Faculty
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
MD, FACS
- American board certified general surgeon since 2006.
- Residency at SUNY Downstate former Assistant Professor of Surgery.
- Robotic practice started in Florida (2014) and launched Dubai’s first robotic surgery program in 2020.
- Chief of Surgery at American Hospital Dubai and Chair of the Robotic Surgery Committee.
- Specializes in hernia and abdominal wall reconstruction.
Hatem Moussa
MD, FACS
- Associate Clinical Professor of Surgery
- Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
- Laparoscopic Surgical Center of New York
Brian Jacob
- General Surgery Specialist (CBC)
- Digestive System Specialist (CBCD)
- Specialist in ABDOMINAL WALL HERNIAS
- Abdominal Wall Surgery Center of the Santa Catarina Network.
- Surgeon at Casa de Saúde São José.
- CEO of Talking To The Wall (Advanced and Minimally Invasive Surgery Course for Surgeons).
Rodrigo Galhego
- Consultant General Surgeon and Colorectal Surgeon
- Expertise in Damage Control Surgery and Trauma Surgery
- Graduate of RCSI Medical School
- Facharzt from Germany (2010)
- Worked at ZMH since 2010
- Extensive experience in Field Hospital and Forward Surgical Teams
- Participated in Task Forces and military hospital setups globally
Mohammed Alqaydi
FACULTY SPEAKERS
MD, General Surgery, Hernia Repair
- Professor of Surgery
- Director, Comprehensive Hernia Center
- Chief, Division of Abdominal Wall Surgery, Department of Surgery Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY
- Past President, American Hernia Society
Yuri Novitsky
MD, FACS
- General, Bariatric, and Advanced Laparoscopic Surgery
- Doctor of Medicine, Universidad Javeriana, Bogotá, 1982
- General Surgeon, Hospital San Ignacio, Universidad Javeriana, Bogotá, 1987
- Sub-specialist in Advanced Laparoscopic Surgery, Universidad CES, Medellín, 2012
Jorge Daes
MD, FACS
- Chief of General Surgery at Anne Arundel Medical Center
- Minimally Invasive Surgery Fellow, Carolinas Medical Center
- General Surgery Resident, MedStar Union Memorial Hospital
Igor Belyansky
- Professor of Surgery at Carolinas Medical Center and President Elect of American Hernia Society.
Vedra Augenstein
MD, General Surgery
- Professor of Clinical Surgery - Department of Surgery
- Associate Director of Surgical Education
- Surgery Clerkship Director - David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
- Clinical Director - Lichtenstein Amid Hernia Clinic at UCLA
- Associate Professor - Department of Palliative Care
David Chen
MD, PhD
- Professor of Anatomy and Surgery in Reims University Hospital, France
- Complex Hernia surgeon
- Treasurer of EHS and French Hernia Society
Yohann Renard
MD, PhD
- HPB Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Surgical Oncology, University of Texas, MD Anderson Cancer Center
Guillaume Passot
- International Advisory Board of AWRSC na Abdominal Wall Reconstruction Surgeons’ Community
Carlos Magalhaes
MD FACS
- General Surgeon
- President of Brazilian Hernia Society (SBH)
GUSTAVO SOARES
- General surgeon, director of the Brazilian Hernia Society.
Paulo Barros
- Associate Prof of Surgery, PhD, FEBS-AWS
- Specialized in general surgery, advanced laparoscopic surgery and robotic surgery, experienced in the field of hernia surgery for more than 20 years.
- Subspecialised in hernia surgery and abdominal wall reconstruction
Victor Radu
MD, MSc, PhD
- Professor of Surgery, Medical School, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
Head of Complex Hernia & Abdominal Wall Reconstruction Center, European Interbalkan Medical Center, Thessaloniki, Greece - Vice-President (and President-elect) of the Hellenic Hernia Society - Certified robotic surgeon
Grigorios Chatzimavroudis
- General Surgeon HU-UFSC.
- Member of the Brazilian Society of Hernia and Abdominal Wall and America Hernia Society Active Member World Partner.
Ricardo Belarmino
BSc, MD
- Her training of general surgery at McGIll University - Canada followed by minimally invasive and bariatric surgery
- Fellowship at McGill university.
- She currently works as an assistant professor
- Consultant of minimally invasive and bariatric surgery at Sultan Qaboos university - Oman
Safiya Al Masrouri
MD FRCSC
- General Surgeon (FRCSC)
- residency at McGill University, Canada
- Critical Care Medicine Fellowship - at McGill University
- Bariatric & Metabolism Surgery Fellowship in Qubec City November 2014-2015
Asmaa Alrashid
MD, FACS
- Consultant general surgeon, bariatric and minimal invasive surgery
- Al-amiri hospital kuwait ministry of health
- Fellow American college of surgeons
- Kuwaiti board of general surgery
- Clinical tutor kuwait university faculty of medicine
- President of kuwait association of surgeons
Shehab Ekrouf
MD. FRCSC. FACS. ABOM.
- Consultant head of UGI unit in Royal hospital, Muscat.
- Program director of general surgery in Oman Medical Specialty Board.
- MD from Sultan Qaboos University 2007.
- Canadian Board of General Surgery McGill University. Canada 2017
- Amaerical Board of General Surgery 2018.
- Area of interest: Foregut Sugery, Hernia& Solid organ surgery.
Mohammad Al Abri
MBBCh FRCSC
- Consultant Thoracic Surgeon, The Royal Hospital
- Oman Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons Canada
- American Board of Surgery President, Oman Surgical Society
Yaseen Al Lawati
MD, FACS , FRCSC
- Consultant - General Surgery Trauma & Acute Care Surgery
- Laparoscopic & Abdominal wall reconstruction Surgery
- Assistant Professor of Surgery
- Director of Trauma research program
- Department of Surgery
- King Abdulaziz Medical City, Riyadh
- National Guard Health Affairs
Ibrahim Al Babtain
MD. FRCSC.
- President, Saudi General Surgery Society
- Head, Thoracic Surgery Division
- Associate Professor of Surgery
- consultant Thorcic, Foregut and Bariatric Surgeon
- King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
Ashraf Maghrabi
- Assistant Professor in Kuwait University
- Specialist General, Bariatric, Foregut an Hernia Surgeon
Mohsen Alhashemi
- Professor of Surgery
- General HPB and minimally invasive/Robotic Surgery
- Chairman of Surgery
- King Abdulaziz University"
Murad AlJiffry
MD, MRCS, MSc, FRCSC
- MSc surgery at UBC, MRCS Edinburgh, FRCSC at MsGill
- Trauma and acute care surgeon at sultan Qaboos university hospital - Oman
- Trauma and Acute Care Surgery
- SQUH
Ruqaiya Al-Shehhi
- He has more than 20 years experience in general surgery, more than half of it in Germany. including Hernia, Reflux and oncological surgery
Dhia Hashim
MD, is a Staff Physician in the General Surgery department at Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi’s Digestive Disease Institute.
- The director of Comprehensive Core Health and Hernia Treatment Center at Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi.
Daniel Guerron
MD, FRCSC, MHCM
- Consultant – General Surgery , laparoscopic and Bariatric Surgeon.
- He Graduated from Sultan Qaboos University MD 2010.
- Membership of American Medical Association (2020 – Present)
- American Society for Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery (2021 – Present)
- International Federation for the Surgery of Obesity and Metabolic (2021 – Present)
- Oman Medical Association (2011 – Present)
Abdullah Aljabri
- FRCSEd, KSB, FACS, MEHS
- Consultant General Surgery - Mubarak Alkabeer Hospital
- Chair of the Kuwait Hernia Society
- Chair of the Patient Safety & Risk Management MKH
- Director of the Basic Surgical Skills Course Training program in Kuwait
Ali Ismail Dashti
- Chief Dept of Surgery at NY Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital
Professor of surgery - Weill Cornell Medical College, Cornell University
Michael Zenilman
Director of General Surgery Division at The American Hospital Dubai
- Neuroscience, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA
- General surgery, Saint Elizabeth Medical center, Boston, USA
- General Surgery, University of Illinois, USA
- Minimally Invasive Surgery training, Saint Francisco, USA
- Bariatric Surgery training, Columbus Ohio, USA
Ahmed Kemmou
Fellowship trained senior British MSK radiologist, specializing in MRI, US, and US guided injections. He also has a strong interest in chest, abdominal and oncology imaging, acute and ICU imaging. He qualified from King's College London in 1995 and completed MRCP Pediatrics in 2000, then trained in radiology at Chelsea & Westminster Hospital in London with an MSK fellowship in Leeds. Since then, he has worked as a consultant in Yorkshire, Dubai, Singapore, and back in the UK, including management roles, most recently at Cheltenham General Hospital.
Amer Rehman
MS FRCS FACS, Colorectal, Laparoscopic and Breast Surgeon.
Expert in abdominal wall hernia repairs and reconstruction of the abdominal wall.
Ritu Khare
MD, FACS
-Surgeon at Chirurgische Praxis Cottbus
-Associate Councillor German Chapter American College Of Surgeons
Andreas Koch