16^th World Cardiology Congress December 08-10, 2016 Dubai, UAE

Elsadig E. Kazzam is currently the Professor in Department of Internal Medicine at College of Medicine & Health Sciences, United Arab Emirates University & Senior Consultant Cardiologist, Tawam- Johns Hopkins Hospital. He is also the Immediate Past President of the World Heart Failure Society and Associate Professor in Clinical Cardiology, Department of Clinical Medicine, Umea University Hospital, the Medical Faculty, Umeå, Sweden. He was also the Senior Consultant Physician & Cardiologist in the department of Internal Medicine, Cardiology Division, Mälar Hospital, Eskilstuna, Sweden. He is responsible for the Echocardiography Section within the Department of Cardiology. Consultant Physician & Cardiologist, Dept. of Internal Medicine, Heart Centre, Umeå University Hospital. 50% for the Medical Faculty, Umeå University and 50% for the University Regional Hospital. His combined post includes: clinical, teaching (lecturer) and research (senior researcher) duties.

Cardiology, Internal medicine

Stavros G. Drakos, MD/PhD is an Associate Professor of Cardiology with Tenure, Medical Director of the Cardiac Mechanical Support Program and Investigator at the Molecular Medicine Program/Eccles Institute of Human Genetics, University of Utah.

General Cardiology, Heart Failure and Cardiomyopathies (including valvular heart disease), Heart Transplant, Cardiac Mechanical Support (VAD) and Cardiovascular Intensive Care Unit (CV-ICU).

Jan J. Piek is the professor of interventional cardiology and director of the Heart Centre within the Academic Medical Centre, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.He is also responsible for collaboration between Department of Cardiology and Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery at AMC to form a new division.

Clinical cardiology, intervention cardiology

Fekry El Deeb is one of the first interventional Cardiologists in the Middle East. He started practicing Coronary Angioplasty at the Catharina Hospital, The Netherlands in 1986. He has worked in major hospitals such as the King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center and the King Fahad National Guard hospital, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia as a Consultant and Director of the Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory. With interventional experience of more than 25 years, Dr. Fekry has performed over 10,000 different coronary, peripheral and valvular procedures.

Complex Coronary Angioplasty and Stenting, Carotid Angioplasty and Stenting, Percutaneous Valvuloplasty & All peripheral Angioplasty and Stenting

Joseph Mills is the Consultant Interventional Cardiologist at the Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital, England. He is responsible for the roles of Clinical Lead for community cardiovascular services and cardiovascular rehabilitation and Medical Director for Advanced Life Support. His interests include Primary PCI, advanced life support training and education, Trans catheter Aortic Valve Implantation (TAVI), primary and secondary prevention of CVD as well as GP and primary care CVD education. In addition to his role as Consultant Cardiologist, Dr Mills was recently elected as President of British Association for Cardiovascular Prevention and Rehabilitation (BACPR).

Interventional Cardiology, Health-care

S A Tabish is a medical scientist with several distinctions to his credit – an ace academician, a brilliant medical administrator and a dedicated researcher with 25 year’s illustrious professional experience in Healthcare, Medical Education and Scientific Research.

Cardiology, Medicine, Healthcare

Dr François Diévart graduated in Interventional Cardiology in 1995 and spent two years as Assistant Professor of Medicine in Paris before moving to a private cardiology practice in Dunkerque. He is a member of the European and French Societies of Cardiology and a member of the scientific committee at the College National des Cardiologues Français. He is actually chairman of the working group of Clinical and therapeutic Pharmacology of the French Society of Cardiology.

Cardiology, Internal Medicine

François Diévart graduated in Interventional Cardiology in 1995 and spent two years as Assistant Professor of Medicine in Paris before moving to a private cardiology practice in Dunkerque. He is a member of the European and French Societies of Cardiology and a member of the scientific committee at the College National des Cardiologues Français. He is actually chairman of the working group of Clinical and therapeutic Pharmacology of the French Society of Cardiology. He has been involved in numerous medical publications such as the French Yearbook of Cardiology from 1999 to 2007 as Editor in Chief, and has authored more than 30 French-language textbooks in Cardiology across a broad range of topics. He is a member of many scientific committees/review boards (Réalités Cardiologiques, Cardinale, Le Cardiologue, Le quotidien du médecin). He has authored more than 600 Continuous Medical Education articles for French cardiologists and general practitioners, and has contributed to more than 350 French congress communications in epidemiology, cardiovascular therapeutic and clinical trials.

Cardiology, Internal Medicine

Omar K. Hallak is a Consultant Interventional Cardiologist. He is American Board Certified in: Interventional Cardiology, Cardiovascular Diseases, Vascular Medicine, Endovascular Medicine, Nuclear Cardiology, and Internal Medicine. He was the Head of Cardiology Department at Saint Francis Hospital in Charleston, West Virginia and Assistant Professor at Louisiana University, New Orleans, U.S.A. He has done extensive cardiac and peripheral / vascular intervention in United States. He conducted several study and co-authored a number of papers. He has performed thousands of interventional procedures, including complex and high risk cases; hundreds of permanent pacemaker implants and also large numbers of AICD implants. Dr. Omar Hallak did his residency in Internal Medicine at the University of Illinois in Chicago and his fellowship in Cardiology and Interventional Cardiology at Louisiana State University. He practiced in Charleston, West Virginia U.S.A. for several years before he joined American Hospital Dubai. Currently he leads the Interventional Cardiology Team offering Non-invasive and Invasive Cardiology procedures including Angiograms, Angioplasty, Peripheral Vascular Interventions, Cardiac and Carotid Ultrasonography and Nuclear Cardiology.

Cardiology, Internal Medicine, Health-care

Gennaro Sardella is the Italian cardiologist. He is the Associate Professor of Cardiology, University Sapienza, Rome and Director O.U. of Interventional Cardiology. He is also the Diplomat in Italy, 1980. He is the fellow of Italian Society Invasive Cardiology, European Society Cardiology, American College Cardiology.

Cardiology, Internal Medicine

Ashraf Reda is the Professor of cardiology department, College of medicine, Menofiya University. He is also the President of EAVA (Egyptian Association of Vascular biology and Atherosclerosis ) and Director and PI of the ongoing Egyptian Cardiovascular Risk Factors Project. He is the Founder of WGLVR (Working Group for Lipidology, Vascular biology and Research), a division of the Egyptian Society of Cardiology and also the Chairman of EGYBAC (Egyptian board of Accreditation in Cardiology). He is the Elect board member EgSC and Board member of the national promotion committee of the ministry of high education and scientific research

Cardiology, Health-Care

Khaled M. AlKattan is the Vice President for Administration and Finance and Dean of College of Medicine (Alfaisal University), Saudi Arabia. He is also the Professor and Senior Consultant of Thoracic Surgery.

Thoracic Surgery

G S Sainani was all along a brilliant academic career. He was appointed as Professor & Head at 32yrs of age. He was the Visiting Prof of 10 foreign and several Indian Universities. He is also the Emeritus Prof GMC, Mumbai, NAMS, New Delhi, and Emeritus International advisor RCP (Lond),Former Co-ordinator for Global Research on Geriatrics. He served as Past President of 16 national associations, Director, All India Heart Foundation (16yrs), Dean Indian College of Physicians (ICP), chairman World Congress of Nutrition, Chairman International Congress CV Advances and International Congress on Geriatrics. Recipient of 34 awards, delivered 26 orations. G S Sainani oration instituted by 4 national associations. He is invited as Guest Speaker/Chairman on 500 occasions, 555 publications, Editor-in-Chief 5 medical books, author of 3 books, Former Editor of 6 National Medical Journals.

Cardiac Diagnosis, Medical Therapeutics

Mohamed Sami Mourali studied at Tunis Faculty of Medicine, Tunisia is currently the Head of the cardiology Department at the Hospital La Rabta and President of STCCCV( Tunisian Society Of Cardiology and Cardiovascular Surgery)

Adult and Pediatric Interventional Cardiology

Sergey Suchkov, MD, PhD was born in 11.01.1957, a researcher-immunologist, a clinician, graduated from Astrakhan State Medical University, Russia, in 1980. Suchkov has been trained at the Institute for Medical Enzymology, The USSR Academy of Medical Sciences,National Center for Immunology (Russia), NIH, Bethesda, USA, and British Society forImmunology to cover 4 British university facilities. Since 2005, Dr Suchkov has been working as Professor of I.M. Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University and of A.I.Evdokimov Moscow State Medical & Dental University. From 2007, Suchkov is the First Vice-President and Dean of School of PPPM Politics and Management of the University of World Politics and Law. In 1991-1995, Dr Suchkov was a Scientific Secretary-in-Chief of the Editorial Board of the International Journal“Biomedical Science” (Russian Academy of Sciences and Royal Society of Chemistry, UK) and TheInternational Publishing Bureau at the Presidium of the Russian Academy of Sciences. In 1995-2005, Suchkov was a Director of the Russian-American Program in Immunology of the Eye Diseases.Dr Suchkov is a member of EPMA (European Association of Predictive, Preventive and Personalized Medicine,Brussels-Bonn), a member of the NY Academy of Sciences, a member of the Editorial Boards for Open Journal of Autoimmunity, EPMA J., Jacobs J. of Biomarkers and Personalized Medicine Universe. Dr Suchkov is known as a co-author of the Concept of post-infectious clinical and immunological syndrome, co-author of a concept of abzymes and their impact into the pathogenesis of autuimmunity conditions, and as one of the pioneers in promoting the Concept of PPPM into a practical branch of health services.

Concept of post-infectious clinical and immunological syndrome, concept of abzymes and their impact into the pathogenesis of autoimmunity conditions, Concept of PPPM into a practical branch of health services.