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Guest Faculty Speakers

Abe Fingerhut (France)

Abe Fingerhut MD, FACS (hon), FRCPS (g), FRCSEd (ad hom) GuangCi Laureate Professor Department of General Surgery Ruijin Hospital Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai China and Medical University of Graz, Division

Chetan D. Parmar (UK)

Chetan Parmar MS, DNB, PGDHHM, PGDMLS, NDDY, FRCS, FIFSO Professor of Surgery: University College London Consultant Bariatric and General Surgeon, Director - Surgery & Cancer ICSU, Joint Director - Research & Innovation The Whittington Hospital NHS Trust, London Honorary Consultant: Barts Health NHS Trust, London Honorary Professor: Apollo Hospitals Education and Research Foundation, India

Deena Harji (UK)

Associate Professor of Surgery and NIHR Advanced Fellow at the University of Leeds and a Consultant Colorectal Surgeon at Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust

Flavio Malcher (USA)

Flavio Malcher, MD, MSc, FACS, FEBS-AWS System Chief, Abdominal Core Health Program at Northwell Health, NY Associate Professor at Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell, NY Board Member of Abdominal Core Health Quality Collaborative President of American Hernia Society Over 60 peer-review publications, 5 edited books and 20 book chapters

Esam Batayyah (KSA)

Director of Fellowship Program - Bariatric and Advanced MIS Al Noor Specialist Hospital, Saudi Arabi

Hassan Shaker (Egypt)

Hassan Shaker Professor of Surgery, Ain Shams University President, Egyptian Society of Lap. Surgery Cairo - Egypt

Jaime Ponce (USA)

Jaime Ponce, MD, FACS, FASMBS, FIFSO, DABS-FPMBS, DABOM President and Medical Director of the Weight Loss Center of Chattanooga PLLC in Chattanooga, Tennessee, United States. Chair of the ASMBS Bariatric Certification Committee Past-President of ASMBS Past-President of the IFSO North American Chapter

Oscar Traynor (Ireland)

Director of International Surgical Training Programmes at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland

Kenneth Campbell (UK)

Mb ChB, MD, FRCS(Ed) Consultant Colorectal Surgeon Ninewells Hospital & medical School, Dundee Director Lower GI Training, Cuschieri Skills Centre Dundee Institute for Healthcare Simulation, University of Dundee, UK

Faheem Elbassiony (Egypt)

Professor of General Surgery and Endoscopic Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, Cairo University· President of the Egyptian Society of Laparoscopic Surgery. Vice President of the Egyptian Society of Bariatric and Metabolic Surgery.

Mohammad Haddad (UAE)

Mohammed Al Hadad, MD, FACS Acting Medical Director Head of Surgical Specialities Head of Bariatric and Metabolic Surgery Center Consultant Bariatric Surgeon Mubadala Health Professor of Surgery (Adjunct), CMHS, Khalifa University Abu Dhabi, UAE

Natan Zundel (USA)

Natan Zundel MD FACS FASMBS FIFSO MACC Professor of Surgery University at Buffalo, NY. Jackson North Medical Center Miami Beach, FL.

Rana Pullatt (USA)

Rana C Pullatt MD FACS FASMBS DABOM Director Bariatric & Robotic Surgery Division Chief Foregut & Metabolic Surgery Professor of Surgery Medical University of South Carolina Director Bariatric Surgery VISN-7

Kenneth Sharp (USA)

Kenneth W. Sharp, MD, FACS, MAMSE Professor of Surgery Vanderbilt University School of Medicine Vice Chair, Section of Surgical Sciences, Faculty Promotion and Development Chair, Section of Surgical Sciences Promotion Committee Vanderbilt University Medical Center Regent, American College of Surgeons

Steven Stain (USA)

Steven C. Stain, M.D. Professor and Chair Department of Surgery Lahey Hospital & Medical Center UMass Chan Medical School - Lahey

Waddah AlRefaei (USA)

Waddah B. Al-Refaie, MD, FACS Dr. & Mrs. Arnold W. Lempka Endowed Chair and Professor in Surgery Chair of Surgery at Creighton University School of Medicine Chair of Surgery at CHI Health Omaha, NE

Luigi Boni (Italy)

Luigi Boni, MD, FACS Professor of Surgery University of Milan Chief of General & Minimally Invasive Surgery Fondazione IRCCS - Ca' Granda - Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico di Milano

Local AKUPAS Speakers

Mousa Khoursheed (Kuwait)

Ali Ismail Dashti (Kuwait)

Fahad Alajmi (Kuwait)

Internal medicine, Endocrinology and Metabolism specialist Clinical research associate in Dasman Diabetes Institute

Abdulaziz Karam (Kuwait)

Fawaz Abo-Alhassan (Kuwait)

Ahmad AlKhamis (Kuwait)

MD, MSc (Epi), FRCSC, FACS, FASCRS Assistant professor, Department of Surgery, Kuwait University Colorectal Surgeon at Jaber AL-Ahmad & Al-Adan Hospitals The Clinic private practice, Bneid Algar Mazaya Tower

Ali AlSaffar (Kuwait)

Mohamad Alsulaimy (Kuwait)

Asmaa AlKanderi (Kuwait)

Emad Ayyash (Kuwait)

Jehad AlHarmi (Kuwait)

Assistant Professor, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, College of Medicine, Kuwait University. FRCPS (C), FACOG, MRCOG (Assoc), Consultant Obstetrics and Gynecology, Maternity Hospital.