AACE MENA CARDIOMETABOLIC CONFERENCE
ESTEEMED EXPERTS
Aayed Al Qahtani, MD, FRCS, FACS
Professor and Consultant of Minimally Invasive and Obesity Surgery
King Saud University & King Khalid University Hospital
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Anders Carlson, MD
Consultant Endocrinologist and Deputy Executive Director
International Diabetes Center at Park Nicollet
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States of America
Ashraf Haddad, MD, FACS, FASMBS
Surgeon
Gastrointestinal, Bariatric & Metabolic Center (GBMC), Jordan Hospital
Amman, Jordan
Asma Deeb, MD
Consultant Pediatric Endocrinologist
Sheikh Shakhbout Medical City
Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Connie Rhee, MD, MSc
Professor of Medicine, Chief of Nephrology
David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, VA Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System
Los Angeles, California, United States of America
Ebaa Al-Ozairi, MRCP(UK), CCST, FACN
Consultant Endocrinologist and Nutritionist, Chief Medical Officer
Dasman Diabetes Institute
Kuwait City, Kuwait
Ekta Kapoor, MBBS, FACP
Associate Professor of Medicine
Mayo Clinic
Rochester, Minnesota, United States of America
Francesco Rubino, MD
Chair of Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery
King's College London
London, United Kingdom
Hani Sabbour MD
Consultant Cardiologist
Mediclinic Airport Road Hospital
Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Jaime Almandoz, MD
Associate Professor
UT Southwestern Medical Center
Dallas, Texas, United States of America
Juan Frias, MD
Chief Medical Officer, Head of Diabetes
Biomea Fusion
San Francisco, California, United States of America
Leigh Perreault, MD
Consultant Endocrinologist and Associate Professor of Medicine
University of Colorado
Aurora, CO, United States of America
Mohammed Al Hadad, MBChB, HSCM, FRCS, FACS
Department Head, Bariatric and Weightloss
Healthpoint Hospital
Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Nadya Almatrooshi, MD
Staff Physician, Cardiothoracic Surgery
Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi
Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Nasreen Alfaris, MD, MPH
Consultant Endocrinologist
King Fahad Medical City
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
Nasreen Alsayed, MD, FACE, FACP
Consultant Endocrinologist & Lipidologist, Chief Medical Officer
Dar Alsaha Medical Center
Manama, Bahrain
Nathan Wong, PhD, MPH, FACC, FAHA, FNLA, MASPC
Professor and Director
Heart Disease Prevention Program Division of Cardiology, University of California
Irvine, California, United States of America
Philip Schauer, MD, FACS, FASMBS
Professor of Metabolic Surgery
Pennington Biomedical Research Center of Louisiana State University
Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States of America
Tariq Chukir, MD
Consultant Endocrinologist, Assistant Professor of Medicine
Qatar Metabolic Institute, Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar
Doha, Qatar
W. Timothy Garvey, MD
Professor & Chair, Department of Nutrition Sciences
University of Alabama at Birmingham, School of Medicine
Alabama, United States of America