Radiologist Conference Program 2020 

Dr. Kashgari is board certified by the Saudi Board of Radiology. She graduated with an honor degree. She continued her training at IWK health center, Dalhousie university, Halifax Canada in Paediatric radiology and Paediatric Neuroradiology. She has been in practice at KAMC, Riyadh since completing her fellowship in July 2012. She has a special interest in advance MRI neuroimaging in Paediatric and metabolic brain disorders. She has established my interest and goals to work for all paediatric patient’s safety including tailoring radiology examination for individual patient to decrease radiation. Recently, she was the Chairman of the academic community in the Medical imaging department at KAMC,Riyadh and the director for the residency training program from 2016-2019. She has several local and international presentation in pediatric radiology.

Dhananjaya Kotebagilu has completed Radiodiagnosis post-graduation in 2012 at Manipal University, India and Paediatric Radiology Fellowship in 2015 at University of Ioannina, Greece. He is assistant Professor in Department of Paediatric Radiology at Indira Gandhi Institute of Child Health, Bengaluru, India. He has many publications and also peer reviewer in few journals. Many national and international awards for his scientific research presentation at national and international conferences. Most promising Radiologist at Healthcare Senate- 2019, India.

Dr. Shyam Mohan is a Consultant Paediatric Radiologist, currently working at Sheikh Khalifa Medical City, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. Dr. Shyam graduated from Calicut Medical college, Kerala, India in 2003 with a Gold medals in Surgery and Obstetrics and Gynecology. He then pursued training in Clinical Paediatrics in the United Kingdom, obtaining his Membership of the Royal college of Paediatrics and Child Health in 2007. He then pursued radiology training at Queens Medical Centre, Nottingham, UK, obtaining his FRCR in 2012 and CCT (Certificate of completion of training) in 2012. He then undertook a Fellowship programme in Paediatric Radiology and Paediatric Neuroradiology at the Hospital for Sick kids, Toronto, Canada. Following his fellowship, in 2015, Dr Shyam joined as Consultant Paediatric Radiologist at Birmingham Children’s hospital, United Kingdom, one of the largest dedicated children’s hospitals in the United Kingdom, which delivers quaternary care to children from all over the country, including all specialized services such as epilepsy neurosurgery, organ transplantation, and paediatric cardiac surgery. In 2018, Dr. Shyam joined the Sheikh Khlaifa Medical City, the largest public sector tertiary hospital in the United Arab Emirates, to help establish a dedicated Paediatric radiology unit. Dr Shyam has actively published in peer reviewed journal and is a keen educator, contributing to the radiology residency programmes both in the UK and UAE

Graduated from Ain Shams University in 1982 and joined the Radiology Department at its hospital where he worked till 1994 receiving Radiology Master of Science Degree (MScR) in 1886 and Radiology Doctorate Degree (PhD) in 1990 Post-graduate training included extended periods of time spent in the mid 1980s at the Radiology Departments of Cardiff University Hospital and Neville Hall Hospital, both in Wales, UK. In 1994 accepted post of Lecturer of Radiology at Suez Canal University and was promoted to Associate Professor in 1999 and full Professor in 2004 Member of the Egyptian Radiological Society since 1987, the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA) since 1994 and Emirates.

Senior Specialist Radiologist Co-director Radiology Residency program Rashid Hospital Dubai, UAE

City in Abu Dhabi since June 2018 . He had worked as a consultant radiologist at the Barking, Havering & Redbridge University Hospitals in North East London, United Kingdom. He obtained the fellowship of the Royal College of Radiologist , UK in 2013 and completed his radiology training at the Sheffield Teaching Hospitals and King’s College Hospital, London. Afterwards he completed a one year musculoskeletal imaging fellowship at the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital, Stanmore in Harrow which is one of the internationally renowned super-tertiary bone tumour centre. His sub-speciality interests include various aspects of muculoskeletal imaging with particular emphasis upon trauma & sports imaging as well as bone & soft tissue sarcoma imaging. He leads the musculoskeletal ultrasound service at his hospital and performs image-guided musculoskeletal interventions regularly including MR arthrography and CT-guided bone biopsies. He has presented nationally in the UK as well as in the European continent. He is a keen teacher and is one of the key faculty members for the radiology residency programme in Abu Dhabi. He has also published in renowned radiology journals and is a great believer in fostering collaborations with his clinical colleagues to help improve the delivery of patient-centred healthcare

He joined Jordan University Hospital and finished his Jordanian board and Arab board in diagnostic radiology. Then he moved to the UK and finished FRCR in London. He was a former Fellow in MSK radiology in Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital. Currently he works in Rashid Hospital- Dubai-UAE He performs MSK related interventional procedures. He has an interest in research and audit.

Assistant Lecturer of radio diagnosis at National Cancer Institute- Cairo university.

Specialist in Radiology with special expertise in musculoskeletal disorders and MRI. He has a long productive academic career; and he is the author of several books and articles in Radiology.

Jay P. Heiken, MD, FACR, is Professor of Radiology at the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine. Prior to that he was on the faculty of the Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology at the Washington University School of Medicine for 35 years. He served as Director of Abdominal Imaging at Washington University for 15 years and as Co-director of Body Computed Tomography for 24 years. Dr. Heiken has co-authored 138 peer-reviewed articles, 43 book chapters and invited publications, and has edited and co-authored 6 books. He has presented scientific papers at conferences across the United States, lectured as a visiting professor in more than 60 national and international universities, and has taught more than 240 courses and symposia. Dr. Heiken has received the Gold Medal of both the Society of Abdominal Radiology and the International Cancer Imaging Society. He has received the Resident’s Distinguished Teaching Award from the Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology and the Visiting Professor Award from the Society of Gastrointestinal Radiologists.

Chief and Distinguished Barbara N. Weissman Chair Division of Musculoskeletal Imaging and Intervention Department of Radiology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital Imaging Director, STRATUS Center for Simulation in Medicine Assistant Professor - Harvard Medical School Boston, MA, USA

Jay P. Heiken, MD, FACR, is Professor of Radiology at the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine. Prior to that he was on the faculty of the Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology at the Washington University School of Medicine for 35 years. He served as Director of Abdominal Imaging at Washington University for 15 years and as Co-director of Body Computed Tomography for 24 years. Dr. Heiken has co-authored 138 peer-reviewed articles, 43 book chapters and invited publications, and has edited and co-authored 6 books. He has presented scientific papers at conferences across the United States, lectured as a visiting professor in more than 60 national and international universities, and has taught more than 240 courses and symposia. Dr. Heiken has received the Gold Medal of both the Society of Abdominal Radiology and the International Cancer Imaging Society. He has received the Resident’s Distinguished Teaching Award from the Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology and the Visiting Professor Award from the Society of Gastrointestinal Radiologists.

Chief and Distinguished Barbara N. Weissman Chair Division of Musculoskeletal Imaging and Intervention Department of Radiology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital Imaging Director, STRATUS Center for Simulation in Medicine Assistant Professor - Harvard Medical School Boston, MA, USA

Jay P. Heiken, MD, FACR, is Professor of Radiology at the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine. Prior to that he was on the faculty of the Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology at the Washington University School of Medicine for 35 years. He served as Director of Abdominal Imaging at Washington University for 15 years and as Co-director of Body Computed Tomography for 24 years. Dr. Heiken has co-authored 138 peer-reviewed articles, 43 book chapters and invited publications, and has edited and co-authored 6 books. He has presented scientific papers at conferences across the United States, lectured as a visiting professor in more than 60 national and international universities, and has taught more than 240 courses and symposia. Dr. Heiken has received the Gold Medal of both the Society of Abdominal Radiology and the International Cancer Imaging Society. He has received the Resident’s Distinguished Teaching Award from the Mallinckrodt Institute of Radiology and the Visiting Professor Award from the Society of Gastrointestinal Radiologists.

Chief and Distinguished Barbara N. Weissman Chair Division of Musculoskeletal Imaging and Intervention Department of Radiology, Brigham and Women’s Hospital Imaging Director, STRATUS Center for Simulation in Medicine Assistant Professor - Harvard Medical School Boston, MA, USA

PhD in radiodiagnosis and nuclear medicine, Ain Shams university, Cairo, Egypt 2012. Associate professor of radiodiagnosis in Ain Shams University , Cairo, Egypt Specialist radiologist in medcare hospital since 2015 till now. Has many publications in EJRNM.

PhD in radiodiagnosis and nuclear medicine, Ain Shams university, Cairo, Egypt 2012. Associate professor of radiodiagnosis in Ain Shams University , Cairo, Egypt Specialist radiologist in medcare hospital since 2015 till now. Has many publications in EJRNM.

Dr. Usama AlBastaki M.D is currently consultant radiologist and acting director of clinical imaging in DHA. He has special interest in cardiac MRI as he has level 2 certificate from the society of the cardiovascular magnetic resonance (SCMR). He is currently the president of the radiology society of the Emirates (RSE).

Visiting Consultant Radiologist and Clinical Tutor at Prince Hamzeh and AlBashir Hospitals since 2 years Consultant Radiologist and Clinical Tutor; BODY AND CHEST IMAGING SECTION, for the last 9 years at PRINCE SULTAN MILITARY MEDICAL CITY (the largest tertiary hospital in KSA with about 1700 beds, all subspecialties are available, recognized for post graduate residency and fellowship programs, I am extensively involved in teaching process. Chairman of organizing committee of BODY IMAGING COURSE held in Riyadh 2014 for 3 days, the first comprehensive course in body imaging specialty in KSA. He participates in many other conferences as a lectures

Dr. Fontanella is an Abdominal and Gastrointestinal Consultant Radiologist based in Benevento, Italy. His Alma Mater is the historical Vanvitelli University in Naples. His path in GI Radiology began at St. Mark's Hospital in London, where he perfected his knowledge in a competitive and top-level environment. He conducts both clinical activity and research, with the focus on constant testing, innovation and optimisation of all imaging techniques to the needs of the clinical practice. He is currently working on gel-enhanced MR Fistulography (which was well received at ECR 2019), Dynamic Barium Swallow and the brand-new Virtual Gastroscopy.

Dr. Stefania Romano works as a high specialist radiologist for the Emergency and Elective Gastrointestinal Radiology at the Department of Diagnostic Imaging at “Santa Maria delle Grazie” Hospital in Pozzuoli, Italy. Her main field of interest and scientific research is abdominal and gastrointestinal radiology in elective and emergency conditions with more than 135 publications mainly in this area. She has been an invited speaker at many international meetings on these topics. Actively involved in teaching activity at the Brno Masaryk University as visiting Professor of Radiology since 2003, she is a Fellow of the European Society of Gastrointestinal Radiology (ESGAR), as well as a member of the Society of Abdominal Radiology (SAR), Radiologic Society of North America (RSNA), American Society of Emergency Radiology (ASER), European Society of Radiology (ESR), American Roentgen Ray Society (ARRS) and the Italian Society of Radiology (SIRM). Dr Romano is an active member of the American Association of Women Radiologists (AAWR) and has served on the association’s International Committee (2011) and Membership Committee (2012). Dr. Romano has been a member of (2009-2011) and Chaired (2013) the European Congress of Radiology (ECR) Gastrointestinal Subcommittee. She has also acted as a member of the Radiographics Selection Committee for RSNA 2007–2019 and RSNA Education Exhibits Awards Committee 2012-2017. She was the RSNA International Visiting Professor in Thailand in 2019. Dr. Romano is involved as Editor-in-Chief, Associate Editor, Guest Editor and peer reviewer for a range of international professional Journals in the field of Clinical Radiology. She was the recipient of the ARRS Lee R. Rogers AJR International Fellowship (2007) and served the American Journal of Radiology as International liaison (2008-2011). She is actually the Editor-in-Chief for the European Journal of Radiology Open (EJRO); she served as Associate Editor and Section Editor leader for the Abdominal-GI-GU (2006-2017) and Responsible for the Special Issues (2010-2018) for the European Journal of Radiology (EJR) and she has also guest-edited seven special issues for that Journal. She has acted as Guest Editor of an edition of Radiologic Clinics of North America (Diagnostic Imaging of Gastrointestinal Ischemia and Infarction) and is currently on the editorial boards of EJRO, the Journal of Computer Assisted Tomography, and Ceska Radiologie.

Dr. Naser Almehairbi is a specialist Radiologist with clinical experience from Egypt, UAE and Canada. He is medical graduate from Cairo University, Egypt. He is a certified radiologist from The Royal College of Radiologists, United Kingdom and from the Arab Board of health specialization. Dr. Naser has a special interest in paediatric imaging and is a member of the Radiology Society of North America. Dr. Naser specialises in Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), Computed Tomography (CT), Ultrasound and Color Doppler Imaging, fluoroscopy and X-ray imaging.

F R C R (LONDON, UK) Fellowship - Body Imaging & Non Vascular Intervention (St Paul Hospital, UBC, Vancouver, Canada) M.D. (RADIODIAGNOSIS) P.G.I.M.E.R. (CHANDIGARH), INDIA. D.N.B. (RADIODIAGNOSIS)

Dr. Hoda Darwish is an Associate Professor of Radiology at Suez Canal University, Egypt. She completed her residency at Suez Canal University. Egypt, and received her Masters degree in 1998 and her MD in radiology in 2005. She is also a Consultant at the department of radiology, Dallah Hospital, Riyadh, KSA since 2008. She received a diploma in Muscloskeletal ultrasound in 2015 from Universidad Católica San Antonio de Murcia (UCAM), Spain

Lecturer of Radiology at Faculty of Medicine, Cairo University with sub specialty in Thoracic Imaging

A MBBS graduate, a certified DMRD.from DOW University of Health Sciences. Working as WMO with Govt of Sindh at Ruth KM Pfau Civil Hospital Karachi since 2017 in Radiology department. Currently on deputation as PG II at Department of Radiology & Cyber knife Robotic Radio Surgery, Jinnah Post Medical Center for completion of post graduate training in Radiology.

Dr. Adil is the head of department at Danat Emirates Hospital for women & children, Abu Dhabi, UAE and adjunct Clinical Associate Professor & Scientific Coordinator of Postgraduate study in Women’s Imaging, University of Sharjah, UAE. His current practice involves General radiology including most advanced CT & MRI examinations like HRCT of lung, CTA coronary, CT Colonography, MSK MRI, Breast MRI, MR Enterography & imaging guided non-vascular interventions. Special interest in pediatric and Women’s imaging including Breast Imaging, Ob/Gyn, Fetal Anatomy Scan, Fetal MRI, and Advanced Fetal Echocardiography.

Dr. Anjum Ahmed began his clinical career as a General Physician, and over the last 21 years has been focused on solutions innovation and change management initiatives, helping set the path to digital transformation and care innovation throughout hospitals, health authorities, and government initiatives across USA, Canada, Latin America, UK, Europe, Middle East, South Africa and Asia Pacific.