October 25 & 26, 2025


Exploring the Nexus of Climate, Health, and Environment

Venue: Marsa Malaz Kempinski, The Pearl

Speakers

Course Directors

Dr. Sadeer Al-Kindi

Associate Professor
Houston Methodist and Weill Cornell Medicine
Medical Director
Center for Health & Nature, Houston

Dr. Nasrin Mesaeli

Associate Professor of Biochemistry
Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar

Keynote Speaker

Dr. Sanjay Rajagopalan

Professor of Medicine
Case Western Reserve University

Speakers

Dr. Shady Abohashem

Head of Cardiac PET/CT Imaging Trials
Instructor in Radiology, Harvard Medical School
Cardiovascular Imaging, Massachusetts General Hospital

Dr. Barrak AlAhmad

Director of Occupational Health and Climate Change
Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

Dr. Bassel Daher

Assistant Director for Sustainable Development
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Biological & Agricultural Engineering
Research Fellow at the Institute for Science, Technology, and Public Policy
Texas A&M University

Dr. Wael Al-Delaimy

Professor of Public Health and Family Medicine
University of California San Diego

Dr. Omar Hahad

Senior Scientist
Department of Cardiology – Cardiology I
University Medical Center of the Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz

Dr. M. Rami Alfarra

Principal Scientist
Qatar Environment and Energy Research Institute (QEERI)
Hamad Bin Khalifa University (HBKU)

Dr. Hanadi Al-Thani

Head of Sustainability Initiatives
Qatar Foundation

Dr. Jonathan Newman

Associate Professor of Medicine (Cardiology)
Director of Clinical Research, The Center for the Prevention of Cardiovascular Disease
NYU Grossman School of Medicine

Dr. Dietrich Büsselberg

Associate Dean for Admissions
Professor of Physiology and Biophysics
Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar

Dr. Ali Saad

Affiliate Faculty
Climate & Health Program
University of Colorado