Faculty Members
Prof. Abdullah M. Aldalaan, MD
Chairman, the 19th Annual Conference of Saudi Association for Pulmonary Hypertension (SAPH2026)
Chairman, 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. Marc Humbert, MD, PhD
Director of the Department of Respiratory
and Intensive Care Medicine
French Pulmonary Hypertension
Reference Center
Hôpital Bicêtre, Université Paris-Saclay
Past President, European
Respiratory Society
Le Kremlin-Bicêtre, France
Prof. Luke Howard, MD, DPhil, FRCP
Consultant Pulmonologist,
Hammersmith Hospital,
Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust,
LondonProfessor of Practice
(Cardiopulmonary Medicine),
National Heart & Lung Institute,
Imperial College London
London, UK
Prof. Zhi-Cheng Jing, MD, PhD
President – East Asian Society of Pulmonary Hypertension
Professor of Medicine
Head, Department of Cardiology
Guangdong Cardiovascular Institute, Guangdong Provincial People’s Hospital, Guangdong Academy of Medical Sciences
Guangzhou, China
Prof. Olivier Sitbon, MD, PhD
Department of Respiratory and Intensive Care Medicine
French National Referral Centre for Pulmonary Hypertension
Hôpital Bicêtre, Paris-Saclay University
Le Kremlin-Bicêtre, France
Prof. Irene M. Lang, MD
Clinical Cardiologist
Professor of Vascular Biology
Department of Cardiology
AKH-Vienna, Medical
University of Vienna
Vienna, Austria
Prof. David G. Kiely, BSc (Hons), MD, FRCP
Professor of Pulmonary Vascular Medicine
Director of the Sheffield Pulmonary
Vascular Disease Unit
School of Medicine and Population Health
Sheffield, UK
Prof. H. Ardeschir Ghofrani, MD
Professor, Pulmonary Vascular Research, Justus Liebig University, Giessen, Germany
Head, Pulmonary Hypertension Division, Pulmonary Vascular Research Institute
CEO, University Hospital Giessen and Marburg
Giessen, Germany
Prof. Sean Gaine, MB, PhD, FRCPI
Consultant, Respiratory Physician
Mater Misericordiae University Hospital
Director, National Pulmonary
Hypertension Unit
Dublin, Ireland
Prof. Hiromi Matsubara, MD, PhD
Director, Clinical Research
Director, Department of Cardiology
National Hospital Organization, Okayama Medical Center
Clinical Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine
Graduate School of Medicine Dentistry and PharmaceuticalSciences
Okayama University
Okayama, Japan
Noura Alturaif, MD
Consultant, Pulmonary and
Pulmonary Hypertension
Lung Health Department
King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre
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. Paul B. Yu, MD, PhD
Director, Cardiovascular
Research Center Cardiology Division
Charles and Elizabeth Sanders Endowed Chair
Massachusetts General Hospital
Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School
Boston, USA
Prof. Anna R. Hemnes, MD
Professor of Medicine
Director, Division of Allergy, Pulmonary and Critical Care
Physician-in-Chief, Vanderbilt Lung Institute
Nashville, TN, USA
President, Pulmonary Vascular Research Institute (PVRI)
Prof. Ioana R. Preston, MD
Consultant, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine
Director, PH Program,
Lahey Clinic and Medical Center
Burlington, Massachusetts, 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
Bader J. Alghamdi, MD
Consultant, Pulmonary Medicine, Pulmonary Hypertension, & Clinical Cardiopulmonary Exercise Testing
Assistant Professor in King Saud bin Abdulaziz Uni. for Health Sciences (KSAU-HS)
Section Head of Respirology and Director of Respirology Fellowship Training Program, Ministry of National Guard
Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
Prof. Roham Zamanian, MD, FCCP
Associate Director, Vera Moulton Wall Center for Pulmonary Vascular Disease
Director, Adult Pulmonary Hypertension Service, Vera Moulton Wall Center for Pulmonary Vascular Disease
Clinical Director, VMWC Pulmonary Hypertension Database, Vera Moulton Wall Center for Pulmonary Vascular Disease
California, USA
Mona Alotaibi, MD
Assistant Clinical Professor Medicine
University of California,
San Diego – School of Medicine
San Diego, California, USA
Prof. Stephan Rosenkranz, MD
Interventional Cardiologist,
Head, Pulmonary Hypertension (PH) Center, University of Cologne
Head, Cologne Cardiovascular Research Center (CCRC)
Cologne, Germany
Prof. Soni Savai Pullamsetti, MD, PhD
Professor, Cardio Pulmonary Institute (CPI)
Justus Liebig University
Giessen, Germany
Prof. Majdy M. Idrees, MD, FRCPC, FPVRI
Head, Pulmonary Vascular Unit
Prince Sultan Military Medical City
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Hussam M. Sakkijha, MD
Consultant, Pulmonary,
Critical Care and Sleep Medicine
King Fahad Medical City,
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Badr Alzahrani, MD, FACC
Consultant Interventional Cardiology
American Board of Internal medicine,
Cardiology and Interventional Cardiology,
Prince Sultan Cardiac Center
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Shaya A. 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
Mnahi Bin Saeedan, MD
Cardiothoracic Radiologist,
King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Centre
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Saleh A. Aldammas, MD
Consultant, Pulmonary and Sleep Medicine
Prince Sultan Military Medical City
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Abdullah A. Al Masoud, MD
Consultant Cardiologiogst,
Heart Center
King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Centre
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Sarah K. Alrasheed, MD
Consultant Pulmonary Medicine, Pulmonary Hypertension and ILD
King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Centre- Madina
Almadinah, Saudi Arabia
Fayez K. Alahmadi, MD
Consultant, Pulmonary Medicine,
Pulmonary Hypertension and Balloon
Pulmonary Angioplasty,
King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Ragdah H. Arif, MD, FRCPC, ABIM
Consultant, Pulmonologist and Pulmonary Hypertension
Assistant Professor, King Abdulaziz
University/Hospital
Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
Hassan M. Nuaimat, MD
Consultant Staff Physician, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine
Director of the Pulmonary Hypertension,
Program Cleveland Clinic
Abu Dhabi, UAE
Hani Sabbour, MD, FACC, FHRS, FASE
Consultant Cardiologist and Cardiac Electrophysiology
Mediclinic
Abu Dhabi, UAE
Lama A. Alabdi, PhD
Head Section, Developmental Genetics
Department of Translational Genomics
King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Centre
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
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