| Chairman
Muaaz Tarabichi, MD, FACS, Head of ENT Department, American Hospital Dubai, UAE
Co-Chairmen
Yousef El Hefni, ENT Consultant, Al Mafraq Hospital, UAE
Mumtaz J. Khan, MBBS, FACS, Division-Head, Otolaryngology Head & Neck Surgery Associate Professor, Department of Surgery, Aga Khan University, Pakistan
Organising Committee
Hussein Abdurrahman, MD, Chairman, Department of Otolaryngology, Department of Health Hospitals, Dubai, UAE
Nabil Fuleihan, MD, Chairman of Department of Otolaryngology, American University of Beirut, Lebanon
Aziz Bilal, MD, Dean of Alexandria University Medical School, ENT Department, Alexandria, Egypt
Mumtaz J. Khan, MBBS, FACS, Division-Head, Otolaryngology Head & Neck Surgery Associate Professor, Department of Surgery, Aga Khan University, Pakistan
Ahmed Daneshi, MD, Chairman of Department of Otolaryngology, Iran Medical Sciences University, Tehran, Iran
Nabeel Al Mukhtar, MD, Chairman, ENT Institute, Baghdad Medical City, Baghdad, Iraq
Omar Nazhat, MD, American Hospital Dubai, UAE
Speaker List
Sinus
Heinz Stammberger, MD, Professor and Chair, Department of General ENT, Head and Neck Surgery, University Medical School, Graz, Austria
Martin J. Citardi, MD, University of Texas Medical School at Houston, Department of Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, USA
Ear
Peter Sargent Roland, MD, FACS, Professor of Otolaryngology, Dallas, USA
Jose N. Fayad, MD, FACS, Otolaryngology, Otology/Neurotology, Los Angeles, California, USA
Head and Neck
James Netterville, MD, FACS, Professor of Otolaryngology and Director of the Head and Neck Oncologic Surgery, Department of Otolaryngology at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, USA
Theodoros N. Teknos, MD, FACS, Director of the Division of Head and Neck Surgery, Ohio State University Medical School, USA
Robert Lorenz, MD, FACS, Head and Neck Institute, Cleveland Clinic, OH, USA
Michael Fritz, MD, FACS, Facial Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery, Head and Neck Institute, Cleveland Clinic, OH, USA
Pediatric ENT
Robin T. Cotton, MD, FACS, FRCS(C), Director, Otolaryngology/Head and Neck Surgery, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital, Ohio, USA
Ravindhra G. Elluru, MD, PhD, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Disorders of the Upper Aerodigestive Tract (Pediatric) Ohio, USA
Additional Speakers
Francis Marchal, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery, Geneva University Hospital, Geneva, Switzerland
Santdeep Paun, MS (ORL), FRCS (ORL-HNS), London, UK
Atul Mehta, MD, Internal Medicine, Pulmonary, Cleveland SKMC, OH, USA
Regional Speakers
Waleed Mohamed, MD, Lecturer in ENT Department, Sohag Faculty of Medicine, Sohag University, Egypt
Saeid Soheilipour, MD, Associated Professor of ENT-HN Surgery, Al Zahra Hospital, Isfahan, Iran
Dinesh Baviskar, MD, DMRE, Kaushalya Medical Foundation Hospital & Mediscan Imaging, India
Rakhshandeh Alipanahi, Associate Professor of Tabriz Medical Sciences University, Iran
Ayman Ali Fraihat, FRCS, ENT Consultant Head & Neck Surgeon, UAE
Jihad Khoury, MD, Associate Professor of Otolaryngology and Head-Neck Surgery, Department of Oto-Rhino-Laryngology and Head-Neck Surgery, Saint George Hospital-University Medical Center, Faculty
of Medicine, University of Balamand
Alimohamad Asghari, MD, Assistant Professor, General Secretary of the Iranian Society of Sleep Disorders, Hazrat Rasoul Akram Hospital, Tehran, Iran
Mohammad Farhadi, MD, Professor of Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery, ENT-HNS Research Center, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
Mohammad Reza Vahidy, MD, Yazd, Iran
Muhamad Nabil Daouk, MD, FACS, Chairman Department of Otolaryngology, Specialized Medical Center Hospital, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Hachem Jammal, MD, Otolaryngologist/Otologist, Department Otolaryngology - HNS, Tawam Hospital, Al Ain, UAE
Elsharawy Kamal, MD, Assistant Professor ORL-HNS, Mansoura University, Egypt
Hosam Alwakeel, MD
Ali Tawfik, MD, ORL-HNS Department and Vascular Surgery Department, Mansoura University Hospital, Egypt
Arend Arugay, MD, Consultant and Former Head Department of ENT-HNS, Western Visayas Medical Center, Iloilo City, Philippines
Hesham Mohamed Taha, Lecturer of Audiology, Otolaryngology Department, Faculty of Medicine, Ain Shams University Cairo, Egypt
Mohsen Naraghi, MD, Chairman, Rhinology Research Society; President, The First Middle East Congress on Rhinology and Facial Plastic Surgery Tehran, Iran
Faramarz Memari, MD FACS, Chief, Division of Otology, Neurotology and Skull Base Surgery, Rasul Akram Medical Center, Iran
Latifi Asrar Ahmed, MBBS, MS(ENT), DLO(Lon),FICS, Chief of ENT Department, Assistant Medical Director, Buraidah Central Hospital, Buraidah, Al Qassim, Saudi Arabia
P. Hazarika, DLO, MS, FACS, FRCS (Edin), FIAO, H.O.D & Director of P.G. Studies, Department of ENT & Head & Neck Surgery, Kasturba Medical College, Manipal, Karnataka, India
Anjum Naveed, MD, FRCS, Clinical Assistant Professor, Consultant ENT and Head & Neck Surgeon, Tawam Hospital, Al Ain, UAE
Bassam S. Kayyali, MD, Otolaryngologist, Tawam Hospital, UAE
Mohamed A. Bitar, MD, FACS, FAAP, Assistant Professor, Otolaryngology & Pediatrics, American University of Beirut & Medical Center, Lebanon
Abdulmohsen Ebrahim Hussain, MB, FRCSC, ENT Department, Zain & Al-Sabah Hospitals, Gulf Medical Centre - Private Sector, Kuwait
Abd Alwahab Mohamed, ORL - HNS Department, Mansoura University, Egypt
T. Loh, FRCSC, Senior Consultant and Head, Department of Otolaryngology Head & Neck Surgery, National University Hospital, Associate Professor and Head, Department of Otolaryngology, National
University of Singapore
Dhafer Ali Abood Al-Gerrah, FRCS, Glasgow, UK, ENT Consultant, Consultant’s Medical Center, Abu Dhabi
Nabil. Al Zaher, MD, FRCS(C), FACS, Department of Otolaryngology - Head & Neck Surgery and Communication Sciences, King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Centre, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
P.S.N. Murthy, MD, ENT Specialist, Editorial Chairman, JOHNS
Ossama I. Mansour, MD, PhD, Professor of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt
Suman Kumar, MD, ENT and Allergy Specialist, Panchkula, India
Alireza Mesbahi, MD, Otorhinolaryngologist, Khodadust Hospital, Shiraz, Iran
H. Chamsi-Paha, ENT Specialist, Jedda, Saudi Arabia
M. Hamad, Consultant, ENT Department, Al Mafraq Hospital, UAE
A. Handoussa, ENT Consultant, Qatar
Tri Juda Airlangga, ENT Specialist, Cipto Mangunkusumo Hospital, Jakarta, Indonesia
Waleid Radwan, MD, ORL-HNS Department, Mansoura University Hospital, Egypt
Hazam Emam, MD, ORL-HNS Department, Mansoura University Hospital, Egypt
Ahmed Mosad, MD, ORL-HNS Department, Mansoura University Hospital, Egypt
Hosam Alwakeel, MD, ORL-HNS Department and Vascular Surgery Department, Mansoura University Hospital, Egypt
Ali Tawfik, MD-DDS, ORL-HNS Department, Mansoura University Hospital, Egypt
Ahmad Alamadi, MD, FRCS, Assistant Professor, Consultant Otoralyngologist, Albaraha Hospital, Sharjah University, Dubai, UAE
A. Ibrahim, ENT Department, Zain & Al-Sabah Hospitals, Gulf Medical Centre - Private Sector, Kuwait
Ahmad Halilah, Consultant Neuro Radiologist, Amman, Jordan
Ali Hussain, DDS, M.Dent, FRCDC, Kuwait
Hesham Hasan, MD, Bahrain
Jifrey Abdulaziz, Saudi Arabia
Fadi Kanaan, MD, Chief, Otolaryngology/ Head & Neck Surgery, Senior Consultant Tawam Johns Hopkins Medicine, UAE
Faheem Tadros, FRCS, Al Zahra Hospital, Dubai, UAE
Mike Timms, MD, Dubai Cosmetic Surgery, Al Wasl Road, Dubai, UAE
Fazil Apaydin, Izmir, Turkey
Ahmed Tantawy, MD, Egypt
Khaled Alnoury; King Abdulaziz University in Jeddah, KSA
Tarek Jamal, King Abdulaziz University in Jeddah, KSA
Saad Almuhayawi, MD, King Abdulaziz University in Jeddah, KSA
Faisal Alzawawi, MD; King Abdulaziz University in Jeddah, KSA
Kenan Sendi, MD, King Abdulaziz University in Jeddah, KSA
Sharfi Omer, MD, Assistant Professor Faculty of Medicine, OIU
Nazik Elfadil Abdullah, MD, Department of Surgery, University of Khartoum,
Mohammed Awad, MD, Soba University Hospital
Shaza, MD, Soba University Hospital
Alawia Mirghani, Consultant Pathologist, National Health Laboratory
Ahmed Elhassan, Emirutus Professor Pathology, University of Khartoum
Mohammed E. Shaddad, MD, Omdurman Islamic University
Abu Sufian Elhaj, MDm, Department of Surgery, University of Gezira-Wadmedani-Sudan
El Mustafa, OM, MD, University of Gezira-Wadmedani-Sudan
Hashim Yagi, Khartoum University, ENT Department, Sudan
Emad Magdy, MD, Associate Professor, Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Alexandria University Medical School, Egypt
Sami Ismail, ENT Department, Riyadh Military Hospital, KSA
Omar Nazhat, MD, American Hospital Dubai, UAE
Ahmad Daneshi, Head and Neck Surgery Department, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
Workshop Speakers
Rani Andrews, Registered Nurse, Tawam Hospital
Julie Groocock, Registered Nurse, American Hospital, Dubai
Speech/Language Speakers
Lise Henderson, Director, Cochlear Implant Programme, Manchester, UK
Khalid Al-Maliki, Consultant of Voice, Swallowing and Communication Disorders (Phoniatrician); Assistant Professor at King Saud University, Riyadh
Audiology Speakers
Markus Barta, Medel
Mary Ormson, Nautus
Claude Jolly, Medel
Denise Cafarelli Dees, Cochlear Corporation
Mohd Shabana, University of Cairo
Peter Sargent Roland, MD, FACS, Professor of Otolaryngology, Dallas, USA
Yuri Sokolov, Vivisonic
Chris Rocca, Advance Bionic Corporation
Bjarne Larsen, Widex
Rana Batterjee, Au.D, American Hospital, Dubai
Lubaina Sharafally, American Hospital, Dubai
Jose N. Fayad, MD, FACS, Otolaryngology, Otology/Neurotology, Los Angeles, California, USA
A. Marcoux, PhD, Assistant Professor at University of Ottawa, Audiology and Speech-Language Pathology Development Programme |
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