Respiratory Medicine Conference
 

SPEAKERS

Dr. Ashraf Al Zaabi
Conference Chairman
Head of Respiratory Division, Zayed Military Hospital

Dr. Ashraf Alzaabi is the Head of Respiratory Division at Zayed Military Hospital in Abu Dhabi.

He graduated from the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland 1997 and did his training in Internal medicine and Respirology for six years at the University of Toronto, Canada 2000-2006 where he was board certified in both specialties in Canada and USA.

Since his arrival to UAE he managed to develop a state of the art patient services in the Respiratory Medicine Division at Zayed Hospital and this included establishing the first sleep laboratory in Abu Dhabi and the first endoscopy center performing Endobronchial ultrasound guided biopsy procedures in UAE.

In 2007, he was appointed as a Clinical Assistant Professor in Internal Medicine at the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences (FMHS) at UAE University.

Ashraf Alzaabi won many distinction awards such as the prestigious Murray Muirhead Award (2001) from the University of Toronto during his residency program. In 2013, He won the Abu Dhabi Medical Distinction Award in Clinical Performance launched by the Health Authority in Abu Dhabi (HAAD).

He was appointed as the Director of Medical Education 2007-2010 at Zayed Military Hospital. During this period, He succeeded to get the recognition of the Arab Board to start the first residency training program at Zayed Hospital in Internal Medicine. He engineered a memorandum agreement between the faculty of Medicine at UAE University and Zayed Hospital. The signing of this agreement recognized Zayed Hospital as a training hospital for the medical students and residents during their undergraduate and postgraduate studies.

In 2010, He finished a two year program at Zayed University doing an Executive Master in Health Care Administration. This helped during his posts at many important administrative positions both at Zayed Military Hospital and at other national organizations. He is a member of the Medical Executive Council (MEC) at Zayed Military Hospital which responsibilities include setting short and long term strategic goals for the institution. He served as the Chair of the Internal Medicine Examination Committee at the Health Authority of Abu Dhabi for the term 2010-2014.

Medical research and academic work has always been of great interest to him. He is an editor at the "CHEST" journal , middle east edition. He published the first UAE prevalence study on chronic obstructive pulmonary disease at the Respiratory Medicine Journal in 2011. His main interest in research includes Asthma, COPD and Sleep Medicine. 

 
Dr. Saicharan Govinda Bodi
Consultant Pulmonologist
Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi

Dr. Saicharan G Bodi with 25 years of medical experience had completed his MBBS (Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery) at Gandhi Medical College,Hyderabad,India in 1992. He then obtained his MD degree in Tuberculosis and Respiratory Diseases from Osmania Medical College, India in 1998. In 2008,Dr Bodi received the European Diploma in Adult Respiratory Medicine from the European Respiratory Society in Berlin.He received the prestigious Membership of The Royal College of Physicians MRCP(UK),LONDON in 2014 and has the distinction of also obtaining  the MRCP Respiratory Specialty Certificate in 2013.

He worked as an Assistant Professor in Respiratory Medicine at Osmania Medical College for 12 years from 1998 and practiced as Consultant Pulmonologist in hospitals in India,including the Apollo Hospitals in Hyderabad, for more than a decade before moving to Abu Dhabi in 2010.After working in Ahalia  Hospital in Abu Dhabi for 3 years, he worked in Burjeel Hospital as Specialist Pulmonologist from 2013 till January 2016.He joined the reputed Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi in February 2016 as Associate Staff Physician in department of Pulmonology.His fields of interest are Obstructive airway diseases,Sleep related breathing disorders and Pulmonary critical care.

To his credit, Dr. Bodi has participated in various international conferences held in London,Austria, USA, Netherlands, Spain, Germany, Sweden, Denmark, Belgium, France,UAE among others and has presented 12 scientific papers thus far, in addition to participating as Speaker in many Conferences in India,UAE,Oman,Austria,Malaysia. Additionally,he has authored scientific papers in peer-reviewed publications. Currently, he is a member of prestigious international organizations such as European Society of Intensive Care Medicine, American College of Chest Physicians, American Thoracic Society, and European Respiratory Society to name a few. 

 
Dr. Ahmad Kanaan Awaida
Head of Infectious Diseases Section
Zayed Military Hospital

Dr. Kanaan graduated from the American University of Beirut ,Lebanon in 1981 and pursued residency training in internal medicine and fellowship in infectious diseases at Wayne state university affiliated hospitals in Detroit, Michigan, USA.

He is certified by the American board of internal medicine as well as infectious diseases. He is a fellow of the American college of physicians and member of the infectious diseases society of America.

In his post graduation, he joined King Fahd university in Saudi Arabia as assistant professor of medicine and infectious diseases. Following that he joined Hamad Medical Center in Qatar for 4 years before returning to clinical practice in Western Pennsylvania, USA.

He joined Zayed Military Hospital  Abu Dhabi in December 1996 where he still works and currently chairs the infection control committee and  holds the position  of head of infectious diseases section, department of internal medicine.

 
Dr. Abdulla Al Remaithi
Head of Radiology Department
Zayed Military Hospital

Dr. Abdulla has graduated from ‪Royal College of Surgeon in Ireland on June 1994. He completed his internship at Dubai Health Authority (DHA) hospitals.  In 1995 to 1998, he worked as senior house officer at Zayed Military Hospital Abu Dhabi. He was able to complete his residency training at the University of Alberta Canada in 2003. Dr. Abdulla has worked as a consultant radiologist at Zayed Military Hospita and eventually become the Head of Radiology Department in 2008. He is an examiner at Arab board of radiology, HAAD and MOI licensing bodies and actively involved in teaching residence of Arab board in different centres in UAE.

 
Dr. Mohammed Badir Alsaiari
Consultant Pulmonologist
Sheikh Khalifa Medical City

Dr. Mohammed Alsaiari is Consultant Pulmonologist licensed under SKMC, UAE. Dr. Alsaiari received his Medical Bachelor degree from Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland in 1999. He is Canadian and American board certified in internal medicine from University of Toronto and completed a fellowship in Pulmonary  medicine at McGill University. He then earned further training in pulmonary hypertension. Dr. Alsaiari has great interest in Pulmonary Vascular disease. He established the 1st Pulmonary Hypertension unit in UAE. Apart from clinical interest, Dr. Alsaiari he has done specialty training in the field of Medical Management and Healthcare quality management and has achieved the American board of Medical Quality.


 
Zarina Akramyar
Pulmonary Function Technologist
Zayed Military Hospital

Ms. Zarina is a respiratory therapist from Zayed Military Hospital since 2006. She is skilled in performing different diagnostic procedure using advance diagnostic tools to accurately diagnose and determine the severity of respiratory dysfunction as well as in providing specialized and selective therapeutic respiratory care in collaboration with pulmonary physicians.

 
Dr. Bassam Mahboub
Head of Pulmonary Medicine
Rashid Hospital Dubai

Dr. Bassam is the Program Director of care model innovation at Dubai Health Authority, Assistant Dean at the College of Medicine, Sharjah University.  He is a graduate of U.A.E. University, Al Ain.  He is American board certified in (internal medicine, allergy and clinical immunology, and pulmonology) from university of Toronto.  He also has Masters in Business administration from Wolverhampton University.

He is a Consultant Pulmonologist and the Head of Pulmonary Medicine, Rashid hospital under Dubai Health Authority, UAE.  He is also head of emirates allergy and respiratory society.  Besides, he holds the position of associate clinical professor, faculty of medicine, in Sharjah University and is the associate research fellow at Meakins Respiratory research centre, McGill University, Canada.    Dr. Mahboub’s areas of interest are health innovation and respiratory care, as well as translation research in airway diseases.   

He was awarded the following:  

  • “Distinguished Physician Award” from Dubai Health Authority in Dec 2016
  • “Best Researcher Award” from Dubai Health Authority in Dec 2016
  • “Senior Researcher Award” from Dubai Health Authority in May 2016
  • “Most Creative & Innovative Doctor” from Dubai Health Authority in December 2015
  • “The Patient Advocate Doctor” Award

His publications include TB Current Issues Diagnosis and Management (Editor 2013), Respiratory Disease and Infection: New Insight (Editor 2013), Chapters: Title "Steroids in Asthma: Friend or Foe" in book "Corticosteroids – New Recognition of our familiar friend" from INTEC PUBLISHER.  He is also the co-editor for the Annals of Thoracic Medicine.  He has also published various papers in respiratory disease.  

 
Dr. Jeffrey Chapman
Chief of the Respiratory & Critical Care Institute
Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi

Jeffrey Chapman, MD, is Chief of the Respiratory & Critical Care Institute, one of the five Centers of Excellence at Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi, and Chief of the Quality & Patient Safety Institute. In his dual role, Dr. Chapman oversees a team focused on implementing a high quality, Patients First philosophy which uses the latest technology to enhance quality, drive patient safety, and address critical care needs in the fields of respiratory and critical care medicine.

Before moving to Abu Dhabi, he served as a Staff Physician at US-based Cleveland Clinic from 2000 to 2011. Dr. Chapman specializes in the treatment of interstitial lung disease, idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, lymphangioleiomyomatosis, and connective tissue disease, as well as lung transplantation.

Dr. Chapman received his undergraduate degree at Northwestern University in Biomedical Engineering and obtained his medical degree from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, Missouri, US. He received training in internal medicine at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center in New York City and in pulmonary and critical care medicine at Yale University. He is also a member of the Society of Critical Care Medicine, the American College of Chest Physicians and the American Thoracic Society.

 
Dr. Mohammed Alhouqani
Assistant Dean for Medical Education
UAE University

Dr. Al Houqani is the Assistant Dean for Education at the College of Medicine & Health Sciences, UAEU. He did his postgraduate training at University of Toronto, Canada. He is certified by both the American Board of Internal Medicine and the Royal College of Physician of Canada. He also holds a Master degree in Public Health and was elected recently as a Fellow of the Faculty of Occupational Medicine.  His research interest is focused around the epidemiology of Respiratory diseases, smoking and obstructive sleep apnea.

 
Dr. Mohsen Nasir
Consultant Pulmonologist
Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi

Mohsen Nasir, MD, is a Staff Physician in the Medical Subspecialties Institute at Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi.

Prior to joining Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi, Dr. Nasir was on faculty at the Oakland University William Beaumont School of Medicine, where he was active in teaching medical students and residents rotating in allergy. He has participated in clinical trials involving patients with primary immunodeficiencies and hereditary angioedema.

Dr. Nasir is board certified in both internal medicine and allergy/immunology and a member of both the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology and the American College of Allergy, Asthma and Immunology. His specialty interests include allergic rhinitis, asthma, food allergy, atopic dermatitis, hereditary angioedema and chronic hives.

Dr. Nasir earned his medical degree from New York Medical College, completed his residency at Barnes-Jewish Hospital at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, US and his fellowship at The University of Texas in Galveston, Texas, US.