CONFIRMED Faculty Members

Prof. Abdullah M. Aldalaan, MD
President, Saudi Association for
Pulmonary Hypertension (SAPH)
Consultant, Pulmonary Medicine
Director, Pulmonary Hypertension Program,
Lung Health Center
King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre
Professor of Medicine, Alfaisal University
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Prof. Olivier Sitbon, MD, PhD
Professor of Respiratory Medicine,
Pulmonary Hypertension Reference Center (PulmoTension)
Department of Respiratory and Intensive Care Medicine
Bicêtre Hospital, Paris-Saclay University
Paris, France

Prof. Luke Howard, MD, DPhil, FRCP
Consultant Pulmonologist, Hammersmith Hospital,
Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, London
Professor of Practice (Cardiopulmonary Medicine),
National Heart & Lung Institute, Imperial College London
London, UK

Prof. Kristin B. Highland, MD, MSCR
Director, Rheumatic Lung Diseasee Program
Research Officer, Respiratory Institute
Associate Program Director for Research and
Scholarly Activity, PCCM Fellowship
Cleveland, Ohio, USA

Prof. Steven D. Nathan, MD
Medical Director, Advanced Lung Disease
and Transplant Program
Inova Fairfax Hospital
Falls Church, Virginia, USA

Prof. Sanjay Mehta, MDCM, FRCP(C)
Medical Director, Southwest Ontario Pulmonary
Hypertension Clinic
London Health Sciences Centre
Professor of Medicine,
Centre for Critical Illness Research
Lawson Health Research Institute
Associate Editor, Pulmonary Vascular Diseases
Canadian Journal of Respiratory,
Critical Care, and Sleep Medicine
London, Ontario, Canada

Ragdah Hussain Arif, MD, FRCPC, ABIM
Chairman, Scientific Committee
Consultant, Pulmonologist and Pulmonary Hypertension
Assistant Professor, King Abdulaziz
University/Hospital
Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

Faisal A. Alandejani, MD, PhD
Physician Scientist, Pulmonary Hypertension
Assistant Professor,
King Abdulaziz University/Hospital
Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

Prof. Jean-Luc Vachiéry, MD
Clinical Professor of Cardiology,
Director, Pulmonary Vascular Diseases and
Heart Failure Clinic,
Hôpital Erasme – Cliniques
Universitaires de Bruxelles
Brussels, Belgium

Karen Osborn
Chief Executive Officer
Pulmonary Vascular Research Institute (PVRI)
London, UK

Noura Alturaif, MD
Consultant, Pulmonary and
Pulmonary Hypertension
Lung Health Department
King Faisal Specialist Hospital and
Research Centre
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Prof. Sean Gaine, MB, PhD, FRCPI
Consultant, Respiratory Physician
Mater Misericordiae University Hospital
Director, National Pulmonary Hypertension Unit
Dublin, Ireland

Prof. Marius M. Hoeper, MD
Physician, Intensive Care Unit
Department of Respiratory Medicine,
Hannover Medical School
Hannover, Germany

Prof. Irene M. Lang, MD
Clinical Cardiologist
Professor of Vascular Biology
Department of Cardiology
AKH-Vienna, Medical University of Vienna
Vienna, Austria

Faisal Aloufi, MD
Consultant, Cardiothoracic Radiologist
Cardiothoracic Imaging Fellowship in
University of Toronto, Canada
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Abdullah M. Alkhodair, MD, FRCPC
Consultant, Interventional Cardiology /
Pulmonary Hypertension
Adult Cardiology Program Director
King Fahad Medical City
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Prof. Fowzan Alkuraya, MD, PhD
Chairman of the Department of Translational Genomics
King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre
Professor of Human Genetics at Alfaisal University
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Prof. Majdy Idrees, MD, FRCPC, FPVRI
Head, Pulmonary Vascular Unit
Prince Sultan Military Medical City
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Ali Omar Abu Alsaud, MD
Interventional Cardiologist,
Adult Congenital Heart Disease Specialist
MacGill University
Montreal, Canada

Mohammed Alnoor, MD
Fellow, Pulmonary Medicine Department,
King Faisal Specialist Hospital and
Research Centre
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Prof. Paul B. Yu, MD, PhD
Director, Cardiovascular Research Center
Cardiology Division
Massachusetts General Hospital
Associate Professor of Medicine
Harvard Medical School
Boston, USA

Prof. Wook-Jin Chung, MD, PhD, FACC
Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine,
Gachon University College of Medicine
Director, Planning and Coordination Office,
Gachon University Gil Medical Center
Director, Gachon Cardiovascular
Research Institute, Gachon University
President, Korean Pulmonary Hypertension Society (KPHS)
President, East Asian Society of
Pulmonary Hypertension (EASOPH)
Incheon, South Korea

Regina Steringer-Mascherbauer, MD
Cardiology, Internal Medicine
Elisabethinen Hospital Linz
Linz, Austria

Prof. H Ardeschir Ghofrani, MD
Professor, Pulmonary Vascular Research,
Justus Liebig University, Giessen, Germany
Head, Pulmonary Hypertension Division,
Pulmonary Vascular Research Institute
University Hospital in Giessen
Giessen, Germany

Saleh Al Dammas, MD
Consultant, Pulmonary and Sleep Medicine
Prince Sultan Military Medical City
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Hani Sabbour, MD, FACC, FHRS, FASE
Consultant Cardiologist
Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi
Abu Dhabi, UAE

Fayez K. Alahmadi, MD
Consultant, Pulmonary Medicine,
Pulmonary Hypertension and Balloon
Pulmonary Angioplasty,
King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Khaled M. Alobaidellah, MD, FRCPC
Consultant Adult Pulmonary,
Pulmonary Hypertension,
Pulmonary Medicine Division,
Prince Sultan Military Medical City
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Ioana R. Preston, MD
Consultant, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine
Associate Professor of Medicine,
Tufts University School of Medicine
Boston, Massachusetts, USA

Prof. Pavel Jansa, MD, PhD
Head, Centre for Pulmonary Hypertension
2nd Department of Medicine,
Department of Cardiovascular Medicine
First Faculty of Medicine,
Charles University and General University Hospital
(Member of the European Reference Network ERN-LUNG,
Core Network – Pulmonary Hypertension)
Prague, Czech Republic

Hussam Sakkijha, MD
Consultant, Pulmonary,
Critical Care and Sleep Medicine
King Fahad Medical City,
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Shaya Ahmed Alshaya, MD
Consultant, Pulmonary, Pulmonary Hypertension
Program Director of
C2 Adult Pulmonary Fellowship Program
Program Director of
C2 Internal Medicine Residency Program
King Fahad Medical City
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Mostafa Elshazly, MD
Chairman, Respiratory Crtical Care Unit
Kasr AlAnyini School of Medicine,
Cairo University
Cairo, Egypt

Badr Alzahrani, MD, FACC
Consultant Interventional Cardiology
American Board of Internal medicine,
Cardiology and Interventional Cardiology,
Prince Sultan Cardiac Center
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Hanan Fan, MD
Consultant Pulmonologist
Head of Pulmonary Division
King Fahd Armed Forces Hospital
Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

Bader J. Alghamdi, MD
Consultant, Pulmonary Medicine, Pulmonary
Hypertension, and Clinical Cardiopulmonary Exercise Testing
Assistant Professor in King Saud bin Abdulaziz
University for Health Sciences (KSAU-HS)
Section Head of Respirology and Director of
Respirology Fellowship Training Program
Ministry of National Guard
Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

Prof. Ayman A. H. Farghaly, MD
Professor of Pulmonology,
Military Medical Academy
Director of PH Programme
Air Forces Specialized Hospital
& International Medical Center
Cairo, Egypt

Nawal Al Gubaisi, MD, SSC-Med, SF-PD
Consultant Pulmonologist
Pulmonary Hypertension Specialist
Head of Pulmonary Medicine Unit
King Fahad Medical Military Complex
Dhahran, Saudi Arabia

Nasser Al Busaidi, MBBS, FRCP (UK), FRCPI
Senior Consultant Pulmonologist
Department of Medicine, Royal Hospital
Sultanate of Oman
President, Oman Respiratory Society
Muscat, Oman

Prof. Jae-Hyeong Park, MD, PhD
Professor of Internal Medicine,
Chungnam National University
Consultant Cardiologist,
Chungnam National University Hospital
Secretary General,
Korean Pulmonary Hypertension Society (KPHS)
Daejeon, South Korea

Yasmin Celes Lagua, RPFT
Supervisor, Pulmonary Function Test Unit
King Fahad Medical City
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Hall Skaara, BCA
Project Consultant, PHA Europe
President, Norwegian Pulmonary Hypertension
Patient Association
Oslo, Norway

Matthew J. Granato, LL.M., MBA
President & CEO, Pulmonary
Hypertension Association
Washington, DC, USA

Abdullah Alharbi, MBBS
Internal Medicine Assistant Consultant
Adult pulmonary Fellow
King Abdulaziz Medical City (NGHA)
Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

Mai Alzaydi, PhD
Researcher in Mitochondrial and Vascular Biology
General Manager, Bioengineering Institute
King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology (KACST)
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Bader Abdulmohsin AlTayyar, BsRC, RPFT
Senior Respiratory Therapist
Respiratory Care Administration
King Fahad Medical City
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia