| Ali Abdulkareem Al Obaidli Consultant Nephrologist & Transplant Physician Sheikh Khalifa Medical City, Abu Dhabi, UAE Dr. Ali Al-Obaidli is the Chairman of UAE National Transplant Committee and the Group Chief Academic Affairs Officer at Abu Dhabi Health Services Company (SEHA). Dr. Al-Obaidli is a certified transplant nephrologist and public health practitioner. In addition to his clinical excellence, Dr. Al-Obaidli, a recipient of multiple awards and recognitions, holds various leadership and advisory roles in the UAE and the Middle-East. | |
| 0 | Ashraf Dada Medical Director Histocompatibility and Immunogenetics lab, Central Blood Bank and Transfusion Services, and Therapeutic Apheresis and Bone Marrow Collection Unit King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia Dr. Ashraf Dada is president-elect of ArSHI and past president of the German Physicians Society PalMed. Dr. Dada is a well-known name across Germany, Europe and the Meddle-East in blood banking and transfusion medicine, immunohematology, transplantation immunology, and therapeutic apheresis. Dr. Dada has a large and very advanced experience in bone marrow & stem cell processing, histocompatibility and immunogenetics. |
| Caner Süsal Coordinator of the Collaborative Transplant Study and Head of the Antibody Laboratory Heidelberg University, Germany Prof. Süsal is a well-known figure of transplant immunology and transplantation of highly immunized patients. Prof. Süsal has over 30 years of experience in transplant immunology that yield more than 180 publications and several awards. Prof. Süsal served and continue to serve as a board member or of leader capacity in multiple immunogenetics and transplantation societies across Germany and Europe. | |
| Dunia Jawdat Associate Professor of Immunology, Director of Cord Blood Bank, Director of Saudi Stem Cell Donor Registry King Abdullah International Medical Research Center, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia Dr. Dunia Jawdat, Director of Saudi Stem Cell Donor Registry, is known for her active contribution to stem cell and cord blood donation. Dr. Jawdat is certified immunologist with esteemed clinical, research and education experience in in histocompatibility and stem cell transplantation. Dr. Jawdat is an active member of multiple international histocompatibility and stem cell transplantation associations. | |
| E. Steve Woodle William A. Altemeier Chair in Surgery Professor of Surgery Director, Solid Organ Transplantation University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, OH, USA Dr. Woodle is an academic transplant surgeon with active clinical practice and translational research programs. Dr. Woodle has made seminal contributions in the areas of immunosuppressive drug development, antibody-mediated rejection therapy and kidney exchange. Dr. Woodle has authored over 330 scientific articles and many other scientific outlets. Dr. Woodle has been the recipient of multiple prestigious awards from NIH and the American Heart Association. Dr. Woodle actively contributed to organ transplantation by assuming lead investigator, advisory and volunteer roles. | |
| Gehad ElGhazali Consultant and Service lead Immunologist, Pathology and Lab medicine Services (PLMS) Sheikh Khalifa Medical City (SKMC), Abu Dhabi, UAE Dr. Gehad ElGhazali is a consultant and Service Lead Immunologist at Sheikh Khalifa Medical City in Abu Dhabi since 2012. He joined SKMC after working at King Fahad Medical City, Riyadh where he was a Professor of Clinical Immunology, consultant and head of Immunology services. Dr. ElGhazali is a well-established researcher with excellent record of publications exceeding 70 papers in international journals. | |
| Joannis Mytilineos Head of Transplantation Immunology Department at the Institute for Clinical Transfusion Medicine and Immunogenetics Ulm, Germany Dr. Mytilineos is president-elect of EFI and board member in both ASHI and EFI. Dr. Mytilineos long career in immunogenetics involved both solid organ and hematopoietic stem cell transplantation. Dr. Mytilineos was one of the main co-workers of Gerhard Opelz and the CTS-Study. | |
| Khaled Hamawi Vice President Clinical Excellence at First Health cluster in Eastern Province and Consultant, Kidney and Pancreas Transplantation King Fahad Specialist Hospital-Dammam, Dammam, Saudi Arabia Dr. Khaled Hamawi is a seasoned transplant physician with successful practice in transplant nephrology with special interest and experience in highly sensitized and ABOi kidney transplantation. In addition, Dr. Hamawi has a distinguished leadership and mentorship career both in the USA and in Saudi Arabia. Dr. Hamawi, a recipient of several distinguish awards, is an active member of multiple societies affiliated with renal transplantation and healthcare management. | |
| Moheeb Al-Awwami Clinical Director, Histocompatibility and Immunogenetics Laboratory King Faisal Specialist Hospital, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia Dr. Moheeb Al-Awwami has more than 25 years of experience in histocompatibility and immunogenetics involving multi-organ transplantation including kidney, pancreas, heart, lung, liver, small bowel as well as hematopoietic stem cell at one of the biggest transplant centers in the Middle-East. Dr. Al-Awwami is an active inspector for CAP and ASHI, and an active member of multiple immunogenetics societies world-wide. | |
| Peter Nickerson Medical Director of Transplant Manitoba and the Medical Advisor, Organ Donation and Transplantation Division Canadian Blood Services (CBS), Manitoba, Canada Dr. Peter Nickerson is a Distinguished Professor of Internal Medicine and Immunology and the Vice-Dean Research, Rady Faculty of Health Sciences at the University of Manitoba. Dr. Nickerson holds the Flynn Family Chair in Renal Transplantation at the University of Manitoba. Funded by the CIHR and NIH, his research program focuses on mechanisms underlying acute and chronic transplant rejection; developing non-invasive techniques for the diagnosis of renal allograft rejection; and health care system design to enhance access to transplant. | |
| Rabab Al Attas Clinical Director of Histocompatibility & Immunogenetics and Head of Immunology Lab King Fahad Specialist Hospital-Dammam, Dammam, Saudi Arabia Dr. Rabab Al Attas is an experienced and certified Consultant of Clinical Pathology, Immunology and Immunogenetics. Dr. Al Attas has actively contributed to advancing histocompatibility practice in the eastern-province of Saudi Arabia. Dr. Al Attas is member of numerous transplant immunology related societies and has participated in many transplant related conferences across the Middle East and world-wide. | |
| Sally Elfishawi Assistant Professor at Bone Marrow Transplantation Laboratory Unit, National Cancer Institute Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt Dr. Sally Elfishawi is the Vice president of Arabian society for histocomptability and immunogenomics (ARSHI) and a member of several histocompatibility and hematology associations including American Society for Histocompatibility and Immunogenetics (ASHI) and member of European federation of immunogenetics (EFI) and European hematology association (EHA). The scientific interest of Dr. Elfishawi focuses on histocompatibility in stem cell transplantation | |
| 0 | Sebastiaan Heidt Netherland Dr. Sebastiaan Heidt received his PhD degree in 2010 in the laboratory of Prof. Frans Claas on the characterization of B cells in relation to organ transplantation. Hereafter, he worked as a postdoctoral scientist in the laboratory of Prof. Kathryn Wood in Oxford for 2 years, mainly focusing on immune monitoring in kidney transplant recipients. Currently he is working as an associate professor and group leader of the laboratory of Transplantation Immunology of the Leiden University Medical Center, the Netherlands. His main research interests are differential immunogenicity of HLA, the various roles of B cells in organ transplantation, the formation and detection of HLA-specific memory B cells and immune monitoring of transplant recipients. Furthermore, he is managing director of the Eurotransplant Reference Laboratory, which is also situated in Leiden. |
| Shahrukh Hashmi Associate Professor of Medicine faculty at Mayo Clinic, Minnesota, USA Chair of the Clinical Research Department at King Faisal Specialist Hospital, and Associate Professor of Medicine at AlFaisal University in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia Dr. Shahrukh Hashmi is a known figure in an international authority on Graft-versus-host-disease, Machine Learning (AI) and in BMT survivorship with greater than 150 publications in peer-reviewed journals. Dr. Hashmi holds multiple certification in hematology, public health and internal medicine. Dr. Hashmi is a chair and an active member in many societies related to bone-marrow and stem cell transplantation. | |
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