FACULTY
Abdullah M. Aldalaan, MD
Chairman, the 14th Annual Conference of
Saudi Association for Pulmonary Hypertension (SAPH2021)
Chairman, Saudi Association for Pulmonary Hypertension
Consultant, Pulmonologist & Intensivist
Department of Medicine
King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Nawal Al Gubaisi, MD, SSC-Med, SF-PD
Consultant Pulmonologist
Pulmonary Hypertension Specialist
The Head of Pulmonary Medicine Unit
King Fahad Medical Military Complex
Dhahran, Saudi Arabia
Nasser Al Busaidi, MBBS, FRCP (UK), FRCPI, FCCP, MSc
Senior Consultant Pulmonologist
Department of Medicine, Royal Hospital
Sultanate of Oman
President, Oman Respiratory Society
Muscat, Oman
Marius M. Hoeper, MD
Physician, Intensive Care Unit
Department of Respiratory Medicine,
Hannover Medical School
Hannover, Germany
Talal I. Dahhan, MD, MSEd, FACP, FCCP
Consultant, Pulmonary Medicine,
Pulmonary Vascular Diseases and Critical Care
Assistant Professor of Medicine,
Duke and Alfaisal Universities
King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre- Riyadh
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Luke Howard, MA, MB, BChir, DPhil, FRCP
Consultant Pulmonologist, Hammersmith Hospital,
Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, London
Honorary Senior Lecturer, National Heart & Lung Institute
London, United Kingdom
Prof. Raed Dweik, MD
Professor of Medicine, Pulmonologist
Chairman, Respiratory Institute
Asthma & COPD, Critical Care Medicine,
Pleural Disease, Pulmonary Vascular Medicine
Cleveland, OH
Prof. Marc Humbert, MD, PhD
Université Paris-Saclay
Director of the Department of Respiratory
and Intensive Care Medicine
French Pulmonary Hypertension Reference Center
Hôpital Bicêtre, Assistance Publique Hôpitaux de Paris
Vice President, European Respiratory Society
Paris, France
Prof. Nazzareno Galiè, MD
Full Professor of Cardiology Director,
U.O.C. of Cardiology, IRCCS
Director, School of Specialization in
Cardiovascular System
Bologna, Italy
Prof. Majdy Idrees, MD, FRCPC, FPVRI
Chairman, Scientific Committee
Head, Pulmonary Vascular Unit
Prince Sultan Military Medical City
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Bader J. Alghamdi, MD
Consultant, Pulmonary Medicine, Pulmonary
Hypertension, and Clinical Cardiopulmonary Exercise Testing
Assistant Professor in King Saud bin Abdulaziz
University for Health Sciences (KSAU-HS)
Section Head of Respirology and Director of
Respirology Fellowship Training Program
Ministry of National Guard
Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
Nick H. Kim, MD
Professor of Medicine
Section Chief, Pulmonary Vascular Medicine
Medical Director, PTE Program
Pulmonary, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine
University of California San Diego
California, USA
Prof. 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
Prof. Irene M. Lang, MD
Clinical Cardiologist
Professor of Vascular Biology
Department of Cardiology
AKH-Vienna, Medical University of Vienna
Vienna, Austria
Prof. Sanjay Mehta, MDCM, FRCP(C)
Director, Southwest Ontario Pulmonary Hypertension Clinic
London Health Sciences Centre
Professor of Medicine
Centre for Critical Illness Research
Lawson Health Research Institute
Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry, Western University
Eternal PHriend / Past-Chair / Founding Board Member PHA
Ontario, Canada
Mostafa Elshazly, MD
Chairman, Respiratory Crtical Care Unit
Kasr AlAnyini School of Medicine,
Cairo University
Cairo, Egypt
Khalid Al Najashi, MD, MBBS
Consultant, Interventional ACHD and Pediatric Cardiology
Prince Sultan Cardiac Center
Prince Sultan Military Medical City- Riyadh
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Prof. Olivier Sitbon, MD, PhD
Professor of Respiratory Medicine,
Pulmonary Hypertension Reference Center (PulmoTension)
Department of Pulmonology,
Intensive Respiratory Care (DMU Thorinno)
Bicêtre Hospital, Paris- Saclay University
Le Kremlin-Bicêtre, France
Prof. Anton Vonk Noordegraaf, MD
Full Professor & Chair, Division of
Pulmonary Sciences,
Amsterdam University Medical Center
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Prof. Yuriy M. Sirenko, MD, PhD
Professor and Head of Department
National Scientific Center M.D.
Strazhesko Institute of Cardiology
Kyiv, Ukraine
Stuart Rich, MD
Professor of Medicine
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
Bluhm Cardiovascular Institute
Pulmonary Vascular Disease Program
Chicago, USA
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
Hani Sabbour, MD, FACC, FHRS, FASE
Consultant Cardiologist
Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi
Abu Dhabi, UAE
Abeer Zayed, MD
Assistant Consultant Pulmonary Medicine
Member of Pulmonary Hypertension Program
King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Hussam Sakkijha, MD
Consultant, Pulmonary, Critical Care and
Sleep Medicine
King Fahad Medical City, Riyadh
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Sadia Imtiaz, MD
Registrar Pulmonary Medicine
Prince Sultan Military Medical City
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Sarfraz Saleemi, MD
Consultant, Pulmonary Medicine
King Faisal Specialist Hospital and
Research Centre
Associate Professor of Medicine
Alfaisal University
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Yahya Asiri, MD
Fellow, Pulmonary Medicine
King Fahad Medical City, Riyadh
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Shaya Ahmed H. Alshaya, MD
Consultant Pulmonologist,
Co-director of internal medicine
residency program
Pulmonary section, Medical specialties
Department
Medical Specialties Department
King Fahad Medical City
Rochester, USA