Faculty Members (Alphabetical)

Hanaa Banjar, MD, FRCPC
Professor of Pediatrics, Al-Faisal University
Consultant Pediatric Pulmonology,
Department of Pediatrics
King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Abdullah M. Aldalaan, MD
Chairman, the 11th Annual Conference of
Saudi Association for Pulmonary Hypertension (SAPH2018)
President, Saudi Association for Pulmonary Hypertension
Consultant Pulmonologist & Intensivist
Department of Medicine
King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Bader Alghamdi, MD
Consultant, Pulmonary Medicine and Pulmonary Hypertension
Director, Internal Medicine Residency Program, KAMC-Jeddah
Assistant Professor, Internal Medicine and Pulmonary, KSAU-HS
Department of Medicine, Division of Respirology
King Abdulaziz Medical City KAMC- Jeddah
Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

Prof. Nazzareno Galiè, MD
Professor of Cardiology,
Director of Cardiology Specialization School
Head, Pulmonary Hypertension Center,
Department of Experimental,
Diagnostic and Specialty Medicine,
University of Bologna
Bologna, Italy

Hossein Ardeschir Ghofrani, MD
Professor, Pulmonary Vascular Research,
Justus Liebig University, Giessen, Germany
Head, Pulmonary Hypertension Division,
Pulmonary Vascular Research Institute
University Hospital in Giessen
Giessen, Germany

Paul Hassoun, MD
Director, Pulmonary Hypertension Program,
Professor of Medicine,
Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine,
Department of Medicine
The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore
Baltimore, Maryland, USA

Luke Howard, MA, MB, BChir, DPhil, FRCP
Consultant Respiratory Physician
Imperial College Healthcare, NHS Trust, London
London, United Kingdom

Prof. Irene Marthe Lang, MD
Clinical Cardiologist and Professor of Vascular Biology
Medical University of Vienna, Wien
Wien, Austria

Alessandra Manes, MD
Center of Diagnosis and Therapy of Pulmonary
Arterial Hypertension
Department of Experimental, Diagnostic
and Specialty Medicine – DIMES
Alma Mater Studiorum University of Bologna
Bologna, Italy

Bassem N Mora, MD
Consultant Physician ,Congenital Cardiac Surgery
Cardiac Sciences Institute
Sheikh Khalifa Medical City/Cleveland Clinic
Abu Dhabi, UAE

Seham Alrashidi, MD
Program Director of internal Medicine Residency program,
Member of Mortality and Morbidity committee
Senior Resident, PSMMC
Trainee, King Khalid University Hospital (KKUH)
King Saud University , Riyadh
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Mashael Alrujaib, MD
Consultant Radiologist and
Associate Professor, Alfaisal University
Radiology Department,
King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Centre
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Prof. Olivier Sitbon, MD, PhD
Professor of Respiratory Medicine, South Paris University
French Referral Centre for Pulmonary Hypertension,
Department of Respiratory and Intensive Care Medicine,
Bicêtre University Hospital, Le Kremlin-Bicêtre, France
Le Kremlin-Bicêtre, France

Hussam Sakkijha, MD
Chairman, Scientific Committee
Consultant, Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine
King Fahad Medical City, Riyadh
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Sarfraz Saleemi, MD
Consultant, Pulmonary Medicine
King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Prof. Gérald Simonneau, MD
Professor of Pulmonolgy
Head, Department of Pulmonary Disease and Intensive Care,
Hospital Antoine Beclere-Clamart - University Paris XI.
Paris, France

Jean-Luc Vachiery, MD
Clinical Professor of Cardiology,
Director, Pulmonary Vascular Diseases and
Heart Failure Clinic,
Hôpital Erasme – Cliniques
Universitaires de Bruxelles, Belgium
Brussels, Belgium

Joanna Pepke-Zaba, PhD, FRCP
Consultant Respiratory Physician,
Senior Honorary Fellow, University of Cambridge
Director, National Pulmonary Hypertension Service- Cambridge
Senior Honorary Fellow, University of Cambridge
Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
Cambridge, United Kingdom