Speakers
Dr. Isabelle Schmitt-Opitz
Director of Department of Thoracic Surgery,
University Hospital Zurich
Department of Thoracic Surgery,
University Hospital Zurich,
Switzerland
Dr. Deepthi Silymon
DNB, MRCP,
Medical Oncology Specialty Certificate (UK),
ECMO, Consultant Medical Oncologist
Sheikh Shakhbout Medical City,
Abu Dhabi, UAE
Prof. Akif Turna
MD, PhD, FETCS
Professor of Thoracic Surgery
Cerrahpaşa Medical Faculty
Istanbul University-Cerrahpaşa,
Turkey
Dr. Antonio Ramos
President, De La Salle Medical
and Health Sciences Institute,
Philippines
Dr. Aydah Alawadhi
Consultant Medical Oncologist,
Chair of Haematology & Oncology Division
Sheikh Shakhbout Medical City,
Abu Dhabi, UAE
Dr. Aneez Ahmed
Thoracic Surgeon
Mount Elizabeth Novena Hospital
Head of the Service of Thoracic Surgery,
Department of General Surgery
Tan Tock Seng Hospital (TTSH),
Singapore
Dr. Sangeetha Ponnusamy
MBBS, MRCP, FRCP, FRCR
Consultant Radiation Oncologist
Sheikh Shakhbout Medical City,
Abu Dhabi, UAE
Dr. Puja Khaitan
Founder and Congress Chair
Consultant, Thoracic Surgery
Shaikh Shakhbout Medical City,
Abu Dhabi, UAE
Dr. Joel Dunning
Consultant Thoracic Surgeon
James Cook University Hospital, UK
Dr. Ali Zamir Khan
MS, FRCS, FRCS(CTH), FEBTS, MBA:
Thoracic Surgery
Consultant Thoracic Surgeon
Blackpool Victoria Hospital, UK
Dr. Balasubramoniam
Surgical Director,
Heart & Lung Transplant Program
Yashoda Hospitals, Hyderabad
India
Dr. Hasan Batirel
M.D., Ph.D.
Professor of Thoracic Surgery,
Department of Thoracic Surgery
Marmara University Faculty of Medicine,
Turkey
Dr. Sidhu Gangadharan
Chief, Thoracic Surgery and
Interventional Pulmonology
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center,
Harvard Medical School, USA
Dr. Eugenio Pompeo
Associate Professor of Thoracic Surgery
Tor Vergata University of Rome, Italy
Dr. Yara Jalbout
Consultant, Anesthesiology
Sheikh Shakhbout Medical City,
Abu Dhabi, UAE
Prof. Rajinder Parshad
MS,DNB,FACS, Thoracic and Foregut Surgery
Professor of Surgery
AIIMS, Delhi, India
Dr. Almurtadha Mula Kh
DNB, MRCP, Medical Oncology
Specialty Certificate (UK), ECMO
Consultant Medical Oncologist
Sheikh Shakhbout Medical City,
Abu Dhabi, UAE
Dr. Abhishek Jain
MBBS, MS, Mch. (Onco Surgery)
Consultant Breast & Minimally Invasive and
Robotic Thoracic Oncosurgeon
Uniportal 3D VATS Lung Surgery Specialist
Marengo CIMS Hospital, India
Dr. Richard van Hillegersberg
Thoracic Surgeon
UMC Utrecht, the Netherlands
Dr. Prriya Eshpuniyani
Senior Consultant Thoracic Surgeon
and Surgical Oncologist
Asian Cancer Institute (ACI),
Cumballa Hill Hospital
Precision Superspeciality Clinic
& Diagnostics, India
Dr. Abdulmajid Ali
MBChB, FRCS Glas, MSc.
Consultant General, Upper GI
& Metabolic Surgeon
Sheikh Tahnoon Medical City, UAE
Dr. Abdulla Al Hassani
Head of Gastroenterology
Zayed Military Hospital, UAE
Dr. Sridhar Rathinam
FRCSEd(CSiG); FRCSEd(CTh)
General Thoracic Surgery
Consultant Thoracic Surgeon,
Head of Service & Honorary Senior Lecturer
University Hospitals Leicester
Glenfield Hospital,
University Hospitals Leicester, UK
Dr. Wenlin Wang
Chief Surgeon
Guangdong Second Provincial
General Hospital, China
Dr. John Edwards
MB ChB PhD FRCS(C/Th)
Consultant Thoracic Surgeon
Sheffield Teaching Hospitals,
NHS Foundation Trust, UK
Prof. Dr. Hentati Abdessalam
MD, Thoracic Surgeon
Head of the Department of Thoracic Surgery
Professor, University Hospital of Sfax, Tunisia
Dr. Jethin Rafique
MD, FRCP (UK)
Consultant and Chair of
Department – Pulmonology
Sheikh Shakhbout Medical City, A
bu Dhabi, UAE
Dr. Rajiv Santosham
MBBS, MS, MCh
Consultant Thoracic Surgeon
Santosham Chest Hospital
Chennai, India
Dr. Arvind Kohli
MCh (CTVS) – General Thoracic Surgery
Medical Director, SVMM Hospital,
Ambphalla, Jammu, India
Dr. Shyam Kolvekar
MBBS, MS, MCh, FRCPS, FRCS, FRCSCTh
Consultant Cardiothoracic Surgeon
St. Bartholomew’s Hospital
London, UK
Dr. Saleh Abu Daff
MBBS, MRCS, SB-GS, ABGS
Consultant General-Thoracic Surgeon
King Fahad Medical City–
King Salman Heart Center, KSA
Dr. Benedict Dharmaraj
MD (UKM), M.Surg (UKM)
Fellowship in Thoracic Surgery (Malaysia)
Consultant Thoracic and General Surgeon
Hospital Kuala Lumpur & Beacon Hospital
Malaysia
Prof. Baste Jean Marc
MD, PhD, Full Professor of
Cardio-Thoracic Surgery
University Hospital of Rouen,
Normandy, France
