Thursday, 29 January 2026 (Day 1)
Track 1: Clinical Medicine
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8am to 5.30am
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Registration (for in-person participants)
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Time
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Title
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Speaker
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9am to 5.30pm
Internal Medicine Review Course: “Update and Best Practice in Internal Medicine and its subspecialities”
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8.30am to 10.30am
Update and Best Practice in Rheumatology & Nephrology
Moderators: TBA
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8.30am to 8.45am
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Gout: the disease of kings or the king of diseases?
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TBA
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8.45am to 9am
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Diagnosis and management of mixed connective tissue Disease
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TBA
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9am to 9.15am
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Care of Transplanted Kidney: what should primary physicians need to know?
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Essa Abuhelaiqa (Qatar)
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9.15am to 9.30am
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Advances in the Management of Chronic Kidney Disease
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Dr. Muftah Othman (Qatar)
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9.30am to 9.45am
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Q&A
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9.45am to 10.10am
10.10am to 10.15am
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State-of-the-art the lecture:
Lupus Nephritis: challenging cases
Moderator: Dr Mohamed Elkadi (Qatar)
Q&A
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Dr. Mumtaz Patel (UK)
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9.45am to 10am
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Coffee Break
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10am to 11am
Update and Best Practice in Pulmonary & Allergy Medicine
Moderators: TBA
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10am to 10.15am
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Management of severe asthma: recent updates
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Dr. Hassan Mobyed (Qatar)
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10.15am to 10.30am
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Next-generation Solutions in Cystic Fibrosis Management
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Dr. Mona Al Langawi (Qatar)
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10.30am to 10.45am
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Revolutionizing COPD Treatment: Latest Advances
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Dr. Merlin Thomas (Qatar)
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11.45am to 12pm
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Q&A
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11am to 12pm
Update and Best Practice in Infectious Diseases
Moderators: TBA
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11am to 11.15am
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Vaccination in Adults with Chronic Illness: what’s new and what’s needed?
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Dr. Mohamed Abu Khattab (Qatar)
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11.15am to 11.30am
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The Top 10 Changes in Infectious Diseases that will Impact the Internist in 2026
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Dr. Ali Omrani (Qatar)
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11.30am to 11.45am
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Sepsis: early recognition and management updates
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TBA
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11.45am to 12pm
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Q&A
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12pm to 1pm
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Lunch, Prayer, and Exhibits
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1pm to 2pm
Update and Best Practice in Endocrine and Diabetes
Moderators: TBA
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1pm to 1.15pm
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Fasting with Diabetes: clinical pearls for “Ramadan”
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Dr. Tarik El-Hadd (Qatar)
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1.15pm to 1.30pm
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Novel Treatment of diabetes mellitus type 2
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TBA
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1.30pm to 1.45pm
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Management of Cardiovascular Diseases in Type 2 Diabetic Patients
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Dr. Haval Surchi (Qatar)
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1.45pm to 2pm
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Q & A
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2pm to 3pm
Update and Best Practice in Gastroenterology and Hepatology
Moderators: TBA
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2pm to 2.15pm
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Hepatitis B and C in 2026: What’s new in screening and treatment?
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Prof. Faisal Abaalkhail (KSA)
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2.15pm to 2.30pm
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Managing Cirrhosis and Portal Hypertension
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TBA
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2.15pm to 2.30pm
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Colorectal Cancer Screening in Qatar: uptake and challenges
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Dr. Anil John (Qatar)
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2.45pm to 3pm
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Q & A
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3pm to 3.25pm
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Prayer & Coffee Break
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3.30pm to 5:30pm
Satellite Symposium: From Pressure to Pump: Navigating Hypertension, Dyslipidemia and Heart Failure
Moderators: TBA
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3.30pm to 3.50pm
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Update in Diagnosis and Management of Dyslipidemia
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TBA
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3.50pm to 4.10pm
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What’s New with Hypertension - guidelines and management?
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Dr. Ahmed Abdalrahim (USA)
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4.10pm to 4.30pm
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Resistant Hypertension: What is new?
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Dr. Ali Rahil (Qatar)
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4.30pm to 4.50pm
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Heart Failure Management in 2026 and beyond
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Dr. Fahad Alkendi (Oman)
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4.50pm to 5.10pm
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Spotting the Silent Killer: blood pressure targets in intracranial hemorrhage
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Dr. Waqar Gaba (UAE)
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5.10pm to 5.30pm
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Q & A
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Track 2: Medical Innovation and Academic Medicine
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1pm to 3pm
Topic: Meet the Expert Sessions
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1pm to 2pm
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Carrier Guide in Digital Health and Healthcare Artificial Intelligence
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Prof. Mahmood Adil (UK)
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1pm to 2pm
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Artificial Intelligence, Apps, and beyond: expert prospectives on technology in education
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TBA
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Track 3: Clinical Pharmacy, Nurses and Allied Health
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TBA
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Track 4: Trauma and Critical Care
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Thursday, 29 January 2026
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DAY 1 [Innovations in] Common Conditions in Trauma/Critical Care
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2pm to 3pm
[12 min each]
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VTE Prophylaxis for the Polytrauma Patient: duration, dosing & drugs
Session Chair: Dr. A. Kloub, Doha, Qatar
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Blunt Carotid Injury: Anticouagulate or Wait? – Dr. F. Alishaq, Doha, Qatar
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Perioperative Management of Thromboprophylaxis – Dr. K. Elnagar, Doha, Qatar
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Extended Thromboprophylaxis for Orthopedic Trauma – Dr. M. Khan, Doha, Qatar
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Management of Thromboprophylaxis in Polytrauma with TBI– Dr. A. Kloub, Doha, Qatar
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Open Discussion and Q&A
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3pm to 4pm
[12 min each]
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Current Dilemmas in Critical Care for the Injured
Session Chair: Dr. A. Parchani, Doha, Qatar
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ECMO & Severe TBI – Dr. A. Yusof, Doha, Qatar
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Traumatic Aortic Injury & Severe TBI - Dr. H. Al-Thani, Doha, Qatar
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Unsalvageable and Salvageable TBI: Neurosurgical Perspective – Dr. TBD
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Open Discussion and Q&A
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4pm to 5pm
[12 min each]
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Empowering Caregivers for End-of-Life Decision Making
Session Chair: Dr. G. Strandvik, Doha, Qatar
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Trauma and frailty - how can we know when doing absolutely everything is absolutely the wrong thing in elderly trauma victims? – Dr. G. Strandvik, Doha, Qatar
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Religious implications for withholding and withdrawing life-sustaining therapy in futile cases, in the GCC – Dr. M. Ghaly, HBKU, Doha, Qatar
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Prognostication in TBI – how to manage end of life in the elderly brain injured patient– Prof. R. Geocadin, Baltimore, USA
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Open Discussion and Q&A
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5pm to 6pm
[12 min each]
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Mental Health Care for the Acutely Injured: Gaza Experience
Session Chair: Dr. T. Agarwal, Doha, Qatar
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Culturally sensitive v. routine CBT Systematic review [Hybrid]
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Healing Across Cultures: Reimagining Trauma Care for Qatar’s Diverse Communities – S. Ahmad, Doha, Qatar [Hybrid]
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Dr. Tulika
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Gaza patients
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Open Discussion and Q&A
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