LEARN FROM THE BEST
ARM Conference features two tracks put together for Radiologist and Radiographers.
We bring together world renowned speakers who are committed to educating their fellow radiologists and radiographers on best practices as well as addressing core issues faced by medical professionals in the field of Radiology. The interactive sessions across the 3-day program will help find solutions to the problems and pitfalls in Radiology.
WHY ATTEND?
ARM is considered as a unique and the premier radiology event in the Middle East, creating a regional platform to exchange ideas and practices in the Radiology Industry. Over the years, ARM has grown to be one of the most prominent radiology events on every stakeholder’s calendar.
- ARM delivers a 3-day impactful program that covers topics such as Pediatric Imaging, Emergency Radiology, Mammography, Cardiac Imaging, Neuroradiology and much more
- ARM will help you gain up to 20 CME hours required for maintaining your achieved certification
- ARM is a perfect platform to network with market leaders and identify innovative solutions to enhance overall patient experience with time and cost-efficient methods.


Events such as The Annual Radiology Meeting in UAE is essential, as it supports knowledge and skill transfer among radiologists, clinicians in other specialties, and industry professionals, as well as provide an insight into the latest technologies that will help enhance patients’ experience and management.
Prof. Edward Y. Lee
Chief of the Division of Thoracic Imaging, Associate Professor of Radiology and President of the International Society of Pediatric Thoracic Imaging, Department of Radiology at the Boston Children's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, USA

ARM is a very useful meeting with a high-quality program and great speakers! I am very impressed with most of the attendees, they were well informed and experienced. It is important that we attend such kind of meetings to benefit from healthy medical discussions. Overall, it was a very good event, I really enjoyed it.
Dr. Ramy M. Mansour
Professor of Dermatology, Varese, Italy
2023 Featured Speakers

Aju Pazhenkottil
Senior Consultant in Cardiac Imaging | Switzerland

Aju Pazhenkottil
Senior Consultant in Cardiac Imaging
University Hospital of Zürich, Switzerland
Dr. Aju Pazhenkottil, MD FESC is a Senior Consultant in Cardiac Imaging working at the University Hospital of Zürich, Switzerland with almost 15 years of experience in the field of Cardiac Computed Tomography, Nuclear Cardiology, Echocardiography, and Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging. Dr. Pazhenkottil graduated from the University of Zurich and was trained in Cardiology/Cardiac Imaging at the University Hospital of Zurich, Switzerland. In addition, he completed a fellowship in Cardiac Magnetic Resonance Imaging at the Charité University in Berlin, Germany.
Lectures by this speaker
Wednesday, 2023-11-01
Exploring advancement in cardiac imaging
11:00 - 11:20
Wednesday, 2023-11-01
Cardiac Hybrid Imaging
12:00 - 12:20

Cristina M Vasilica
Associate Professor (Reader) in Digital Health, Head of Digital Engagement, UoS | United Kingdom

Cristina M Vasilica
Associate Professor (Reader) in Digital Health, Head of Digital Engagement, UoS
School of Health and Society, University of Salford
Cristina is a Reader in Digital Health, and Head of Digital Engagement, the School of Health & Society, UoS. She worked in the industry in digital business development before joining Academia. Cristina has a sustained record of high impact research, for which she received prestigious awards. Her work is organised into intertwined workstreams – digital engagement, digital methods, and digital divide/literacy - spanning across disciplines to make more effective use of resources, strengthen impact and long-term sustainability in digital health. Relevant projects include implementing, evaluating, and expanding the Kidney Information Network, an online community for renal patients, for which she received an innovation award (2015) and the Big Chip Digital Awards (2018).

Madan Rehani
Director | USA

Madan Rehani
Director
Global Outreach for Radiation Protection at the Massachusetts General Hospital
Dr. Madan Rehani is Director, Global Outreach for Radiation Protection at the Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston. He was President, IOMP (2018- 2022) and is currently President IUPESM. He is a retired Professor of Medical Physics and also retired from the IAEA where he worked for 11 years. He was Head of the WHO Collaborating Center on Imaging Technology and Radiation Protection in India. Dr. Rehani is an Emeritus Member, International Commission on Radiological Protection (ICRP), having been active member for 24 years. He is author of 9 Annals of ICRP, 4 of which as Chair and lead author. He is the Senior editor British J Radiology and Assoc Editor, Eur J Medical Physics. He has more than 180 publications, has written 40 chapters in Books and edited 5 books. Besides medical physics & radiology journals, he has published papers in clinical journals e.g. JAMA Intern Med, Br Med J, Eur Heart J, Cardiovascular Imaging, Am J Gastroenterol, Circulation J, The Lancet.

Danoob Dalili
Consultant Musculoskeletal Interventional Radiologist | United Kingdom

Danoob Dalili
Consultant Musculoskeletal Interventional Radiologist
SouthWest London Elective Orthopaedic Centre, London, UK
Dr. Dalili is a triple fellowship-trained Consultant Musculoskeletal radiologist with expertise in all aspects of diagnostic and image-guided treatments for orthopaedic, sports, rheumatological, and spine conditions. He graduated from St Bartholomew’s Hospital, University of London in 2010, initially training in plastic surgery. Thereafter he undertook specialist clinical radiology training which he completed at Imperial College London, including St Marys, Charing cross, Hammersmith, Royal Brompton, Great Ormond Street, Royal National Orthopaedic, Chelsea and Westminster Hospitals and Oxford University Hospitals at the John Radcliffe, Churchill and the Nuffield Orthopaedic centre. His subsequent clinical and research experience has spanned Europe, including France and Switzerland and the United States, including a prestigious scholarship at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.
Lectures by this speaker
Tuesday, 2023-10-31
Percutaneous Cryoneurolysis of Morton’s Neuroma: a viable alternative to surgery?
08:50 - 09:10
Thursday, 2023-11-02
Ultrasound Guided Interventions in the Upper Limb: How I do it
09:30 - 09:50
Thursday, 2023-11-02
Spine Intervention with Ultrasound/MRI Fusion Guidance: Real World Experience
15:30 - 15:50

Ahmed El Sarafi
Professor of Radiology | Egypt

Ahmed El Sarafi
Professor of Radiology
Sharjah University, Gulf Medical University, Suez Canal University, UAE
He is the Professor of Radiology, Suez Canal University, Ismailia, Egypt. He is also Professor of Radiology, Sharjah University and Gulf Medical. Dr. Ahmed also serves as the University Member of Advisory Board Sharjah University and Gulf Medical University. He was also the CEO International Radiology Center and Meridian Healthcare. He has keen interest in Cross sectional Imaging, Imaging Informatics, Artificial Intelligence. Dr Ahmed is also the Author of AI Chapter in Healthcare in UAE book.
Lectures by this speaker
Thursday, 2023-11-02
Artificial Intelligence in Medical Imaging
16:30 - 17:00

John J Totman
Associate Professor and Head of Radiography and Medical Imaging | United Arab Emirates

John J Totman
Associate Professor and Head of Radiography and Medical Imaging
Fatima College of Health Science, Abu Dhabi and Al Ain Campuses, UAE
Registered practicing radiographer with 33 years of clinical and research imaging and teaching experience. Having 8 years general radiography experience covering trauma, pediatrics, angiography, mobiles theatres etc. He also holds 24 years MRI experience across multiple vendor systems from 0.2 to 7 Tesla both clinical and research & 8 years PET experience on both PET/CT and PET/MRI with Prof. Paul Marsden’s on one of the world’s first PET/MRI insert systems and 7 years working with Prof. David Townsend co-inventor of PET/CT.
Lectures by this speaker
Thursday, 2023-11-02
The Why and the How of PET/MRI
09:30 - 10:00

Katy Szczepura
Associate Professor in Medical Imaging Physics | Ireland

Katy Szczepura
Associate Professor in Medical Imaging Physics
University of Salford, Ireland
Katy is an Associate Professor in Medical Imaging Physics, she has been at the University of Salford since 2007. She is the co-research lead for the Digital Skill and Medical Imaging research group, She is co-chair of the research ethics committee for the School of Health and Society. Her research interests are in medical image analysis and optimization, utilization of medical imaging technology to improve health outcomes, developing novel acquisition and analysis techniques of medical imaging data in a variety of clinical applications.
Lectures by this speaker
Tuesday, 2023-10-31
DiskPassTM
13:30 - 14:00
Tuesday, 2023-10-31
Embedding digital skills in radiography continuing education – a case study
14:00 - 14:30
Tuesday, 2023-10-31
Chat GPT debate – use of AI for healthcare and education
14:30 - 15:00
Wednesday, 2023-11-01
Images as data – optimisation beyond the individual patient, AI, robotics, etc. Digital capabilities in radiography and medical imaging
09:00 - 09:40
Wednesday, 2023-11-01
Digital capabilities as a fundamental requirement for healthcare transformation
09:40 - 10:00
Wednesday, 2023-11-01
Image optimisation, histograms, image analysis
10:30 - 11:15
Wednesday, 2023-11-01
Digital learning science
11:15 - 12:00
Wednesday, 2023-11-01
How would you see this being imbedded in your practice? Padlet/mentemeter
15:30 - 16:00
Wednesday, 2023-11-01
Tree of digital skills for radiography
16:00 - 16:30

Balamurugan Rathinavelu
MBBS, MRCP, FRCP, Consultant Radiologist | United Arab Emirates

Balamurugan Rathinavelu
MBBS, MRCP, FRCP, Consultant Radiologist
Sheikh Shakhbout Medical City Mayo Clinic (SSMC) , UAE
With almost three decades of extensive experience across the UK and UAE, Dr. Rathinavelu is highly trained in the field of radiology, including body imaging, non-vascular interventions and cancer imaging. Developing a focus on radiology after his post-graduate general medical training, he obtained his Membership of the Royal Colleges of Physicians (MRCP) qualification from the UK.
Lectures by this speaker
Tuesday, 2023-10-31
Pearls and pitfall of Imaging in acute abdomen
15:50 - 16:10
Tuesday, 2023-10-31
Forgotten art of Radiology- Body Imaging
16:30 - 16:50

Salah El Rai
Senior Consultant Radiologist MD, MSc and PhD | United Arab Emirates

Salah El Rai
Senior Consultant Radiologist MD, MSc and PhD
Dr. Sulaiman Al Habib Medical Center, UAE
Dr. Salah is a highly experienced and respected radiologist with over 18 years of professional and academic experience. He is currently a Senior Consultant Radiologist at Dr. Sulaiman Al Habib Medical Center in Dubai, where he provides a wide range of diagnostic and interventional radiology services. Dr. Salah is a reviewer for the American Journal of Roentgenology (AJR) and is an active member of several radiology societies, including the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA), the European Society of Radiology (ESR), the French Society of Radiology (SFR), the Cardiovascular and Interventional Radiological Society of Europe (CIRSE). Dr. Salah has a wealth of experience in a variety of subspecialties, including neuroradiology, neurovascular imaging, vascular imaging, fetal and perinatal imaging, gynecological and breast imaging, and cardiac imaging. He is also a specialist in imaging quality improvement and artificial intelligence (AI) for radiology
Lectures by this speaker
Wednesday, 2023-11-01
Imaging of pulmonary embolism/ Best practice proposal
14:30 - 15:00
Tuesday, 2023-10-31
Obesity and medical imaging challenges
16:30 - 17:00
Wednesday, 2023-11-01
Imaging Cardiac Structure and Function with MRI
17:00 - 17:30
Thursday, 2023-11-02
Challenges in pulmonary embolism for radiology team
11:30 - 12:00

Rahul P Kotian
Dr Rahul P Kotian (PhD - MRI) Professor - Medical Imaging Radiology Manager - Department of Radiology | United Arab Emirates

Rahul P Kotian
Dr Rahul P Kotian (PhD - MRI) Professor - Medical Imaging Radiology Manager - Department of Radiology
Burjeel Medical City, UAE
He is effectively utilizing the technically enriched experience and further leveraging it to higher-level cadres thereby being a productive and profitable resource to the Organisation where he work with and to be a unique player with the right blend of the technical and clinical experience to meet the ongoing advances in technological trends as per the requirements of India and the country at large, with a pleasant personality. Dr. Rahul is also looking at administrative options given to his successful experiences in past organizations.