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
Department of Respiratory and Intensive
Care Medicine
French National Referral Centre for
Pulmonary Hypertension
Hôpital Bicêtre, Paris-Saclay University
Le Kremlin-Bicêtre, 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. Nazzareno Galiè, MD
Full Professor of Cardiology Chief of Cardiology,
IRCCS-S.Orsola University Hospital, Bologna
Director, Post-graduate School of
Cardiovascular Diseases
Alma Mater Studiorum, University of Bologna
Bologna, Italy

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

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

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

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. 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. John Granton, MD
Consultant, Pulmonary Hypertension and Critical Care
Medical Director, Health Services UHN
Faculty Lead, Fellowships, Temerty Medicine
Professor of Medicine
Faculty of Medicine
University of Toronto
Toronto, Canada

Prof. Yoshihiro Fukumoto, MD, PhD, FJCC,
FESC, FAHA, FJCS

President, Japanese Pulmonary Circulation and
Pulmonary Hypertension Society
Deputy Director of Kurume University Hospital
Professor and Chairman, Division of Cardiovascular
Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine
Kurume University School of Medicine
Kurume, Japan

Faisal Aloufi, MD
Consultant, Cardiothoracic Radiologist
Cardiothoracic Imaging Fellowship in
University of Toronto, Canada
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. Sean Gaine, MB, PhD, FRCPI
Consultant, Respiratory Physician
Mater Misericordiae University Hospital
Director, National Pulmonary Hypertension Unit
Dublin, Ireland

Prof. Stephan Rosenkranz, MD
Interventional Cardiologist,
Head, Pulmonary Hypertension (PH) Center
University of Cologne
Head, Cologne Cardiovascular Research Center (CCRC)
Cologne, Germany

Prof. Kuo Yang Wang, MD, PhD
President, Taiwan Pulmonary
Hypertension Association
Director, Pulmonary Hypertension and
Pulmonary Vascular Disease
China Medical University Hospital
Taichung, Taiwan

Prof. Wen-Hui Wu, MD, PhD
Associate Chief Physician, Associate Professor of
Medicine, Pulmonary Vascular Disease
Department of Cardio-Pulmonary Circulation
Shanghai Pulmonary Hospital
Tongji University School of Medicine
Shanghai, China

Prof. Hossein 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

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

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

Prof. Ioana R. Preston, MD
Consultant, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine
Director, PH Program,
Lahey Clinic and Medical Center
Burlington, Massachusetts, USA

Hani Sabbour, MD, FACC, FHRS, FASE
Consultant Cardiologist and Cardiac
Electrophysiology
Mediclinic
Abu Dhabi, UAE

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. John Feenstra, MBBS, FRACP, FCCP
President, Pulmonary Hypertension Society of
Australia and New Zealand (PHSANZ)
Thoracic Physician, Pulmonary Hypertension Specialist
Visiting Medical Practitioner
Wesley and Prince Charles Hospitals
Honorary Fellow, Wesley Research Institute
Senior Lecturer
University of Queensland
Queensland, Australia

Prof. Tomás Pulido, MD, FCCP
Respiratory Medicine
Associate Professor of Medicine,
National Autonomous University of Mexico
Deputy Director, Clinical Research
Ignacio Chávez National Heart Institute
Mexico City, Mexico

Prof. Anton Vonk Noordegraaf, MD
Full Professor & Chair, Division of
Pulmonary Sciences,
Amsterdam University Medical Center
Amsterdam, Netherlands

Prof. Stefan Gräf, PhD
Principal Research Associate
Computational Genomics and Genomic Medicine
Department of Medicine, University of Cambridge
Victor Phillip Dahdaleh Heart & Lung Research Institute
Cambridge, England, UK

Prof. Takeshi Ogo, MD, PhD
Department, Advanced medical research for
Pulmonary Hypertension
Division of Pulmonary Circulation,
Department of Cardiovascular Medicine
National Cardiovascular Center
Osaka, Japan

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

Prof. Soni Savai Pullamsetti, MD, PhD
Professor, Cardio Pulmonary Institute (CPI)
Justus Liebig University
Giessen, Germany

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

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

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

Prof. Athénaïs Boucly, MD, PhD
Associate Professor, Respiratory Medicine,
Université Paris-Saclay
Consultant, French Referral Center for
Pulmonary Hypertension,
Department of Respiratory and Intensive Care
Medicine, Hôpital Bicêtre,
Le Kremlin-Bicêtre, France

Prof. David Montani, MD, PhD
Professor, Department of Respiratory Medicine
French National Referral Centre for
Pulmonary Hypertension
Hôpital Bicêtre, Le Kremlin-Bicêtre,
Paris-Saclay University
Le Kremlin-Bicêtre, France

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

Fatimah J. Alshammari MHS, RRT, ACCS,
RRT-NPS, RPFT
Head, Respiratory Services
Department of Medicine,
Prince Sultan Military Medical City.
Lecturer, Princess Nourah Bint Abdulrahman University
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Saleh S. Alshahrani, BsRT, RRT, RPSGT
Supervisor, Sleep Center,
Department of Medicine
Prince Sultan Military Medical City
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

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

Special Guests:

Paula Pinto, PharmD, PhD
Medical Writer
PMA – Pharmaceutical Medicine Academy, Lda
Coimbra, Portugal

Bronwen Field, RN
Clinical Trials Coordinator
Wesley Research Institute
Brisbane, Queensland, Australia