Scientific Sub Committee
Allied Health
Dr Taif Al Sarraj
Chief Clinical Support Services-AAR - Tawam Hospital UAE
Breast Cancer
Dr Husam Marashi
Consultant Physician TWM-Oncology Clinic -TWM-Medical Affairs - Tawam Hospital UAE
Central Nervous System (CNS)
Mohammad Al Asha
Consultant Physician, Neurosurgery Clinics - Tawam Hospital
Gastrointestinal (GIT)
Dr Giridharan Selvaraj
Consultant Clincial Oncologist - Tawam Hospital UAE
Genitourinary (GU)
Dr Jawaher Ansari
Consultant Medical Oncology - Tawam Hospital UAE
Gynecology (Gyn)
Dr Muhammad Nasim
Consultant Physician - Tawam Hospital UAE
Head & Neck (H+N)
Dr Nouraddine Alhasan
Consultant Physician - Tawam Hospital UAE
Hematology
Dr Arif Alam
Chief of Heamatology Division - Tawam Hospital UAE
Lung Cancer
Dr Emad Dawoud
Chief of Medical Oncology Division - Tawam Hospital UAE
Nursing
Mohammed Saleh
Oncology Center Manager - Tawam Hospital
Palliative Care
Dr Muhammad Zafar Javed
Consultant Physician - Tawam Hospital UAE
Pediatric Oncology
Dr Faisal Khainani
Chief of Division Pediatric Hematology Oncology & Adjunct Assoicate Professor - Tawam Hospital UAE
Pharmacy
Dr Lina Wahba
Clinical Pharmacy Lead and Oncology Clinical Pharmacist at TAWAM Hospital Adjunct Assistant Professor at UAE University
Plenary Session
Dr Khalid Saeed Balaraj
Chair of Oncology - Tawam Hospital SEHA, UAE
Radiotherapy
Dr Abdulrahman Bin Sumaida
Chair of Radiotherapy Service- Tawam Hospital
Research and Innovation
Dr Nandan Maruti Shanbhag
Chief of Palliative Medicine Division - Tawam Hospital UAE
Dr. Emad Dawoud
Consultant Physician, Oncology Clinic
Tawam Hospital
United Arab Emirates
Dr. Emad Dawoud
Consultant Physician, Oncology Clinic
Dr. Emad Dawoud is a Consultant Medical Oncologist in Oncology department at Tawam hospital UAE, and Assistant professor of clinical oncology in Al Azhar University Cairo, Egypt. Dr. Dawoud has been principal investigator and co- investigator for more than 50 clinical trials and abstract published per reviewed journals and he is a member of various associations such as ASCO, ESMO, ESTRO.
Dr. Diaeddine Trad
Consultant Physician, Oncology Clinic
Tawam Hospital
United Arab Emirates
Dr. Diaeddine Trad
Consultant Physician, Oncology Clinic
Dr. Diaeddine Trad is a Consultant of Medical Oncology, at Tawam Hospital, in Al Ain, UAE. He is a member of the European Society of Medical Oncology (ESMO), and the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO). He is an investigator in several ongoing clinical trials. Dr. Trad is certified as a specialist in internal medicine, hematology and oncology by the Lebanese Ministry of Health. His research interests include; non-small cell lung adenocarcinoma and locally advanced breast cancer. Dr. Trad was a speaker in many international conferences and forums.
Dr. Nouri Bennini
Consultant Physician, Oncology Clinic
Tawam Hospital
United Arab Emirates
Dr. Nouri Bennini
Consultant Physician, Oncology Clinic
Dr.Nouri Bennini is a Consultant Physician, Oncology Clinic at Tawam Hospital. He received his general medicine diploma in 1988 from the University of Constantine in Algeria and undertook residency in medical oncology at the University of Bordeaux, France.
Dr. Selvaraj Giridharan
Consultant Physician, Oncology Clinic
Tawam Hospital
United Arab Emirates
Dr. Selvaraj Giridharan
Consultant Physician, Oncology Clinic
Dr Selvaraj Giridharan is a highly skilled and experienced oncologist with dual accreditation from the UK. He completed his Bachelor’s Medical degree from the University of Madras in 1993 and went on to continue his training in the UK, he became a member of Royal college of Physicians in 1998 and then achieved clinical oncology Fellowship in 2004. He worked as a consultant clinical oncologist in University Hospitals of North Midlands from 2004 to 2022 until his appointment to Tawam Hospitals in September this year. During his time in Stoke he held several additional roles including being services lead, audit lead, research lead, appraiser and clinical tutor. He has published extensively and has been a PI and SI for more than 30 clinical trials.
Dr. Husam Marashi
Consultant Physician, Oncology Clinic
Dr Husam Marashi is a Consultant Clinical Oncologist based at the Tawam Hospital. He underwent post graduate training at the West of Scotland hospitals and became a consultant in 2015. He developed a special interest in the non-surgical management of Upper gastro-intestinal and Breast malignancies including chemotherapy, radiotherapy, targeted therapy and immunotherapy. He is a principle investigator for many clinical trials and involved in many precision medicine programmes. He is also an active member of the oligometastasis SABR radiotherapy team. Dr Marashi has an active role in medical education/training for clinical oncology trainees in Scotland, and a member of RCR recruitment team. He is a member of the breast cancer MCN advisory board for the West of Scotland. He developed a special interest in the non-surgical management of Upper gastro-intestinal and Breast malignancies including chemotherapy, radiotherapy, targeted therapy and immunotherapy. He is a principle investigator for many clinical trials and involved in many precision medicine programmes. He is also an active member of the oligometastasis SABR radiotherapy team. Dr Marashi has an active role in medical education/training for clinical oncology trainees in Scotland, and a member of RCR recruitment team. He is a member of the breast cancer MCN advisory board for the West of Scotland.
Dr. Aftab Ahmed Bhatti
Consultant Physician, Urology Clinic
Tawam Hospital
United Arab Emirates
Dr. Aftab Ahmed Bhatti
Consultant Physician, Urology Clinic
Dr Aftab Ahmad Bhatti has recently joined Tawam Hospital as a Consultant Urological Surgeon, after working in the United Kingdom for more than 25 years. The main focus of his work is Urological Oncology, Minimally Invasive Robotic Surgery and Laparoscopic surgery. Dr Aftab A Bhatti graduated from the University of Punjab, Rawalpindi Medical College, Pakistan. He completed his higher urological training from the Northern Deanery, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK. Dr Aftab Bhatti has published over 40 peer reviewed publications and his area of research interest includes kidney and prostate cancer. the area of his interest includes active surveillance for the low risk prostate cancer, surgical anatomy of prostate, refinements to surgical techniques for robotic assisted radical prostatectomy and surgical outcomes of the high risk prostate cancer and prognostic markers for the kidney cancer.
Dr. Mouza Mohd Al Ameri
Consultant Physician, Oncology – Breast Care Center (Dep)
Tawam Hospital
United Arab Emirates
Dr. Mouza Mohd Al Ameri
Consultant Physician, Oncology – Breast Care Center (Dep)
Mouza Al Ameri is a breast onco-plastic surgeon and assistant professor of surgery in UAE University and Tawam Hospital. She is passionate about breast cancer research, empowering breast cancer survivors and disseminate breast cancer awareness among society members.
Dr. Edward Black
Consultant - Thoracic Surgery
Dr Edward Black graduated from Guy’s Medical School, London in 1992. He trained in Cardiothoracic Surgery in Oxford, Leicester, Nottingham, Sheffield and Edinburgh. He was awarded Certificate of Completion of Specialist Training in Cardiothoracic Surgery in 2005. He is a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England in General Surgery and Cardiothoracic Surgery. He was appointed Consultant Thoracic Surgeon in Nottingham University Hospitals in 2006, Oxford University Hospitals in 2009 and SEHA in 2014. He currently works in SEHA-Mayo Clinic joint venture at SSMC Abu Dhabi and is Associate Professor at Khalifa University Medical School Abu Dhabi. He is Vice President of the Thoracic Surgery Group of the Emirates Respiratory Society.
Dr. Lina Wahba
Clinical Pharmacy Lead
Dr. Lina Wahba is a clinical pharmacy lead and she also works as an adjunct lecturer at the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, United Arab Emirates University. She earned her BSc in Pharmacy from the Faculty of Pharmacy, Jordan University of Science and Technology-Jordan, then had her MSc degree in Clinical Pharmacy from UCL, school of pharmacy/UK. She conducted her clinical training at Barts’ and the London NHS hospital trust-London. Lina is board certified oncology pharmacist. She maintains a primary clinical practice in Tawam oncology unit, and leading the Medication use evaluation committees. Lina has been having a major role in optimizing patient care in addition to creating and updating the oncology protocols. During her career, Lina worked as a clinical pharmacist in different institutions. She established the clinical pharmacy services in the paediatric oncology ward at King Hussein cancer centre- Amman/Jordan. She has many publications in addition to different abstracts that had been presented in the UK clinical pharmacy association conference, the American Society of Health System Pharmacists association (ASHP), Emirates Oncology Conference, and in the Journal of Oncology Pharmacy Practice (JOPP). Finally, Lina is the principal pharmacist in a number of Phase III multinational RCTs which are involving investigational chemotherapeutic and targeted agents.
Dr. Mahdi Al-Taher
Consultant Colorectal and Oncologic Surgeon
Tawam Hospital
United Arab Emirates
Dr. Mahdi Al-Taher
Consultant Colorectal and Oncologic Surgeon
Mahdi Al-Taher MD, PhD, is a consultant colorectal and oncologic surgeon with a special interest in innovative image-guided surgery techniques and minimally invasive approaches. He is currently based in the UAE with continued research activities in IRCAD (Research Institute Against Digestive Cancer, France) and the Maastricht University medical Center (Netherlands). He is a member of the United European Gastro enterology scientific committee as a representative of the EAES (European Association for Endoscopic Surgery). He is a board member of the Dutch Fluorescence-guided Surgery Group and member of the Dutch Surgical Innovation Committee.
Dr. Mohammad Asha
Consultant Physician, Neurosurgery Clinics
Tawam Hospital
United Arab Emirates
Dr. Mohammad Asha
Consultant Physician, Neurosurgery Clinics
Consultant Physician, Neurosurgery Clinics Tawam Hospital
Dr. Nasim Muhammad
Consultant Physician, Oncology Clinic
Tawam Hospital
United Arab Emirates
Dr. Nasim Muhammad
Consultant Physician, Oncology Clinic
Dr. Nasim Muhammad is a Consultant Physician, Oncology Clinic at Tawam Hospital
Dr. Shahan Ansari
Consultant ENT / Head & Neck Surgeon
Tawam Hospital
United Arab Emirates
Dr. Shahan Ansari
Consultant ENT / Head & Neck Surgeon
Dr Shayan Ansari is a Head & Neck / ENT surgeon who has worked in University Hospital Crosshouse, West of Scotland. He has experience of working in Plastic Surgery, Vascular Surgery and Neurosurgery before embarking on ENT / Head & Neck surgical training in UK (CCST, UK). Dr Ansari has worked in various academic and clinical units in different ENT subspecialities especially Head & Neck Surgical Oncology. This includes working in Head & Neck unit in Groote Schuur Hospital, Cape Town South Africa with Prof Fagan. His practice includes general ENT with special interest in benign and malignant head & neck pathologies. His head and neck surgical interest is mainly in organ preservation surgeries but also specialises in advance resections for salvage and palliative purposes. He also has keen interest in surgical management of thyroid and parathyroid diseases.
Dr. Taif Sarraj
Chief of Clinical Support Services
"Taif S. Al Sarraj, Ph.D., M.Sc., RD., is the Chief of Clinical Support Services for three major hospitals (Tawam, AlAin, and AlWagan hospitals) within the AlAin Region of the Emirate of Abu-Dhabi. Previously served as Deputy COO at Shaikh Khalifa Medical City (SKMC), and as an Adjunct Assistant Professor at the UAE University’s Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences. Dr Taif Al Sarraj has 25 years of extensive experience in healthcare leadership, operation, and performance management. In addition to quality and patient safety, JCI accreditation, and disasters' incident commanding. On the other hand, she has experience in clinical researches, academic education, continues clinical education, national and international conferences organization and participation, health education and public health awareness and contribution through community out-reach activities, awareness lectures, and media interviews via national media programs. Dr Al Sarraj is a Fellow Candidate of the American College of Healthcare Executives (ACHE). She had successfully led and manage the clinical support services as well as hospital operation activities throughout her leadership and rotation experience across SEHA hospitals. She participated in COVID-19 pandemic's disaster management, commissioning of MBZ field hospitals, and AD Covid-19 designated hospital. Dr Al Sarraj is the recipient of The Abu Dhabi Medical Distinguish Award (Department of Health - 2011); The SEHA Nursing & Allied Health leadership Award (SEHA in 2013); The Emirates Women Award (Dubai Quality Group in 2012), The UAE Rare Diseases Society Excellence Award (UAE Genetic Diseases Association 2017); The Shaikh Rashid Award for Academic Superiority (The UAE Culture & Scientific Association, twice in 2011 and 1997); Dr. Robert G. Jensen Award for Excellent Research in Nutritional Sciences (University of Connecticut 2009). In 2020, Dr. AlSarraj was awarded the Distinguished Alumni Award by the University of Connecticut, College of AHNR, for her distinguished contributions to the Healthcare sector in UAE. Dr. AlSarraj excelled in clinical nutrition. Her research interests are in the area of pathophysiology of metabolic syndrome, and diabetes complications, glucose and lipid metabolism, inflammation markers and vascular complications. Voluntary Activities: -Ambassador of Abu-Dhabi Public Health Center -Chair of Medical Unit within the Al Ain Group- for the preparation of FIFA U-17 World Cup (17th Oct- 8th Nov 2013 United Arab Emirates)"
Dr. Thikra A M Hassan
Chief of Oncology-Obs. And Gyno
Tawam Hospital
United Arab Emirates