Saleh Fares, MD, MPH, FRCPC(EM), FACEP

Dr. Saleh is the first Canadian and American board-certified emergency physician from the United Arab Emirates (UAE). He completed his medical education at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland. He then completed the Royal College Emergency Medicine Residency Program at McGill University in Montreal, Canada (2002-2007) after which he completed a fellowship in clinical Emergency Medicine and Emergency Medical Services (EMS) at the University of Toronto in Canada (2008) followed by a Disaster Medicine Fellowship at Harvard Medical School in Boston, USA as Harvard's first Disaster Medicine fellow (2009) during which he lead several local and international projects.

In May 2011, he obtained his MPH from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health at which he is currently enrolled in a DrPH program in Health Care Management and Leadership at the same school as part of a special cohort from Abu Dhabi which is intended to create a "learning network" of health care leaders who will help ensure the excellence of health care system in Abu Dhabi and the United Arab Emirates. Dr. Saleh is currently working as an Emergency Medicine Consultant and a deputy head in the Emergency Department. He is the chairman and member of several committees and projects, including the Emergency Management Committee at Zayed Military Hospital, Trauma System Initiative of the Emirate of Abu Dhabi, the Higher Security Committee of Events, and the higher Medical Disaster Committee in Abu Dhabi, to mention few. He has also led several Emirati medical humanitarian teams in international missions. He has several publications in the fields of Emergency Medicine, Prehospital Care and Disaster Medicine. He is actively playing a leading role in planning the future of healthcare Emergency Preparedness locally and has presented in several conferences regionally and internationally.