Committees
Congress Chairman
Prof. Mohamed S. Al-Hajjaj, MD, FRCP(C)
Professor and Senior Consultant Pulmonary Medicine
Chairman, GulfThoracic Congress 2017
President, Saudi Thoracic Society (STS)
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Chairman, Scientific Committee
Mohamed Zeitouni, MD, FCCP
Consultant Pulmonary/Critical Care
King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Co-Chairman, Scientific Committee
Ashraf H. Alzaabi, MD, FRCPC, FCCP
Clinical Assistant Professor,UAE University
Head, Respiratory Division,
Zayed Military Hospital
Abu Dhabi, UAE
Congress Executive Director
Co-Chairman, Scientific Committee
Hassan S. Alorainy, BsRC, RRT, FAARC
Executive Director, GulfThoracic Congress 2017
Executive Director, Saudi Thoracic Society (STS)
Senior Respiratory Specialist
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Member
Soror Al Aithan, MD
Consultant, Pulmonary Medicine
Head of Pulmonary and Intensive Care,
Dammam Medical Center
Dammam, Saudi Arabia
Member
Mohamed Al Ardi, MD
Senior Consultant,
Pulmonary and Sleep Medicine
Field Medicine Commander
Qatar Armed Forces
Medicine Services
Doha, Qatar
Member
Amr Albanna, MD, MSc
Assistant Professor, Consultant Pulmonologist,
King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences
Head of Research Office, KAIMRC-WR
Deputy Chairman, Quality and Patient Safety,
Department of Medicine
National Guard Health Affairs- Jeddah
Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
Member
Majed Alghamdi, MD
Assistant Professor of Pulmonary Medicine
Faculty of Medicine, King Saud Bin Abdulaziz
University for Health Science
Consultant Pulmonologist & Interventional Pulmonologist
Director of Pulmonary Rehabilitation Program
King Abdulaziz Medical City-Riyadh,
National Guard Health Affairs
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Member
Prof. Qutayba Hamid, MD, PhD, MRCP (UK),
FRCP (Canada), FRC Path.
Professor of Medicine
Sharjah University
Sharjah,UAE
Member
Adel S. Alharbi, MD, FCCP
Consultant, Pediatric Pulmonologist & Sleep Physician
Head,Pediatric Pulmonary Medicine
Director, Pediatric Sleep Disorders Center (PSDC)
Prince Sultan Military Medical City, Riyadh, KSA
Clinical Assistant Professor of Pediatrics,
College of Medicine, King Saud University-Riyadh
Chairman, Saudi Pediatric Pulmonology Association (SPPA)
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Member
Majdy M. Idrees, MD, FRCPC, FCCP, FPVRI, FRCP Edin (Hon)
Consultant Pulmonologist
President, Saudi Association for Pulmonary Hypertension
Cochair, Pulmonary Hypertension Chapter for
Eastern Mediterranean Region, PVRI
Prince Sultan Military Medical City
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Member
Fahad Al-Ghimlas, MD, MSc, FACP, FCCP, FRCPC
Consultant Respirologist,
Department of Medicine- Amiri Hospital
Ministry of Health- State of Kuwait
Kuwait
Member
Mouhamad Ghyath Jamil, MD
Consultant Pulmonary/Critical Care
Director, Sleep Medicine
King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center- Riyadh
Society of Critical Care Medicine
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Member
Fatma Al Jassim, MD
Vice President of Emirates Allergy and Respiratory Society
Consultant Pediatric Pulmonologist
Latifa Hospital Dubai Health Authority
National Guards health Affairs
Dubai,UAE
Member
Suhaila I. Al Jawder, MD, MRCPI
Consultant, Pulmonary and Critical Care
Head Section, Pulmonary and Critical Care
King Fahad Medical City
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Member
Mohammed Al Lawati, MD
Consultant Pulmonary Medicine, Al Nahdha Hospital
Head National TB Program
Ministry of Health
Muscat, Oman
Member
Prof. Atul C. Mehta, MD, FACP, FCCP
Professor of Medicine, Lerner College of Medicine
Buoncore Family Endowed Chair in Lung Transplantation
Staff, Department of Pulmonary Medicine, Respiratory Institute
Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
Senior Editor, Journal of Bronchology and Interventional Pulmonology
Cleveland, OH, USA
Member
Prof. Mohamed S. Al Moamary, ABIM, FRCP(Edin), MBA-LS, FCCP
Executive Director, Medical Services,
KAMC-Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Vice President, Development and Quality Management, KSAU-HS, Saudi Arabia
Professor & Consultant, Pulmonary Medicine, KAMC-Riyadh
Chairman, Saudi Initiative for Asthma
Editor-in-Chief, Annals of Thoracic Medicine
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Member
Sami A. Alnassar, MD, FRCSC
Head, Division of Thoracic Surgery
Chairman, Clinical Skills & Simulation Center
King Khalid University Hospital
King Saud University
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Member
Wadha Al Otaibi, MD
Consultant Pediatric Pulmonology and Sleep
Head of Pediatric Pulmonology
Assistant Professor, King Saud bin Abdulaziz
for Health Sciences
King Fahad Medical City
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Member
Nahid Ali Sherbini, MD
Consultant Pulmonary Medicine
National Guard Health Affairs
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Member
Ayman Al-Sulaimani, MBBS, FRCSC, MHSc
Assistant Professor, Consultant Thoracic Surgery
King Saud Bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences
King Abdulaziz Medical City, National Guard Health Affairs
Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
Congress Chairman
Prof. Mohamed S. Al-Hajjaj, MD, FRCP(C)
Professor and Senior Consultant Pulmonary Medicine
Chairman, GulfThoracic Congress 2017
President, Saudi Thoracic Society (STS)
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Local Co-Chairman
Bassam Mahboub, MD, FRCPC
Consultant Pulmonary Medicine,
Assistant Professor, University of Sharjah
Head of Allergy and Respiratory Department, Dubai Hospital
Chair, Emirates Allergy & Respiratory Society
Dubai, UAE
International Co-Chairman
Prof. Qutayba Hamid, MD, PhD
Professor of Medicine
Strauss Chair Respiratory Medicine
Director, Meakins Christie Labs
McGill University
Montreal, Canada
Congress Executive Director
Hassan S. Alorainy, BsRC, RRT, FAARC
Executive Director, GulfThoracic Congress 2017
Executive Director, Saudi Thoracic Society (STS)
Senior Respiratory Specialist
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Member
Alaa E. Ghabashi, MD, FCCP
Assistant Professor – Medicine,
King Saud Bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences
Consultant Adult Critical Care, Respirology and Sleep Medicine
Director, Residency Training Program - Critical Care Medicine
King Abdulaziz Medical City - Western Region, Saudi Arabia
Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
Member
Mohammed Al-Houqani, MBBS, MPH, FRCPC, FFOM, FCCP
Assistant Professor & consultant of Respiratory and Sleep Medicine
Assistant Dean for Medical Education
College of Medicine and Health Sciences UAE University
Al-Ain, UAE
Member
Mona Allangawi, MBBS
Senior Consultant,
Hamad Medical Corporation
Assistant Professor of Clinical Medicine
Weill Cornell Medical College
Doha, Qatar
Member
Issa Aljahdhami, MBBS,MD,FRCP
Senior Consultant
Respiratory and Sleep Medicine
Department of Internal Medicine
Armed Forces Hospital
Muscat, Oman
Member
Emad Kowatli, MD
Consultant Pulmonologist and Intensivists
American Hospital
Dubai, UAE
Member
Walid Mahmood, MD
Pulmonary Consultant
Rashid Hospital
Dubai Health Authority
Dubai, UAE
Member
Hussain Al Matar, FRCP(C), FACP
Consultant, Allergy and Clinical Immunology
National Guard Hospital
Dammam, Saudi Arabia
Member
Abdullah Almutairi, FCCP, FRCPC
Consultant Respiratory & Critical Care Medicine
Dar AlShifa Hospital
Kuwait
Member
Reyadh Salman, MD
Consultant Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine
Chairman Internal Medicine Department
Chairman of Intensive Care Unit
Ibn Nafees Hospital and Salmaniya Medical Complex
Manama, Bahrain
