Imaging Session

Dr. Abdul Aleem is an ENT consultant with more than 20 years of experience. He was trained in the United Kingdom as an ENT surgeon and completed his fellowship in ENT from the Royal College of Surgeons in Edinburgh, following his initial medical training for MBBS at the Dow Medical College, University of Karachi in Pakistan. Dr. Aleem is experienced in major ontological work and Head and Neck Surgical Oncology in addition to routine ENT Surgery. Dr. Aleem has worked at the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre as an Associate Professor of Otolaryngology. Apart from being the largest Postgraduate Teaching Centre, it is also one of the largest neurosurgical departments in Pakistan. During his time at the Centre, he dealt with various otological cases with intracranial complications. Dr. Aleem additionally gained extensive experience in mastoid and middle ear surgery. Most recently he completed one year Research Fellowship in Neurotology at the Department of Otolaryngology, University of Cincinnati, the University Hospital and the Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Centre, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA.

Dr. Punekar worked in the UK for 10 years where he conducted his specialist training at the Northern Deanery and was a consultant radiologist at Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (UK) from 2009 to 2014. During this time he was a core member of the multidisciplinary teams for GI cancers in the West Yorkshire Cancer network and for IBD (inflammatory bowel Disease). He moved to Abu Dhabi in 2014 and was Head of Department and Consultant Radiologist at Kings College Hospitals Clinics, Abu Dhabi before joining Mediclinic. He is a member of the General Medical Council (UK), the Royal College of Radiologists (UK) and the British Society of Gastrointestinal and Abdominal Radiology.

Dr. Abhishek Mahajan has completed his MBBS and MD Radiodiagnosis from KMC Manipal, and then did super-specialisation,2 yrs Fellowship in Cancer Imaging at Tata Memorial Hospital, Mumbai, India, from August 2009 to July 2011. Then worked as senior resident in TMC from August 2011 to September 2011.

He is a Professor and Chief, Department of Head and Neck Surgery. His key focus area as head and neck cancers are the commonest cancer in India accounting for approx 30% of cases. He is committed to the causes of prevention, early detection, service, education and research in the field of cancer. Professor D’Cruz has held leadership positions in numerous professional bodies nationally and internationally. He has over 125 peer reviewed publications and text book chapters and has been the lead investigator for numerous self-initiated and global multicentre trials. His research is focused on innovation, novel therapy and cost-effective strategies.

Dr Bhawna has been In teaching hospital & University For 20 years. She has More than 50 publications in National & International Peer Reviewed Journals.

Dorria Salem 1953, Egyptian radiologist, MD, Cairo University 1987. A professor at Cairo University teaching hospital, since 1998 and the general manager of the women’s health outreach program [National Egyptian breast screening program] since 2007. She is one of the pioneers in the women’s imaging the thing that put her in a very distinguished position on the national level as well as the Arab level. She is the founder of the women’s imaging unit at the radiology department at Cairo university teaching hospital since 2003. She has recently been selected to be a member in the Middle East board of Aunt Minnie radiology website.

Dr. Hemant Vadeyar is a Gastrointestinal & Liver Specialist with a particular interest in Diseases of the Liver, including fatty liver, hepatitis B & C, liver cancers and liver cirrhosis. He is presently a Consultant Gastrointestinal, Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary and Liver Transplant Surgeon at Mediclinic City Hospital.

Dr. Mordani is an experienced interventional radiologist with many years of UK-based experience in both diagnostic and interventional radiology. He has a keen interest in vascular and non-vascular intervention and he regularly performs procedures such as peripheral vascular angioplasties and stents, hepato-biliary drainages and stents, selective celiac/mesenteric and renal embolisations, ultrasound and CT-guided biopsies and drainage and trans-jugular liver biopsies. Dr. Mordani attained a Fellowship in Interventional Radiology from the University Hospitals Network in Toronto, Canada and, among others, is a member of the British Society of Interventional Radiologists.

A Hepatologist with more than 15 years of experience to his credit, Dr. Kaiser Raja is an expert in the medical management of patients with the complex liver disease, liver failure, liver cancer and patients requiring liver transplantation. Trained at some of finest institutes in the United States as well as India, his fields of special interest include chronic viral hepatitis, autoimmune hepatitis, and metabolic liver disease. Dr. Raja holds a major interest in the management of patients with chronic hepatitis B and C, autoimmune hepatitis, cirrhosis, liver cancer and post liver transplant patients. Dr. Raja has published in leading medical journals and is a regularly invited speaker for major national and international medical conferences. Apart from Aster CMI Hospital, Bangalore, Dr. Raja has a regular monthly liver clinic in Indore in Madhya Pradesh and in Abu Dhabi and Dubai in UAE.

Dr. Lutfi Kurban is a consultant Radiologist at Tawam Hospital and Assistant Professor at UAE University. He was trained in the UK and he has a wide experience in General Radiology. His areas of interests are thoracic, hepatobiliary & urological imaging including multiparametric MRI imaging of prostate, prostate fusion biopsies as well as tumour ablation techniques. In addition to his clinical activities, Dr. Kurban is interested in research and was a principle investigator / co applicant for a few Urological and Chest clinical trials in the UK.

Dr. Yunus is a fellow of the Royal College of Radiologists, London (FRCR) with CCST certification, and a fellow and member of the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Pakistan (FCPS and MCPS) in Diagnostic Radiology. Dr. Yunus is a highly experienced radiologist who is an expert in sectional body imaging including CT and MRI as well as CT-angiographies, cardiac-CT, virtual endoscopy and MR-angiographies. She has a special interest in breast imaging and is experienced in breast ultrasound, mammography and MRI with CAD stream analysis. She is also trained in ultrasound guided FNA, trucut biopsies of breast lesions and axillary lymph nodes and mammographic guided pre-operative needle localisation of non-palpable breast lumps. She also performs galactography.

Dr. Mahmoud Tabbal is a Consultant General, Hepatobiliary & Transplant Surgeon with extensive experience in the field for more than 19 years in USA, Canada, Saudi Arabia and Jordan. Most recently, he worked as the head of Hepatobiliary Surgery at King Fahad Specialist Hospital in Saudi Arabia. Dr. Tabbal is Jordanian board certified in general surgery and has received his advanced sub speciality training in USA and Canada through the American Society of Transplant Surgeons (ASTS) and the American Hepatopancreatobiliary Association (AHPBA). He is an active member in numerous societies, committees and associations including the American College of Surgeons (ACS) and the International HepatoPancreatoBiliary Association (IHPBA)

Dr. Masood Ali is an experienced pulmonologist dealing with variety of conditions such as acute and chronic cough, airway disease, interstitial lung disease, lung cancer and pleural diseases. He is experienced in assessing and managing patients with sleep-related complaints which include reporting full polysomnographies and providing treatment for both respiratory and non-respiratory sleep disorders and was also Clinical Lead for Sleep & Ventilation service at Southend University Hospital (UK). Dr. Masood Ali has also managed pulmonary inpatients with a variety of conditions, including pneumonia, PE, exacerbations of airway and interstitial lung diseases and pleural effusions, as well as providing respiratory consult service to intensive care patients by providing a weaning expertise to the tracheostomy ventilated patients. Some of Dr. Masood achievements are: Clinical Excellence Award by the National Health Service, UK; Innovation Award by Southend Hospital, UK Best clinical teacher nominee for London Deanery

Professor Massimo Malago has a special interest in hepato-biliary-pancreatic, oncologic and transplantation surgery. He is bothEuropean and American trained and certified. He performed the first right living donor hepatectomy and the first successful adult living donor liver transplantation in Europe. His scientific interests are surgical techniques in split and liver donor transplantation, Small for Size Syndrome in liver transplant, post-surgical liver failure and cholangiocarcinoma.

Dr. Bello is a highly experienced general and breast / Aesthetic Oncoplastic surgeon who has practiced for most of her career in the UK. She had worked at Nottingham Breast institute before moving to Noble’s Hospital on the Isle of Man, UK, where she was responsible for developing the landscape of breast care delivery on the island. She is a specialist in breast surgery and breast reconstruction, as well as a fully accredited general surgeon. Dr Millicent Alache Bello joins King’s with more than 35 years of experience both in the UK and UAE. Dr Bello completed her Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery (MBBS) in 1982 and earned FRCS (Ed) in 1991, FRCS (Gen.Surg Ed) in 2000, MPhil (Leicester) in 2005. She gained The Certificate of Completion of Specialist Training (CCST) in 2000.

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Dr. Mudhar is a consultant urologist with over 15 years’ experience. He worked at Danderyd University Hospital and Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden for the last eight years. Dr. Mudhar is a well experienced endourologist and robotic surgeon dealing with renal stones, bladder tumours and upper urinary tract tumors together with prostate cancer. Dr Mudhar has done more than 350 robotic procedures.

• 2012 – 2013; Professor (Lecturer) – Gülhane Military Medical Academy and Military Medical Faculty Nuclear Medicine Department. Ankara • 2013 – 2016; Professor (Head of Department) – Gülhane Military Medical Academy and Military Medical Faculty Nuclear Medicine Department. Ankara • 2016 – 2020; Professor (Head of Department) – Health Sciences University, Gülhane Medical Faculty Nuclear Medicine Department. Ankara

Dr Okan deals with Non-vascular Interventional radiology and Abdominal Imaging. His current reseach interests 1. Percutaneous treatment of hydatid disease 2. Percutaneous treatment of simple cysts (liver, kidney, spleen) 3. Percutaneous treatmnet of lymphocysts 4. Celiac ganglia blocks 5. Image Guided tumor ablation (HCC-CRCLmetastasis, Lung tumor etc.) 6. IRE in panceatic adenoca. 7. Non-vasc interventional procedures 8. Imaging of diffuse liver diseases 9. Imaging of peritoneal diseases

She is a Consultant Radiologist at Tata Memorial Hospital with special interest in Breast, Gynaecological and Urological malignancies.

Dr Porcu is an established oncologist within the areas of breast, gastrointestinal, head and neck, prostate, brain, gynaecological, skin and thyroid cancers. She is experienced in the management of all malignant diseases, combining chemotherapeutic agents with advanced radiotherapy techniques. Dr Porcu graduated from the prestigious La Cattolica University, Rome in 2005 and obtained her speciality degree in Radiotherapy and Oncology from the University La Sapienza, Rome in 2009. She has been instrumental in developing advanced radiotherapy treatment techniques such as Intensity and Volumetric Modulated Radiotherapy (IMRT-VMAT), Intraoperative Radiation Therapy (IORT), Stereotactic Radiosurgery using Image Guided Radiation Therapy (IGRT), Breath Hold Radiotherapy, Carbon Ions Therapy and Proton Therapy. In 2010, Dr Porcu was awarded a grant from the European Institute of Oncology, for a clinical research project on hypo-fractioned treatments in breast cancer. As a result, she has become a leading authority in the field of intra-operative radiation therapy in breast cancer. In the same year, Dr. Procu also became a consultant in Radiation Oncology working closely with the European Institute of Oncology in Milan (IEO) and the Italian National Centre for Hadrontherapy. Dr Porcu has written a number of published articles and she also actively participated in ongoing clinical trials particularly related to breast cancer, prostate cancer and gastrointestinal malignancies. In 2016, Dr Porcu was enrolled into the United Kingdom’s General Medical Council Specialist Register as a Clinical Oncologist. She also worked at Royal Free Hospital, London, as a consultant in Clinical Oncology and was the Oncology lead in several multidisciplinary team meetings and developed protocols within departments. She is an active member of the European Society for Radiotherapy and Oncology (ESTRO), the British Royal College of Radiologists (RCR) and the Italian Society for Radiotherapy and Oncology (AIRO).

Dr Rana Irfan Mahmood is a British trained oncologist with more than 20 years of clinical experience. He moved to Dubai from the NHS, UK where he was working as Consultant Oncologist, leading cancer services across Colchester and Ipswich hospitals as Clinical Director. He also worked in King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Centre Riyadh as consultant oncologist while setting up advanced brachytherapy and Intra-operative radiotherapy services there in addition to enhancing the quality of cancer care as Quality Medical Director. He is well known for developing advanced forms of Image Guided Radiotherapy and Brachytherapy in several centres. Moreover, he is expert in managing patients with Immunotherapy for several types of cancers. Dr Rana Mahmood has extensively published his clinical experience and research work in peer reviewed journals. He has trained a number of oncologists and teaches at the Royal College courses. He has been awarded Fellowship of both Royal College of Physicians and Royal College of Radiologists in UK. He led several international trials, for advanced radiotherapy, Immunotherapy and other biological/molecular agents. He is member of American Society of Oncology and European Society of Therapeutic Radiation Oncology. His special expertise include Stereotactic Radiotherapy (SABR/SBRT), MRI guided High Dose Rate (HDR) Brachytherapy for Cervix/Prostate cancer, LDR Brachytherapy for Prostate cancer, molecular radiotherapy, Biological targeted therapies and Immunotherapy.

Dr. Reinhold Peter Posch Zimmermann is specialized in United Arab Emirates and of the most sought after doctors in Urinary Specialist. Dr. Zimmerman has over 15 Years years of experience.

“With over 40 years of experience in General Surgery, Dr. Rolf Ulrich Hartung brings with him a wealth of information and experience in the field of Medicine and Medical Management from both within and outside the UAE. Dr. Rolf’s education & training have spread over diverse countries including France, Germany, Argentina, England & Scotland. He holds Facharzt in General Surgery, Facharzt in Visceral Surgery, FRCS of England & FRCPS of Glasgow. German by origin, Dr. Rolf speaks 6 languages including, Arabic, Mandarin, French, German, Spanish & English. Dr. Rolf has held various leadership positions in prominent medical establishments within the UAE including Head of Thoracic Surgery, Rashid Hospital (DOH), Head of Urology Department, Dubai Hospital(DHA), Head of surgical department BR Medical Suites (DHCC), Medical Director in Mediclinic City Hospital (DHCC). In addition, he has held many Professorship positions at leading Medical Educational Bodies within and outside the UAE including Dubai Medical College & Medical College at Mohammed Bin Rashid University and has been part of over 20 hospital committees and over 30 medical societies.”

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Consultant Breast Radiologist Dr Sim graduated from University of Edinburgh and completed Radiology specialist training in Glasgow, attaining the FRCR in 2011. She worked as a Consultant Radiologist in Scotland U.K., with vast experience in diagnostic and interventional breast radiology and breast cancer care. She was Director of Breast Screening in East of Scotland since 2015. She relocated to Dubai in 2020 and is a Consultant Breast Radiologist at Mediclinic City Hospital, where she provides full range of breast diagnostics and image-guided intervention, including contrast-enhanced mammography, MRI-guided biopsies and vacuum-assisted excisions.

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