Dr. Hussam Ghalib, MD, is the Medical Director of Mechanical Circulatory Support and Director of the Cardiomyopathy Center at the Heart, Vascular & Thoracic Institute at Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi.

He is a Consultant Cardiologist within the Section of Heart Failure & Transplant, and a Core Faculty Member within the Cardiovascular Medicine Fellowship within the Department of Cardiovascular Medicine.

Dr Hussam is a Clinical Assistant Professor of Medicine at the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University in Ohio, USA.

Prior to joining Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi, Dr. Ghalib was at the University of California Los Angeles Medical Center, where he specialised in Cardiovascular Medicine and Advanced Heart Failure Management.

Dr. Ghalib received his medical degree from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA. He completed his residency in Internal Medicine at the University of Michigan Health System, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA. He then served on faculty in the Department of Internal Medicine at the University of Michigan Hospital for two years before completing a Cardiovascular Medicine fellowship at UCLA Medical Center, Los Angeles, California.

Cardiac Anaesthesia and ICU consultant SBCC
ECMO consultant eastern province
Arab and Egyptian board of anesthesia and intensive care 2012
MD in anesthesia and intensive care 2014 media university
Saudi fellowship in cardiac anesthesia 2018
European diploma in TEE 2016
Cardiac Anaesthesia, CSICU and ECMO consultant since 2017 .

Prof Susanna Price, Professor of Practice (Cardiology & Intensive Care) at National Heart & Lung Institute,
Imperial College. Board member, councillor and chair of the ESC Education Committee.

Intensivest at CSICU Saud Albabtin cardiac center.

Dr. Safa Almarzook is a Clinical Pharmacist and Acute Care Pharmacy Manager at Saudi AlBabtain Cardiac Center.
Graduated from King Abdulaziz University in 2014.
In 2016, she earned a diploma in Clinical Pharmacy from Security Forces Hospital in Riyadh.
Following this, she joined Saudi AlBabtain Cardiac Center as a Clinical Pharmacist. In 2022,
Dr. Almarzook became a Saudi Board Certified Cardiology Clinical Pharmacist.

Prof. Ali Albshabshe
SSCIM, JBIM, ArBIM, MRCP, EDIC, CNSC, FRCP
Consultant internist, intensivist,
Professor of medicine/adult Critical care , King Khalid University,
Consultant adult critical care medicine at aseer central hospital , Abha ,KSA
Director of extracorporeal life support services (ECLS) at Aseer region ,KSA

Consultant Intensivist , MD, MRCPI,EDIC , EDEC , American Board of Critical Care echocardiography
EDEC Middle East Supervisor, ESICM task force member of critical care ultrasound,
Founder and director of critical care ultrasound masterclass

Prof. Magdy Khalil is a professor of Anesthesia &intensive care at Liver Institute Menoufia University.
He is a former dean of the Liver Institute at Menoufia University.
He earned the Diploma (TQM) AUC. Diploma Medical Education Suez Canal University.

Dr Walid Alhabashy

Consultant in Anaesthesia & ICU | Clinical Lead for Critical Care Ultrasound
Dorset County Hospital, Dorset, UK

Professional Highlights

• Author of Critical Care Echocardiography Handbook (ISBN: 9781399900386)
• Certified in Critical Care Echocardiography, USA (2020)
• Diploma in Healthcare Simulation & Patient Safety, NUI Galway, Ireland (2020)
• MD in Anaesthesiology & Intensive Care, Tanta University, Egypt (2018)
• Fellow of the College of Anaesthetists of Ireland (2017)
• Certified by the Arab Board in Anaesthesia & Intensive Care (2015)
• European Diplomas in Anaesthesia & Intensive Care (EDAIC) and Intensive Care Medicine (2015, 2013)
• Master’s Degree in Anaesthesia & Surgical ICU (2006)
• Medical Degree (2000)

Expertise & Achievements

• Passionate about Point-of-Care Critical Care Ultrasonography & Echocardiography
• Published and presented at national & international conferences
• Director of multiple Critical Care Ultrasound & Echocardiography courses
• Award-winning presenter at global medical conferences
• Founder & CEO of Saving Lives Academy

Dr. Walid Alhabaashy is committed to advancing critical care education and innovation, shaping the future of ultrasound and echocardiography in intensive care medicine.

Senior Intensivist | ECMO Physician | Hemodynamic Specialist | EDIC Certified Intensivist.

Dr. Ahmed El Masry is a seasoned intensivist with over a decade of experience in critical care medicine, specializing in the management of critically ill patients requiring advanced medical interventions. He is adept at evaluating, resuscitating, and managing patients with vital organ and system failures, employing cutting-edge techniques aligned with international guidelines.

His expertise spans cardiopulmonary resuscitation, airway management, invasive monitoring, renal replacement therapy, and mechanical ventilation. Dr. El Masry is also highly experienced in advanced organ support, including extracorporeal life support (ECLS) with VA and VV ECMO.

Passionate about continuous learning, Dr. El Masry stays at the forefront of advancements in critical care medicine while fostering a collaborative and educational environment for junior physicians and peers alike.

Dedicated to supporting the next generation of intensivists, Dr. El Masry actively mentors colleagues preparing for intensive care exams, including the EDIC exam, sharing his extensive knowledge and expertise.

MSc internal medicine
MSc critical care
EDIC
ICU Specialist and ECMO member.
King Khalid Hospital. Najran

Dr Hesham Faisal Ali is the Head of Intensive Care Department at Saud Al Babtain Cardiac Centre. He graduated from Ain Shams University in 1988 and was of the earliest trainees in Intensive Care Medicine in Ain Shams before establishing degrees in Critical Care in Egypt. He obtained a master’s degree in medicine, Doctorate in Medicine, MRPC, EDIC and he is a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh.
Dr Hesham interested in teaching, he is regularly teaching Critical Care Ultrasound and Focused Acute Medicine Ultrasound (FAMUS). Also, he is a tutor in Acute Medicine Diploma and Master Degree at University of South Wales and instructor in IMPACT (Ill Medical patients Acute Care and treatment).

Dr Hesham worked in many countries, Egypt, Sultanate of Oman, and United Kingdom, and he is spent most of his career in Saudi Arabia.

FRCP elected by Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh
European Diploma in Intensive Care Medicine (EDIC).
Doctorate (Internal Medicine) Ain Shams, University, Cairo, Egypt.
MRCP (UK)
MSc (Internal Medicine) Ain Shams University, Faculty of Medicine, Cairo, Egypt.
MB.BCh Ain Shams University, Faculty of Medicine, Cairo, Egypt.

Critical Care Consultant
Head of Department Cardiac Surgery ICU, Madinah Cardiac Centre, Madinah, KSA.
Associate Professor, Critical Care Medicine and Anesthesiology,
University of Western Ontario, Canada.

1. Director, Medical Intensive Care unit
   King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Centre, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
   January 2022 till present
2. Adult Critical Care Medicine Consultant
   King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Centre, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
   June 2020 till present
3. Deputy Program Director of Adult Critical Care Residency Program
   King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Centre, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
   August 2020 till August 2021
4. Adult Critical Care Clinical Research Fellowship Program
   St. Josephs Health Care Hamilton Hospital, Hamilton, ON, Canada
   August 2019 till June 2020
5. Critical Care Medicine Clinical fellowship with Cardiovascular Critical Care
   Schulich School of Medicine & Dentistry, Western University, London, ON, Canada
   July 2017 till June 2019
6. Critical Care Medicine Fellowship Program
   King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Centre, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
   January 2015 till May 2017
7. Internal Medicine Specialist
   Dammam Central Hospital (DMC), Dammam, Saudi Arabia
   August 2013 till December 2014
8. Internal Medicine Board Certified
   King Abdulaziz Medical City, National Guard Hospital (KAMC-NGH), Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
   November 2012 till August 2013
9. Internal Medicine Residency Program (Top 10 list, 6th Rank)
   King Abdulaziz Medical City, National Guard Hospital (KAMC-NGH), Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
   October 2007 till November 2012
10. One Year Internship
    King Fahd Hospital of the University (KFHU), King Abdulaziz Medical City, National Guard Hospital (KAMC-NGH), Security Forces Hospital (SFH), Saudi Arabia
    Completed 31 July 2007

FULL-TIME CLINICAL CONSULTANT IN THE MULTIDISCIPLINARY ICU IN A
UNIVERSITY REFERRAL CENTER FOR RESPIRATORY, NEUROLOGICAL AND CARDIAC
DISEASES; MAINLY FOCUSED ON ASSESSMENT AND MONITORING OF RESPIRATORY
PATIENTS WITH NON-INVASIVE/INVASIVE VENTILATION AND/OR EXTRA-
CORPOREAL LIFE SUPPORT.
PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR AND COORDINATOR OF MULTIPLE LOCAL, NATIONAL
AND INTERNATIONAL TRIALS.
LEADER OF THE THORACIC ULTRASOUND SECTION FOR THE GRIP - GROUP FOR
RESEARCH IN INTENSIVE CARE IN PAVIA, SINCE ITS FOUNDATION, WITH
EXCELLENT TEAM LEADING AND COORDINATION SKILLS.
SOCIAL MEDIA MANAGER FOR THE GRIP (WEBSITE AND SOCIAL MEDIA).
SUPERVISOR SINCE 2012 OF TENS OF MEDICAL DEGREE, NURSE DEGREE/MASTER
IN CRITICAL CARE AND ANESTHESIA AND INTENSIVE CARE RESIDENCY THESES
(MOST RECENT TITLES: ULTRASOUND FOR CORRECT POSITIONING OF
NASOGASTRIC TUBE (NURSE MASTER IN CRITICAL CARE – 2019); POST-OPERATIVE
LUNG ULTRASOUND (MEDICAL DEGREE/ANESTHESIA AND INTENSIVE CARE
RESIDENCY – 2018); METODICA ECOGRAFICA FAST COME STRUMENTO DI
VALUTAZIONE INFERMIERISTICA DI TRIAGE NEL TRAUMA ADDOMINALE CHIUSO:
REVISIONE DELLA LETTERATURA (NURSE MASTER IN CRITICAL CARE – 2018); A
COMPARATIVE STUDY OF ULTRASOUND PROBES TO OPTIMIZE LUNG AERATION
ASSESSMENT (MEDICAL DEGREE – 2018); PERIPROCEDURAL PEDIATRIC
ANESTHESIA: A RETROSPECTIVE OBSERVATIONAL STUDY (MEDICAL
DEGREE/ANESTHESIA AND INTENSIVE CARE RESIDENCY – 2017)).
HIGH LEVEL KNOWLEDGE OF SOFTWARE FOR TEXT EDITING, IMAGE AND VIDEO
EDITING.
HIGH LEVEL SKILLS IN STATISTICAL ANALYSIS AND STATISTICAL SOFTWARE’ USE
(STATA, XLS, MEDCALC), WITH COMPLETE AUTONOMY FOR CLINICAL RESEARCH
PURPOSES.

Senior intensivist in security forces hospital Dammam, Saudi Arabia.
M.Sc. critical care, AMC, EDIC,EDEC, MRCP
American board of critical care Echocardiography.
American board of Peri-operative TOE.

Specialist Advisor - FUSIC

Marcus is a consultant in anaesthesia and intensive care medicine at Hampshire Hospitals NHS Trust, chair of the Intensive Care Society (ICS)’s Focused Ultrasound for Intensive Care (FUSIC) committee, and author of the OUP textbook ‘Focused Intensive Care Ultrasound’.

He is a passionate ultrasound trainer and teaches widely.

Marcus sits on several national committees, including the ICS Council and British Society of Echocardiography’s Professional Standards Committee, delivering UK ultrasound training and quality assurance.

He relishes breaking down organisational barriers, and dreams of the day when bedside ultrasound is normal practise for all frontline clinicians.

Daniel Lichtenstein is medical intensivist working at Ambroise-Paré Hospital (Paris-West, France) since 1989, visiting Professor.
Main developments: use of critical ultrasound since 1985, defined in 1991 (Intensive Care Med 19:353-355) as a discipline associating ultrasound diagnoses and immediate therapies, with adjunct uses (venous cannulation, thoracentesis...). Main publications: textbooks (1992, 2002, 2005, 2010, 2011 & 2015 editions, Springer), two dozens of original articles, mostly focused on lung and venous ultrasound, including: BLUE-protocol (acute respiratory failure), FALLS-protocol (lung ultra-sound for management of acute circulatory failure), SESAME-protocol (cardiac arrest), lung ultrasound in critically ill neonates. President of CEURF, personalized training center at the bedside in the I.C.U. , where critical ultrasound is taught as a holistic approach, favoring simple equipment (without Doppler), one universal probe for whole body, emphasis on lung, adapted venous ultra-sound, simple cardiac sonography (and others), extrapo-lation to multiple disciplines (pediatry, pulmonology...), settings (ICU, austere areas...), patients (from bariatric to neonates)

Daniel De Backer (born on December 28, 1961 in Brussels) is specialized in intensive care medicine and obtained his PhD thesis at the Université Libre de Bruxelles.
Daniel. De Backer is Head of Intensive Care departments CHIREC Hospitals (Brussels and Braine l’Alleud-Waterloo) and Professor of Intensive Care at the Université Libre de Bruxelles (Brussels). His main fields of investigations are sepsis, organ dysfunction and support, circulatory failure, hemodynamic monitoring (including echocardiography), hepato-splanchnic circulation and microcirculatory disorders.
Daniel De Backer has signed more than 300 original articles, serves as reviewer for 30 journals, and is Associate Editor of several journals including “Critical Care” and “Annals of Intensive Care”.
Daniel De Backer is Past-President of the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine (2014-2016).

Associate professor, Faculty of medicine Consultant Anesthesia, critical care& Neuro-critical care Department of Anesthesia & critical care. King Abdulaziz university hospital, Jeddah- Saudi Arabia

Head of undergraduate committee. Anesthesia and critical care curriculum. Department of anesthesia & critical care. Faculty of medicine. King Abdulaziz university.

Head of Saudi Neuro-critical care research committee .Saudi critical care society. Sep 2023.

Member of Arab board of Anesthesia and intensive care council. Nov 2023

Deputy head of Arab board of adult intensive care medicine fellowship. Nov 2023

Prof. Michel Slama professor of critical care, deputy head of the medical intensive care in Amiens University hospital, member of the cardio vascular research team in Amiens University.
More than 200 publications, many chapters and books on echocardiography haemodynamics in heart lung interactions. Former vice president of Amiens University, former medical director of Amiens University hospital. Best. Michel

Dr. Soliman is a Consultant in Cardiothoracic Intensive Care at Harefield Hospital, Royal Brompton and Harefield Hospitals Clinical Group, Guys and St Thomas NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK. Honorary Senior Lecturer at the School of Cardiovascular Sciences and Medicine, King’s College London. Clinical Lead for Advanced Critical Care Practitioners at Harefield Hospital.
Trained in Critical Care Medicine and obtained an MSc in Critical Care Echocardiography from Alexandria University (Egypt). Trained in advanced Cardiothoracic Intensive Care and Mechanical Circulatory Support at the Royal Brompton and Harefield Hospitals.

Membership of the Royal College of Physicians (MRCP UK). Certification of special competence in Adult Echocardiography from the National Board of Echocardiography (USA). Diploma in Cardiology (London). European Diploma in Intensive Care Medicine (Brussels). Diploma in Clinical Education with Merit (Edinburgh Medical School). Member of the Education, Scientific Initiatives, Web and Communication Committees and Deputy Chair of the Heart Imagers of Tomorrow Committee at the European Association of Cardiovascular Imaging (EACVI), European Society of Cardiology. Presenter and faculty at the EACVI tutorials on Focused Cardiac Ultrasound. Member of the ICU Subcommittee, European Association of Cardiothoracic Anaesthesia and Intensive Care (EACTAIC).
Associate Editor of the European Heart Journal - Case Reports, Editorial board member at the Journal of the American College of Cardiology (JACC) - Cardiovascular Imaging and Frontiers in Cardiovascular Imaging.

Elected Fellow of the Higher Education Academy of the UK, Fellow of the EACVI and Fellow of the American Society of Echocardiography (FASE)
Clinical and research interests: Medical Education, Point of Care Cardiac and Lung Ultrasound and Advanced Echocardiography in Mechanical Circulatory Support, Heart and Lung Transplantation.
Internationally renowned Speaker, Trainer and Course Director and delivered numerous lectures, webinars, courses and workshops in many countries around the globe on Critical Care Echocardiography and Lung Ultrasound.

Dr Soliman’s speaker profile at the European Society of Cardiology:
https://esc365.escardio.org/Person/156754-dr-soliman-aboumarie-hatem

Antoine Vieillard-Baron completed his fellowship training in 1996. For the past 15 years he has worked as a fulltime intensivist in the medical-surgical intensive care unit at Hospital Ambroise-Pare in Boulogne, France where he has been Director since 2009. He was appointed as professor of critical care medicine in 2003. His academic background includes a PhD with research on the role of matrix metalloproteinases in pulmonary vascular remodeling in models of pulmonary hypertension related to hypoxia and monocrotalline.
Dr. Vieillard-Baron is well known for his research on cardiopulmonary interactions, ARDS, and mechanical ventilation. He has been a pioneer in using transesophageal echocardiography to elucidate the pathophysiology of adverse effects of ventilatory support on hemodynamic function. In addition, he has defined the utility of transesophageal echocardiography (TEE) as a primary clinical tool for hemodynamic monitoring of the critically ill patient.
Dr. Vieillard-Baron has been involved with the design and implementation of a successful national level program in France to train intensivists in both basic and advanced critical care echocardiography. As part of this work, he has published landmark articles that establish training requirements for critical care TEE. In addition to developing the national standard in France, Dr. Vieillard-Baron works closely with critical care societies at the international level in the development of standards for competence in critical care ultrasonography and echocardiography; as well as being lead faculty at multiple courses in throughout the world. He has been a key figure in the development of international consensus statements on competence and training in critical care ultrasonography. Most recently he has chaired an expert roundtable panel on training standards for advanced critical care echocardiography.

Consultant Internal medicine, Critical care, and Critical care ultrasound (SCFHS) Department of Intensive care medicine – King Abdulaziz medical city – Jeddah, Ministry of National guard health affairs

Assistant professor of medicine and Critical care. King Saud bin Abdul-Aziz University for Health Sciences, College of medicine – Joint appointment.

QUALIFICATIONS

National Board of Echocardiography
Critical Care Echocardiography
American Board of Internal medicine
Critical Care Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians & Surgeons of Canada (FRCPC)
Internal Medicine Saudi Board of Internal Medicine American Board of Internal medicine (ABIM) Medical Council of Canada Evaluating Exam (MCCEE)
Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS) King Abdul-Aziz University, Saudi Arabia

Professor of Intensive Care at the Paris-South University.
He is working in the Medical Intensive Care Unit of the Bicêtre Hospital (Paris-South University Hospitals).
Dr Monnet completed his medical studies at the Paris-6 Medical School and he earned his medical degree in 2000, with specialty in Cardiology and Intensive Care Medicine. In 2004 at age 33, he obtained his PhD from the Paris-South University.
Dr Monnet’s main fields of research investigation are acute circulatory failure and its treatment, haemodynamic monitoring and heart-lung interactions. Since 2001, he has signed more than 100 articles in peer-reviewed scientific journals and is the author of several didactic reviews and book chapters. Dr Monnet is presently the General Secretary of the French Intensive Care Society.

Prof. Mohamed Reda Bassiouny, MD, MHPE Emeritus Professor of Pediatrics/Neonatology, Faculty of Medicine, Mansoura University, EGYPT

Dr. Mohamed Reda Bassiouny is an esteemed academic and healthcare professional with over 30 years of experience in medical education, pediatrics, and neonatology. He served as the Chair of the Continuing Professional Development (CPD) Committee of the Compulsory Egyptian Medical Training Authority (CEMTA/EHC) from 2018 to 2023, where he spearheaded the development and implementation of the CPD system in Egypt for the first time. His work in this area was published in the World Health Organization Bulletin. He continues to serve as a member of the Supreme CPD Committee, Egyptian Health Council (2024). He serves as elected secretary general of Egyptian Society for Medical Education.

Dr. Bassiouny is also an active member of the International Academy for CPD Accreditation (IACPDA) and has contributed to global CPD accreditation standards. His involvement in the Egyptian and Arab Medical Specialty Boards, including the Arab Fellowship program, spans over two decades, where he has worked to enhance medical education and specialty training across the Arab world. Dr. Bassiouny has made significant contributions to higher education and healthcare reform in Egypt.

He serves on the Executive Council of the World Society of Neonatology. Dr. Bassiouny also contributed to the establishment of the Arab Neonatology Forum and is a founding member of the Arab Commission for Digital Medical Learning.

His research interests include the integration of information technology in medical education and clinical practice, lifelong learning in healthcare, clinical networks and followup of high risk newborns. He has received numerous awards for his excellence in medical education and pediatrics and has been involved in multiple international projects in collaboration with global organizations such as the WHO and UNICEF, EU and International Pediatric Association to improve neonatal care and training in Egypt .

In addition to his leadership in medical education, Dr. Bassiouny is committed to community service being the founder and director of the Egyptian Neonatal Network (EGNN) Foundation since 2010.