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4th UAE Rare Disease Society Congress 2026

SPEAKERS

Dr. Ali Al-Beshri

Consultant Clinical Genetics & Genomics Tawam Hospital, Al Ain, Abu Dhabi, UAE

Dr. Osama Aldirbashi

Senior Consultant Clinical Scientist Metabolic Lab, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology Hamad Medical Corporation, Qatar

Dr. Amal Mohammed Alhashem

Consultant/ Professor/ Chairperson Genetic Department King Fahad Specialist Hospital- Alfaisal University, Saudi Arabia

Dr. Amal AL Tenaiji

Metabolic Genetics Consultant Division of Pediatrics Sheikh Khalifa Medical City, Abu Dhabi, UAE

Dr. Tawfeg Ben Omran

Division Chief, Genetic and Genomic Medicine – Sidra Senior Consultant, Department of Medical Genetics – HMC Professor, Weill Cornell Medical College Professor, College of Health Services, Qatar University

Dr. Hind Alsharhan

Assistant Professor of Pediatrics, Medical and Biochemical Geneticist Department of Pediatrics Kuwait University, Faculty of Medicine, Kuwait

Dr. Fatima Yousif Ismail

Assistant Professor – Consultant UAE University – Tawam /STMC/AQWCH , UAE

Dr. Ahmad Abou Tayoun

Director, Genomic Medicine Center Associate Professor of Genetics Dubai Health, UAE

Dr. Nadia Alhashmi

Head of training section at NGC, Sr. consultant (Medical genetic) Royal Hospital, Oman

Dr. Arif Khan

Section Head, Pediatric & Neuro Ophthalmology Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi, UAE

Dr. Zulf Mughal

Consultant, Paediatric Bone Disorders Al Jalila Children’s Hospital, Dubai, UAE

Dr. Heba El Abd

Medical Genetic Consultant Al Jalila Children's Hospital, Dubai, UAE

Dr. Asma Deeb

Chair of Paediatric Endocrinology Division Sheikh Shakhbout Medical City, Abu Dhabi, UAE

Dr. Sareea Al Remeithi

Consultant Pediatric Endocrinology Sheikh Khalifa Medical City, Abu Dhabi, UAE

Dr. Ken Nischal

Medical Director, Digital Health UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh Assistant Medical Director, UPMC International Medicine Professor of Ophthalmology Co-Executive Officer and Co-Founder, World Society of Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus (WSPOS)

Dr. George V. Mazariegos

Jamie Lee Curtis Professor of Surgery and Critical Care Medicine Chief of Pediatric Transplantation, UPMC Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh Director, Thomas E. Starzl Transplantation Institute, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine Affiliated Faculty, McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine

Dr. Eman Taryam AlShamsi

MBBS, RCPCH Consultant & Acting Head of Pediatric Hematology Oncology – Al Jalila Children’s Specialty Hospital, Dubai, UAE

Dr. Azza Attia

Clinical geneticist, Head of clinical genomics, G42

Dr. Laura Winter-Paquette

Genetic Counsellor Abu Dhabi Health Services Company- SEHA