
Speakers
Souheil Chamandi – Lebanon
Professor and Chair of Anesthesia
Department CHU Notre Dame des Secours – Byblos
Head of Pain Management USEK University
Head of Pain Management Service
President of LSA and Pan Arab Congress
Patricia Yazbeck – Lebanon
Professor of Anesthesia and Critical Care at Saint Joseph University, Beirut – Lebanon
Past-President of the Lebanese Society of Anesthesiologists,
President of the Lebanese Society of Critical Care Medicine,
Council member of the WFSA and member of the WFSA Education Committee,
President of the Pan Arab Federation of Societies of Anesthesia, Intensive Care and Pain Management (PAFSA)
Adrian Gelb – USA
President of the World Federation of Societies of Anaesthesiologists (WFSA) and Professor (emeritus), Department of Anesthesia & Perioperative Care, University of California San Francisco (UCSF).
Abdulaziz Boker – KSA
Professor, Consultant & Chairman, Department of Anesthesia and Critical Care College of Medicine General Supervisor, Clinical Skills and Simulation Center King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
Ahmed Rhassane El Adib – Moroco
Educational Manager of Marrakesh Simulation and Innovation in Health Sciences Center
Head of Anesthesia and Critical Care in Gynecology-Obstetrics Department
Mother and child hospital, Mohammed VI University Hospital School of medicine, Cadi Ayyad University
Alain Delbos – France
Anesthesiologist working in a private hospital – Toulouse – France
Chair of Scientific committee of the European society of Regional Anaesthesia (ESRA) 2021
CoFounder of « Medecins du monde » : Humanitarian Medicine
Alexander Herden – France
Marketing Manager Anesthesiology
Region Middle East and Africa
Allison Lee – USA
Associate Professor of Anesthesiology at Columbia University Medical Center
Officer of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, Department of Anesthesiology
Medical Director of the Margaret Wood Center for Simulation and Education
Associate Editor, BJA Education
Amar Salti – UAE
Practicing Consultant in Anesthesia and Pain Medicine at Cleveland Clinic – Abu Dhabi – UAE
Cleveland clinic Abu Dhabi
Abu Dhabi – UAE
Anne-Godier – France
Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine. Full Professor of Clinical Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine at Paris University
Antoun Nader – USA
Professor of Anesthesiology
Professor of Orthopedic
Section Chief, Acute Pain and Regional Anesthesiology
Director of Pain Medicine, Northwestern Memorial Hospital
Fellowship Director Regional Anesthesia and Acute Pain Management
Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine
Basil Matta – UK
Consultant, Anaesthesia, Major Trauma & Neurocritical Care
Cambridge University Hospitals, Cambridge UK
Senior Medical Director – Masimo International.
Beverly Philip – USA
President, American Society of Anesthesiologists
Immediate Past President, International Association for Ambulatory Surgery
Professor of Anaesthesia, Harvard Medical School
Founding Director, Day Surgery Unit, Brigham and Women’s Hospital Department of Anesthesiology, Perioperative and Pain Medicine
Cynthia Karam – Lebanon
Aesthesia Department
American University of Beirut Medical Center
David Marrach – France
Consultant in Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine and previously a Consultant in Cardiovascular, Surgical and Trauma Intensive Care Unit at Hôpital Européen Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
Elie Zogheib – France
Specialist in critical care medicine and anesthesiology
Deputy head of department of anesthesiology and intensive care at Avicenne Hospital – Assistance Publique des Hôpitaux de Paris – France
Francisco Lobo – Portugal
Institute of Anesthesiology
Director of Research
Cleveland Clinic in Abu Dhabi
Gebhard Wagener – USA
Professor of Anesthesiology at CUMC
Chief, Division of Vascular Anesthesiology
Member, Divisions of Critical Care Medicine & Liver Transplant Anesthesiology
College of Physicians & Surgeons of Columbia University
Georges Dabar – Lebanon
Medical Director at Hotel Dieu de France
Pulmonary & Critical Care Hotel Dieu de France
Assistant Professor Saint Joseph University
American Board of Internal Medicine
American Board of Pulmonary Medicine
American Board of Critical Care Medicine
Jacques Duranteau – France
Professor of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care at the University of Paris – Saclay. He is head of the Department of Anesthesia and Intensive Care at Bicêtre Hospital and President of the Medical Committee of the Paris – Saclay University Hospitals
Jolene Moore – UK
Consultant Anaesthesiologist based in the UK, sub-specialised in obstetric anaesthesia and with a background and interest in medical education
Jonathan Hastie – USA
Anesthesiologist
Active member of the Society for Education in Anesthesia, the Society of Critical Care Medicine, and the Association of University Anesthesiologists.
Joseph Cravero – USA
Anesthetist in Chief at Boston Children’s Hospital and the Chair of the Department of Anesthesiology, Critical Care, and Pain Medicine.
Marco Luchetti – Italy
Senior Consultant in Anaesthesia and Intensive Care
Clinical Manager Acute Care, Europe, GE Healthcare
Matthieu Schmidt – France
Full Professor of Intensive Care Medicine at Sorbonne University and senior intensivist in the Medical intensive care, Pitié-Salpêtrière hospital in Paris
Medhat Shalabi – UAE
Consultant Anesthetist, Head of Anesthesia, ICU, and Perioperative Medicine Department, Fakeeh University Hospital, Dubai, UAE.
Emeritus Professor of Anesthesiology, Alexandria University, Egypt.
Founder and President: Pan Arab & Middle East Enhanced Recovery After Surgery
Michael Akerman – USA
Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology at Weill Cornell Hospital in Manhattan’s Upper East Side in New York City.
Associate Program Director of the Regional Anesthesia and Acute Pain Medicine Fellowship.
Director of Regional Anesthesia at the David. H. Koch Ambulatory Surgery Center
Miodrag Milenovic – Serbia
Assistant Professor
Head of Anaesthesiology section in OR
Dept. Anaesthesiology & Resuscitation
University of Belgrade, Faculty of Medicine
Emergency Center, University Clinical Center of Serbia
Member, WFSA Professional Wellbeing Committee
Mohamed AbdelRaouf Nasr – Egypt
Professor of pain & anesthesia
Director of pain unit – Faculty of Medicine – Cairo University
Board member, Egyptian board of Anesthesiologists
Founder and Board member, Egyptian board of interventional pain
Fellow of Interventional Pain Practice ( FIPP)- USA
X- member of pain committee of World Federation of Societies of Anesthesiologists (WFSA)
Patrick Narchi – France
Anesthesia Department, Centre Clinical, Soyaux, France
Pierre Albaladejo – France
Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine.
Professor of Clinical Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine at Grenoble University Hospital
Pierre Lequeux – UAE
Consultant, Department of Anesthesia, Sheikh Khalifa Medical City, Abu Dhabi, U.A.E.
Raja Reddy – UK
Consultant in Anaesthesia & Pain Medicine and the Educational Director of the Pain Medicine Fellowship Programme at Medway National Health Service, Kent, UK
Samy Abdel Raheem – Egypt
Consultant Anaesthetist | Abu Dhabi-UAE
Professor Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care | Asyut University, Egypt
Member of WFSA Scientific Affairs Committee
Viviane G. Nasr – USA
Senior Associate in Cardiac Anesthesia at Boston Children’s Hospital and an Associate Professor of Anaesthesia at Harvard Medical School
Walid Habr – Switzerland
Head, Unit for Anaesthesiological Investigations
Senior Consultant, Paediatric Anaesthesia
Geneva University Hospitals
Wayne Morriss – New Zealand
Practising anaesthesiologist in Christchurch, New Zealand.
Current President Elect of World Federation of Societies of Anaesthesiologists
Member of the WFSA Board and Council.
William Fawcett – UK
Vice President, Association of Anaesthetists
Featherstone Professor of Anaesthesia, Association of Anaesthesists
Consultant in Anaesthesia and Pain Medicine
Royal Surrey NHS Foundation Trust – UK
Moderators
Abdelkarim Aloweidi Al-Abbadi – Jordan
Dr. Med. Abdelkarim Aloweidi Al-Abbadi
MD,JBA, Facharzt I in Anesthesiology ,Intensive Care and Pain Management
Chairman Department of Anesthesia and intensive care ,Faculty of Medicine/The University of Jordan
President of Jordanian Society of Anesthesia,intensive Care and Pain management
Abdulla Kaki – KSA
Professor of Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine
Faculty of Medicine, King Abdulaziz University
Chairman of Scientific Board of Saudi Board of Pain Medicine
President of Saudi Society of Pain Medicine
Bouarroudj Noreddine – Algeria
Specialist in anesthesiology, intensive care medicine, Interventional Pain management and Ultrasound Guided Anesthesia – Clinique Maissalyne.
President of Anesthetists and Critical Care Physicians Club.
Director of JARC and Masterclass of Regional Anesthesia
Carine Zeeni – Lebanon
Assistant professor of anesthesia, director of neurosurgical anesthesia, American University of Beirut Medical Center, Beirut, Lebanon.
Chekrallah Chamandi – France
Interventional cardiology, Cardiac Intensive Care Unit (CICU)
Hôpital Européen Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
Fadi El Dahdah – UAE
Chief of cardiac anesthesia
Zayed Military Hospital | Abu Dhabi / UAE
Fadlo Sayegh – Lebanon
Head department of Anesthesia and Critical Care
Hopital Notre Dame Du Liban
Georges Chebli – Lebanon
Pulmonary and intensive care doctor specialized in neurorespiratory physiology, sleep medicine and extracorporeal life support
Ghaleb Zaouk – Lebanon
Head of department of Anaesthesia and Reanimation at Haykel Hospital Tripoli Lebanon
Hanane Barakat – Lebanon
Clinical Assistant Professor of Anesthesia
Assistant CMO for Quality and Accreditation
Hicham Jabbour – Lebanon
Associate Professor
Department of Anesthesia and Critical Care
Faculty of Medicine of Saint Joseph University
Islam Massad – Jordan
Consultant Anesthetist
and Dean of the School of Medicine- The University of Jordan General Director of Jordan University Hospital
Jean Elie Tabbal – Lebanon
Anesthesiologiat, Pain Consultant – Program Director of Anesthesiology at Saint George Hospital – University Medical Center “SGHUMC”
Lise Abi Rafeh – Lebanon
Anesthesiologist & critical care specialist; chief medical officer at Haykel hospital
Louisa Khairallah – Lebanon
Anesthesia department chairperson
Bellevue Medical Center
Marie Maroun Aouad – Lebanon
Professor of Anesthesiology and Chairperson Department of Anesthesiology American University of Beirut
Marwan Rizk – Lebanon
Director of Regional Anesthesia at the American University of Beirut- Medical Center.
Middle East and North Africa Course Director of regional anesthesia at the Aesculap Academy
May Helou – Lebanon
Past president of LSA, Past Head Department of Anesthesia in Lebanese University , and coordinator of loco Regionallecho guide diploma in the lebaneese university
Maya Hastie – USA
Associate Professor of Anesthesiology at Columbia University Medical Center.
Vice Chair for Education and Program Director of the adult cardiothoracic anesthesia fellowship.
Mehdi Trifa – Tunisia
Pediatric anesthesiologist and intensivist
Professor of Anesthesia and Intensive Care, Tunis El Manar University, Tunisia
Micheline Bou Khalil – Lebanon
Clincal Assistant Professor, LAU school of Medicine
Anestehsiologist at LAUMC St Jonh’s hospital
Mohamad Jazzar – Lebanon
Full time senior consultant of Anesthesiology at Clemenceau Medical Center affiliated with Johns Hopkins International
Nabil El Bitar – Lebanon
Anesthesia Critical care, Pain Medicine. Neurosciences.
Chief department of Anesthesia and Critical Care, Family Medical Center.
Other than my medical Diplomas, I have also a PhD in neurosciences, my research and publications were in the field of pain and thermoregulation
Nesrine El Refai – Egypt
Professor of Anesthesia, ICU and pain management, Cairo university-Egypt.
Member of Education committee of WFSA.
Treasurer of African Society of Regional Anesthesia. Special interests: Obstetric Anesthesia, Airway management and Resuscitation.
Raad El Kafaji – Iraq
Chief of Pain Committee in the Iraqi Society of Anaesthesia , ICU and Pain Management
Secretary General of the Iraqi Society for Pain Management
Raphael Sfeir – Lebanon
Full time attending physician Saint Georges Hospital UMC, Beirut, department of anesthesia and Critical Care
Member of the Lebanese Society of Anesthesia Board (LSA), elected in January 2020, acting as secretary
Rola Hammoud – Dubai
Anesthesiologist
Chief Medical Executive, Clemenceau Medical Center Dubai
President, Lebanese Society for Quality and Safety in Healthcare
Sahar Siddik-Sayyid – Lebanon
Professor of Clinical Anesthesiology and Residency Program Director, Department of Anesthesiology, American University of Beirut, Medical Center
Samia Madi-Jebara – Lebanon
Head of the Department of Anesthesia, Critical Care and Pain management at Hotel Dieu de France Hospital
Residency program director – St Joseph University
Vanda Abi Raad – Lebanon
Clinical Professor of Anesthesiology
Assistant Dean for Faculty Affairs and Development
Director, Clinical Simulation Center
Gilbert and Rose-Marie Chagoury School of Medicine
Yasser Zaghloul – UAE
Consultant Anesthesiologist
Director of Abu Dhabi Anesthesia Club
Chair of the International Anesthesia & Pain Conference
Sheikh Khalifa Medical City | Abu Dhabi – UAE