American Hospital’s Dr Aaron Han reviews overarching challenges in COVID-19 test validations and shares potential solutions, as experienced in the UAE.

Session Chair

Dr PK Menon, Director, Healthcare Management, CALM Worldwide FZE, Dubai, UAE

Speaker/ Panelists

• Dr Aaron Han, Consultant Pathologist and Director of Haematology and Flow Cytometry, American Hospital Dubai; Vice President, Emirates Pathology Society, Dubai, UAE

This panel will share expert perspectives on

• COVID19 infection and pregnancy care
• COVID19 obstetric preparedness
• Covid19 and gynaecological care
• Considerations for inpatient obstetric healthcare settings
• Mental health in a pandemic
• What’s the research saying?

Session Chair

Dr Paul Bosio, Chief Medical Officer, Corniche Hospital, Abu Dhabi, UAE

Speaker/ Panelists

• Dr Patrick O'Brien, Vice President: Membership, Royal Cllege of Obstetrics & Gynaecoogists (RCOG); Consultant in Obstetrics & Gynaecology, University College London Hospitals, London, UK
• Prof Salome Maswime, Head of Global Surgery, University of Cape Town, President, South African Clinician Scientists Society; Specialist OBGYN, Groote Schuur Hospital, Cape Town, South Africa
• Prof Juan M. Acuña, Chair, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health & Assistant Dean for Research, Khalifa University, Dubai, UAE
• Prof Kristina Gemzell Danielsson, Senior Consultant & Chair Of Obstetrics And Gynaecology, Director -WHO Collaboration Centre For Research In Human Reproduction, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden

This panel will review:

• Where AI Radiology software can go wrong and what Radiologists worldwide need to be wary of
• Triage with imaging for COVID-19 patients – indications
• Portable Ultrasound chest imaging of COVID-19 patients: pearls and tips for the non-Radiologist
• Diagnostic work-up to avoid possible thromboembolic complications in patients with COVID-19
• Standardizing reporting for Chest CTs
• CT pulmonary angiography indications

Session Chair

• Prof Dr Michael Fuchsjaeger, President, European Society of Radiology, Professor and Chairman, Department of Radiology, Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria
• Prof Dr Mahmud Mossa-Basha, Chair, RSNA COVID-19 Task force, Associate Professor, Vice Chair of  Clinical Operations, Chief of Radiology, UW Medical Center , Montlake and Northwest Campuses, Medical Director of MRI, Neuroradiology, Department of Radiology, University of Washington
• Prof Dr Hans-Ulrich Kauczor, WHO Taskforce for Imaging in the COVID-19 Pandemic, Professor and Chairman of Radiology, German Center for Lung Research (DZL), Director, Translational Lung Research Center Heidelberg (TLRC), Executive Board, Medical Director, Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, Heidelberg University Hospital, Heidelberg, Germany

Speaker/ Panelists

• Prof Dr Mahmud Mossa-Basha, Chair, RSNA COVID-19 Task force, Associate Professor, Vice Chair of Clinical Operations, Chief of Radiology, UW Medical Center , Montlake and Northwest Campuses, Medical Director of MRI, Neuroradiology, Department of Radiology, University of Washington
• Prof Dr Hans-Ulrich Kauczor, Member, WHO Taskforce for Imaging in the COVID-19 Pandemic, Professor and Chairman of Radiology, German Center for Lung Research (DZL), Director, Translational Lung Research Center Heidelberg (TLRC), Executive Board, Medical Director, Department of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology, Heidelberg University Hospital, Heidelberg, Germany
• Prof Dr Valentin Sinitsyn, President, Russian Society of Radiology (RSR), Head of Radiology at Faculty of Fundamental Medicine, University Hospital, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia

How to sustainably overcome challenges associated with blood donor recruitment

Session Chair

Dr May Yassin Raouf, Head & Medical Director, Dubai Blood Donation Center, Pathology & Genetics Department, Expert Member for Transfusion Safety, WHO, Regional Director for Eastern Mediterranean Region, ISBT, Dubai, UAE

Speaker/ Panelists

• Dr Justina Kordai Ansah, Chief Executive Officer; Expert Member for Transfusion Safety; Regional Director for African Region; Chairperson, ISBT Working Party Blood Supply Management, National Blood Service Ghana, WHO, ISBT; Accra, Ghana