Professor Ashraf Alzaabi, MB, FRCPC, FCCP, EMHCA is a senior respiratory physician who served at Zayed Military Hospital in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, from 2006 to 2025. He was elected President of the Emirates Thoracic Society (ETS) in February 2019. At Zayed Military Hospital, he served as Chief of Medicine in 2021, then as Chief Medical Officer in February 2022. In 2024, he was appointed Director of the Defence Health Support Administration (DHSA) at the UAE Ministry of Defence. Professor Alzaabi graduated from the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland in 1997, and completed six years of residency training in internal medicine and respirology at the University of Toronto, Canada (2000–2006). He is board-certified in both specialties in Canada and the United States. Appointed Full Professor of Medicine at the College of Medicine and Health Sciences, UAE University in 2018 (joining the faculty as Assistant Professor in 2007), he has been recognized with multiple awards, including the Murray Muirhead Award (2001) from the University of Toronto and the Abu Dhabi Medical Distinction Award in Clinical Performance (2013) from the then Health Authority–Abu Dhabi (HAAD). As Director of Medical Education at Zayed Military Hospital (2007–2010), he secured Arab Board accreditation for the hospital’s first Internal Medicine Residency Program and established a formal academic affiliation with UAE University, designating the hospital as a teaching site for undergraduate and postgraduate training. He completed an Executive Master in Health Care Administration at Zayed University in 2010 and chaired the Internal Medicine Examination Committee at HAAD from 2010 to 2014. Professor Alzaabi has published more than 40 peer-reviewed studies on asthma, COPD, and sleep-disordered breathing.

Dr. Bassam Mahboub is consultant pulmonologist and the head of pulmonary medicine unit. Served as program director for care model innovation in DHA from 2016 to 2018. American Board certified in Internal Medicine, Pulmonology, and Allergy and Clinical Immunology, also has a Masters in Business Administration from Wolverhampton University. Career goal is health innovation and respiratory care, leadership in academic and clinical sciences. Areas of interest are patient care, clinical teaching, translation research in airway diseases, and health innovation. Co-editor for Annals of Thoracic Medicine. He has authored several books in respiratory medicine and co-editor for several medical journals. Dr. Bassam has received various recognitions for his role as physician, innovation leader, and researcher from Dubai Health Authority.

Dr. Goran is Consultant Pulmonologist and Internal Medicine, with around 20 years’ experience. He is Danish Board Certified in Internal and Pulmonary Medicine, he did his fellowship at many tertiary centers at Copenhagen University Hospitals, Denmark. Dr. Goran was Program Director of Adult Pulmonary Fellowship program from 2017 to 2021, likewise Consultant Pulmonologist and Internal Medicine, Clinical Education Leader for Adult Respiratory Medicine, at Zealand University Hospital, Roskilde, Denmark, a tertiary Respiratory Center. Clinically he worked specifically as Interventional Pulmonologist and Interstitial Lung Diseases Consultant through many years. Dr. Goran worked also as HOD for Respiratory Diseases at Odense-Svendborg University Hospital, a tertiary Respiratory Center l, Odense, Denmark. After Moving to UAE in May 2021, he worked as Consultant Pulmonologist at American Hospital Dubai. In February 2022 he joined the Department of Pulmonary, Sleep and Allergic diseases at Rashid Hospital, Dubai Health as Consultant Pulmonologist, where he is currently director of interventional pulmonology, interstitial lung diseases clinic, and adult respiratory fellowship program under Graduate Medical Education, MBRU. He is member at ITC at Graduate Medical Education (GME) at Mohammed Bin Rashid University of Medicine and Health Sciences, MBRU. In January 2025 he has been appointment as Clinical Associated Professor of Medicine at Mohammed Bin Rashid University of Medicine and Health Sciences, MBRU. Since November 2024 he has been elected as Member of the Board of Emirates Thoracic Society ( ETS)  for a period of 3 years from 2024-2027, appointed as Chairperson of Scientific Committee. He has been organizer of multiple scientific meetings, organizing scientific concerence both nationally and internationally , participated as chairman, speaker and moderator. Currently member of multiple international scientific committes both in the field of Interventional Pulmonology and Interstitial Lung Diseases. He is active speaker at both International, Regional and National Scientific Conferences in the field of Internal and Thoracic Diseases likewise Interventional Pulmonology. Currently he is also member of the Adult pulmonary Scientific Committee under National Institute for Health Specialties (NIHS), Emirati Board. Dr. Goran living in Dubai with his Wife who is a gastric and oncoplastic breast surgeon in UAE together with their 2 children.  

Dr. Muhammad Tufail is a consultant pulmonologist at SKMC Abu Dhabi with over 19 years of experience in the field. He gained his CCT in respiratory and internal medicine from London and completed interventional pulmonology fellowship at Glenfield Hospital Leicester where he worked as a consultant pulmonologist for six years before moving to Abu Dhabi in 2022. He was the lead for lung cancer and was nominated for three national awards for improving the quality of services. He also served as a member of the British Thoracic Society Council and its Education & Training Committee.

Dr. Ramzi Khashkhusha graduated from Tripoli University Libya and completed his post-graduate training in the UK. He is a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh and he has completed a CCT in pulmonary and general medicine. Dr Khashkhusha previously worked as a respiratory consultant at the Mid-Yorkshire NHS trust then joined Tawam hospital in 2013. He is committed to presenting at Local and national conferences. Dr Ramzi has been involved in many audits and multiple research publications and presentations.