Local Chair:
Dr. Mansour Al-Zarouni, BSc (USA), MSc & PhD (UK), Consultant Medical & Molecular Microbiologist, Sharjah Medical District – Ministry of Health, Sharjah, UAE
Activity Director:
Dr. Steven M. Gordon, Chairman, Department of Infectious Disease, Cleveland Clinic, President, Society of Healthcare Epidemiology of America, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
Faculty:
Dr. Bashir Aden, PhD, MSPH, MT, (ASCP), Senior Surveillance Officer, Surveillance Section, Public Health Dept, Health Authority - Abu Dhabi (HAAD), Abu Dhabi, UAE
Husain A. Alawadhi, MD, Consultant Intensivist & Pulmonologist, Al Mafraq Hospital, Abu Dhabi, UAE
Dr. Noura Al Sweih, Consultant Microbiologist and Chairperson of Microbiology Unit, Maternity Hospital, Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, Kuwait University, Kuwait
Jeffrey Chapman, MD, FCCP, Chair, Quality and Patient Safety, Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, UAE
Dr. Sunanda Dey, MD, Microbiology, Microbiologist, Super Religare Laboratories Limited, Kolkata, India
Professor Amani Ali El Kholy, MD, Clinical Microbiology and Infection Control Consultant, Professor of Clinical Pathology (Clinical Microbiology), Faculty of Medicine Cairo University. Director of Microbiology Laboratories, Cairo University Hospitals, Cairo, Egypt. Member of Higher Infection Control Board, Cairo University Hospitals. Chairman of Infection Control Committee, and Clinical Microbiology Unit, Dar Al- Fouad Hospital, Egypt
Ms. Yusra Elobaid, Quality Officer, Emirates International Hospital, Al Ain UAE
Prof. Dr. Petra Gastmeier, Director, Institute for Hygiene and Environmental Medicine, Campus Benjamin Franklin, Charité - Universitätsmedizin, Berlin, Germany
Professor Eiman Mokaddas, Professor of Clinical Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, Kuwait University, Kuwait
Dr. Ali Rabaan, M.Med.Sci, PhD, Head of Molecular Microbiology Laboratory, Saudi Aramco Medical Services Organization, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia
Prof. Ossama Rasslan, MD, PhD, Chair, International Section, APIC, Director, EMRNIC, President, ESIC, APIC/ Egypt Chapter, Secretary General, EPSA, Cairo, Egypt
Dr. Ashok Rattan, MD, MAMS, Chairman, Laboratory Medicine, The Medicity Hospital, Gurgaon, India
Prof. Hervé Richet, Hospital Epidemiology Unit, Hospital de la Timone. Research Unit on Emerging and Tropical Infectious Diseases, Marseille School of Medicine, Marseille, France
Priv. Doz. Dr. med. Michael Schwarz, Attending Surgeon, Head of Department for Minimally Invasive Oncological and Endocrine Surgery, BGPS Neu-Ulm, Neu-Ulm, Germany
Dr. Mahmoud Shorman, Consultant, Infectious Diseases, Chairman of Infection Control Committee, King Fahad Specialist Hospital, Dammam, Saudi Arabia
Dr. Atef K. Soliman, PhD, Scientific Advisor, Viral & Zoonotic Diseases Research Program, U.S. Naval Medical Research Unit 3, (NAMRU-3), Cairo, Egypt
Dr. Ágnes Sonnevend, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor, Consultant Clinical Microbiologist, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, FMHS, UAE University, Al Ain, UAE
Dr. Smita Sood, MD, Microbiology, Microbiologist, Super Religare LaboratoriesLtd., Fortis Escorts Hospital, Jaipur, India
Dr. Jens Thomsen, MD MPH CIC, Section Head, Occupational and Environmental Health, HSE Dept., Health Authority – Abu Dhabi (HAAD), Abu Dhabi, UAE
Diane Wake, Executive Director of Nursing & Operations, Director of Infection Prevention & Control, Royal Liverpool University Hospitals NHS Trust, Liverpool, UK
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The Cleveland Clinic Foundation Centre for Continuing Education has implemented a policy to comply with the current Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education Standards for Commercial Support requiring resolution of all faculty conflicts of interest. Faculty declaring a relevant commercial interest will be identified in the activity syllabus.