International Guest Speakers

  • Michel GagnerMD, FRCSC, FACS, FASMBS, FSSO, Chief, Department of Surgery, Westmount Square Surgical Center, Montreal, Canada​
  • Nathalie Farpour-LambertMD, PhD, Head of the Global Obesity Program, University Hospitals of Geneva, Switzerland
  • Osama Hamdy, MD, PhD, FACE, Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Medical Director, Obesity Clinical Program, Joslin Diabetes Center, Boston MA, USA​
  • Billy Helmuth, MD, FASMBS, Director of Bariatric and Metabolic Surgery, Ventura Advanced Surgical Associates, Ventura, California USA
  • Antonio J. Torres, MD, PhD., F.A.C.S, FASMBS, Professor of Surgery, Complutense University of Madrid, Chief of the General and Digestive Surgery Service, Clínico San Carlos Hospital, Madrid, Spain​

Hamad Medical Corporation

  • Kassim Alanee, MD, Senior Consultant, Anesthesia, NBC, QMI, HMC
  • Turki Faris Al-Ahbabi, MD, Associate Consultant, NBC, QMI, HMC
  • Sahar Al-Shamari, BSc, HUN, MPH, Head Dietician, QMI, HMC
  • Buthaina Alowinati, MD, FACE, Director, NOTC, QMI, HMC
  • Mohammed Al-Kuwari, MD, Senior Consultant, NBC, HMC
  • Moataz Bashah MD, FASMBS & FACS, Director, NBC, QMI, HMC
  • Hajar Dauleh, MD, Hospitalist, Sidra Medicine
  • Wahiba Elhag, MD, Bariatric Fellowship Program Director, NBC, QMI, HMC
  • Nasrein Elkomy, MD, Associate Consultant, Gastroenterology, HMC
  • Mohamed ElSherif, MD, PhD, Consultant, NBC, QMI
  • Jassim Fakhro, MD, Senior Consultant, The View Hospital
  • Marwa Mokhtar, MD, Consultant, NOTC, QMI, HMC
  • Noor Suleiman​, MD, Consultant, NOTC, QMI, HMC
  • Davit Sargsyan, MD, Senior Consultant, NBC, QMI, HMC

Conference Moderators

  • Wajiha Abuhelaiqa, MD, Senior Consultant, NOTC, QMI, HMC
  • Tariq Chukir, MD, Consultant, NOTC, QMI, HMC, and Sidra Medicine
  • Mohamad Al Emadi, MD, Senior Consultant, Bariatric & General Surgery, Al Emadi Hospital
  • Abdulazim Hussain, MD, Chairman of Surgery, Al-Ahil Hospital
  • Yassmin Ibrahim​​, Specialist, MD, NBC, QMI, HMC
  • Sama Al-Juboori, MD, Consultant, NBC, QMI, HMC
  • Radwan Kassir, MD, PHD, HDR, Professor of Surgery, The View Hospital
  • Mashhood Siddique, MD, Consultant, Endo/ Diabetes, NOTC, QMI, HMC
  • Mohammed Rizwan​, MD, Consultant, NBC, QMI, HMC​

Abstract Review Committee

  • Wahiba Elhag MD, Bariatric Fellow Program Director, NBC, QMI, HMC
  • Tawheeda Babikes Hamid Ibrahim MD, Specialist, NBC, QMI, HMC
  • Odette Chagouory, PhD, Director of Operations, Qatar Diabetes Research Center, QMI, HMC
  • Asaad Fayrouz Ali Salaman MD, Consultant, NBC, QMI, HMC
  • Hamed Mohamed Hammoud MD, Specialist, NOTC, QMI, HMCs
  • Noor Suleiman​ MD, Consultant, NOTC, QMI, HMC

Organizers