3^rd World Liver Congress December 17-18, 2018 Abu Dhabi, UAE

Prof. Aamir Ghafoor Khan is Past President of Pakistan Society of Gastroenterology & GI Endoscopy. Currently, he heads GI & Hepatology division at Lady Reading Hospital in Peshawar, Pakistan. He was until recently Medical Director of Lady Reading Hospital Peshawar, which is one of the largest tertiary care teaching Hospital in Pakistan. Besides being the Focal Person for Hepatology in KPK Province of Pakistan, Prof. Aamir is actively involved in undergraduate and postgraduate teaching and is an examiner for MRCP(UK) and FCPS exams. He is currently International Adviser(IA) to Royal College of Physician of London and also Royal College of Physician of Edinburgh. He has a sound academic background with the presence on editorial boards and as the reviewer for various Journals like Arab Journal of Gastroenterology, Hepatitis Journal of Iran, and Pakistan Journal of Gastroenterology etc. He is a core committee member of World Gastroenterology Organisation (WGO) Guidelines Committee and Hepatology Interest Group of WGO. Prof. Aamir is a frequent speaker at various International GI & Hepatology meetings and his unit is actively engaged in clinical research in the field of Gastroenterology, with nearly 40 publications to his credit. Besides his academic & professional commitments, he is a keen Squash and Cricket player and a keen Hunter as well.

clinical research in field of Gastroenterology

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- Many research work in the field of bronchial asthma its treatment modalities and recent diagnostic facilities. - Bronchoscopy of all types: • Fiber-optic- flexible bronchoscope- biopsy and lavage. • Rigid bronchoscopy and foreign body extraction. - Lung biopsy using different needles: CT guided and Ultrasonic Guided. - Pleural biopsy, tapping, and tube drainage.

Dimitrios H. Roukos, MD, Ph.D., is Professor of Surgery – Precision Cancer Medicine and Founding director of “Centre for Biosystems and Genome Network Medicine” in the Ioannina University, School of Medicine. Assessing the unmet needs of traditional linear single – gene research, he has shifted to intrapatient comprehensive coding and non-coding genomic and regulatory network heterogeneity in time and space towards the achievement of Precision Cancer Medicine. He has published > 240 PubMed papers, 32 on Precision Medicine and Oncology, and 44 on static and spatiotemporal genome analysis with NGS. These publications have received more than 8800 citations with h-index: 73 (Scopus). He is a reviewer in many high impact journals including some with impact factor (IF) >30, evaluator in innovative research projects (EU, France, Belgium, Luxemburg, Poland), member in the editorial board of 25 international journals with IF, and Organizing Committee member in >20 International Conferences.

Precision Cancer Medicine: Static and Spatiotemporal genome analysis with conventional and breakthrough NGS systems. Intratumor heterogeneity (MR-NGS, single-cell DNA/RNA seq), serial cfDNA-NGS, comprehensive intra-patient heterogeneity, coding and non-coding genomic and transcriptional heterogeneity. Integration of Hi-C and CRISPR-Cas9 for understanding regulatory networks and future development of non-linear transcriptional network-based next-generation drugs.

Safwan Taha is Professor of Surgery, Basrah College of Medicine and was founding Dean of Thi-Qar College of medicine. He holds Fellowship of the Royal College of Physician and Surgeons of Glasgow, Fellowship of the American College of Surgeons, Diploma laparoscopic Surgery from Strasbourg University and Certificate of the Arab Board of Surgery. Prof. Taha is currently Governor of the UAE Chapter of the American College of Surgeons and VP of the Emirates Society for Laparo-Endoscopic Surgeons. He is an international speaker and has more than 37 published papers. Prof. Taha is the Medical Director and Director of the Bariatric and Metabolic Surgery Center, Mediclinic Airport Road Hospital, Abu Dhabi; UAE.

Prof. Taha is recognized by the Surgical Review Corporation; the USA, as Master Surgeon in Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery. He has keen interests in metabolic surgery, revisional bariatric surgery, quality of life following bariatric surgery, reduced port bariatric surgery and SILS (Single Incision Laparoscopic Surgery). Prof. Taha is an international speaker and has more than 37 published papers.

Dr Petrou S. Athanasios is the Head of the Hepatobiliary, Pancreatic (HPB) and Surgical Oncology Services, at the AIMIS (American Institute of Minimal Invasive Surgery), at the American Medical Center, and, Associate Consultant HPB Surgeon, at Nicosia Teaching Hospital, Department of Surgery/Div. HPB, Cyprus, EU. He completed his Higher Surgical Training in the First Department of Surgery, University of Athens Medical School, LAIKO Teaching Hospital, Greece in 2009. During his Higher Surgical Training, he trained extensively in HPB Surgery along with Surgical Oncology. His expertise in HPB and Surgical Oncology was further enhanced during his Fellowships at The Royal Marsden NHS Trust - Department of Academic Surgery (HPB & Surgical Oncology), and, at the University of Oxford, Churchill Hospital, NHS Trust - HPB/UGi & Transplant Center. He gained a Master of Science (MSc in HPB Surgery), in 2009 from the University of Thrace, and a PhD in Medicine, (Liver Surgery) in 2010 from the University of Athens. Dr Petrou deals with Surgical Treatments and Management for the whole spectrum of HPB diseases. He is also specialized in Surgical Oncology. The treatment of the Upper Gastrointestinal Tract malignancies (Oesophageal & Gastric Cancer), as well as, the Abdominal and Retroperitoneal Sarcomas are integrated in his proficiency. Since 2016, Dr Petrou is the Clinical Lead for the Nanoknife program (Irreversible Electroporation - IRE) in Cyprus, and for the recently established Advanced Laparoscopic HPB, & HIPEC surgical programs, at the American Medical Center. Dr Petrou is a member of the Association of Upper GI Surgeons of Great Britain and Ireland. He is also a member of the International & European Hepato – Pancreato - Billiary Association (E-AHPBA and I-HPBA) & European Society of Surgical Oncology (ESSO), and, Member of Subcommittee on educational activities for the E-AHPBA.

He has a strong academic background with more than 80 publications in international peer reviewed journals and decades of studies presented in international surgical meetings and conferences. The main field of research and clinical studies remains the Liver - Pancraetic and the Surgical Oncology.

Prof Irfan Ahmed is a Consultant Surgeon specializing in complex liver, pancreas and bile duct diseases with a specialist interest in advanced laparoscopic surgical techniques and the development of modern surgical innovations. He has pioneered various special techniques in Virtual Scarless surgery and introduced these techniques worldwide. He is faculty for various international courses and teach advanced laparoscopic skills to the surgeons and is also involved in developing telemedicine & telementoring for young surgeons using modern technologies. He completed his higher degree (MD) at the University of Leeds working with an internationally renowned team researching organ preservation and did pioneering work on cold liver preservation techniques while developing a novel liver preservation solution. His work was funded by the Royal College of Surgeons of England via a research fellowship. He holds academic appointments at the University of Aberdeen as a senior lecturer and clinical tutor at the University of Edinburgh. He is also a visiting Professor in Robert Gordon University and part of the court of examiners for the Royal College of Surgeons of England and Joint Committee of Intercollegiate Examinations in the UK.

He has extensive experience in research and leads various research groups collaborating with the international institutions. With a broad research base, He has published in all aspects of his areas of clinical interest. With more than 100 peer review publications (book chapters, review, editorials, original articles etc) and more than 100 scientific presentations, he remains on the forefront of latest surgical developments and innovations. I have received a number of awards throughout his career including 5 medals, merit scholarships and various presentation awards on national and international forums.

• Consultant and head of pediatrics gastroenterology and hepatology unit • Professor of pediatrics, Faculty of medicine, Mansoura University Children Hospital, Mansoura University, Egypt. • Head of Dakhalia pediatric association • Member of Egyptian medical syndicate (dakhalia, head of medical education committee)

Since 1996 I hade the interest in the field of pediatric gastroenterology and hepatology at Mansoura University Children hospital where I become completely devoted towards the academic & scientific activity of pediatric gastroenterology and hepatology.

Experienced healthcare executive with more than a decade in hospital operations, hospital & healthcare business management, strategic restructuring and turnaround hospital projects.

Specialties: Business Plans and Feasibility Studies, Strategic Plans, Hospital Operations, Process reengineering, TQM, Staff Training. was appointed in multiple top managerial positions for many private sector’s hospitals. implementing the overall organizational strategic objectives. my scope covers business generation & sales target achievement, collection, manpower planning, budgeting, structuring of products pricing, ensuring compliance of operations with policies & procedures.