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PRE CONFERENCE WORKSHOP - October 24, 2025
Day-1 - October 25, 2025
Day-2 - October 26, 2025

Workshop 1: Interventional Pulmonology

05:00 pm
08:00 pm
Dr. Goran Nadir Salih
Speaker
Dr. Ali Wahla
Speaker
Dr. Trilok Chand
Speaker
Prot. Grigoris Stratrakos
Speaker

Workshop 2: Advanced pulmonary function diagnostics

05:00 pm
08:00 pm
TBA
Speaker
Registration
From: 08:00 am To: 09:00 am

SESSION-1: ASTHMA

Dr.Riyad Allehabi
Moderator
Dr. Bassam Mahboub
Moderator
Dr. Mansour Hameed
Moderator
Topic: Welcome and Introduction
09:00 am
09:05 am
Topic: The rational behind the updated GINA guidelines for Asthma
09:05 am
09:25 am
Prof. David Jackson
Speaker
Topic: Asthma: Year in review
09:25 am
09:45 am
Prof. Ian Pavord
Speaker
Topic: Biological Era: Too soon or too late?
09:45 am
10:05 am
Prof. David Jackson
Speaker
10:05 am
10:20 am

Q & A session

Topic: Industrial Symposium
10:20 am
10:40 am
TBA
Speaker
Topic: Opening ceremony and exhibition
10:40 am
11:20 am
11:20 am
11:30 am

COFFEE BREAK

SESSION-2: RESPIRATORY INFECTION

Dr. Mohammed Zytouni
Moderator
Dr. Reyad Salman
Moderator
Dr. Sana Almotairi
Moderator
Topic: Towards Personalised Care in Bronchiectasis: An Evolving Paradigm
11:30 am
11:50 am
Dr. Said Isse
Speaker
Topic: Tuberculosis in GCC
11:50 am
12:10 pm
Dr. Aishah Alyammahi
Speaker
Topic: Non Tuberculous Mycobacterium: Year in review
12:10 pm
12:30 pm
Dr. Irfan Shafiq
Speaker
12:30 pm
12:45 pm

Q & A session

Topic: Industrial Symposium
12:45 pm
01:05 pm
TBA
Speaker
01:05 pm
02:05 pm

LUNCH BREAK

SESSION-3: INTERVENTIONAL PULMONOLOGY

Dr. Ali Wahla
Moderator
Dr. Goran Nadir Salih
Speaker
Topic: Advances in the Bronchoscopic treatment of the Thoracic Malignancy: Current and future directions
02:05 pm
02:25 pm
Prof. Grigoris Stratrakos
Speaker
Topic: Bronchoscopic Cryo Biopsy and EBUS Cryo Biopsy in the diagnosis of thoracic diseases: Diagnostic yield and the safety
02:25 pm
02:45 pm
Dr. Trilok Chand
Speaker
Topic: Interventional Pulmonology: Year in review
02:45 pm
03:05 pm
Prof. Grigoris Stratrakos
Speaker
03:05 pm
03:20 pm

Q & A session

Topic: Industrial Symposium
03:20 pm
03:40 pm
TBA
Speaker

SESSION-4: PEDIATRIC PULMONOLOGY

Dr. Asmaa Al Nuaimi
Moderator
Topic: Sleep disorders in children
02:05 pm
02:25 pm
Dr. Fatma Al Ahbabi
Speaker
Topic: Updates on asthma managing in children
02:25 pm
02:45 pm
Dr. Andy Ives
Speaker

Topic: Cases in ILD and metabolic disease
02:45 pm
03:05 pm
Dr. Shaima Khouri
Speaker
Topic: Updates on vaccines and respiratory disease pandemics
03:05 pm
03:25 pm
Dr. Nawal Al Kaabi
Speaker
03:05 pm
03:40 pm

Q & A session

COFFEE BREAK

03:40 pm
03:55 pm

SESSION-5: PLEURAL DISEASES

Dr. Yasser Madani
Moderator
Dr. Muhammad Tufail
Moderator
Topic: New developments in the management of pleural diseases
03:55 pm
04:25 pm
Prof. Najib Rahman
Speaker
04:25 pm
04:30 pm

Q & A session

Topic: Panel Disscussion: Pleural Diseases MDT
04:30 pm
05:10 pm
Dr. Maitha Al Hammadi
Speaker
TBA
Speaker
TBA
Speaker
Prof. Najib Rahman
Panalist
Dr. Mahmoud El Kaissi
Panalist
Dr. Muhammad Tufail
Panalist
Dr. Yasser Madani
Panalist

SESSION-6: RESPIRATORY THERAPY AND ALLIED HEAL

Dr. Manjush Kartika
Moderator
Topic: Weaning of Long term ventilated patients-Evidential updates
03:55 pm
04:15 pm
Ms. Kristen Dessario
Speaker
Topic: Personalized Mechanical Ventilation- The Way Forward
04:15 pm
04:35 pm
Mr. Afzal Mohamed Ali
Speaker
Topic: Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy- Emerging Roles and Clinical Impact
04:35 pm
04:55 pm
Mr. Abdalrhman Ashraf
Speaker
04:55 pm
05:10 pm

Q & A session

CLOSING REMARKS DAY 1

05:10 pm
05:25 pm

SESSION-7: INDUSTRIAL SYMPOSIUM SESSION

TBA
Moderator
Topic: TBA
08:00 pm
08:20 pm

TBA

Topic: TBA
08:20 pm
08:40 pm

TBA

Topic: TBA
08:40 pm
09:00 pm

TBA

Topic: TBA
09:00 pm
09:20 pm

09:20 pm
09:35 pm

Q & A session

09:35 pm
10:35 pm

GALA DINNER

Registration
From: 08:00 am To: 08:30 am

Workshop 3: Thoracic Ultrasound

08:30 am
09:30 am
Prof. Najib Rahman
Speaker
Dr. Yasser Madani
Speaker
Dr. Muhammad Tufail
Speaker

Workshop 4: Cystic Fibrosis

08:30 am
09:30 am
TBA
Speaker

SESSION-8: ILD

Dr. Sharina Aldhaheri
Moderator
Dr. Isabel Mira-Avendano
Moderator
Topic: Pulmonary Fibrosis today: More drugs, more time, more life
09:30 am
09:50 am
Prof. Luca Richeldi
Speaker
Topic: Panel Disscussion: When the Rheumatologists meets the pulmonologists: Real cases, real collaboration , real impact
09:50 am
10:30 am
Dr. Abdulmuhsen Hussein
Speaker
Dr. Mohamed Shaaban
Speaker
TBA
Speaker
Dr. Mahmoud El Kaissi
Panalist
Prof. Luca Richeldi
Panalist
Prot. Rayid Abdulqawi,
Panalist
Dr. Isabel Mira-Avendano
Panalist
Dr. Shamma Al Nokhatha
Panalist
10:30 am
10:45 am

Q & A session

10:45 am
11:00 am

COFFEE BREAK

SESSION-9: COPD

Dr. Saif Al Mubaihsi
Moderator
Dr. Mohammed Almoamari
Moderator
Prof. Mousa Khadadah
Moderator
Topic: Pro and Con Debate: Type 2 inflammation in COPD, is it significant ?
11:00 am
11:35 am
Prof. Ian Pavord
Prof. Dave Singh
Topic: COPD: Year in Review
11:35 am
12:00 pm
Prof. Dave Singh
Speaker
12:00 pm
12:15 pm

Q & A session

Topic: Industrial Symposium
12:15 pm
12:35 pm
TBA
Speaker
12:35 pm
01:35 pm

LUNCH BREAK

SESSION-10: LUNG TRANSPLANTATION, THORACIC SURGERY AND THORACIC IMAGING

Dr. Fatima Alenezi
Moderator
Dr. Mona allangawi
Moderator
Dr. Naser Albusaeidi
Moderator

Topic: Lung transplant program in the UAE, Update on current milestones
01:35 pm
01:55 pm
Dr. Fadi Hamed
Speaker
Topic: Early and late complications in Lung transplant, New innovation in diagnosis!
01:55 pm
02:15 pm
Prof. Rayid Abdulqawi
Speaker
Topic: Building complex thoracic program in the UAE
02:15 pm
02:35 pm
Dr. Usman Ahmad
Speaker
Topic: VV ECMO as bridge to lung transplant, does it make a difference?
02:35 pm
02:55 pm
Dr. Ehab Ahmed
Speaker
02:55 pm
03:10 pm

Q & A session

03:10 pm
03:25 pm

COFFEE BREAK

SESSION-11: ORAL PRESENTATIONS, ABSTRACTS

Dr. Goran Nadir Salih
Dr. Manjush Karthika
Moderator
Dr. Mohammed Al Houqani
Moderator
Topic: TBA
03:25 pm
03:35 pm

TBA

Topic: TBA
03:35 pm
03:45 pm

TBA

Topic: TBA
03:45 pm
03:55 pm

TBA

03:55 pm
04:15 pm

CLOSING REMARKS DAY 2