{"id":2683,"date":"2025-03-07T14:20:40","date_gmt":"2025-03-07T14:20:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gulfthoracic.com\/SAPH2018\/?page_id=2683"},"modified":"2025-03-09T08:45:25","modified_gmt":"2025-03-09T08:45:25","slug":"testimonials","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/saphconference.com\/SAPH2018\/testimonials\/","title":{"rendered":"Testimonials"},"content":{"rendered":"<table style=\"line-height: 15px;\" width=\"930\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"366\">\n<h2><span style=\"color: #0f3d5c;\">Testimonials<\/span><\/h2>\n<\/td>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"364\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><em><strong>\u201cIt was a pleasure to attend this nice meeting, I was particularly impressed by the quality of discussions warmest regards\u201d <\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right; margin-bottom: 16px; line-height: 16px; color: #326cb5;\"><strong>Prof. G\u00e9rald Simonneau, MD<\/strong><br \/>\nProfessor of Pulmonolgy<br \/>\nHead, Department of Pulmonary Disease and Intensive Care,<br \/>\nHospital Antoine Beclere-Clamart &#8211; University Paris XI.<br \/>\n<em>Paris, France<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em><strong><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Luke Howard, MA, MB, BChir, DPhil, FRCP\" src=\"http:\/\/saph-sts.com\/saph2018\/images\/testimonials\/howard.jpg\" alt=\"\" align=\"left\" border=\"0\" \/>\u201cSAPH2018 provided a carefully constructed blend of talks and speakers who managed both to provide depth and breadth across the whole spectrum of pulmonary hypertension. Importantly, organization and scheduling were well executed and the facilities were outstanding. The program ran to time as well as providing ample opportunity for discussion. There were lively and entertaining debates on hot topics which were delivered in good spirit, but with debaters nonetheless deliberately taking polarized views. If SAPH2018 is anything to go by, SAPH2019 promises to be even better!\u201d <\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right; margin-bottom: 16px; line-height: 16px; color: #326cb5;\"><strong>Luke Howard, MA, MB, BChir, DPhil, FRCP<\/strong><br \/>\nConsultant Respiratory Physician<br \/>\nImperial College Healthcare, NHS Trust, London<br \/>\n<em>London, United Kingdom<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em><strong><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Stephanie Barwick \" src=\"http:\/\/saph-sts.com\/saph2018\/images\/testimonials\/barwick.jpg\" alt=\"\" align=\"left\" border=\"0\" \/>\u201cIt was a great pleasure to attend this year\u2019s SAPH2018 meeting in Dubai. Congratulations on a fantastic event! The scientific sessions were of very high standard and the entire organization of the meeting was outstanding. Every year it gets better and better. You should be enormously proud of your achievements. <\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>SAPH is a shining example of what can be achieved through collaboration, sharing and the hard work and engagement of many individuals. We are so very proud to be working with you and hope that, with your help, we will be able to support other regions in their endeavor to further the understanding of PH\/PVD and follow the \u2018SAPH Example\u2019.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Finally, thank you so much for your most generous hospitality.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Thanks for making me a part of this important academic event in the Global Chest Disease Calendar.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right; margin-bottom: 16px; line-height: 16px; color: #326cb5;\"><strong>Stephanie Barwick <\/strong><br \/>\nChief Executive<br \/>\nPVRI (Pulmonary Vascular Research Institute)<br \/>\n<em>Canterbury, United Kingdom<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em><strong><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Paul Hassoun, MD\" src=\"http:\/\/saph-sts.com\/saph2018\/images\/testimonials\/hassoun.jpg\" alt=\"\" align=\"left\" border=\"0\" \/>\u201cI have attended now several SAPH meetings including the first one in Dubai back in 2006. The meeting has tremendously matured scientifically over the years and it is a great honor for us at the PVRI to be part of it. You have also accomplished a very important job regionally and are an example for what needs to be done in other regions of the world.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>The scientific content, breadth of lectures, interaction with the audience were all exceptionally good.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Again congratulations on a great job. The SAPH has clearly become an entity to reckon with internationally!\u201d <\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right; margin-bottom: 16px; line-height: 16px; color: #326cb5;\"><strong>Paul Hassoun, MD<\/strong><br \/>\nDirector, Pulmonary Hypertension Program,<br \/>\nProfessor of Medicine,<br \/>\nDivision of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine,<br \/>\nDepartment of Medicine<br \/>\nThe Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore<br \/>\n<em>Baltimore, Maryland, USA<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em><strong><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Hussam Sakkijha, MD\" src=\"http:\/\/saph-sts.com\/saph2018\/images\/testimonials\/sakkijha.jpg\" alt=\"\" align=\"left\" border=\"0\" \/> \u201cSAPH 2018 had brought together a distinguished group of scientists and experts in the field of pulmonary hypertension from across the world to share experiences and debate the latest yet to be published guidelines for pulmonary hypertension.<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em><strong>The scientific program was comprehensive and very strong; it exceeded the expectations of all the attendees as well as the international experts.<\/strong><\/em><\/li>\n<li><em><strong>The organization of the meeting from the venue location to meeting room set up to audiovisual to pharmaceutical booths to ancillary services were exemplary.<\/strong><\/em><\/li>\n<li><em><strong>The meeting provided a pleasant and collegial atmosphere to enjoy group social activities with spectacular locations and food selection.<\/strong><\/em><\/li>\n<li><em><strong>The professionalism of the organizing staff exceeded our usual expectations.<\/strong><\/em><\/li>\n<li><em><strong>The overwhelming success of SAPH2018 will spark the determination to raising SAPH2019 bar even higher, a challenge we are committed to achieve.<\/strong><\/em><\/li>\n<li><em><strong>We are proud of the SAPH community which growing regionally and internationally, and this is our biggest asset and real success.<\/strong><\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em><strong>Together we can do better in our fight against pulmonary hypertension\u201d <\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right; margin-bottom: 16px; line-height: 16px; color: #326cb5;\"><strong>Hussam Sakkijha, MD<\/strong><br \/>\nChairman, Scientific Committee<br \/>\nConsultant, Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine<br \/>\nKing Fahad Medical City, Riyadh<br \/>\n<em>Riyadh, Saudi Arabia<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Testimonials \u201cIt was a pleasure to attend this nice meeting, I was particularly impressed by the quality of discussions warmest regards\u201d Prof. G\u00e9rald Simonneau, MD Professor of Pulmonolgy Head, Department of Pulmonary Disease and Intensive <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/saphconference.com\/SAPH2018\/testimonials\/\" title=\"Testimonials\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"two_page_speed":[],"footnotes":""},"folder":[],"class_list":["post-2683","page","type-page","status-publish"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/saphconference.com\/SAPH2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/saphconference.com\/SAPH2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/saphconference.com\/SAPH2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saphconference.com\/SAPH2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saphconference.com\/SAPH2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2683"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/saphconference.com\/SAPH2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2683\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2721,"href":"https:\/\/saphconference.com\/SAPH2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2683\/revisions\/2721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/saphconference.com\/SAPH2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"folder","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saphconference.com\/SAPH2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/folder?post=2683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}