Consultant Endocrinologist, Head, Endocrinology and Diabetes Division
King Saud University Medical City
Saudi Arabia, Riyadh
Dr. Aishah Ekhzaimy - Biography
She specializes in neuroendocrinology, practicing in this area at King Saud University Medical City since January 2010, and takes special interest in managing difficult adrenal disorders, pituitary and thyroid tumors. She has publications in adrenal, diabetes and quality and research in pituitary, proteomic in thyroid disorders, thyroid and obesity.
Chairman, Public Health and Consultant Family Medicine
King Abdulaziz Medical City
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Dr. Ali Alshehri - Biography
He has published more than 43 publications in peer-review journals nationally and internationally and written a chapter on quality in medical education in an international book. He is the winner of the European Prize in Research in General Practice (SIMG-JFR, 1991). He is a distinguished Member of the Faculty of Public Health (UK)2012, and a member of the editorial board of SMJ & BJGP. He has received many appreciation letters and certificates. He served the Community in several leading positions and projects such as Deputy President of Imam Mohamed bin Saud Charity Organization, Founding Member of the Society of Community education, and Rehabilitation and Elected President, Saudi Association for Public Health (SAPH).
Head of Department, Consultant Endocrinologist
Sultan Qaboos University
Muscat, Oman
Dr. Ali Al Mamari - Biography
He was appointed the Deputy of HOD for Clinical Service in June 2008, since then he assumed his responsibility in organising the largest department in the hospital with its tremendous contributions and subdivisions, including staffs within each unit or specialty, allowing fair and reasonable number of staff in each unit to streamline work for the growing number of patients as in and out patient service.
As head of the unit, his responsibilities include: development and organisation of the unit in inpatient and outpatient care, consultations and on call duties, discharge and admission summaries, providing annual report of the unit activities and follow up and ensure implementation of various duties designated to the unit by HOD or the Departmental Board. He is responsible for the total quality of patient care and management. He introduced a specialized clinic in endocrinology every first Saturday of each month in addition to the regular thyroid and diabetes clinics.
His specialty includes Diabetes and Endocrinology. He is also Chairman of the Joint College and Hospital Space Committee since 2014 and Member of the Board of Directors of AACE-Gulf Chapter since 2017 by election based in Dubai-UAE.
Consultant Endocrinologist, Professor of Medicine
King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Centre, Alfaisal University
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Dr. Ali Alzahrani - Biography
Dr. Alzahrani is proactive in several editorial boards of famously known medical publications. He was the Editor-in Chief of the Annals of Saudi Medicine and an Editorial Board Member of the British Journal of Diabetes and Vascular Medicine. He is an Editorial Board member of the prestigious official journal of the American Thyroid Association, THYROID. Dr. Alzahrani has more than 70 peer-reviewed articles, more than ninty regional and international presentations and has conducted more than ninety lectures nationally and internationally as an invited speaker. Dr. Al Zahrani’s academic interests are clinical and molecular research in the areas of thyroid cancer and endocrine genetics.
Consultant Endocrinology
King Saud University
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Dr. Anwar Jammah - Biography
He is currently working as a Consultant Endocrinologist at the King Saud University, Riyadh. He served as the Head of the Endocrinology division from 2012 to 2016. He was also the Head of the Pharmacy and therapeutic (P&T) committee in university hospitals from 2013 until 2016.
Consultant and Honorary Senior Lecturer in Diabetes and Endocrinology
Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Trust
London, United Kingdom
Dr. Barbara McGowan - Biography
Her specialist areas are in general endocrinology (including thyroid disease, polycystic ovaries, hypogonadism, adrenal disease and pituitary disease, metabolic disorders and hormone imbalance). She is also interested in managing complex obesity and co-morbidities associated with obesity including type 2 diabetes and the metabolic syndrome. She leads the obesity bariatric service at Guy’s and St Thomas Hospital. She is also a general medicine physician. Her main areas of research interest are in obesity and appetite control.
Dr McGowan has published extensively in peer-reviewed medical journals. She is an active Trustee of The Association for the Study of Obesity, a SCOPE National fellow, the Metabolic and Obesity endocrine network lead for the Society of Endocrinology and Treasurer for the Society of Endocrinology. She is a member of the RCP nutrition Committee and RCP committee on Weight and Health.
Honorary Professor of Diabetes
University of Edinburgh
Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Dr. Brian Frier - Biography
His areas of special interests are Diabetes, Cardiology, Cardiovascular Science, Clinical Trials, Epidemiology. His principal research interest is the pathophysiology of hypoglycaemia in humans with relevance to diabetes. Other research interests in diabetes include cognitive function, insulin therapy and driving.
He has published extensively on hypoglycaemia, and has co-authored two major textbooks on hypoglycaemia and diabetes. He has mentored 20 postgraduate research fellows working on hypoglycaemia. He was invited as a speaker at many national and international meetings, he gave the Banting Memorial lecture at Diabetes UK in 2009 and the Camillo Golgi lecture at the 53rd annual EASD conference in 2017. In 2004 he received the Somogyi Award from the Hungarian Diabetes Association for his research on hypoglycaemia.
He is a member of the Cognitive Ageing and Epidemiology in Edinburgh, which is funded by the Medical Research Council (MRC) and the Biotechnology and biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC). Formerly, he was the Vice-President of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh (2008-12), and Chair of the Medical Advisory Panel on Driving and Diabetes to the Secretary of State for Transport in the UK from 2001-2012.
Professor of Medicine
Harvard Medical School
Massachusetts, United States of America
Dr. David Nathan - Biography
He is currently working as a Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. He is also appointed as the Director of the Diabetes Center and the Clinical Research Center at Massachusetts General Hospital. He has an American board-certified in Internal Medicine as well as Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Metabolism.
His clinical interests are diabetes management, endocrinology, and intensive therapies of diabetes.
He has received several awards such as the Outstanding Clinician Award in 2002 and the inaugural Outstanding Achievement in Clinical Diabetes Research Award in 2015, both by the American Diabetes Association, and the Distinguished Scientist Award from the National Institute of Diabetes Digestive and Kidney Disease, National Institute of Health (NIH) in 2010.
He has authored/co-authored more than 600 publications in the medical literature and is internationally known for his expertise in diabetes, its complications, and the development of novel therapies.
Adjunct Professor of Medicine
Mohammed Bin Rashid University of Medicine and Health Sciences – Dubai
London, United Kingdom
Dr. Dimitri Mikhailidis - Biography
He is a former Vice-president, Section of Pathology, and current member of the Vascular Medicine Section council, Royal Society of Medicine. He is a Fellow of the Royal College of Pathologists (FRCPath), Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians (FRCP), Fellow of the Faculty of Pharmaceutical Medicine (FFPM), and Fellow of the American College of Clinical Pharmacology (FCP). He was a member of the executive council of the International Atherosclerosis Society (IAS) 2016-18. He is a Foreign Member of the Slovenian and the Serbian Academies of Medicine.
Under Mikhailidis D, he has 1,297 entries on PubMed and under Mikhailidis D*, 32,315 citations listed in the Clarivate Web of Science index, Core Collection (H-index = 80). He has been cited by 18,952 publications where he is not an author. He is editor-in-chief of several journals (impact factor up to 3.0) including Current Medical Research and Opinion, Current Vascular Pharmacology, Expert Opinion on Pharmacotherapy, and Angiology. He has acted as a reviewer for more than 100 medical journals. He is ranked as number 1 in the world in the field of lipid-lowering drugs (http://expertscape.com/ex/hypolipidemic+agents). He is also listed among the top 1% most cited authors in Pharmacology and Toxicology on the Clarivate Web of Science (2018) and across all fields (2019). He has lectured in 52 countries.
He has participated in several guidelines and international evaluation committees. He is a former member of the nucleus group for peripheral arterial disease, the European Society of Cardiology, and was the lead for the Prevention Section of the European Society of Vascular Surgery Guidelines for the Management of Carotid Artery Disease, 2010.
He was awarded the Grand Cross of the Order of St. Mark, the Grand Cross of the Order of St. Sava as well as the Gold Cross of the Merit Insignia of St. Sava (Greek Orthodox Patriarchate of Alexandria and All Africa) for services to the Greek community. He holds Honorary Doctorates from all 7 Medical Schools in Greece.
Consultant Endocrinologist and Nutritionist, Chief Medical Officer
Dasman Diabetes Institute
Kuwait City, Kuwait
Dr. Ebaa Al Ozairi - Biography
Dr Ebaa Al-Ozairi is the Chief Medical Officer at Dasman Diabetes Institute, a consultant Diabetes, Endocrine and Nutrition. Dr Al Ozairi has completed her intercalated BMSc (hons) in molecular pathology at Dundee University (UK) and graduated from Aberdeen University (UK) for her medical undergraduate studies. Ebaa then joined Newcastle University (UK) for her specialist training in Diabetes and Endocrinology and was the first Kuwaiti to complete her CCT in Diabetes and Endocrine. During her postgraduate studies in UK, Dr Al Ozairi was awarded The Fulbright fellowship to Joslin Diabetes Institute, affiliates of Harvard medical school, Boston, USA.
Consultant Endocrine and Diabetes
Sheikh Khalifa Medical City
Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Dr. Eiman Alsedeeqi - Biography
She is American Board-Certified in Internal Medicine and a Fellow of Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, Canada. She completed her Residency training in Internal Medicine from Sheikh Khalifa Medical Center and Al Jazeera Hospital.
Her research interests are Sequential Thyroid Storm and Myxedema Coma, Endocrinopathy, and Hypertensive Pregnancy Disorders.
She is currently working as a Consultant Endocrinologist in Sheikh Khalifa Medical City, Abu Dhabi.
Consultant Pediatric Endocrinologist
Al Qassimi Women and Children Hospital
Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
Dr. Elham Al Amiri - Biography
In 2009 Dr Al Amiri founded “Friends for Diabetes” a volunteer support society.
Dr Al Amiri has received several awards for outstanding achievement, such as Sheikh Mohammad Bin Rashid Excellence award as best Physician January 2017, best physician award by Al Qassimi Hospital 2016, best physician award by Sharjah Medical district 2016, Sheikh Hamdan Bin Rashid Medical award for distinguished medical professionals in 2014.
Senior Consultant Endocrinologist, Diabetes, and Metabolism
Hamad Medical Corporation
Doha, Qatar
Dr. Emad Naem - Biography
Currently, He works as a Senior Endocrinology Consultant at Hamad medical corporation, Qatar, where he leads the thyroid FNA clinic. He is also the associate program director of the HMC endocrinology fellowship program and an assistant professor at Weill Cornell Medical College, Qatar.
He has published a number of research papers in peer-reviewed journals. His special interests are thyroid and parathyroid disorders, thyroid FNA, and neck ultrasound.
Consultant Diabetesand Endocrinology
Wayne State University
Michigan, United States of America
Dr. Husain ElBadawi - Biography
He has received certifications of internal medicine and Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Metabolism from the American Board of Internal Medicine. He has also received certifications and licensure of Obesity Medicine from the American Board of Obesity Medicine and Clinical Densitometry from The International Society for Clinical Densitometry (ISCD).
He Chairs the Endocrinology Clinical Competency (CCC) and is an Endocrinology representative of the Residency Operational Committee (ROC). He is a member of the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists (AACE), Endocrine Society (ENDO), American Thyroid Association (ATA), and The Obesity Society.
Consultant, Pediatric Endocrinology, Department of Pediatrics
King Abdullah Specialized Children’s Hospital
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Dr. Ibraheem Al-Alwan - Biography
President, Association of Medical Education in the Eastern Mediterranean Region
Vice President, Postgraduate Education & Academic Affairs, KSAU-HS
Consultant, Pediatric Endocrinology, Department of Pediatrics, KAMC
Executive Council Member, World Federation for Medical Education
Prof. Ibrahim Al Alwan is a graduate of King Saud University obtaining his MBBS in 1988. He joined the Pediatric Residency Training Program at King Khalid University Hospital for three years (1990-1993), and obtained a scholarship to pursue a postgraduate Pediatric Residency Training (1993-1996) at Alberta Children’s Hospital, Calgary, Canada. He obtained his MRCP (UK) in 1995, American Board of Pediatrics in 1996, and the Pediatrics Specialty Certificate from the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada (FRCPC) in 1997. He completed a three-year Fellowship Program in Pediatric Endocrinology and Metabolism (1996-1999) at the Hospital of Sick Children, Toronto, Canada. He was duly certified by American Board of Pediatrics and the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada in the subspecialty of Pediatric Endocrinology and Metabolism (2001). Upon his return to the Kingdom he was appointed as Consultant, Pediatrician, and Pediatric Endocrinologist (November 1999). He is founder of the Saudi Pediatric Endocrinology Fellowship Program at the Saudi Commission for Health Specialties, established in December 2004; and served as Chairman until April 2012. In March 2011, he was elected President of the Association of Medical Education of the Mediterranean Region (AMEEMR).
Prof. Al Alwan joined the College of Medicine, Riyadh (College of Medicine-R), King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences (KSAU-HS) as an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics in September 2004, and promoted to Full Professor in December 2012. Prof. Al Alwan was appointed Dean, COM-R, KSAU-HS in December 2010 to November 2014. At present, he holds the position of Vice-President, Postgraduate Education & Academic Affairs, KSAU-HS. He is a member of various committees in KAMC-R and KSAU-HS.
Prof. Al Alwan`s research interests include Type II diabetes mellitus in children, puberty, growth disorder, and congenital hypothyroidism. He has published widely in these and other areas and given oral and poster presentations in many regional and international meetings.
Head of the Bone and Cartilage Metabolism Unit, Professor of Epidemiology, Public Health and Health Economics
University of Liège
Brussels, Belgium
Dr. Jean Yves Reginster - Biography
Consultant Lipidologist, Head, Lipid and LDL-Apheresis Unit
Sultan Qaboos University Hospital
Muscat, Oman
Dr. Khalid Al Rasadi - Biography
He has published 78 scientific research papers and 1 chapter book (total citations: 2140, H-Index:21). He is a member of the Oman Medical Journal, BBA-Clinical Journal editorial board, and the Editor-in-Chief of the OSLA section in the Open Cardiovascular Medicine Journal.
He is a member of various organizations: Head of the Department of Biochemistry at the Sultan Qaboos University, Oman; Head of Lipid and LDL-Apheresis unit at Sultan Qaboos University Hospital; President and one of the founder members of the Oman Society of Lipid and Atherosclerosis (OSLA); Founder and President of the Arab States of the Gulf (GCC) Familial Hypercholesterolemia Foundation.
Division Chief of Pediatric Endocrinology
Sidra Medicine
Doha, Qatar
Dr. Khalid Hussain - Biography
He is currently appointed as the Division Chief of Pediatric Endocrinology and Programme Director for Research for the Children’s Clinical Management Group (CCMG) at Sidra Medicine in Doha.
Some of his previous work experiences include Professor of Pediatric Metabolic Endocrinology at The Institute of Child Health, University College London, and Honorary Consultant Pediatric Endocrinologist at Great Ormond Street Children’s Hospital in London UK.
Dr. Hussain’s research interests include Diabetes mellitus, hypoglycemia, epidemiology, biochemical and molecular mechanisms of childhood diabetes. He has published more than 300 peer-reviewed manuscripts in journals including NEJM, Science, Nature Genetics, Cell Metabolism, EMBO, JCI, PNAS, HMG, AJHG, Diabetes, Diabetologia, and JCEM.
Associate Professor, Consultant Endocrinologist
Kuwait University, Mubarak al-Kabeer Hospital
Kuwait City, Kuwait
Dr. Laila Qadan - Biography
Associate Dean of Graduate Medical Education, Professor of Neurosurgery and Medicine
Stanford School of Medicine
Stanford, California, United States of America
Dr. Laurence Katznelson - Biography
Consultant Cardiologist
Glasgow Royal Infirmary
Glasgow, United Kingdom
Dr. Miles Fisher - Biography
He served as a Vice President (Medical) at the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow from 2011 to 2014. He was the former President of the Scottish Society of Physicians in 2016 and former Co-Chair of Scottish Heart & Arterial Disease Risk Prevention (SHARP) in 2017.
His research interests include diabetes and the heart, hypoglycemia, and new treatments for diabetes. He has published 49 book chapters, 80 original papers, 70 review articles, 33 leaders and editorials, 52 drug notes for Practical Diabetes, and 15 drug notes for the British Journal of Cardiology.
Consultant Endocrinologist, Assistant Professor of Medicine and Endocrinology
King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Dr. Moeber Mahzari - Biography
He is a member of the Canadian Society of Endocrinology and Metabolism and a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada.
His academic interests focus on Clinical and translational research in the field of endocrinology and diabetes. He was the award of excellence in training at the Saudi Cultural Bureau.
Associate Professor, Department of Endocrine Neoplasia and Hormonal Disorders, Division of Internal Medicine
The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center
Houston, Texas, United States of America
Dr. Mouhammed Amir Habra - Biography
Head of Endocrinology Department
Ameri Hospital
Kuwait City, Kuwait
Dr. Nadia Al Ali - Biography
She obtained her MBBSc from Kuwait University in 1985. She then worked as a trainee at the Amiri Hospital in the same year. In 1986, she became an Assistant Registrar in General Medicine. In 1989 she was appointed as the Registrar in the Kuwait Board of General Medicine.
She is the President of the Kuwait Osteoporosis Society.
Consultant Endocrinologist
King Hamad University Hospital
Busaiteen, Bahrain
Dr. Naji Alamuddin - Biography
Endocrinologist and Obesity Medicine Specialist
King Fahd Medical City
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Dr. Nasreen Alfaris - Biography
She is currently working as an Endocrinologist in King Fahd Medical City, Riyadh. She also serves as a faculty member at the Blackburn Course in Obesity Medicine at Harvard Medical School.
Her clinical interests include obesity management and mechanisms of diabetes remission following weight-loss interventions.
She has received multiple awards including the Roberto Franco Intern of the Year Award and the Robert D. Utiger Award for Outstanding Research by an Endocrine Fellow.
She has authored various research papers that are published in renowned journals such as the New England Journal of Medicine, International Journal of Obesity, and Obesity.
Professor of Medicine
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
Dr. Paul Ladenson - Biography
Dr. Ladenson is the John Eager Howard Professor of Endocrinology and Metabolism.
He earned his M.D. from Harvard Medical School. He completed his residency and performed a fellowship in endocrinology, diabetes and metabolism at Massachusetts General Hospital.
Dr. Ladenson’s research interests include cardiac actions of thyroid hormone, thyroid cancer and thyroid hormone analogs.
He was recognized with the Lewis E. Braverman Lectureship Award at the 82nd Annual Meeting of the American Thyroid Association (ATA) in 2012.
Physician, Medical Subspecialties Institute
Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi
Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Dr. Rabih Hijazi - Biography
He completed his medical degree from the American University of Beirut and obtained his residency in Internal Medicine at the University of Connecticut, US. He then obtained his fellowship in Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Metabolism from the Baylor College of Medicine and the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center in Houston, Texas. He is also a fellow of the American College of Endocrinology.
He is a member of the American Diabetes Association and the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists.
His research interests include Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism, Internal Medicine, and General Medicine. He is a recipient of the University of Connecticut Ambulatory Care Award and the Youssef Hitti Scientist Award.
Chief, Division of Pediatric Cardiology
Nemours Cardiac Center
Florida, United States of America
Dr. Samuel Gidding - Biography
Dr. Gidding is known for founding PEDAL, a consortium dedicated to prevention of adult onset lipid related diseases beginning in youth. He is a member of the ACC/AHA task force on clinical practice guidelines and has participated in the development of new adult and pediatric blood pressure guidelines.
He has previously worked on guidelines/scientific statements on familial hypercholesterolemia, hypertension, tobacco, obesity, nutrition, diabetes, and congenital heart disease for AHA, AAP, NHLBI, WHO, CDC, EAS, NLA, and ADA.
Dr. Gidding has been a visiting professor at the Cleveland Clinic, University of Miami, University of Pittsburg, University of West Virginia, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Texas A and M University, Brown University, the University of Hawaii, Montefiore Hospital, and the University of Michigan and lectured internationally.Past clinical interests included preventive cardiology, general pediatric cardiology, echocardiography, exercise, and heart failure/transplantation.
Prior funded research includes co-investigator for the echocardiography reading centers of the TODAY and CARDIA studies and a study on cardiovascular risk in Down syndrome. He was a co-investigator of the DISC study and collaborated with the Bogalusa Heart Study. Dr. Gidding participated in many local studies on congenital heart disease, on the cardiovascular morbidity of obesity, and early imaging of atherosclerosis. He helped design the DO-IT trial, a statin intervention trial in adolescents funded by the Pediatric Heart Network (NHLBI) and remains a site co-investigator for the AMGEN pediatric PCSK9 inhibitor trial.
Chief, Division of Endocrinology, Professor of Endocrinology
Prisma Health System, University of South Carolina School of Medicine Greenville
Greenville, United States of America
Dr. Sandra Weber - Biography
Dr. Sandra Weber is Professor of Medicine at the University of South Carolina School of Medicine – Greenville and is Chief of the Division of Endocrinology at the Greenville Health System in Greenville, South Carolina. She received her medical degree from Northwestern University, Honors Program in Medical Education. She completed her internship, residency, chief residency, and fellowship at the University of Miami in Miami, Florida. Dr. Weber specializes in Type 1 diabetes, diabetes prevention and general endocrinology.
Dr. Weber is involved in medical school and residency teaching programs as well as Chair of Continuing Medical Education. She is a strong believer in life long education.
Consultant Endocrinologist
Imperial College London Diabetes Center
Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Dr. Sara Suliman - Biography
She received her specialist clinical and research training from the world-renowned Oxford Centre for Diabetes, Endocrinology, and Metabolism. She then completed her Diploma of Philosophy from the University of Oxford, St. Peter’s College.
She has authored several papers and presented her research in major international conferences. She contributed to the Oxford Handbook for Diabetes and Endocrinology and is a reviewer for leading medical journals. She is also a founding member of the Imperial Diabetes Educator course since 2013, and a key member of the ICLDC MRCP Exam Preparation course run by ICLDC. She was awarded a prestigious Diabetes-UK Clinical Research Training Fellowship culminating in a DPhil (Ph.D.) from Oxford University.
Dr. Suliman leads the genetic service at ICLDC. She is a member of the ICLDC App development team and was the physician responsible for reviewing the content in patient information leaflets. She is part of a team of endocrinologists selected by the Emirates Diabetes and Endocrinology Society to update the National Guidelines for the management of type 2 diabetes (2020). She is also a joint UAE representative in the World Obesity Federation: Gulf & Lebanon Recommendations Experts Group – made up of obesity and policy professionals.
She is a professional member of the Royal College of Physicians, UK; The Society for Endocrinology, UK; European Congress for Endocrinology (ECE); American Diabetes Association (ADA); The Endocrine Society, USA; The Association for British Clinical Diabetologists (ABCD); The Association for American Clinical Endocrinologists (AACE) Resus Council, UK.
Head of the School of Postgraduate Studies and Research
Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland
Manama, Bahrain
Dr. Stephen Atkin - Biography
Chairman of the Department of Cardiovascular Medicine
Cleveland Clinic
Ohio, United States of America
Dr. Steven Nissen - Biography
He completed his bachelor’s from the University of Michigan followed by a medical degree from the University of Michigan School of Medicine in Ann Arbor. He completed his internship and residency in Internal Medicine from the University of California. He then received his fellowship training from the University of Kentucky Medical Centre in Lexington.
His clinical interests are general cardiology, intravascular ultrasound (IVUS), diabetes and the heart, drug safety, and coronary intensive care. He has served as a study chairman for various cardiovascular outcomes trials. He has authored/co-authored than 400 journal articles and 60 book chapters. He is currently the editor of Current Cardiology Report.
In 2004, he received the Gill Heart Institute Award of the University of Kentucky for Outstanding Contributions to Cardiovascular Research. In 2007, Time Magazine listed Dr. Nissen as one of the world’s 100 most influential people. In 2015, he was named by Thompson-Reuters as one of the world’s most highly cited physician-scientists.
Senior Lecturer in the Institute of Cardiovascular & Medical Sciences
University of Glasgow
Glasgow, United Kingdom
Dr. Stuart Gray - Biography
He is currently working as a Senior Lecturer in the Institute of Cardiovascular & Medical Sciences at the University of Glasgow. Additionally, he is responsible for the Distance Learning MSc in Sport and Exercise Science and Medicine.
His main research interest is sarcopenia and associated metabolic disorders. Recent research has focussed on the combined effects of resistance exercise and omega-3 fatty acids. He also attempts to use analytical techniques to simplify the mechanisms of sarcopenia.
He has published over 98 peer-reviewed medical journals.
Professor of Medicine (Endocrinology)
Yale School of Medicine
New Haven, United States of America
Dr. Sylvio Inzzuchi - Biography
Dr. Inzucchi is a Professor of Medicine at the Yale University School of Medicine in New Haven, Connecticut, where he serves as the clinical director of the Section of Endocrinology, program director of the Endocrinology and Metabolism Fellowship, and the medical director of the Yale Diabetes Center.
Dr. Inzucchi has authored or co-authored 500 manuscripts, monographs, textbook chapters, and abstracts, some published in the foremost medical journals such as The New England Journal of Medicine and JAMA. He has lectured as a guest speaker, at national and international levels on a wide variety of endocrine topics. He has served as an editorial board member for various scientific journals including Diabetes Care and the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism.
His clinical interests are diabetes as well as pituitary/adrenal disorders, anti-hyperglycemic therapy, the link among type 2 diabetes, insulin resistance and cardiovascular complications, management of hyperglycemia in the hospital, and diagnostic criteria for diabetes and related conditions.
Consultant Endocrinology and Diabetes
Gulf Diabetes Specialist Center
Manama, Bahrain
Dr. Wiam Hussein - Biography
While in the Cleveland Clinic, Ohio, he received multiple awards including a national award of the year in USA for his research and publications in his field from the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists / American College of Endocrinology. He returned to the Gulf in 1998 and established a world class center for dabetes, endocrinology and osteoporosis in Saudi Arabia. He later became the Director for the first Joslin Center affiliate in GCC and made it a successful diabetes and endocrine center in Bahrain.
Dr. Hussein has several publications in various areas of endocrinology and diabetes in some of the best journals while maintaining a very busy private practice.
He is the Founder of the Gulf Chapter for The American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists, the largest organization established for the GCC countries, and received national and international recognition for his work in Bahrain and the Gulf Area. Dr. Hussein was selected as the recipient of the American Association of Clinical Endocrinologists Gulf Chapter Ibn Sina Distinguished Service Award 2018 in recognition for the outstanding contribution to the field of diabetes and endocrinology.
Associate Professor of Medicine and Endocrinology
King Abdulaziz Medical City, King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Dr. Yousef Al Saleh - Biography
Dr. Al Saleh is currently the Division Head of Endorinology at the Department of Medicine, King Abdulaziz Medical City in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. He was elected as the President of the Scientific Council of Medicine at the Saudi Commission for Health Specialties in Jan 2011. The council is responsible for all Board Training and Certification in Internal Medicine in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
Dr. Al Saleh is the establishing Secretary General of the Saudi Osteoporosis Society and served that job from 2009 to 2011 and currently he is the Vice President of the said society. He also founded the Saudi Fellowship of Diabetes launched in Jan 2016. He is a fellow of the American College of Endocrinology and member of many hospital and national committees. He has 21 publications in peer reviewed journals in the field of diabetes and endocrinology particularly on aspects of diabetes, metabolic syndrome and Vitamin D in Saudi Arabia. Lately, this year (2015) he published the first ever Saudi National Guidelines on Osteoporosis and is currently putting the latest touches on a book for patients with Diabetes.