2025 Faculty - 22nd Annual Meeting of ME-AOHNS

2025 Faculty

Dr. Hussain Alsaffar
Chairperson

Head and Neck Surgery
MBBS, FRCSC
Consultant, Head and Neck Oncology Surgery and
Microvascular Reconstruction Surgery
Department of Otolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery
King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Center
Riyadh, KSA

Dr. Majid Alabdulla
Senior Consultant Otolaryngology
Head & Neck Oncology and Reconstructive Surgeon
Head of Head & Neck Surgery Unit
Fellowship Oversight Director, ORL-HNS, & Ambulatory Care Center
HMC – Medical Director & CEO
ORL-HNS Department
Hamad Medical Corporation
Doha, Qatar

Dr. Juma Alkasbi
Consultant, Head and Neck Surgeon & Laryngologist
Sultan Qaboos Comprehensive Cancer Center
Muscat, Oman

Dr. Noura Al Nafea
Consultant, Head and Neck Oncology & Reconstruction Surgery
Department of Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery
King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre
Riyadh Saudi Arabia

Dr. Shayan Shahid Ansari
Consultant ENT, Head and Neck Surgeon
Chief of ENT, Oral and Maxillofacial Division, ENT Surgery
SEHA Tawam Hospital
SEHA Sheikh Tehnoun bin Mohammad Medical City
Al Ain, UAE

Dr. Ibrahim Alotain
Chairman of Radiation Oncology Department
King Fahad Specialist Hospital Dammam
Fellowship in Head and Neck Oncology at the University of Toronto
Dammam, Saudi Arabia

Dr. Fahad Al Zadjali
Head and Neck Oncology and Microvascular
Consultant Department of Otorhinolaryngology,
Head and Neck Surgery
Al Nahdha Hospital Muscat, Oman

Dr. Carmelo Barbaccia
ENT and Head and Neck Surgeon
Parkview Hospital, Mediclinic
Dubai, UAE

Dr. Osama Hamarneh
MBBS DOHNS FRCS (ORL-HNS)
Consultant ENT, Head and Neck & Thyroid Surgeon
ENT Department
Abdali Hospital
Amman, Jordan

Prof. Hani Z. Marzouki
Professor & Consultant
Otolaryngology (ENT)-Head & Neck Surgery
Head & Neck Oncology- Microvascular Reconstruction
Chairman- The scientific committee of Head & Neck Fellowship at SCFHS
Chairman- Department of Otolaryngology- Head & Neck Surgery
King Abdulaziz University
Jeddah, KSA

Dr. Roger Moukarbel
Professor of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery
Consultant, Head & Neck Surgical Oncology and
Facial Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery
Chief of ENT Surgery
American Hospital Dubai
Dubai, UAE

Dr. Mahdi Shkoukani
Professor and chair
Department of Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery
Cleveland Clinic
Abu Dhabi, UAE

Mr. Jaiganesh Manickavasagam
Consultant Ear, Nose and Throat Surgeon,
Ninewells Hospital and Medical School, Dundee
Honorary Senior Lecturer, Dundee Medical School
Course Director, Dundee Institute of Head and Neck Education (DIHNE)
Dundee, Scotland

Dr. Zainab Bakhsh
Chairperson
Laryngology

MD, DES, FEBORL-HNS
Assistant Professor, Laryngology Consultant and Phosurgeon
Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery
King Abdulaziz University
Jeddah, KSA

Dr. Ahmed AlDkhyyal
Head of Laryngology Division
Head of Speech Language Pathology
Division Laryngologist
ENT Consultant
Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery
Prince Sultan Military Medical City
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Dr. Maryam AlQaydi
Consultant Otolaryngology
Laryngologist
Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery
Sheikh Khalifa Hospital
Fujairah, UAE

Dr. Jennifer Anderson
MD MSc FRCS(C) FACS
Associate Professor, Department of Otolaryngology-HNS
University of Toronto
St Michaels Hospital. University of Toronto.
Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Dr. Anastasios G. Hantzakos
PhD, MHA, FEBORL (Hon.)
Assoc. Professor
Consultant Otolaryngologist – Head & Neck Surgeon
Program Director
Otolaryngology – Head & Neck Surgery Residency Program
Clinical Associate Professor
Otolaryngology – Head & Neck Surgery
Cleveland Clinic
Abu Dhabi, UAE

Dr. Anagha Joshi
Professor and Head of Unit
Department of ENT
LTMG Hospital and Medical College
Mumbai, India

Dr. Redwan Kalash
Laryngologist
Specialist Otolaryngology, ENT
Fakeeh University Hospital
Ain Al Khaleej Hospital
Dubai & Al Ain, UAE

Dr. Lega Saleh Natto
Otolaryngology consultant,
Laryngology& voice disorders.
King abdullah medical city,
Makkah, KSA

Dr. Faisal Zagzoog
Assistant Professor/Consultant
Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery
King Abdulaziz University
Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

Dr. Gopishankar Subramaniasamy
ENT Specialist
ENT and Head & Neck Surgery
International Modern Hospital
Dubai, UAE

Mr. Jaiganesh Manickavasagam
Consultant Ear, Nose and Throat Surgeon
Ninewells Hospital and Medical School, Dundee
Honorary Senior Lecturer, Dundee Medical School
Course Director
Dundee Institute of Head and Neck Education (DIHNE)
Dundee, Scotland

Dr. Mohamed M.K. Badr-El-Dine, Ph.D.
Chairperson
Cochlear Implant & Otology

Sr.Consultant Otology Neurotology & Skull Base Surgery
Sultan Qaboos University Hospital – Muscat – Oman
Professor of Otolaryngology
Faculty of Medicine, Alexandria University
Past-President and Founding Member of the IWGEES
President of the Egyptian Society of Skull Base Surgery
Egypt

Dr. Khalid Al Zaabi
Consultant ENT
Surgery Department
University Medical City
Oman

Dr. Baher Ashour
Assistant Professor
Consultant Otolaryngologist
Cairo University – Faculty of Medicine
Tarabichi Stammberger Ear and Sinus Institute
Dubai, UAE

Dr. Jose Carlos Casqueiro
Otolaryngology
Hospital Universitario Severo Ochoa
Madrid, Spain

Dr. Tamer Ebaied
Otologist, Neurotologist MD Consultant
ENT Department – SSMC
Abu Dhabi, UAE

Prof. Mohan Kameswaran
Managing Director
Department of ENT
Madras ENT Research Foundation (P) Ltd
Chennai , India

Dr. Jamal Kassouma
HOD ENT Department
Senior Consultant
Al Zahra Private Hospital
Dubai, UAE

Dr. Nilesh Mahajan
ENT Specialist
NMC Specialty Hospital
Abu Dhabi, UAE

Prof. Daniele Marchioni
Head of the Department of Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery
University of Modena and Reggio Emilia
Modena, Italy

Dr. Shankar Medikeri
Director of Otolaryngology
Medikeri Super Speciality ENT Center.
Bengaluru, India

Dr. Ahmed Omran
Professor of ORL H&N Surgery
Consultant of Otology and Neurotology Zain Hospital MOH Kuwait
ENT Faculty of Medicine University of Alexandria
Egypt

Dr. Vishal Pawar
Specialist Neurologist
Head, Tarabichi Vertigo and Balance Center
Neurology Department
Tarabichi Healthcare
Dubai, UAE

Dr. Arturo Poletti
Consultant Surgeon
Otorhinolaryngology Dept
American Hospital
Dubai, UAE

Dr. Kurt Schlemmer
Consultant Staff Physician
Otology Neurotology
Department of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery
Integrated Subspecialties Institute
Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi
Abu Dhabi

Dr. David Schramm
Chair, Department of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery
University of Ottawa
Ottawa, Canada

Mr. Ahmed Allam
Otology and Skull base and ENT Consultant Surgeon
Barking Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals
London, United Kingdom

Dr. Rajendran Dinesh Kumar
Consultant ENT & Head and Neck Surgeon
Associate Professor
Department of ENT & Head and Neck Surgery
Dr.M.G.R. Educational and Research Institute, RajaRajeswari Medical College & Hospital (RRMCH)
Trustwell Hospitals, Bengaluru
Karnataka, India

Dr. Noha Ahmed Abdo Ibrahim Elkholy
Lecturer of Otorhinolaryngology/ Consultant physician
Otorhinolaryngology
Faculty of Medicine/ Mansoura University Hospital, Mansoura University
Mansoura, Egypt

Dr. Mona Alshehri
Resident
ORL-Hand N Surgery
Aseer Central Hospital
Abha, KSA

Dr. Taseer Din
Chairperson
Paediatric Otolaryngology

Pediatric Otolaryngologist, Head-Neck Surgeon
Attending Physician
Division of Pediatric Otolaryngology, Department of Surgery
Sidra Medicine and Research Center
Doha, Qatar

Dr. Hayat Adib
Pediatric Otolaryngologist
Otolaryngology Consultant
Al Jalila Children’s Hospital/MBRU
Dubai, UAE

Prof. Talal AlKhatib
Vice Dean for Graduate Studies
Otolaryngology
King Abdulaziz University
Jeddah, KSA

Dr. Zainab Arsiwala
Pediatric ENT Specialist
Tarabichi Healthcare
Dubai, UAE

Dr. Randa Barazi
Associate Professor of Pediatric Otorhinolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery
American University of Beirut Medical Center
Beirut, Lebanon

Dr. Safeena Kherani
Pediatric Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery Consultant
Director, Al Jalila Children’s Hospital Aerodigestive Service
Associate Professor, Mohammed Bin Rashid University
Department of Surgery, Division of Otolaryngology,
Al Jalila Children’s Hospital
Dubai, UAE

Dr. Niveen Mukhtar
ENT Specialist
Otolaryngology – Head & Neck Surgery
Sidra Medicine
Doha, Qatar

Dr. Simone Schaefer
Pediatric ENT Surgeon
ENT Department
American Hospital

Dr. Islam Herzallah
Chairperson
Rhinology

Professor, Chairman of Rhinology Section
Middle East Academy of ORL.
Consultant, Rhinology & Endoscopic Skull Base Surgery
Otolaryngology – Head & Neck Surgery Department
King Abdullah Medical City
Makkah, KSA & Zagazig University
Egypt

Dr. Mohammed Alahmari
Consultant, Rhinology and Skull Base Surgery
ENT Department
King Fahad Specialist Hospital
Dammam, Saudi Arabia

Dr. Muaaz Tarabichi
Co-Founder, TSESI Dubai
Chair-Elect, American Academy of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery Foundation,
Chairman, Middle East Academy of Otolaryngology,
Founding Board Member of the IWGEES,
Founding Member of the AAOC

Dr. Ahmad Alamadi
President of Emirates ENT society
Consultant otologist and cochlear implant surgeon
Clinical associate professor at Sharjah University
CEO of Dubai Advance hearing and Balance Center
UAE

Dr. Ayman Al-Fraihat
Adjunct Professor
Head of ENT department
Senior Consultant ENT Head & Neck Surgeon
Dr. Sulaiman Al Habib Medical Group
Dubai Healthcare City
Dubai, UAE

Dr. Saied Alhabash
ENT Consultant
ENT Department
Medcare
Dubai, UAE

Dr. Ahmad Abu Alsoud
Otolaryngologist, MD
Attending & Assistant Professor
Otolaryngology, Head and Neck Department
St. Luke’s University Health Network
Pennsylvania, USA

Dr. Rami Al-Salman
Rhinologist, Endoscopic Sinus & Skull Base Surgeon
Rhinologist, Endoscopic Sinus & Skull Base Surgeon Consultant Abdali Hospital
Amman, Jordan

 

Prof. Abdelrahman Younes Ali Badwy
Professor of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery
Kasr Al-Ainy Hospital, Cairo University
Cairo, Egypt

Dr. Samy Elhammady
Neurosurgery Consultant
Neuroscience Institute
Cleveland Clinic
Abu Dhabi, UAE

Dr. Mostafa Ismail
Assistant Professor
Otorhinolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery
Minia University Hospital – Faculty of Medicine – Minia University
Egypt

Dr. Anagha Joshi
Professor and Head of Unit
Department of ENT
LTMG Hospital and Medical College
Mumbai, India

Prof. Apostolos Karligkiotis
Associate Professor & Consultant
Department of Otorhinolaryngology
San Raffaele Research Hospital – Universisty Vita-Salute San Raffaele
Milan, Italy

Prof. Lubna Khreesha
Associate professor of Rhinology and Skull base
Head of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Department
The University of Jordan Hospital-The University of Jordan
Amman, Jordan

Prof. Dr. Yasser A. Nour
MD, FRCSEd
Professor of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery
Department of Otorhinolaryngology, Head and Neck Surgery
Faculty of Medicine
Alexandria University
Alexandria, Egypt

Dr. Tina Rokadia
Specialist Prosthodontist
Dental Sleep Medicine Specialist
Same Day Dental Clinic
Dubai, UAE

Prof. Nabil Sarhan
Consultant Rhinology & Skull Base Surgery, ENT
Al Azhar University
Cairo, Egypt

Dr. Nishit Shah
Consultant ENT and Skullbase surgeon
Bombay Hospital, Sir HN Reliance Hospital
Mumbai, India

Dr. Mahdi Shkoukani
Professor and Chair
Department of Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery
Cleveland Clinic
Abu Dhabi, UAE

Dr. Alperen Vural
Associate Professor
Department of Otolaryngology & Head And Neck Surgery
İstanbul University – Cerrahpaşa, Cerrahpaşa Medical Faculty
İstanbul / Türkiye

Dr. Asiya Zaidi
ENT Clinical and Research Fellow
Department of ENT
University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust
Birmingham, United Kingdom

Dr. Mario Turri-Zanoni
Consultant and Professor in Otorhinolaryngology and Skull Base Surgery
Dept. of Otorhinolaryngology and Skull Base Surgery
University of Insubria, ASST Lariana, Sant’Anna Hospital
Como, Italy

Mr. Mohamed Morsy
ENT Consultant
East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust
UK

Dr. Michael Mounir Fadel 
MD, PhD
Associate Professor at the Faculty of Medicine
Ain Shams University
Department of Otolaryngology
Ain Shams University Hospitals
Cairo, Egypt

Dr. Shama Shishodia
ENT Consultant (Rhinology and Paediatrics)
Lewisham and Greenwich NHS Trust
London, United Kingdom

Dr. Shailesh Khode
Chairperson
Sleep Surgery

Consultant Snoring-Sleep Apnea & ENT Surgeon
Tarabichi Stammberger Ear and Sinus Institute
NMC Health Care
Abu Dhabi & Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Dr. Mohamed Al Ajmi
Consultant- ENT
OMSB, Arab board,
Starcare Barka Hospital
Oman

Dr. Hesham Alrayyes
Senior ENT Consultant
King Hamad University Hospital
Bahrain

Dr. Peter Baptista
ENT Sleep Apnea Surgeon
Clínica Universidad de Navarra
Pamplona, Spain

Dr. Shahid Peerbhoy
Consultant Pulmonologist
King’s College Hospital London
Dubai, UAE

Dr. Tina Rokadia
Specialist Prosthodontist
Dental Sleep Medicine Specialist
Same Day Dental Clinic
Dubai, UAE

Dr. Jessica Schwarts
ENT and Sleep Surgeon
ENT Clinic
American Hospital Dubai
Dubai, UAE

Dr. Mohammed Alfarghal
Chairperson
Audiology & Vestibular Master Class

Chief of Audiology and Vestibular Services
Otorhinolaryngology – Head & Neck Surgery
King Abdulaziz Medical City
Jeddah, KSA

Dr. Vishal Pawar
Co-Chair of Audio-Vestibular Masterclass Track

Specialist Neurologist
Head, Tarabichi Vertigo and Balance Center
Neurology Department
Tarabichi Healthcare
Dubai, UAE

Dr. Melissa Castillo-Bustamante
Assistant Professor
Department of Otolaryngology
Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana University Clinic
Medellin, Colombia

Dr. Renato Cal
MD, Associate Professor of Otolaryngology at Centro Universitario Do Para (Cesupa- Brazil)
Otolaryngology
Centro Universitario Do Para – Brazil
Belém, Brazil

Dr. Gorkem Ertugrul
PhD, Associate Professor
Hacettepe University
Department of Audiology
Ankara, Turkey

Dr. Lilian Felipe
Associate Professor & Program Director, Doctor of Audiology Program
Department of Speech and Hearing Sciences
Lamar University
Beaumont, Texas, USA

Prof. Dan Dupont Hougaard
Head of Audiovestibular Department
Associate Professor
Department of ORL-HNS & Audiology – Aalborg University Hospital
Aalborg, Denmark

Mr. Mustafa Karabulut
Audiologist & Vestibular Researcher
Department of Otorhinolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery
Maastricht University Medical Center
Maastricht, The Netherlands

Prof. Gulce Kirazli
Assistant Professor of Audiology
Audiology, Faculty of Health Sciences
Ege University
Izmir, Turkiye

Dr. Prawin Kumar
Associate Professor
Department of Audiology
All India Institute of Speech and Hearing (AIISH)
Mysore, India

Ms. Sana Ben Salem
Physiotherapist
Tunisian Medical Society of Vertigo
Nabeul, Tunisia

Dr. Niraj Singh
Associate Professor
Department of Audiology
All India Institute of Speech and Hearing
Mysore (Mysuru), India

Mr. Alain Thiry
Physiotherapist – Osteopath
Vestibular Therapist
University Institute of the Face and Neck
Nice, France

Dr. Josine Widdershoven
Staff Otorhinolaryngogist
Maastricht University Medical Centre (Netherlands)
Consultant Otorhinolaryngogist
Antwerp University Hospital
Belgium

Dr. Deepti Sinha
Lead Consultant ENT
CK Birla Hospital, Punjabi Bagh
Delhi, India

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