rhinology & Endoscopic Skull Base
Consultant, King Abdullah University
Hospital, Irbed, Jordan

Ahmad Daneshi MD
Chairman of Department of
Otolaryngology
America University of Beirut, Lebanon

Murtaza Najmi MS
ENT Specialist
American Hospital, Dubai, UAE

International Speakers
Oliver Adunka MD
Assistant Professor
University of North Carolina School of
Medicine, USA

Sumit Agrawal MD, FRCS(C)
Neurotology & Skull Base Surgery
Department of Otolaryngology - Head &
Neck Surgery
London Health Sciences Centre -
University Hospital
University of Western Ontario, Canada

Mohamed Al Felasi MD, BS, MBBCH
BAO, LRCPSI (Hons)
Royal College of Surgeons
4th Year Resident in Otolaryngology Centre
Hospitalier Universitaire Gui de Chauliac
Montpellier, France

Musaed Al Zahrani
ORL-HNS Senior Resident
Bretonneau Hospital
University of Francois Rabelais
Tours, France

Douglas L. Beck AuD
Director of Professional Relations
Oticon Inc, USA

Cesar Cartier
Associate Professor
Department of Head and Neck Surgery
Service of Otorhinolaryngology
Hopital Gui de Chaulliac
Montpellier, France

Matteo Cementoni
Medical Doctor
IDE (Istituto Dermatologico Europeo)
Milan, Italy

F. Chabolle
General Secretary of the French Society of  ENT Head and Neck Surgery, France

Noam Cohen MD, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Otorhinolaryngology
Head and Neck Surgery Division of
Rhinology Hospital of the University of
Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA

John M. DelGaudio MD
Professor and Vice Chair
Chief of Rhinology and Sinus Surgery
Department of Otolaryngology
Emory University School of Medicine
Atlanta, USA

John Dornhoffer MD, FACS
Professor and Vice-Chairman
Department of Otolaryngology
University of Arkansas for Medical
Sciences and Arkansas Children’s Hospital, Little Rock, Arkansas, USA

Andrea Kleine-Punte
Research Audiologist
University Department
Otorhinolaryngology and HNS
Antwerp University, Belgium

Anke Lesinski-Schiedat
Associate Professor, Medical University
Director of Hearing Centre
Hannover, Germany

Omkara Rubini Lingham
Associate Professor &
Consultant Otorhinolaryngology &
Head & Neck Surgeon
Head of ORL Discipline
Faculty of Medicine
University Technology Mara
Hospital Sungai Buloh
Selangor, Malaysia

Karen Maclver-Lux
Director
Maclver-Lux Auditory Learning Services
Toronto, Canada

Thomas Murry PhD
Professor of Otolaryngology
Columbia University
New York, USA

John Pallanch MD, MS
Division Chair of Rhinology
Department of Otorhinolaryngology
Mayo Clinic
Rochester, USA

James N. Palmer MD
Associate Professor
Director, Division of Rhinology
Department of ORL HNS
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, USA

Gregory Neil Postma MD
Professor of Otolaryngology
Director, Center for Voice and
Swallowing Disorders
Medical College of Georgia
Augusta, Georgia, USA

Gerhard Rettinger
Professor and Head
Oto-Rhino-Laryngology Department
University Hospital Frauensteige
Ulm, Germany

Alain Robier
Member of the French ENT Society Board
Chef de Service
Service ORL et Chirurgie Cervico-Faciale
CHU Bretonneau, France

Timo Stöver
Director
Clinic for Neck, Nose and Throat
Head and Neck Surgery
Clinic of Johann Wolfgang Goethe
University
Frankfurt, Germany

David J. Terris MD
Professor and Chairman
Department of Otolaryngology
Medical College of Georgia
Augusta, Georgia, USA

Paul Van de Heyning
Chairman, University Department
Otorhinolaryngology and HNS
Antwerp University Hospital (UZA)
University of Antwerp
Belgium

Frederic Venail
Associate Professor
Otology and Neuro-Otology
Service of Otorhinolaryngology
Hopital Gui de Chauliac
Montpellier, France

Anitha Vivekanandan
Senior Lecturer & Consultant
ORL HN Surgeon
Faculty of Medicine
University Technology Mara
Hospital Sungai Buloh
Selangor, Malaysia

Robert Vincent MD
Causse Ear Clinic, Béziers
France

Regional Speakers
Akif Abdelhamid MD, SMSB
Otorhinolaryngologist
ENT-Khartoum Teaching Hospital
Sudan

Latifi Asrar Ahmed MBBS, MS, DLORCS FICS
HOD & Assistant Medical Director
Buraidah Central Hospital
KSA

Ghada Ahmed MA
Speech & Language Pathologist
American Hospital Dubai, UAE

Sharfi Abdel Gadir Omer Ahmed MBBS
MD, ORL, DOHNS
Aldoha ENT Specialized Hospital
Khartoum, Sudan

Salwan Alabdullah MD, MBChB, CBMS,
FICMS, MRCS (Glasg)
ENT Specialist, NMC Specialty Hospital
Dubai, UAE

Ahmad Alamadi FRCS
Clinical Assistant Professor Sharjah
University
ENT Consultant & Medical Director
Fellowship Qualified Neurotologist
Albaraha Hospital
Dubai, UAE

Ahmad Al Ammar
Consultant Pediatric Otolaryngologist
King Saud University
King Abdulaziz University Hospital
Riyadh, KSA

Taji Mohammad Al Balushi
Medical Officer ENT
Al Nahdha Hospital, Oman

Ayida Abdulrahim Al Bulushi
ENT Medical Officer
Al Nahdha Hospital, Oman

Saleh F. Aldhahri FRCSC
American Board of Otolaryngology
Fellowship of the American Society of
Head and Neck Surgical Oncology
Chairman Department of Otolaryngology
Head and Neck Surgery
College of Medicine
King Saud University
Consultant Head and Neck Surgeon
King Fahad Medical City and King Saud
University Medical City, KSA

Abdulla Al Nakshabandi MRCS DOHNS FICMS, EB
Head of ENT Department
ENT Specialist
Al Ain Hospital, UAE

Khalid Hussain Al-Qahtani MD, MSc
FRCS(c)
Assistant Professor
King Saud University
Otolaryngology Program Director
Otolaryngology Consultant
Advance Head & Neck Oncology
Microvascular Reconstructive
Endocrine & Skull Base Surgeon, KSA

Ahmed Asaad Al-Samarayie MRCS
(Glasgow), MRCS (Edin.), European
Board ORL HNS, DLO
ENT Specialist, Sohar Hospital
Oman

Omar Al-Sharif MA
Senior Speech Language Pathologist
Salmanya Medical Complex
Manama, Bahrain

Salma Mohammed Al Sheibani
Senior Consultant
Head & Neck Oncologist
Al Nahdha Hospital
Muscat, Oman

Ali Mohamad Asghari MD
Assistant Professor of Otolaryngology
Division of Otology-Neurotology
Department & Research
Center of ORL-HNS
Hazrat Rasoul Akram Hospital
Tehran University of Medical Sciences
Iran

Mehdi Askari MD
Assistant Professor
Department of ORL – HNS
Hormozgan University of Medical
Sciences, Iran

Ramaswamy Balakrishnan
Professor and Head of Unit-II
Department of ENT- Head & Neck Surgery
Kasturba Medical College, India

Kul Bhushan Bali
Senior ENT Specialist and Deputy Head
Department of ENT and Head & Neck
Surgery
Al Ain Hospital, UAE

Husham A. Barrak MRCS, DOHNS
(RCS England)
Speciality Doctor
ENT Department
Stafford General Hospital
Midstaffordshire, UK

Rana Batterjee AuD, CCC-A, ASHAF
F-AAA
Board Certified in Audiology (American
Board of Audiology)
Director of CI Centre, American Hospital
Dubai, UAE

Ghada M. BinKhamis
Head, Clinical Audiology
Department of Otolaryngology, Head
& Neck Surgery and Communication
Sciences King Faisal Specialist Hospital &
Research Center, Riyadh, KSA

Lee Bolton BA, MMedSci, MRCSLT
Specialist Speech Therapist
Speech, Voice and Swallowing
American Hospital
Dubai, UAE

Massoud Boroojerdi MD
General Director,
Rhinology Research Society,
Tehran, Iran
 
Manal Ahmed Bukhari
Phonosurgeon Consultant
King Abdulaziz University Hospital
Assistant Professor
King Saud University
Riyadh, KSA

Mohamad Nabil Daouk MD, FACS
Chairman
Department of Otolaryngology
Specialized Medical Center Hospital
Riyadh, KSA

Nadine Ewanchyshyn MS, S-LP (c)
Speech & Language Pathologist
American Hospital
Dubai, UAE

Masoumeh Falah
Supervisor of Genetic Laboratory
Department and Research Centre of ENT
& Head and Neck Surgery
Tehran Medical University
Hazrat Rasoul Hospital, Tehran, Iran

Mohammad Farhadi MD
Professor of Otolaryngology & HNS
Department & Research Centre
ORL & HNS
Hazrat Rasoul Akram Hospital
IUMS, Iran

Ahmed Hesham Fawzy, MD
Assistant Professor Otolaryngology
Cairo University
ENT Consultant, Magrabi Eye & Ear Hospital
Muscat, Oman

Tamer Omar Fawzy
Consultant and Lecturer of
Otolaryngology,
Fayoum University, Egypt

Helmi Abdul Ghani DLO, FACHARZT
HNO
ENT Senior Consultant, Acting Head of
Department, King Fahad Military Hospital
Jeddah, KSA

Ashok Gupta MS
Senior Eye Specialist
Dristi Eye Hospital,
Panchkuala, Haryana, India
Visiting Eye Specialist ENT and Allergy
Centre, India

Manjiri Gupte
Specialist, General Surgery
Medical Institute
Sheikh Khalifa Medical City
Abu Dhabi, UAE

Sanjay Vasant Gupta MS
Senior ENT Consultant
ENT and Childcare Clinic
Ludhiana, India

Abdulrahman Hagr MBBS, FRCS(c)
Director of Neuro/Otology Unit
Associate Professor, King Saud University
Otolaryngology Consultant
KSU Neuro/Otology Programme Director
Director of Hearing Disability Research
Chair, KSA

Hassan Haidar MD
Division of Otolaryngology Head and Neck
Surgery, Sacre-Coeur Hospital, Lebanese
University, Beirut, Lebanon

Chucri Hamasni
ENT Consultant
Specialized Medical Center Hospital
Riyadh, KSA

Manali Hazarika MS
Assistant Professor, Department of
Ophthalmology
Kasturba Medical College
Manipal University, India

Produl Hazarika MD, DLO, MS, DLO
MS, FACS, FRCS (Edin), FIAO
H.O.D & Director of P.G. Studies
Consultant ENT Surgeon, New Medical
Centre, Abu Dhabi, UAE

Islam R. Herzallah MD, MSc
Lecturer of ORL-HNS, Faculty of
Medicine, Zagazig University, Egypt
Director of ENT Division, MSB Hospital
Makkah, KSA
Rhinology and ESS Research Fellow
2005-07, University of Miami, USA

Mohamed Farahat Ibrahim MD
Assistant Professor of Phoniatrics
Consultant, Communication and
Swallowing Disorders
Deputy Chairman, Communication and
Swallowing Disorders Unit
King Abdul Aziz University Hospitals
Supervisor, Swallowing Disorders Clinic
King Khalid University Hospitals
Member, Research Chair of Voice and
Swallowing Disorders (RCVASD)
Member, ENT Canadian Accreditation
Team, Faculty of Medicine
King Saud University, KSA

Ibrahim Jamal Issa MD
3rd Year ENT Resident
King Abdullah University Hospital (KAUH)
Irbid, Jordan

Maryam Jalessi MD
Assistant Professor of Otolaryngology
Head and Neck Surgery, Fellowship of
Rhinology, Department & Research Center of ORL-HNS
Hazrat Rasoul Akram Hospital,
Tehran University of Medical Sciences,
Iran

Fadi Kanaan MD
Clinical Associate Professor FMHS
Senior Consultant Otolaryngology/HNS
Tawam Hospital Affiliated with Johns
Hopkins, Al Ain, UAE

Alyssa Kanaan MD, PGY4, OTOHNS
Vice President of Resident Staff
Organisation
American University of Beirut Medical
Center, Lebanon

Moien N. Kanaan PhD
Faculty of Science, Bethlehem University
Bethlehem, Jeruselum

Rifat Karli MD
Department of Otolaryngology
Ondokuz Mayis University
Samsun, Turkey

Jamal Kassouma MD, FRCS Ed, FRCS
ORL-HNS
Head of ENT Department
Faculty of Medicine
Damascus University
Damascus, Syria

Asim Kaytaz
Professor of Otolaryngology
Istanbul University
Istanbul, Turkey

Osama Mohamed Khalid
Assistant Professor
Al Aneelain University
Khartoum, Sudan 

Jihad Khoury MD
Président Lebanese Society of ENT-HNS
Professor & Chairman
Department of Oto-Rhino-Laryngology
and Head Neck Surgery
Saint George Hospital-UMC-UOB
Achrafieh-Beirut, Lebanon

M. Mete Kiroglu
University of Cukurova, ENT Department
General Secretary of Association of Turkish Otolaryngology Head and Neck
Turkey

Suman Kumar MD
President Indochina Rhinology Society
in Collaboration with China
President Respiratory Diseases and Clinical Immunology Society
Senior ENT & Allergy Specialist
ENT & Allergy Centre
Panchkula, India

Manikoth Puthiyaparambil Manoj
Consultant Otolaryngology
Dr Manoj’s ENT Super Speciality
Institute and Research Centre
Hearing Group, Mesiarc
Calicut, India

Salah Mansour MD, FRCSC, FACS
Professor of Otolaryngology HNS
Lebanese University
President of Arab Board of
Otolaryngology HNS, Lebanon

Adel Mansouri
Medical Director and ENT Consultant
W. Wilson Specialised Hospital
Al-Amal Medical Centre for
ENT Rehabilitation
Sharjah, UAE

Tamer Mesallam MD
Assistant Professor ENT
Consultant Phoniatrics, Communication & Swallowing Disorders Unit
Otolaryngology Department
King Abdulaziz University Hospital, KSA

Mohammad Mohseni MD
Assistant Professor of Otolaryngology
Division of Otology-Neurotology
Department & Research Center of
ORL-HNS, Hazrat Rasoul Akram Hospital
Tehran University of Medical Sciences
Iran

Leila Monshizadeh
Psychologist, Speech and Language
Pathologist
Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Iran

Mohsen Naraghi MD
Chairman, Rhinology Research Society
Rhinology and Facial Plastic Surgery Clinic, Bahman Subspecialty Hospital
Department of Otorhinolaryngology
Head and Neck Surgery
Tehran University of Medical Sciences
Iran

Anjum Naveed FRCS
Senior Consultant ENT and Head & Neck
Surgeon, Head of the Department
The Indus Hospital, Korangi Crossing
Karachi, Pakistan

Lubaina Sharafally MA, CCC-A, F-ASHA F-CASLPA
Clinical Audiologist, American Hospital
Dubai, UAE

Guive Sharifi MD
Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery
Department of Neurosurgery, Loghman
Hospital, Shaheed Beheshti University of
Medical Sciences, Iran

Hatim Shawli MD, FRCSC
Head ORL – HNS Section, Department of
Surgery, King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Centre
Jeddah, KSA

Rohit Singh MS, DNB
Associate Professor, Department of
ENT-HNS, Kasturba Medical College
Manipal University, India

Fahim Tadros
Consultant Otolaryngologist
Al Zahra Hospital
Dubai, UAE

Ahmed Tantawy
Professor ORL & HNS
Faculty of Medicine, Alexandria University, Egypt

Antoine Tarazi, MD, FACS
Otolaryngologist Consultant
Aramco Medical Center
Dhahran, KSA

Saleh A Tawfique FRCS, DLO
Assistant Professor
Kurdistan Higher Council for Medical
Specialties
Erbil, Iraq

Hashim Yagi FRCS, DLO, FICS
Professor & Consultant Otolaryngologist Khartoum, Sudan

Sertac Yetiser
Research Chair University Hospital
Director of Department of ORL & HNS
Anadolu Medical Centre
Kocaeli, Turkey