Jan 11 - Jan 13, 2020


Congenital Dystrophies - Neuromuscular Disorders Precision Medicine: Genomics to Care and Cure

Qatar National Convention Center, Doha, Qatar

Speakers

Dr. Alice Abdel Aleem

Assistant Research Professor of Neurology
Assistant Research Professor of Neuroscience
Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar
Consultant Clinical Genetics
Hamad Medical Corporation-Qatar
Doha, Qatar

Dr. Mahmoud Fawzi El-Said Osman

Senior Attending Physician, Pediatric Neurology, Sidra Medicine and Hamad Medical Corporation
Assistant Professor, Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar
Doha, Qatar

Dr. J. Andoni URTIZBEREA

Attending Physician, APHP, HENDAYE, FRANCE
Head, Summer School of Myology, PARIS, FRANCE
Chargé de Mission, FILNEMUS, MARSEILLE, FRANCE

Dr. Khalid Awad Sidahmed Mohamed

Senior consultant, Paediatric Neurology
Sidra Medicine
Doha, Qatar

Dr. Rita Horvath

Director of Research (Clinical) - Genetics of Rare Neurological Disorders
Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Cambridge
John Van Geest Cambridge Centre for Brain Repair
Cambridge, UK

Dr. Tawfeg Ben-Omran

Attending Physician, Clinical and Metabolic Genetics, Department of Pediatrics, Hamad Medical Corporation
Division Chief , Genetics and Genomic Medicine, Sidra Medicine
Associate Professor, Weill Cornell Medicine in Qatar
Doha, Qatar

Dr. Christophe Béroud

Professor, Human Genetics
Laboratory of Molecular Genetics
Aix-Marseille University Medical School
Marseille, France

Dr. Khalid Ibrahim

Senior Attending Physician
Pediatric Neurology Director, Ketogenic Diet Program
Sidra Medicine
Doha, Qatar

Dr. Gustavo Dziewczapolski

Scientific Director
Cure CMD
A Foundation Building Strength
Congenital Muscle Disease International Registry
Torrance, CA, USA

Dr. Markus Ruegg

Professor of Neurobiology
Biozentrum, University of Basel
Basel, Switzerland

Dr. Khaled Machaca

Professor of Physiology and Biophysics
Senior Associate Dean for Research, Innovations and Commercialization
Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar
Doha, Qatar

Dr. Khaled Zamel

Division Chief, Paediatric Neurology
Senior Attending Physician
Sidra Medicine
Doha, Qatar

Dr. Volker Straub

Professor of Neuromuscular Genetics
Harold MacMillan Professor of Medicine
Director, John Walton Muscular Dystrophy Research Centre, MRC Centre for Neuromuscular Diseases
Deputy Director of the Institute of Genetic Medicine
Newcastle University
Newcastle upon Tyne, UK

Dr. Carsten G. Bönnemann

Chief, Neuromuscular and Neurogenetic Disorders of Childhood Section
Senior Investigator, Neurogenetics Branch
National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke/NIH
Porter Neuroscience Research Center
Bethesda, MD, USA

Dr. Said Ismail

Director, Qatar Genome Program
Doha , Qatar

Dr. M. Elizabeth Ross

Nathan Cummings Professor and
Head, Laboratory of Neurogenetics and Development
Director, Center for Neurogenetics
Chair, Neuroscience Graduate Program
Weill Cornell Medicine
NY, New York, USA

Dr. Nahla Afifi

Director
Qatar Biobank for Medical Research
Doha, Qatar

Sheikh Dr. Mohamed Bin Hamad Al-Thani

Director of the Public Health Department
Ministry of Public Health
Doha, Qatar

Dr. Reem Babiker Mohamed

General Pediatric Consultant
Pediatric Complex Care Program?
Hamad Medical Corporation
Sidra Medicine
Doha, Qatar

Dr. Rehab Ali

Senior Consultant, Clinical and metabolic Genetics
Pediatrics Department
Hamad Medical Corporation
Doha, Qatar

Dr. Farouq Thabet

Assistant Professor of Clinical Pediatrics
Weill-Cornell Medicine Qatar
Attending Physician
Pediatric Neurology Division - CCMG
Sidra Medicine
Doha, Qatar

Dr. Fatima Al. Musafri

Senior Consultant Clinical Genetics and Prenatal Diagnosis
Senior Attending Physician in Genetics and Genomics Medicine
Hamad Medical Corporation and Sidra Medicine
Doha, Qatar

Dr. Khalid Fakhro

Acting Chief Research Officer
Director of the Human Genetics Department
Director, Precision Medicine Program
Sidra Medicine
Doha, Qatar

Dr. Reem Jawad A Al Sulaiman

Interim Deputy Chair, Medical Genetics Department
Assistant Chair, Rare Disease MDT and Research Committee
Hamad Medical Corporation
Doha, Qatar

Dr. Fatemeh Darakhshan-Rassam

Programme Manager
Biomedical Sciences & Health
Qatar National Research Fund
Qatar Foundation
Doha, Qatar

Dr. Noha A. Yousri

Assistant Professor of Research in Genetic Medicine
Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar
Doha, Qatar

Dr. Mohamad Saad

Scientist, Statistical Genetics and Bioinformatics
Qatar Computing Research Institute
Hamad Bin Khalifa University
Doha, Qatar

Dr. Omar Moawyah Osman Mohammed

Senior Consultant, Clinical Imaging
Radiology Department
Hamad Medical Corporation
Doha, Qatar