Faculty Members
Abdullah M. Aldalaan, MD
Chairman, the 19th Annual Conference of Saudi Association for Pulmonary Hypertension (SAPH2026)
Chairman, Saudi Association for Pulmonary Hypertension
Consultant, Pulmonary Medicine
Director, Pulmonary Hypertension Program, Lung Health Center
King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre
Professor of Medicine, Alfaisal University
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Prof. Marc Humbert, MD, PhD
Director of the Department of Respiratory
and Intensive Care Medicine
French Pulmonary Hypertension
Reference Center
Hôpital Bicêtre, Université Paris-Saclay
Past President, European
Respiratory Society
Le Kremlin-Bicêtre, France
Prof. Luke Howard, MD, DPhil, FRCP
Consultant Pulmonologist,
Hammersmith Hospital,
Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust,
LondonProfessor of Practice
(Cardiopulmonary Medicine),
National Heart & Lung Institute,
Imperial College London
London, UK
Prof. Zhi-Cheng Jing, MD, PhD
President – East Asian Society of Pulmonary Hypertension
Professor of Medicine
Head, Department of Cardiology
Guangdong Cardiovascular Institute, Guangdong Provincial People’s Hospital, Guangdong Academy of Medical Sciences
Guangzhou, China
Prof. Olivier Sitbon, MD, PhD
Department of Respiratory and Intensive Care Medicine
French National Referral Centre for Pulmonary Hypertension
Hôpital Bicêtre, Paris-Saclay University
Le Kremlin-Bicêtre, France
Prof. Irene M. Lang, MD
Clinical Cardiologist
Professor of Vascular Biology
Department of Cardiology
AKH-Vienna, Medical
University of Vienna
Vienna, Austria
Prof. David G. Kiely, BSc (Hons), MD, FRCP
Professor of Pulmonary Vascular Medicine
Director of the Sheffield Pulmonary
Vascular Disease Unit
School of Medicine and Population Health
Sheffield, UK
Prof. Hossein Ardeschir Ghofrani, MD
Professor, Pulmonary Vascular Research, Justus Liebig University, Giessen, Germany
Head, Pulmonary Hypertension Division, Pulmonary Vascular Research Institute
CEO, University Hospital Giessen and Marburg
Giessen, Germany
Prof. Sean Gaine, MB, PhD, FRCPI
Consultant, Respiratory Physician
Mater Misericordiae University Hospital
Director, National Pulmonary
Hypertension Unit
Dublin, Ireland
Prof. Hiromi Matsubara MD, PhD
Director, Clinical Research
Director, Department of Cardiology
National Hospital Organization, Okayama Medical Center
Clinical Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine
Graduate School of Medicine Dentistry and PharmaceuticalSciences
Okayama University
Okayama, Japan
Prof. Paul B. Yu, MD, PhD
Director, Cardiovascular
Research Center Cardiology Division
Charles and Elizabeth Sanders Endowed Chair
Massachusetts General Hospital
Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Boston, USA
Prof. Anna R. Hemnes, MD
Professor of Medicine
Director, Division of Allergy, Pulmonary and Critical Care
Physician-in-Chief, Vanderbilt Lung Institute
Nashville, TN, USA
President, Pulmonary Vascular Research Institute (PVRI)
Prof. Jean-Luc Vachiéry, MD
Clinical Professor of Cardiology,
Director, Pulmonary Vascular Diseases and Heart Failure Clinic,
Hôpital Erasme – Cliniques
Universitaires de Bruxelles
Brussels, Belgium
Prof. Stephan Rosenkranz, MD
Interventional Cardiologist,
Head, Pulmonary Hypertension (PH) Center, University of Cologne
Head, Cologne Cardiovascular Research Center (CCRC)
Cologne, Germany
Prof. Soni Savai Pullamsetti, MD, PhD
Professor, Cardio Pulmonary Institute (CPI)
Justus Liebig University
Giessen, Germany