Speakers

World Renowned Luminaries

We are thrilled to unveil the illustrious speakers and faculty gracing MEHFC 2025!

Each of these distinguished professionals will inject their unique perspectives into our discussions, transforming MEHFC 2025 into an unmissable event for anyone passionate about cardiology.

Our roster of speakers is adorned with world-renowned luminaries in the realm of cardiology, hailing from all corners of the globe. Their combined wisdom, expertise, and unique insights promise to make this congress a veritable feast of knowledge.

Be ready to be inspired, educated, and motivated by the very best in the field!

Adhba Almubarak
Adhba Almubarak

Consultant Cardiologist

Sheikh Shakbout Medical city

UAE

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Ahmad Turk
Ahmad Turk

Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Cardiologist

Private Practice, The Advanced Heart Diseases Center

Jordan

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Ahmed Bafadel
Ahmed Bafadel

Consultant Cardiologist

Heart, Vascular & Thoracic Institute

Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi

UAE

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Ahmet Celik
Ahmet Celik

Professor of Cardiology

Mersin University Medical Faculty

Turkiye

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Ali Elneihoum
Ali Elneihoum

Professor of Internal Medicine & Cardiology

Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine

Benghazi University

Libya

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Amer Al Ferekh
Amer Al Ferekh

Patient Educator, Nursing Administration

Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi

UAE

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Amina Rakisheva
Amina Rakisheva

Deputy Director

City Cardiology Center

Kazakhstan

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Ammar Chaudhary
Ammar Chaudhary

Consultant Cardiologist in Advanced Heart Failure and Echocardiography

King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Centre

KSA

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Amr Badr
Amr Badr

Cardiology Senior Consultant

Hamad Medical Corporation

Qatar

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Angela Abbey
Angela Abbey

Nurse/ Case Manager, Cardiovascular Unit

Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi

UAE

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Bassam Atallah
Bassam Atallah

Senior Pharmacotherapy Specialist

Department of Pharmacy Services

UAE

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Carolyn Lam
Carolyn Lam

Professor, Duke-NUS Medical School

Senior Consultant Cardiologist

National Heart Centre Singapore

Singapore

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Dima Quraini
Dima Quraini

Consultant Cardiologist,

Heart, Vascular & Thoracic Institute

Cleveland Clinic, Abu Dhabi

UAE

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Emad U. Hakemi
Emad U. Hakemi

Consultant Cardiologist

Heart, Vascular & Thoracic Institute

Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi

UAE

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Emil  Najjar
Emil Najjar

Consultant Cardiologist

Section for Heart Failure and Valvular disease

Heart and Vascular Centre

Sweden

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Fakhr Alayoubi
Fakhr Alayoubi

President

Cardio Clinical Pharmacy Group

Saudi Heart Association

Saudi Arabia

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Fatemeh Mohammad
Fatemeh Mohammad

Cardiology Fellow

Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi

UAE

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Feras Bader
Feras Bader

Founder and Chairman, Middle East Heart Academy

Chairman, Middle East Heart Failure Conference

Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi

UAE

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Feras Khaliel
Feras Khaliel

Consultant Cardiac Surgeon

Head of Adult Cardiac Surgery Section

King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre

Saudi Arabia

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Finn Gustafsson
Finn Gustafsson

Professor of Cardiology, Consultant cardiologist

University of Copenhagen

Denmark

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Firas Alani
Firas Alani

Professor of Medicine, CMU Medical School

Director of Cardio and Vascular Centre

American Hospital Dubai

UAE

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Firas Albadarin
Firas Albadarin

Consultant Cardiologist

Heart, Vascular & Thoracic Institute

Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi

UAE

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Ghadeera Al Mansoori
Ghadeera Al Mansoori

Consultant Cardiologist

Director of Adult Congenital

Sheikh Shakhbout Medical City

UAE

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Hadi Skouri
Hadi Skouri

Consultant Cardiologist

Director, Heart Failure Program

Sheikh Shakhbout Medical City

UAE

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Hala Kershah
Hala Kershah

Department Administrator

Heart, Vascular and Thoracic Institute

Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi

UAE

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Hasan Ali Farhan
Hasan Ali Farhan

President

Iraqi Scientific Council of Cardiology

Iraq

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Hatem Soliman
Hatem Soliman

Consultant in Cardiothoracic Intensive Care

Clinical Lead Organ Donation

Royal Brompton and Harefield Hospitals

UK

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Hussam Ghalib
Hussam Ghalib

Consultant Cardiologist

Heart, Vascular & Thoracic Institute

Cleveland Clinic, Abu Dhabi

UAE

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Hussien	 Heshmat
Hussien Heshmat

Consultant Interventional Cardiology

Al Tadawi Hospital

UAE

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Iman Hamour
Iman Hamour

Specialist Cardiologist

Heart, Vascular & Thoracic Institute

Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi

UAE

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Israa Yaseen
Israa Yaseen

Cardiology Clinical Pharmacy Specialist

Baghdad Heart Center

Iraq

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Juwairia Al Ali
Juwairia Al Ali

Consultant Non Invasive Cardiologist

Rashid hospital

UAE

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Khaldoon Al Humood
Khaldoon Al Humood

Cardiology Consultant

Al Salam International Hospital & Al-Ahmadi Hospital

Kuwait

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Leila Abid
Leila Abid

Professor, Head of the Department of Cardiology

Hedi Chaker University Hospital & Sfax University Medical School

Tunisia

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Magdy Abdelhamid
Magdy Abdelhamid

Professor and Chairman, Cardiology Department,

Cairo University

Egypt

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Maguy Chiha
Maguy Chiha

Consultant Endocrinologist

Medical Subspecialties Institute

Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi

UAE

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Mahmoud Al Tamimi
Mahmoud Al Tamimi

Physical Therapist

Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi

UAE

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Manyoo Agarwal
Manyoo Agarwal

Consultant Cardiologist

Heart, Vascular & Thoracic Institute

Cleveland Clinic, Abu Dhabi

UAE

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Matlooba Al Zadjali
Matlooba Al Zadjali

Executive Director, Senior Consultant, Public Health Physician

Cardiovascular Diseases Heart Vascular Centre

Oman

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Medhat Soliman
Medhat Soliman

Consultant Cardiology and Advanced Heart failure

Heart, Vascular & Thoracic Institute

Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi

UAE

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Mehmet Birhan Yilmaz
Mehmet Birhan Yilmaz

Academic Staff, Professor of Cardiology

Faculty of Medicine, Department of Cardiology

Dokuz Eylul University

Turkiye

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Mitesh Badiwala
Mitesh Badiwala

Consultant Cardiac Surgeon

Heart, Vascular & Thoracic Institute

Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi

UAE

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Mohamed ElHarari
Mohamed ElHarari

Consultant Cardiologist

Tawam hospital

UAE

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Mohamed Khalil
Mohamed Khalil

Section Head of Clinical and Imaging Cardiology

Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi

UAE

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Mohamed Magdi
Mohamed Magdi

Head of Department of EP

Deputy Head of Cardiology Department

Al Qassimi Hospital

UAE

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Mohamed Salah
Mohamed Salah

Senior Cardiology Consultant & Head of Cardiology Unit

New Kalba Hospital MOH, Sharjah

UAE

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Nadya Almatrooshi
Nadya Almatrooshi

Chairwoman, Organizing Committee, Consultant Cardiologist

Heart, Vascular & Thoracic Institute

Cleveland Clinic, Abu Dhabi

UAE

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Negin Molazadeh
Negin Molazadeh

Cardiology Specialist

Burjeel Holding

UAE

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Nizar Attallah
Nizar Attallah

Transplant Nephrologist

Medical Subspecialties Institute University of Kentucky

USA

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Noha Yaseen
Noha Yaseen

Consultant Non-Invasive Cardiologist

Al Qassimi Hospital

UAE

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Nooshin Bazargani
Nooshin Bazargani

Consultant Cardiologist

Dubai Health

UAE

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Omer Ali
Omer Ali

Consultant Nephrologist

Imperial College London Diabetes Centre (ICLDC)

UAE

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Oumol Khairy El Houssein
Oumol Khairy El Houssein

Senior Registered Nurse, CCU

Tawam Hospital

UAE

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Ramzi Tabbalat
Ramzi Tabbalat

Staff Cardiologist

Abdali Hospital

Jordan

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Richard Ferrer
Richard Ferrer

Advanced Heart Failure and Transplant Nurse Coordinator

Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi

UAE

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Ronney Shantouf
Ronney Shantouf

Consultant Cardiologist

Heart, Vascular & Thoracic Institute

Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi

UAE

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Salma Alzaabi
Salma Alzaabi

Clinical Pharmacist

Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi

UAE

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Sepideh Taghavi
Sepideh Taghavi

Professor of Cardiology

Shaheed Rajaie Cardiovascular

Medical & Research Institute

Iran

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Shady Hegazi
Shady Hegazi

Consultant Cardiologist

Heart, Vascular & Thoracic Institute

Cleveland Clinic, Abu Dhabi

UAE

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Shaira Villa
Shaira Villa

Ambulatory & Heart Failure Nurse

Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi

UAE

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Sheereen Hassib
Sheereen Hassib

Clinical Dietitian

Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi

UAE

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Shumaila Sheikh
Shumaila Sheikh

Social Worker, Clinical Patient Navigator

Certified Clinical Transplant Social Worker (STSW)

Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi

UAE

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Soufiane Roussia
Soufiane Roussia

Clinical Nurse Educator | Cardiac Nurse Specialist

Sheikh Shakbout Medical city

UAE

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Syedah Bokhari
Syedah Bokhari

Section Head, Adult Cardiology

Aga Khan University

Pakistan

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Waleed Kadro
Waleed Kadro

Chief of Cardiology & Interventional Cardiology

Senior Consultant Interventional Cardiologist

RAK Hospital

UAE

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Waleed Nafee
Waleed Nafee

Specialist Cardiologist

Imperial College London Diabetes Centre (ICLDC)

UAE

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Walid El Tahlawy
Walid El Tahlawy

Consultant Cardiologist

Sheikh Khalifa Specialty Hospital-Fujairah

UAE

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Wilfried Mullens
Wilfried Mullens

Professor of Cardiovascular Physiology

Hasselt University

Belgium

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Youssef Alattar
Youssef Alattar

Consultant Cardiologist

Sheikh Shakhbout Medical City

UAE

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Ziad Sadek
Ziad Sadek

Senior Pharmacotherapy Specialist

Department of Pharmacy Services

Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi

UAE

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Zviad Kipiani
Zviad Kipiani

Head of Cardiovascular Department

President of Georgian Heart Failure Association

Jerarsi Clinic, Tbilisi

Georgia

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