Committees

Dr Goran is Consultant Pulmonologist and Internal Medicine, with around 20 years’ experience. He is Danish Board Certified in Internal and Pulmonary Medicine, he did his fellowship at many tertiary centers at Copenhagen University Hospitals, Denmark.

Dr Goran was Program Director of Adult Pulmonary Fellowship program from 2017 to 2021, likewise Consultant Pulmonologist and Internal Medicine, Clinical Education Leader for Adult Respiratory Medicine, at Zealand University Hospital, Roskilde, Denmark, a tertiary Respiratory Center. Clinically he worked specifically as Interventional Pulmonologist and Interstitial Lung Diseases Consultant through many years.

Dr Goran worked also as HOD for Respiratory Diseases at Odense-Svendborg University Hospital, a tertiary Respiratory Center l, Odense, Denmark

 After Moving to UAE in May 2021, he worked as Consultant Pulmonologist at American Hospital Dubai. In February 2022 he joined the Department of Pulmonary, Sleep and Allergic diseases at Rashid Hospital, Dubai Health as Consultant Pulmonologist, where he is currently director of interventional pulmonology, interstitial lung diseases clinic, and adult respiratory fellowship program under Graduate Medical Education, MBRU. He is member at ITC at Graduate Medical Education (GME) at Mohammed Bin Rashid University of Medicine and Health Sciences, MBRU.

In January 2025 he has been appointment as Clinical Associated Professor of Medicine at Mohammed Bin Rashid University of Medicine and Health Sciences, MBRU

Since November 2024 he has been elected as Member of the Board of Emirates Thoracic Society ( ETS)  for a period of 3 years from 2024-2027, appointed as Chairperson of Scientific Committee.

He has been organizer of multiple scientific meetings, organizing scientific concerence both nationally and internationally , participated as chairman, speaker and moderator. 

Currently member of multiple international scientific committes both in the field of Interventional Pulmonology and Interstitial Lung Diseases.

He is active speaker at both International, Regional and National Scientific Conferences in the field of Internal and Thoracic Diseases likewise Interventional Pulmonology.

Currently he is also member of the Adult pulmonary Scientific Committee under National Institute for Health Specialties (NIHS), Emirati Board.

Dr Goran living in Dubai with his Wife who is a gastric and oncoplastic breast surgeon in UAE together with their 2 children.

Dr. Majid Al Saleh Alteneiji is a pediatric pulmonologist and sleep physician at Al Jalila Children’s Hospital in Dubai. Dr. Dr Majid completed his fellowship training at the Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary, Canada in pediatric pulmonology while working as a co-chief fellow, and another in pediatric sleep medicine. He returned to UAE in 2021 working for close to two years at Tawam hospital and then finally moved back to Dubai joining al Jalila hospital. His interests quality improvement, chronic ventilation, respiratory neuromuscular disease and sleep medicine.

Dr Mohamed Shaaban has been working as Associate Professor and Consultant of Pulmonary Medicine at Faculty of medicine, Cairo University (Kasr Al Ainy University Hospital), Egypt till now and he is currently working as Pulmonology Consultant at Prime Hospital Al Garhoud, Dubai, UAE.

He had worked in prestigious JCI accredited and well-known hospitals in UAE as Saudi German Health UAE and NMC Speciality Hospital Dubai, UAE.

Dr Shaaban has extensive experience in teaching medical students and residents at Faculty of Medicine, Cairo University and clinical research experience with 14 publications in international journals. 

Dr Shaaban is an active member in both Interstitial Lung Diseases and Pulmonary Hypertension groups at Faculty of Medicine, Cairo University, Egypt and a member of European Respiratory Society, Emirates Thoracic Society and Egyptian Society of Chest Diseases and Tuberculosis.

Dr. Al Houqani is Associate Professor at the College of Medicine; Health Sciences, UAEU; consultant of Respiratory, Sleep Medicine at Sleep Disorders Specialized Clinic. He did his postgraduate training at University Of Toronto, Canada. His research interest is focused around the Epidemiology of Respiratory and Sleep Disorders.

Professor Ashraf Alzaabi, MB, FRCPC, FCCP, EMHCA is a senior respiratory physician who served at Zayed Military Hospital in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, from 2006 to 2025. He was elected President of the Emirates Thoracic Society (ETS) in February 2019. At Zayed Military Hospital, he served as Chief of Medicine in 2021, then as Chief Medical Officer in February 2022. In 2024, he was appointed Director of the Defence Health Support Administration (DHSA) at the UAE Ministry of Defence.

Professor Alzaabi graduated from the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland in 1997, and completed six years of residency training in internal medicine and respirology at the University of Toronto, Canada (2000–2006). He is board-certified in both specialties in Canada and the United States.

Appointed Full Professor of Medicine at the College of Medicine and Health Sciences, UAE University in 2018 (joining the faculty as Assistant Professor in 2007), he has been recognized with multiple awards, including the Murray Muirhead Award (2001) from the University of Toronto and the Abu Dhabi Medical Distinction Award in Clinical Performance (2013) from the then Health Authority–Abu Dhabi (HAAD).

As Director of Medical Education at Zayed Military Hospital (2007–2010), he secured Arab Board accreditation for the hospital’s first Internal Medicine Residency Program and established a formal academic affiliation with UAE University, designating the hospital as a teaching site for undergraduate and postgraduate training.

He completed an Executive Master in Health Care Administration at Zayed University in 2010 and chaired the Internal Medicine Examination Committee at HAAD from 2010 to 2014. Professor Alzaabi has published more than 40 peer-reviewed studies on asthma, COPD, and sleep-disordered breathing.

Consultant Pulmonologist & Head of Pulmonary Medicine, Dubai Health Authority, UAE
Clinical Professor, Faculty of Medicine, Sharjah University Associate
Head of Emirates Allergy & Respiratory Society
Head of Gulf Thoracic
Advisory Board Member of Smart City Research Institute (SCRI) of The American University of Sharjah
Advisory Board Member of H.E. Minister of Advanced Science
Assistant Dean at the College of Medicine, Sharjah University, UAE (2015 - 2017)
Program Director for Care Model Innovation, DHA (2016 - 2018)
Research Fellow at Meakins Respiratory Centre, McGill University, Canada (2012 - 2015)

Dr. Bassam Mahboub is consultant pulmonologist and the head of pulmonary medicine unit. Served as program director for care model innovation in DHA from 2016 to 2018. American Board certified in Internal Medicine, Pulmonology, and Allergy and Clinical Immunology, also has a Masters in Business Administration from Wolverhampton University.

Career goal is health innovation and respiratory care, leadership in academic and clinical sciences. Areas of interest are patient care, clinical teaching, translation research in airway diseases, and health innovation. Co-editor for Annals of Thoracic Medicine. He has authored several books in respiratory medicine and co-editor for several medical journals.

Dr. Bassam has received various recognitions for his role as physician, innovation leader, and researcher from Dubai Health Authority.

Dr. Manjush Karthika is an Associate Professor of Respiratory and Emergency Care at Liwa University, UAE. He is a clinical academic and researcher with expertise in acute and critical care, health professions education, and workforce development. His interests include Respiratory Critical Care, Extracorporeal Life Support, Thoracic Ultrasound, and Interprofessional Education. He is a Senior Fellow of Advance HE (SFHEA), a FAIMER Fellow (IFI Philadelphia), and currently serves as President of the Respiratory Care Group of the Emirates Thoracic Society. He is committed to advancing healthcare education, clinical excellence, and patient-centred care through scholarship, innovation, and leadership.