Guest Speakers

Consultant Spine and Neurosurgeon 
Dr. Suleiman al Habib Hospital, Riyadh 
Graduated from the University of Homburg-Saar, Germany
“Associate Professor” for medicine for his work Thema “analysis of segmental motion after ACDF and Disc replacement”

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Consultant – Spine Surgery and Endoscopic Spine Surgery
Consultant Wirbelsäulenzentrum Zürich
Zentrum der Hirslanden Klinik 
PD Dr. med. Hansjörg Leu
 

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Neurosurgeon 
Acting Chairman, Department of Neurosurgery, University Hospital of Augsburg, Augsburg Germany
Vice Chairman, Department of Neurosurgery, (Chair: Prof. Volkmar Heidecke) University Hospital of Augsburg, Augsburg Germany 
Attending of Neurosurgery, (Chair: Prof. Bernhard Meyer) Technical University of Munich 
Board Examination as Certified Neurosurgeon, by the Regional Chamber of Physicians of Bavaria, Germany
Resident of Neurosurgery, (Chair: Prof. Bernhard Meyer) Technical University of Munich

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MD, Orthopedic Spine Surgeon
Major Fields of interest:     
-    Spinal deformities
-    Spinal Trauma
-    Degenerative Spine
Bellevue Medical Center- Mansourieh El Meten- Lebanon   
Notre Dame Maritime Hospital – Jbeil, Lebanon

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MD, PhD
•    Associate Professor of Clinical Orthopedic Surgery
•    Orthopedic spine surgeon Las Palmas Spain
•    Spine Fellowship at the Johns Hopkins University Hospital, Baltimore.
•    Chairman of spine deformity Committee of the North American Spine Society (NASS)
•    Past President of Association of Iberian and Latin American Spine Societies (SILACO)
•    Past President of the Spanish Spine Society
•    Board of directors of  Scoliosis Research Society 2016-2018
Las Palmas de Gran Canaria

UAMS 

Arkansas Research Fellowship
Skull Base & Micro Neurosurgery
Past Secretary of the Syrian Neurosurgical Society
WFNS education community 2004-2008
Bab Alhawa Hospital

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M.D., Bayerische Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg. Consultant Physician, Neurosurgery, Johannes-Gutenberg-Universität Mainz
Specialist in functional neurosurgery with special interest in neuromodulation
Residency: Neurosurgery, Bayerische Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg
Neurosurgery, Klinikum Nord/Heidberg Hamburg
Neurosurgery, Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-Universität Greifswald. Neurosurgery, Johannes-Gutenberg-Universität MainzInternship: Neurology, Bayerische Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg

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MBBS, MCS University of Khartoum

Consultant Orthopaedics & Spine Surgeon, and Head of The Department, Khartoum Teaching Hospital, Sudan
Member of Arab Board Orthopaedics Committee (Arab Board Examiner).
MBBS (Khartoum Uni. Sudan)
MCS(Master of Clinical Surgery, Sudan)
FRCS (Edinburgh, UK 1997)
Diploma of Medical Education (Sudan Medical Specialization Board)
 

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After graduating from an Intensive Care fellowship from the same University Hospital a year later, he continued to work at Washington University Hospital until the end of 2007 when he returned to Romania.  He started his pain management practice in 2011, being the first Romanian to be accredited in Pain Management by the World Institute of Pain in august 2017. In 2018, his practice became the only Medical training facility in Eastern and Central Europe to be approved  as a training facility by the European Society of Regional Anesthesia and Pain Therapy. 

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Managing Senior physician at the Department of Neurosurgery, Saarland University, Medical School, Director: Prof. Dr. med. J. Oertel 
Senior physician at the Department of Neurosurgery, Saarland University, Medical School, Director: Prof. Dr. med. J. Oertel
Consultant for Neurosurgery
Chief Resident physician at the Department of Neurosurgery, Saarland University, Medical School, Director: Prof. Dr. med. J. Oertel

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Professor of Neurosurgery Faculty of Medicine Alexandria University 
Head of Department of Neurosurgery, Alexandria University 
Member of North American Spine Society 
 

MBChB/FICMS/MSC(Orth)/MSC(Biomech)/FRCS (Trauma and Orth)
Consultant at Hamad Medical Corporation

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M.D., FEBOT, FACS 
Chairman of the orthopedics and neurosurgery department at Mediclinic Al Noor Hospital Abu Dhabi. Associate Professor of Orthopedics, Spine and Anatomy at the Lebanese University
Adjunct Full Professor at Khalifa University
Member of several prestigious American and French orthopedic and spine societies
Diploma of Anatomy and Microsurgery 
Mayo Clinic spine fellowship trained orthopedic surgeon. Editor of several international peer reviewed journals. American College of Surgeons and the European Board of Orthopedics and Traumatology

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Elias Dumour is a Consultant Neurosurgeon at the Department of Paediatric Neurosurgery at Bristol Royal Hospital for Children. He graduated from the faculty of medicine, Mutah University in 2010 and undertook academic neurosurgical training at Jordan university hospital. He was the senior fellow in paediatric neurosurgery at Bristol Royal Hospital for Children. His paediatric spinal surgical interests include: selective dorsal rhizotomy for cerebral palsy, spinal cord tumour surgery, spinal dysraphism, paediatric cervical spinal trauma and craniocervical junction surgery.

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MD, Mmgt, IMHL, FRCSC
Head of Spine program 
GRH, SMH, and CMH
Department of Surgery 
McMaster university and Waterloo Medical school 
Kitchener/ Waterloo , ON Canada 

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Professor, Unit of Spinal Surgery, Department of Orthopaedic and Traumatology,
Faculty of Medicine, University of Alexandria
Director of the Spine Unit, ElMoassat University Hospital, Alexandria, Egypt
Consultant of spinal surgery, Bad Berka Spine Center, 99438 Bad Berka, Germany

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MD. MSc Orth
Syrian Board of Orthopedic
Consultant Orthopedic and Spinal Surgeon
Aleppo, Syria

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MD,PhD(Ortho), , M.Sc (Orthopedic Surgery) M.B., B.Ch.
Diploma in Orthopedic (SICOT) 
•    Associate professor of Orthopedic Department, Faculty of Medicine Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt.
•    Consultant of Orthopaedic and spine surgery, Ain Shams University Specialized hospital, Cairo, Egypt
•    Program director of As-Salam AOSpine training center. 
•    AOSpine Egypt Chairperson

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MD, FACS 
Clinical Associate Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery, Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University 
Staff Surgeon, Neurological Institute, Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi, UAE

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Executive Director for Clinical and Service Development
Office of the Chief Medical Officer
Senior Consultant / Physician
Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha, Qatar

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Leading Pediatric Neurosurgeon
Leading Neurosurgeon for Neuromodulation
Senior Consultant, Klinikum Kassel 
PhD Program, University of Giessen, Germany
Assistant Professor Kassel School of Medicine, University of Southampton, UK
 

Chair and Prof. in Neurosurgery Department, Faculty of Medicine, Suez Canal University, EGYPT
AO SPINE MENA CD Officer
X President of Asia Pacific Cervical Spine Society
Secretary of the Egyptian Spine Association
Chief Editor of the Egyptian Spine Journal
Executive board member of the ESNS

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Orthopaedic Surgeon & Director of GSpine 4 Dept. at I.R.C.C.S. Istituto Ortopedico Galeazzi, Milano, Italy
Professor of Orthopaedics & Traumatology, EFM, University of Milan, Milan, Italy 
Director of AOSpine Referring Center in European Region
Professor of Orthopaedics, EFM, University of Turin, Torino, Italy
Past Chairman of AOSpine Board of Europe & Africa
Deputy Editor, European Spine Journal

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Professor at Acibadem University Medical Faculty, Dept of Orthopaedics and
Traumatology 

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MD, Orthopedic Spine Surgeon
Major Fields of interest:     
-    Spinal deformities
-    Spinal Trauma
-    Degenerative Spine
Bellevue Medical Center- Mansourieh El Meten- Lebanon   
Notre Dame Maritime Hospital – Jbeil, Lebanon

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FRCSEd, FRCSEd(SN)

Consultant Neurosurgeon The Canadian Speciality Hospital & The City Hospital, DHCC Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery Dubai Medical College Education Neuro for the AOSpine Middle East Dubai, UAE

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Chairman, Department of Neurosurgery, Krankenhaus Köln Merheim, Kliniken der Stadt Köln gGmbH
Vice Chairman, Department of Neurosurgery, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany  
Full Professor of Neurosurgery, University of Witten / Herdecke, Germany
German Board Certification as Neurosurgeon

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Professor of Orthopaedics and Spine Surgery  
Ain Shams University, Cairo Egypt. 
Former president of Egyptian Spine Society. 
Former head and one of the founders of ARABSPINE group

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Chief Medical Officer
Head of Anesthesia Department
Burjeel Hospital, Dubai

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Orthopedic Surgeon
Faculty of Medicine of Tunis- Tunisia 
Head of Orthopedic Department of Mongi Slim Hospital - Tunis 
Vice president of Tunisian Society of Orthopedic Surgery (SOTCOT)
Member of the Arab Board of orthopedic surgery (Examination Committee)  
Redactor in chief of Tunisian Orthopedic Review         
Board and Founding member of Tunisian Chapter of AOspine 

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    Department of Neurosurgery, Joh. Gutenberg-Universitaet, Mainz (Head: Prof. F. Ringel), Attending Critical Care Specialist, Neuro-ICU, and Clinical Faculty Member
    Department of Anesthesiology, Joh. Gutenberg-Universitaet, Mainz (Head: Prof. W.F. Dick), Residency and Senior House Officer
    Department of Neurosurgical Anesthesia and Neuro-Critical Care, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Henri Mondor, Créteil, France (Head: Prof. P. Duvaldestin), Senior House Officer