Led with the support of the Gulf Federation for Emergency Medicine, expert panelists will share updates to equip delegates on the latest best practice in emerency care from the scene to the hospital

Session Chair

Saad AlQahtani, Clinical Researcher, National Ambulance, Abu Dhabi, UAE and Dr Asaad Shujaa, Consultant of Emergency Medicine, ICU, Trauma, EMS and Disaster Medicine, Lead of Research, Johns Hopkins Aramco Health Care Centre, Assistant Professor at Weill Cornell Medical College, Editor in Chief of Saudi Journal of Emergency Medicine, General Secretary, Gulf Federation of Emergency Medicine, Riyadh, KSA

Speaker/ Panelists

• Dr Nisreen Maghraby, EM/Trauma & Disaster Management Consultant, Chairperson Emergency & Disaster Preparedness Unit, Chairperson EM certifying exam Committee, Saudi Council for Health Sciences, King Faisal Hopstial University, Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University, Dammam, KSA
• Dr Saleh Fares, President, Emirate Society of Emergency Medicine, Dubai, UAE
• Dr Salah Alghanem, President of Bahrain Society of Emergency Medicine, Manama, Bahrain
• Dr Muneera M. Al-Asfoor, Chief of emergency department, Amiri hospital, Deputy chief of emergency medicine council, Head of exam committee of Kuwait board of emergency medicine, Kuwait City, Kuwait

In the current crisis, which technologies will make the biggest impact on Surgery in the near and distant future?

This panel will review:

• Stories and highlights from different disciplines in rolling out new surgery tools for their practice
• What does the near and distant future look like for robotic surgical systems, remote systems, AR, VR technologies and minimally invasive tools?
• What would the appropriate training and credentialing standards be for surgeons to use robotic surgery?
• Changing patient perceptions and public fear around robotic and remote surgery. What will it take?
• Future training and education – when and how will virtual training be widely accepted?

Session Chair

Dr Bijendra Patel, Editor in Chief, Journal of Surgical Simulation, Consultant Upper GI & Laparoscopic Surgeon, Barts Health NHS Trust, Clinical Lead for General Surgery, Network Director for Upper GI Surgery, Director of Surgical Skills and Science, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK

Speaker/ Panelists

• Prof Dr Alfred Cuschieri, Pioneer, Minimally Invasive Therapies
• Prof Dr Chung Ngai Tang, Honorary Clinical Associate Professor, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Honorary Clinical Associate Professor, the University of Hong Kong, Council Member & Chairman, Robotic Subcommittee of International Laparoscopic Liver Surgery (ILLS) , Founding President, Hong Kong Society of Robotic Surgery (HKSRS), Past President , Clinical Robotic Surgery Association (CRSA), President-elect, Asia-Pacific Association of Robotic Surgeons (APARS), Hong Kong
• Dr Stanley W. Ashley, Frank Sawyer Professor of Surgery, Harvard Medical School; General, Gastrointestinal and Oncologic Surgeon, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

This panel will review:

• Diagnostic endoscopy before any bariatric surgery procedure.
• Bariatric endoscopy as a new subspecialty of both advanced endoscopy and bariatric surgery
• Will primary endoluminal procedures be more common than primary bariatric surgical procedures in the next ten years?
• POEM as the procedure of choice for Types 1,2,3 achalasia in 2020
• Intramural endoscopy as additional fellowship training beyond an advanced endoscopy fellowship
• Routine use of advanced imaging for potentially neoplastic lesions of the GI tract

Session Chair

Dr Matthew Kroh, Institute Chair, Surgery, Digestive Diseases Institute, Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi, UAE

Speaker/ Panelists

• Prof Alessandro Repici, Director of Digestive Endoscopy Unit, Humanitas Research Hospital, Milan, Italy
• Prof Dr Barham K Abu Dayyeh, Director of Advanced Endoscopy, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA
• Prof Dr Gontrand Lopez-Nava, Head of Bariatric Endoscopy, Madrid Sanchinarro University Hospital, Vice Chair, Bariatric Endoscopy Committee, International Federation for Surgery of Obesity-IFSO, Madrid, Spain Dr Maryam Alkhatry, President, Pan Arab Gastroenterology Society, Consultant Gastroenterologist, Head of GI Endoscopy Department – Gastroenterology, Ibrahim bin Hamad Obaid Allah Hospital, Ras Al Khaimah, UAE
• Prof Dr Manoel Galvao Neto, Director of Innovation, International Bariatric Club - IBC, Oxford, UK, Affiliated Professor of Surgery, ABC Medical School, Sao Paulo, Brazil

COVID-19 is changing the face of healthcare at an unprecedented pace. PAMET’s president, Ronaldo Puno, highlights the key role of med tech in tackling the virus, discusses the issues impacting medical technologists, and its effect in the future of healthcare in the Philippines and laboratory medicine in Asia.

Session Chair

Assoc. Prof. Ma. Freida Z. Hapan, Assistant Dean, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Santo Tomas; Executive Secretary, PAMET, Manila, Philippines

Speaker/ Panelists

• Ronaldo E Puno, President, National President of the Philippine Association of Medical Technologists (PAMET), Manila, Philippines

This talk will cover:

• Current fundamental issues impacting primary care
• Strategies to reboot and reopen the primary care system
• Preparing for a second wave
• The new normal in primary care

Session Chair

Dr Atiya Mosam, Public Health Medicine Specialist and Researcher, PRICELESS SA, Executive Board Member, Public Health Association of South Africa, Johannesburg, South Africa

Speaker/ Panelists

• Prof Salman Rawaf, Professor of Public Health; Director, WHO Collaborating Centre, Department of Primary Care and Public Health, School of Public Health Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London, UK