Organizing committee

Dr. Ashraf Alzaabi is the Head of Respiratory Division at Zayed Military Hospital in Abu Dhabi. He graduated from the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland 1997 and did his training in Internal medicine and Respirology for six years at the University of Toronto, Canada 2000-2006 where he was board certified in both special es in Canada and USA.

Since his arrival to UAE he managed to develop a state of the art pa ent services in the Respiratory Medicine Division at Zayed Hospital and this included establishing the first sleep laboratory in Abu Dhabi and the first endoscopy center performing Endobronchial ultrasound guided biopsy procedures in UAE. In 2007, he was appointed as a Clinical Assistant Professor in Internal Medicine at the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences (FMHS) at UAE University.

Ashraf Alzaabi won many dis nc on awards such as the pres gious Murray Muirhead Award (2001) from the University of Toronto during his residency program. In 2013, He won the Abu Dhabi Medical Dis nc on Award in Clinical Performance launched by the Health Authority in Abu Dhabi (HAAD).

He was appointed as the Director of Medical Educa on 2007-2010 at Zayed Military Hospital. During this period, He succeeded to get the recogni on of the Arab Board to start the first residency training program at Zayed Hospital in Internal Medicine. He engineered a memorandum agreement between the faculty of Medicine at UAE University and Zayed Hospital. The signing of this agreement recognized Zayed Hospital as a training hospital for the medical students and residents during their undergraduate and postgraduate studies.

In 2010, He finished a two year program at Zayed University doing an Execu ve Master in Health Care Administra on. This helped during his posts at many important administra ve posi ons both at Zayed Military Hospital and at other na onal organizations. He is a member of the Medical Execu ve Council (MEC) at Zayed Military Hospital which responsibili es include se ng short and long term strategic goals for the ins tu on. He served as the Chair of the Internal Medicine Examina on Commi ee at the Health Authority of Abu Dhabi for the term 2010-2014.

Medical research and academic work has always been of great interest to him. He is an editor at the "CHEST" journal , middle east edi on. He published the first UAE prevalence study on chronic obstruc ve pulmonary disease at the Respiratory Medicine Journal in 2011. His main interest in research includes Asthma, COPD and Sleep Medicine.