Dr. Adel Khalifa is a board-certified consultant cardiologist with expertise in interventional cardiology and electrophysiology. Dr. Khalifa attended medical school at Arabian Gulf University in Bahrain. Dr. Khalifa completed his residencies in internal medicine and adult cardiology from University of Toronto, Canada. Dr. Khalifa completed his post graduate training in a total of 6 hospitals in Canada and has a fellowship in electrophysiology from the Toronto general hospital. Dr. Khalifa’s clinical practice focuses on the management of cardiac arrythmias. Dr. Khalifa is actively involved in research and conferences and his interest areas include atrial fibrillation, new oral anticoagulants, sudden cardiac death, sports cardiology, heart failure and implantable cardiac devices.
Mohammad Zubaid is currently Professor of Medicine at the Faculty of Medicine, Kuwait University. He heads the division of cardiology at Mubarak Al-Kabeer Hospital and serves as a consultant interventional cardiologist at the Chest Diseases Hospital. He is the founding and current president of Kuwait Cardiac Society. He was appointed Chair of the Faculty of Cardiology at Kuwait Institute for Medical Specialization (KIMS) in June 2014 to establish cardiology residency program in Kuwait. He was elected for a two years term as president of the Gulf Heart Association in January 2016. Professor Zubaid obtained his MB, ChB from the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland in 1986, and completed internship and assistant registrar posts in internal medicine at Amiri Hospital in Kuwait. He went on to do internal medicine residency at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada from 1988 to 1991 and cardiology residency at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada from 1992 to 1994. He pursued his research career with a fellowship in interventional cardiology at the University of British Colombia, Vancouver, Canada from 1994 to 1996. He returned to his home country, Kuwait, in 1996 and joined Kuwait University as an assistant professor of Medicine. He was promoted to Professor in December 2006. He served as Vice Dean for Academic Affairs at the Faculty of Medicine from 2012 to 2013. He has contributed to several international journal publications and has served on the editorial boards of the Kuwait Medical Association Journal and the Journal of the Gulf Heart Association, Heart Views. He has published more than 90 peer-reviewed articles. Professor Zubaid has organized and chaired several local and regional conferences. He is Fellow of the Gulf Heart Association, the Royal College of Physicians of Canada and American College of Cardiology. His research interest focuses on the performance of disease registries. He has lead several disease registries in Kuwait and the region including the Kuwait myocardial infarction registry, Kuwait Acute Coronary Syndrome (KACS) registry, Gulf Registry of Acute Coronary Events (Gulf RACE), Gulf Survey of Atrial Fibrillation Events (Gulf SAFE), Kuwait Time in Therapeutic Range study, Gulf locals with acute coronary syndrome events (Gulf COAST) Registry, use of reperfusion in ST elevation myocardial infarction in Kuwait (REPERFUSE Kuwait) Registry, and Gulf documentation of ambulatory sick patients with heart failure (Gulf DYSPNEA) registry. The most recent registry, Kuwait Catheterization Laboratory Project (Kuwait CLAP) was conducted in February 2020 and ran for one year. It addressed the practice in the catheterization laboratory in two large centres in Kuwait.
My name is AL FALASI Omar. I graduated from the faculty of medicine and health sciences in UAE in 2006. During medical school, I had the chance to do many electives and one of them was in CANADA in London Ontario university hospital. I did my internship training in Al Ain, UAE in TAWAM university hospital (Affiliation with Johns Hopkins) followed by 6 months in cardiology department in the same hospital. I got accepted in the cardiology residency program in France (university of Montpellier 1) where I got the chance to be in contact with the electrophysiology team. I spent the last year of my residency in the cardiac electrophysiology lab and finished my residency in 2013. I then started a 2 years fellowship in cardiac EP and I started both pacing and ablation techniques. I then completed my EP training by joining a second fellowship in Toronto general hospital, University of Toronto, CANAD. I came back to UAE in 2017 with more than 1000 device implantation procedures and more than 700 ablations. I held the position of a consultant cardiac electrophysiologist joining the Cardiology team in Sheikh Khalifa Medical City. In October 2019, I was appointed as the chair of cardiac institute in the same hospital. Since November 2020, I have moved to Sheikh Shakhboot Medical City and was appointed the position of the director of Cardiac electrophysiology in the same hospital. In July 2022, I joined Rashid Hospital as a consultant cardiac electrophysiologist where I actively participated in the development of the EP program till May 2024. In June 2024, I moved back to Sheikh Shakhboot Medical City as the director of cardiac electrophysiology and the vice chair of Cardiology and I still hold the same position to date
Dr. Raed Sweidan is a Consultant Cardiologist and Electrophysiologist at King Fahad Armed Forces Hospital in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Specializing in cardiac electrophysiology, Dr. Sweidan is dedicated to providing advanced care in the diagnosis and treatment of heart rhythm disorders. Dr. Sweidan’s expertise encompasses a range of electrophysiological procedures aimed at improving cardiac health and patient outcomes.
