5th Emirates Thoracic Society Scientific Meeting: Thoracic Surgery, Thursday July 07, 2022
The live Scientific Meeting “Thoracic Surgery”, supported by Bayer Middle East, has helped the 2114 attendees from 30 countries around the world to know more about the developments in the field of Thoracic Surgery, understand the current trends in diagnosis and medication, and earn 2 CME hours.
Prof. Ashraf Alzaabi, president of Emirates Thoracic Society and the Chief of Medicine at Zayed Military Hospital in Abu Dhabi, has appointed Dr. Redha Souilamas, President of the Thoracic Surgery at the Emirates Thoracic Society, and Chief Medical Officer at King’s College Hospital London, Dubai, UAE, as the Webinar Chairman. Dr. Souilamas couldn’t attend due to urgent condition so Prof. Ashraf has welcomed all the attendees and explained the agenda of the webinar. He has officially introduced the eminent speakers Dr. Syed Husain, Consultant Pulmonologist at King’s College Hospital London, Dubai, UAE, Dr. Hani Sabbour, Assistant Professor of Cardiology at Brown University Medical School, Rhode Island, USA & Consultant Cardiologist and Electrophysiologist and Consultant Advanced Heart Failure & Pulmonary Hypertension, Abu Dhabi, UAE.
Dr. Syed’s lecture was centered on Multidisciplinary Lung Cancer Management. The presentation has concentrated on lung cancer, its signs and symptoms. He also mentioned the requirements for adequate lung MDT discussions. A combined EBUS+EUS procedure performed by pulmonologists/thoracic surgeon may be the longer-term objective, he added. And finally, he said “Multidisciplinary approach is best for lung cancer management and better out comes”.
As a symposium speaker, Dr. Hani Sabbour, presented a Pulmonary Hypertension treatment, Algorithm. He started with an overview on pulmonary hypertension then he talked about the recommended updates to diagnostic algorithm (WSPH 2018), He concluded his talk by mentioning that the pulmonary hypertension is a general term for a group of diseases. Prof. Ashraf Alzaabi has conducted the Q&A session and answered all the questions posted in the Q&A box. He expressed his appreciation and gratitude to the speakers, the organizer MCO, the sponsor Bayer Middle East, and the attendees for facilitating the webinar.