Committee | ESEM23

Executive Director
Department of Health Abu Dhabi
UAE

Dr. Fares Al-Ali is the first Canadian and American board-certified emergency physician from the United Arab Emirates. He completed his medical education at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland in 2000. He then completed the Royal College Emergency Medicine Residency Program at McGill University in Montreal, Canada (2002-2007). In 2008, he completed a fellowship in clinical Emergency Medicine and Emergency Medical Services (EMS) at the University of Toronto in Canada followed by a Disaster Medicine Fellowship at Harvard Medical School in Boston, USA as Harvard’s first Disaster Medicine fellow and as co-founder of the program (2009). In May 2011, he obtained his Master of Public Health (MPH) from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and obtained his DrPH in Health Care Management and Leadership from the same school (May 2021). His project during the MPH/DrPH is the Emergency Medical System framework in the Emirate of Abu Dhabi.
Dr. Fares Al-Ali is former Head of the Emergency Department and the former Program Director at Zayed Military Hospital. He is the founder and former chairman of the Trauma System Initiative of the Emirate of Abu Dhabi and also the founder and past president of the Emirates Society of Emergency Medicine (ESEM) with several community activities. Dr Fares Al-Ali was able to establish several Trauma initiatives including the first official Trauma Registry in the Emirate of Abu Dhabi. He coordinated the efforts to establish Abu Dhabi STEMI network involving the different stakeholders. He was able to lead ESEM’s efforts with the Ministry of Health to pass an equivalence of the “Good Samaritan Law”, which is considered the first law of its kind in an Arab Country. He led the Emirates society of Emergency Medicine Conference to be the largest Emergency Conference in the MENA region and one of the top conferences world-wide. He led the Emirates society of Emergency Medicine to win the bid and successfully host the International Conference for Emergency Medicine (ICEM21) for the first time in the MENA region, with over 2500 delegates. He Introduced the idea of the Gulf Federation of Emergency Medicine which was officially announced in 2017 and now coordinating all the Emergency Medicine efforts in the Gulf Region. He is the winner of the “Founders Award” which was awarded by the American Academy of Emergency Medicine and the Mediterranean Academy of Emergency Medicine at the Xth Mediterranean Congress of Emergency Medicine, Dubrovnik, Croatia in September 2019. He was recently awarded fellowships by the International Federation of Emergency Medicine and the Faculty of Sports and Exercise Medicine in Ireland, a Faculty under governance of both Royal College of Physicians of Ireland and the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland. Dr Fares Al-Ali is leading important efforts to advance the Disaster Medical Preparedness in the UAE. In 2009, he introduced “Hospital Incident Command System or HICS” to all Governmental Hospitals in Abu Dhabi along with other key recommendations. He chaired the Ministry of Health Team on Prehospital Care development. He was recently appointed as the Executive Director of the Center of Emergency Preparedness and Response (CEPAR) at the Department of Health – Abu Dhabi in April 2021. Dr Fares Al-Ali has contributed to several international textbooks and peer-reviewed articles in the field of Emergency Medicine and Disaster Medicine, and has presented in several conferences regionally and internationally.

Director, International Postdoctoral Fellowship in Medical Toxicology Emory University
United States

MD, FAAEM, FACEP, FACMT, FAACT

Dr. Kazzi trained in Emergency Medicine at Emory University in Atlanta (2000-03) where he served as a chief resident before completing a subspecialty fellowship in Medical Toxicology at Emory University, Georgia Poison Center and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta. He is board certified in both Emergency Medicine and Medical Toxicology. Dr. Kazzi joined the Department of Emergency Medicine at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) between 2005 and 2008 where he served as a Medical Toxicologist for the Regional Poison Control Center in Birmingham and the Alabama Poison Center. Currently, he is an associate professor at the department of Emergency Medicine at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia as well as the director of the International Toxicology Fellowship Program at Emory University. He is also the assistant medical director of the Georgia Poison Center and a guest researcher at the National Center for Environmental Health at the CDC where he participates in emergency preparedness and response activities in radiation.

As an emergency physician and toxicologist, Dr. Kazzi specializes in the recognition, triage, and management of poisonings and holds a deep interest in the areas of Radiation and International Toxicology. He founded and chaired the American Academy of Clinical Toxicology Radiation Interest Group since 2009. He is currently serving as a board member of the American College of Medical Toxicology (ACMT) and the Medical Toxicology Foundation. He chairs the ACMT Clerkship Council and International Committees. Dr. Kazzi has extensively lectured at National and International conferences and developed several curricula and training programs in emergency preparedness and response. He is an active and founding board member of the Middle East North Africa Toxicology Association and currently serves as its President.

Consultant of Emergency Medicine,
EMS and Disaster Medicine
Founder,
Emirates Society of Emergency Medicine (ESEM)
UAE

MD, MPH, FRCPC(EM), FAAEM, FACEP Dr. Fares is the first Canadian and American board-certified emergency physician from the United Arab Emirates. He completed his medical education at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland in 2000. He then completed the Royal College Emergency Medicine Residency Program at McGill University in Montreal, Canada (2002-2007). In 2008, he completed a fellowship in clinical Emergency Medicine and Emergency Medical Services (EMS) at the University of Toronto in Canada followed by a Disaster Medicine Fellowship at Harvard Medical School in Boston, USA as Harvard’s first Disaster Medicine fellow and as co-founder of the program (2009). In May 2011, he obtained his Master of Public Health (MPH) from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health at which he is currently enrolled in a DrPH program in Health Care Management and Leadership. His project during the MPH/DrPH is the Emergency Medical System framework in the Emirate of Abu Dhabi. Dr. Fares is currently a Consultant and Head of the Emergency Department at Zayed Military Hospital and is the founder and chairman of the Trauma System Initiative of the Emirate of Abu Dhabi. He is also the founder and president of the Emirates Society of Emergency Medicine (ESEM) since 2012 with several community activities. Dr Fares was able to establish several Trauma initiatives in Abu Dhabi including the first official Trauma Registry in the Emirate of Abu Dhabi with over 20 thousand cases to date. He coordinated the efforts to establish Abu Dhabi STEMI network involving the different stakeholders. He was able to suggest a Good Samaritan Law draft, through the Emirates Society of Emergency Medicine, to the Ministry of Health which is moving forward now and should be announced in the near future. This will be considered the first law of its kind in an Arab Country. He led the Emirates society of Emergency Medicine Conference to be the largest Emergency Conference in the MENA region and one of the top conferences world-wide. He led the Emirates society of Emergency Medicine to win the bid on hosting the International Conference for Emergency Medicine (ICEM 2021) for the first time in the MENA region. He Introduced the idea of the Gulf Federation of Emergency Medicine which was officially announced in 2017 and is coordinating all the Emergency Medicine efforts in the Gulf Region. He is the winner of the “Founders Award” which was awarded by the American Academy of Emergency Medicine and the Mediterranean Academy of Emergency Medicine at the Xth Mediterranean Congress of Emergency Medicine, Dubrovnik, Croatia in September 2019. Dr Fares is leading important efforts to advance the Disaster Medical Preparedness in the UAE. He introduced “Hospital Incident Command System or HICS” to all SEHA Governmental Hospitals - Abu Dhabi along with other key recommendations and he is currently chairing the Ministry of Health Team on Prehospital Care development. Dr Fares has contributed to several international textbooks and peer-reviewed articles in the field of Emergency Medicine and Disaster Medicine, and has presented in several conferences regionally and internationally.

Consultant King Fahad Medical City
Saudi Arabia

A pediatric emergency consultant at King Fahad Medical City (KFMC)
Chairperson of life Support and STARS and Operation Department at (CRESENT) in KFMC
Advanced Trauma Life Support (ATLS) instructor
A board member of SSSH Head of publicity and advertisement
An organizer of the volunteer group in the pediatric residency program (Cheerful Children Cain). I am also the simulation Pediatric emergency fellowship director since March 2018, I run simulation courses for pediatric residents, Pediatric emergency departments, and the founder of the PASS Course in CRESENT, FDSIM-Advance Debriefing course.
A graduated from the KFMC pediatric residency program then pediatric emergency fellowship, pediatric emergency Fellowship at Sickkids, Toronto, 2013. Simulation fellowship at University of Calgary, Alberta Children Hospital, KIDSIM Pediatric Simulation, 2014.
Speake in several conferences regionally and internationally, focusing in medical simulation such as in IMSH2014, IMSH2016, W21C SIMposium in Calgary 2014, simulation summit Toronto2014, 1st Saudi Health Simulation Conference workshop 2015, Princess Nourah bint Mohamed bin Saud Al Saud, Nov2017, Saudi Health Simulation Conference workshops 2018, Saudi Health Simulation Conference workshops. Board members in the scientific committee in conferences such as SASEM2018, SASEM2021.
Examiner at the Saudi Council for Health Specialties
Faculty in Simulation courses at KFMC:
-Instructor/cofounder at workshop Basic Medical Simulation Course for Educators at KFMC
-Instructor/cofounder at workshop FDSIM (faculty development of simulation
- breaking bad news simulation workshop instructor as well cofounder
- Lumbar Puncture simulation hands on course as facilitator
- Intensive Simulation for Pediatric R1 Intensive Simulation for Pediatric R1
- PASS (Pediatric Advance simulation scenarios workshop (founder, facilitator)
- PASS (Pediatric Advance simulation scenarios workshop (founder, facilitator)
-FDSIM- advance debriefing like an expert (founder, facilitator)

Director, International Postdoctoral Fellowship in Medical Toxicology Emory University
United States

MD, FAAEM, FACEP, FACMT, FAACT

Dr. Kazzi trained in Emergency Medicine at Emory University in Atlanta (2000-03) where he served as a chief resident before completing a subspecialty fellowship in Medical Toxicology at Emory University, Georgia Poison Center and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta. He is board certified in both Emergency Medicine and Medical Toxicology. Dr. Kazzi joined the Department of Emergency Medicine at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) between 2005 and 2008 where he served as a Medical Toxicologist for the Regional Poison Control Center in Birmingham and the Alabama Poison Center. Currently, he is an associate professor at the department of Emergency Medicine at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia as well as the director of the International Toxicology Fellowship Program at Emory University. He is also the assistant medical director of the Georgia Poison Center and a guest researcher at the National Center for Environmental Health at the CDC where he participates in emergency preparedness and response activities in radiation.

As an emergency physician and toxicologist, Dr. Kazzi specializes in the recognition, triage, and management of poisonings and holds a deep interest in the areas of Radiation and International Toxicology. He founded and chaired the American Academy of Clinical Toxicology Radiation Interest Group since 2009. He is currently serving as a board member of the American College of Medical Toxicology (ACMT) and the Medical Toxicology Foundation. He chairs the ACMT Clerkship Council and International Committees. Dr. Kazzi has extensively lectured at National and International conferences and developed several curricula and training programs in emergency preparedness and response. He is an active and founding board member of the Middle East North Africa Toxicology Association and currently serves as its President.

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Abdulla Al Hammoudi

Danish Sami

Hind Al Dhaheri

Ives Hubloue

Mahmoud Ghanaim

Nadeem Qureshi

Naeem Toosy

Rasha Buhumaid

Saleh Fares

Ziad Kazzi

Amani Alabdouli

Amna Abdalla

Basmah Zahmi

Eman Elmulla

Fathiya Alnaqbi

Hind Al Dhaheri

Hind Alghaferi

Khaldoon Al Khaldi

Khalifa Al Qaydi

Lateefa Aidam

Muna Al Jallaf

Mohammad Anzal Rehman

Maryam Darwish

Rasha Buhumaid

Saleh Fares

Sara Alhajri

Wadima Alahbabi

Muna Al Jallaf

Ahmed Humaid

Ebrahim Al Nuaimi

Amani Azizalrahman

Badria Alhatali

Danish Sami

Eric Revue

Hamid Chatha

Ives Hubloue

Mahmood Aljufaili

Osama Kentab

Omar Ghazanfar

Shahan Waheed

Thiagarajan Jaiganesh

Ziad Kazzi