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Dr. Abdulla Saeed Esmaeel S. J. AAl Ali
Dr. Abdulla is a UAE national who works as a Consultant Geriatrician in Zayed Military Hospital. He is also the Co-Director of the Arab Board Internal Medicine Residency Program of the facility. His goal is to introduce the correct concept of Geriatric Medicine specialty to the different health care workers and stakeholders. He wants to improve the care of elderly population in UAE in order to keep them functioning in their community. He is also aiming to establish different services in the hospitals and community aiming to provide comprehensive care for UAE elderly. He was member in the committee responsible for putting national guidelines for the home care in July 2014. |
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Dr. Salwa Abdulla Alsuwaidi
Dr. Salwa Alsuwaidi, a graduate of UAEUniversity in 1997. Started her career in Dubai Health Authority (DHA) since 1999 to specialize in Internal Medicine. Currently holds MRCP (UK) and PhD Arab Board of Internal Medicine as well as a Post Graduate Diploma of Gerontology & Geriatrics from the University of Malta. She was the first Emirati Geriatrician in DHA and had a great role in establishing the first geriatric unit in Rashid Hospital in Dubai in 2007. In addition, she was a pioneer in establishing the firstDubairehabilitation centre for the elderly, taking care of all the responsibilities related to it as a Project Manager. Currently she is the Director of the Family Gathering center; that is a nursing home for the inpatients, and a day care centre for the out patients. Dr. Salwa was a member of many committees at DHA and had chaired some of them. Has excellent experience caring for elderly both at the acute hospital settings as well as at long stay facilities. An active member; attended many courses and conferences, and was a speaker in many of them, and represented DHA in many international conferences. She had joined the Middle East Academy for the Medicine of Ageing (MEAMA) as a board member after completing 4 sessions in 2012. Dr. Salwa was a winner of the Emirates Women Award in 2012 for the category of Financial & Strategic Planning. She was a winner of Shamsa Bint Suhail Award for creative women in 2013. She was shortlisted for the final stage of Dubai Government Excellency Program in 2014 for the category of Distinguished Female Employee. Moreover, she received Medal Pride of UAE in 2014 as part of Mohammed Bin Rashid Award for Excellence in Government Performance. |
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Dr. Hanan Sheikh Ibrahim Dr Ibrahim is a Clinical Assistant Professor in
the Department of Medicine of the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of
Case Western Reserve University, Ohio. She
is the Academic lead for the Department of Medicine and a Consultant
Physician at Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi. Dr. Hanan serves as Quality Officer for the medical Subspecialty institute.Dr. Ibrahim is American Board Certified Geriatrician
and Internist; she is also Board Certified Pulmonologist
She was trained at Cleveland Clinic in Ohio in the US under the
tutelage of Dr. Robert Palmer, concept originator of the Acute Care of Elderly
(ACE) unit, which is now an internationally recognized model of hospital care
for geriatric patients. She is a pioneer in the field of geriatric care
in the UAE, having implemented the first Mobile Acute Care of Elderly
(MACE) program of its kind in the region.
Dr. Ibrahim completed her
residency in Internal Medicine at the University Of Pittsburgh School Of
Medicine in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, US.
She completed her Fellowship
in Geriatric Medicine at Cleveland Clinic, Ohio
She received her MD from
Damascus University, Syria
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Dr. Amir I.A. Ahmed, MD, Ph.D. Dr. Amir I.A. Ahmed was graduated
from the Russian State Medical University in Moscow, Russia in 1997, as well as
from Leiden University, the Netherlands in 2004. Following his medical
education, he trained in Geriatric Medicine from 2005 to 2010, and in Clinical
Pharmacology from 2009 to 2011, both at the Radboud University Medical Center,
Nijmegen, the Netherlands.
Between 2010 and 2016, Dr. Amir
worked as a Consultant Geriatrician / Clinical Chief of the Department of
Psychogeriatric Medicine at the Vincent van Gogh Hospital in Venray, the
Netherlands. There, he was also the president of the medical staff from 2013 to
2016. In 2011 he started his doctoral research, which has resulted in a PhD
thesis entitled: Clinical Pharmacology of Oral Tetrahydrocannabinol in Older
People with Dementia.
Dr. Amir is connected to the
Department of Geriatric Medicine / Alzheimer’s Center and the Department of
Pharmacology and Toxicology of the Radboud University Medical Center as a
researcher and associate professor. He is extensively involved in teaching and
research activities. He authored several research papers in international
journals including the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, Neurology,
and Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics. Moreover, he is a guest speaker
at various training centres.
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