Faculty

CONFIRMED Faculty Members

Prof. Abdullah M. Aldalaan, MD President, Saudi Association for Pulmonary Hypertension (SAPH) 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. Olivier Sitbon, MD, PhD Professor of Respiratory Medicine, Pulmonary Hypertension Reference Center (PulmoTension) Department of Respiratory and Intensive Care Medicine Bicêtre Hospital, Paris-Saclay University Paris, France

Prof. Luke Howard, MD, DPhil, FRCP Consultant Pulmonologist, Hammersmith Hospital, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, London Professor of Practice (Cardiopulmonary Medicine), National Heart & Lung Institute, Imperial College London London, UK

Prof. Kristin B. Highland, MD, MSCR Director, Rheumatic Lung Diseasee Program Research Officer, Respiratory Institute Associate Program Director for Research and Scholarly Activity, PCCM Fellowship Cleveland, Ohio, USA

Prof. Steven D. Nathan, MD Medical Director, Advanced Lung Disease and Transplant Program Inova Fairfax Hospital Falls Church, Virginia, USA

Prof. Sanjay Mehta, MDCM, FRCP(C) Medical Director, Southwest Ontario Pulmonary Hypertension Clinic London Health Sciences Centre Professor of Medicine, Centre for Critical Illness Research Lawson Health Research Institute Associate Editor, Pulmonary Vascular Diseases Canadian Journal of Respiratory, Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine London, Ontario, Canada

Ragdah Hussain Arif, MD, FRCPC, ABIM Chairman, Scientific Committee Consultant, Pulmonologist and Pulmonary Hypertension Assistant Professor, King Abdulaziz University/Hospital Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

Faisal A. Alandejani, MD, PhD Physician Scientist, Pulmonary Hypertension Assistant Professor, King Abdulaziz University/Hospital Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

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

Karen Osborn Chief Executive Officer Pulmonary Vascular Research Institute (PVRI) London, UK

Noura Alturaif, MD Consultant, Pulmonary and Pulmonary Hypertension Lung Health Department King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Prof. Sean Gaine, MB, PhD, FRCPI Consultant, Respiratory Physician Mater Misericordiae University Hospital Director, National Pulmonary Hypertension Unit Dublin, Ireland

Prof. Marius M. Hoeper, MD Physician, Intensive Care Unit Department of Respiratory Medicine, Hannover Medical School Hannover, Germany

Prof. Irene M. Lang, MD Clinical Cardiologist Professor of Vascular Biology Department of Cardiology AKH-Vienna, Medical University of Vienna Vienna, Austria

Faisal Aloufi, MD Consultant, Cardiothoracic Radiologist Cardiothoracic Imaging Fellowship in University of Toronto, Canada Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Abdullah M. Alkhodair, MD, FRCPC Consultant, Interventional Cardiology / Pulmonary Hypertension Adult Cardiology Program Director King Fahad Medical City Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Prof. Fowzan Alkuraya, MD, PhD Chairman of the Department of Translational Genomics King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre Professor of Human Genetics at Alfaisal University Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Prof. Majdy Idrees, MD, FRCPC, FPVRI Head, Pulmonary Vascular Unit Prince Sultan Military Medical City Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Ali Omar Abu Alsaud, MD Interventional Cardiologist, Adult Congenital Heart Disease Specialist MacGill University Montreal, Canada

Mohammed Alnoor, MD Fellow, Pulmonary Medicine Department, King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Prof. Paul B. Yu, MD, PhD Director, Cardiovascular Research Center Cardiology Division Massachusetts General Hospital Associate Professor of Medicine Harvard Medical School Boston, USA

Prof. Wook-Jin Chung, MD, PhD, FACC Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine, Gachon University College of Medicine Director, Planning and Coordination Office, Gachon University Gil Medical Center Director, Gachon Cardiovascular Research Institute, Gachon University President, Korean Pulmonary Hypertension Society (KPHS) President, East Asian Society of Pulmonary Hypertension (EASOPH) Incheon, South Korea

Regina Steringer-Mascherbauer, MD Cardiology, Internal Medicine Elisabethinen Hospital Linz Linz, Austria

Prof. H 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

Saleh Al Dammas, MD Consultant, Pulmonary and Sleep Medicine Prince Sultan Military Medical City Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Hani Sabbour, MD, FACC, FHRS, FASE Consultant Cardiologist Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi Abu Dhabi, UAE

Fayez K. Alahmadi, MD Consultant, Pulmonary Medicine, Pulmonary Hypertension and Balloon Pulmonary Angioplasty, King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Khaled M. Alobaidellah, MD, FRCPC Consultant Adult Pulmonary, Pulmonary Hypertension, Pulmonary Medicine Division, Prince Sultan Military Medical City Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Ioana R. Preston, MD Consultant, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Associate Professor of Medicine, Tufts University School of Medicine Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Prof. Pavel Jansa, MD, PhD Head, Centre for Pulmonary Hypertension 2nd Department of Medicine, Department of Cardiovascular Medicine First Faculty of Medicine, Charles University and General University Hospital (Member of the European Reference Network ERN-LUNG, Core Network – Pulmonary Hypertension) Prague, Czech Republic

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

Shaya Ahmed Alshaya, MD Consultant, Pulmonary, Pulmonary Hypertension Program Director of C2 Adult Pulmonary Fellowship Program Program Director of C2 Internal Medicine Residency Program King Fahad Medical City Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Mostafa Elshazly, MD Chairman, Respiratory Crtical Care Unit Kasr AlAnyini School of Medicine, Cairo University Cairo, Egypt

Badr Alzahrani, MD, FACC Consultant Interventional Cardiology American Board of Internal medicine, Cardiology and Interventional Cardiology, Prince Sultan Cardiac Center Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Hanan Fan, MD Consultant Pulmonologist Head of Pulmonary Division King Fahd Armed Forces Hospital Jeddah, 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

Prof. Ayman A. H. Farghaly, MD Professor of Pulmonology, Military Medical Academy Director of PH Programme Air Forces Specialized Hospital & International Medical Center Cairo, Egypt

Nawal Al Gubaisi, MD, SSC-Med, SF-PD Consultant Pulmonologist Pulmonary Hypertension Specialist Head of Pulmonary Medicine Unit King Fahad Medical Military Complex Dhahran, Saudi Arabia

Nasser Al Busaidi, MBBS, FRCP (UK), FRCPI Senior Consultant Pulmonologist Department of Medicine, Royal Hospital Sultanate of Oman President, Oman Respiratory Society Muscat, Oman

Prof. Jae-Hyeong Park, MD, PhD Professor of Internal Medicine, Chungnam National University Consultant Cardiologist, Chungnam National University Hospital Secretary General, Korean Pulmonary Hypertension Society (KPHS) Daejeon, South Korea

Yasmin Celes Lagua, RPFT Supervisor, Pulmonary Function Test Unit King Fahad Medical City Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Hall Skaara, BCA Project Consultant, PHA Europe President, Norwegian Pulmonary Hypertension Patient Association Oslo, Norway

Matthew J. Granato, LL.M., MBA President & CEO, Pulmonary Hypertension Association Washington, DC, USA

Abdullah Alharbi, MBBS Internal Medicine Assistant Consultant Adult pulmonary Fellow King Abdulaziz Medical City (NGHA) Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

Mai Alzaydi, PhD Researcher in Mitochondrial and Vascular Biology General Manager, Bioengineering Institute King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology (KACST) Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Bader Abdulmohsin AlTayyar, BsRC, RPFT Senior Respiratory Therapist Respiratory Care Administration King Fahad Medical City Riyadh, Saudi Arabia