Faculties

Dr. Nasser Alamri, MD (KSA)
Dr. Alamri is a consultant radiologist at King Fahad Medical City. He is currently the Chief of the section of Cardiothoracic Radiology with a special interest in the field of PH, CTEPH and congenital heart disease.

Feras Bader, MD (UAE)
Dr Feras Bader is an Associate Professor of Medicine and Cardiology at the University of Utah, USA and a staff physician in the Heart & Vascular Institute at Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi, UAE.

Hanaa Banjar, MD (KSA)
Dr. Banjar is an Associate Professor of Pediatrics and Respiratory Medicine at Al-Faisal University and a consultant pediatric pulmonologist and the head of pediatric PH program at KFSH&RC. Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Rolf Berger, MD (Netherland)
Dr. Berger is a Professor of Pediatric and Cardiology at the Faculty of Medical Sciences, University of Groningen, Netherland. His main area of research and interest is in the field of congenital cardiology.

Damien Bonnet, MD (France)
Dr Bonnet is a Professor of Pediatric Cardiology at the Centre de Référence Malformations Cardiaques Congénitales Complexes in Paris, France. He has more than 250 publications in peer-reviewed journals.

Dorian Bevec, PhD (Germany)
Mr. Bevec is the Chief Development Officer and a senior scientific at Relief Therapeutics Holding AG. His main interests are generating innovative ideas to achieve sustainable success in research and development.

Paul Corris, MD (UK)
Dr. Paul A. Corris MD is Professor of Thoracic Medicine at Newcastle University, UK, and the president of the PVRI. His main area of research in the field of PH is in genetic and translational studies using primary human endothelial cells.

Maha Aldabbagh, MD (KSA)
Dr. Aldabbagh is a consultant respiratory pediatrician and the head of Pediatric Division at King Fahd Armed Forces Hospital in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. She is also the head of SAPH pediatric task force.

Abdulla Aldalaan, MD (KSA)
Dr. Aldalaan is the head of pulmonary section at King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Center in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia and the head of the pulmonary hypertension program at the same institute.

Samar Farhah, MD (UAE)
Dr Farha is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Cleveland Clinic’s Lerner College Medicine. She is curremtly the head of the PH program and a Staff pulmonologist and intensivist at Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi, UAE

Juan Fuertes, PhD (Spain)
Mr Fuertes is the national coordinator of the Pulmonary Hypertension Association and member of the board of PHA Europe since 2012. His specialty is in the marketing authorization for new drug.

M Omar Galal, MD (KSA)
Dr. Galal is a Professor of Pediatric Cardiology at King Faisal Specialist Hospital in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Dr. Galal has a major contribution to the development of CHD program in Saudi Arabia.

Nazzareno Galie’, MD (Italy)
Dr. Galie’ is a professor of Cardiology at the University of Bologna and heads the PH Centre at the Institute of Cardiology. He has authored more than 400 scientific publications on heart failure, and PH.

Michael Gray (USA)
Mr. Gray oversees the PH Professional Network and PH Clinicians & Researchers. Additionally, he works with the Scientific Leadership Council that focuses on the wide array of all PHA's medical programming.

Bader Alghamdi, MD (KSA)
Dr. Alghamdi is a SAPH member and a consultant pulmonologist and the head of the pulmonary hypertension program at King Abdelaziz (National Guard) Medical city at Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.

Marius Hoeper, MD (Germany)
Dr. Hoeper is a Professor of Medicine, the head of the pulmonary hypertension program and the clinical director of the medical intensive care unit at University of Hanover Medical School, Germany.

Luke Howard, MD (UK)
Dr. Howard is a professor of medicine at the Imperial College in London, UK. His special interest is in the field of PVD and exercise physiology. He has received the National Clinical Excellenc Award.

Majdy Idrees, MD (KSA)
Dr. Idrees is an Adjunct Professor of Medicine at the University of British Columbia, Canada, and the Head of Pulmonary Medicine at Prince Sultan Military Medical City in Riyadh, KSA, and the president (and founder) of SAPH.

Tarek Kashour, MD (KSA)
Dr Kashour is a Professor of Cardiology at King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, and the head of cardiology task force in the SAPH and is mainly interested in the hemodynamics in pulmonary hypertension.

Lisa Lee, NP(F), (Canada)
Ms. Lee is a Nurse Practitioner at the Pulmonary Hypertension Center at Vancouver General Hospital and Lung Center at Vancouver, Canada. Her main area of interest is in the field of pulmonary hypertension.

Robert D. Levy, MD (Canada)
Dr. Levy is a professor of medicine at the University of British Columbia and the Medical Director of the BC Lung Transplant Program and Associate-director of the PH Program at Vancouver General Hospital, Canada.

Sharifa Makhdari, MD (KSA)
Dr. Makhdari is a pulmonology specialist at Prince Sultan Military Medical City, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Her future interest is directed towards pulmonary hypertension and interstitial lung diseases.

Sanjay Mehta, MD (Canada)
Dr. Mehta is a Professor of Medicine and the Director of Southwestern Ontario Pulmonary Hypertension Program in London Ontario. He is also the Chair, Board of Directors, PHA of Canada

Hadil Alotair, MD (KSA)
Dr. Alotair is an Associate Professor of Medicine and a consultant pulmonologist and intensivist at King Saud University in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Her main area of interest is in CTD related pulmonary hypertension.

Abdelmajeed Alotay, MD (KSA)
Dr. Alotay is a consultant pediatric cardiology and the Director of the Cardiac Imaging at Prince Sultan Cardiac Center, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. His main interest is in the field of cardiac CT and MRI.

Hani Sabbour, MD (UAE)
Dr Sabbour is a consultant cardiologist at the Cleveland Clinic, Abu Dhabi, UAE. He has an extensive experience in cardio-electrophysiology, interventional cardiology and hemodynamics.

Hussam Sakkijha, MD (KSA)
Dr. Sakkijha is a consultant pulmonologist, intensivest, and a sleep physician at KFMC in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. He is also the director of the pulmonary hypertension program at the same center.

John Swiston, MD (Canada)
Dr. Swiston is an Associate Professor at the University of British Columbia. He is a consultant pulmonologist and the Medical Director of the UBC Pulmonary Hypertension Program at Vancouver General Hospital.

Omar Tamimi, MD (KSA)
Dr. Tamimi is a consultant pediatric cardiologist and the head of pediatric pulmonary hypertension program at King Abdelaziz Medical City in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

Jean-Luc Vachiéry, MD (Belgium)
Dr. Vachiéry is a Professor in Cardiology at the Erasme University Hospital in Brussels, Belgium and the Director of the PVD and Heart Failure Clinic. His interest is in the field of PH, heart failure and transplantation.

Mohamed Zeitouni, MD (KSA)
Dr. Zeitouni is a special SAPH member and a consultant pulmonologist and intensivist at King Faisl Specialist Hospital & Research Center. Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. He has a special interest in pulmonary vascular and obstructive disease.

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