• Consultant Pediatrics & Neonatology
• Assistant professor of Pediatrics, Zagazig University, Egypt.
• Head of Neonatology Department, Dar Al Shifa Hospital, Kuwait

• President of Kuwait Pediatric Surgery Association
• Head of Postgraduate Office, Kuwait institution of Medical Specialization

• Vice-President of Kuwait Pediatric Surgery Association
• Assistant professor, faculty of Medicine, Kuwait University.

• Completed residency in Oman 2013 and started working in Royal hospital NICU till 2016.
• Completed fellowship in Canada -Winnipeg 2016-2018 and 3rd-year subspeciality in Neurocritical care 2018-2019 in Winnipeg

Area Of Interest:

• Area of expertise is neonatal neurology.
• Completed medical school and pediatric residency training at damascus university, syria, then completed 3 years of neonatology training at the university of calgary and 2 years of neonatal neurology fellowship at the university of british columbia.
• Established the neonatal neuro-critical care program.
• Co-Founder of the scan (sonographic clinical assessment of the newborn) program.
• Invented computer based and phantoms simulators for the scan program.

Research Interests:

Lena Hellström-Westas, MD, PhD, is Professor of Perinatal Medicine at Uppsala University, and Senior Consultant in Neonatology at the Department of Neonatology, Uppsala University Hospital, Sweden. She is Medical Co-Director at the Karolinska NIDCAP center and Scientific advisor in Neonatology to the Swedish National Board of Health and Welfare

Lena Hellström-Westas received her medical degree at Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm but received most of her clinical training at Lund University Hospital, Sweden.

It was also in Lund the pioneering research on amplitude-integrated EEG monitoring started with focus on early prediction of outcome in asphyxiated infants and preterm infants, seizure detection, sleep and pain assessments.

Dr. Ayed graduated in 2004 from Kuwait University Faculty of medicine. Dr. Ayed is a Canadian and American board certified in pediatrics and in neonatal- perinatal medicine.

She completed a fellowship training in neonatal neurology and neuro-critical care at the University of Toronto in 2016. Dr. Ayed has a post-doctoral training in clinical research from Harvard Medical School. Her main research focus on better understanding preterm brain injury and neuro-protection in preterm neonates.

Mohamed El-Dib, MD is the Director of Neonatal Neurocritical Care, Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) and Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School. He is a neonatologist with additional training in neonatal neurology. The BWH Neonatal Neurocritical program is a multidisciplinary group of specialty trained nurses, neurologists, neuroradiologists and developmental specialists. This group has established guidelines and protocols aiming at providing standardized, focused and integrated care for babies with or at risk for brain abnormality or injury. The Brigham and Women’s new state of the art NICU provides comprehensive care for neonates with neonatal encephalopathy including therapeutic hypothermia, neuromonitoring and neuroimaging.

Dr. El-Dib has numerous publications in the field of neonatal neurology. He has focused his research on neonatal neuromonitoring and neuroprotection. In neuromonitoring, he has used amplitude integrated EEG (aEEG) to evaluate brain maturation in premature infants and as a tool to evaluate for brain injury in neonatal encephalopathy. Dr. El-Dib has also has been investigating the use of near infra-red spectroscopy (NIRS) to assess cerebral circulation, oxygenation and oxygen metabolism in these population. Regarding neuroprotection, he has been a co-investigator in multiple studies on various neuroprotective agents including ascorbic acid, ibuprofen, melatonin and more recently autologous cord blood.

Dr. El-Dib has co-founded a national/ international Neonatal Neurocritical Care Special Interest Group – NNCC-SIG(www.NNCC-SIG.org). The aim of this group is to provide a forum for dialogue regarding Neonatal Neurocritical Care (NNCC) clinical care pathways, opportunities for networking and establishing relationships to serve as a foundation for future collaborations. Annual meetings of this group have been established since 2016. In addition, he has been co-directing workshops teaching the arts of neuromonitoring and neuroimaging(www.newbornbrainworkshop.org).

Dr. Muzafar Gani Abdul Wahab is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Pediatrics, Division of Neonatology.

Dr. Gani pursued his medical training in India, where he graduated from Madurai Medical College in 1991 and completed his postgraduate training in Pediatrics and Neonatology at Manipal University in 1997.

For the next several years he practised as a Neonatologist with the Ministry of Health at Al Adan Hospital and Al Ahmadi Hospital in Kuwait before joining the Neonatal Fellowship program at McMaster, which he completed in 2012. He is currently a candidate for a Masters in eHealth through McMaster, which he will complete in 2013.

With 10 years of neonatal experience, Dr. Gani’s interests focus on optimizing health information technology adoption in neonatology, online and distance education, and functional echocardiography.

As a keen web-developer, Dr. Gani is always looking for new ways of integrating web interface for clinical and training purposes. Accordingly, he played a key role in the development and implementation of an electronic total parenteral nutrition (TPN) calculator software for McMaster Children’s Hospital (MCH) and was the project leader and developer of an electronic database for daily rounds, hand-over and automated discharge summaries for the hospital. He also founded the MCH Neonatal Research Club, devoted to building research skills and providing training on statistical software.

Completed undergraduate medical training at Southampton University in the UK and postgraduate training in Paediatrics and Neonatology in Nottingham, Sydney and Oxford. Since 1991, he has been Staff specialist in Neonatal Medicine at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital and Clinical Associate Professor at University of Sydney.

Research interests include the use of ultrasound in an acute care setting, the causes of brain injury in preterm babies and prevention of brain injury from severe jaundice in term babies. He has over 100 publications of original research and invited reviews in peer reviewed journals and chapters in textbooks.

Interested in training and accreditation in neonatal point of care ultrasound. He is joint author on the digital self-directed learning series ‘Practical Neonatal Ultrasound’.

Professor Samir Gupta joined Sidra Medicine as Senior Attending Physician in Neonatology. He is Professor of Neonatology at Durham University, United Kingdom and is Fellow of Royal College of Pediatrics and Child Health, United Kingdom & Fellow of Royal college of Physicians of Ireland, Dublin.

He was awarded the degree of MD (with distinction) for his research from Newcastle University, UK. Over the years he has served in a number of managerial and educational roles and led the clinical services. His research interest in Newborn heart and lung disorders has led to a number of publications in indexed medical journals and presentations at international conferences.

He has been visiting professor and invited speaker at neonatal conferences all around the world. His research has been funded by National Institute of Health Research UK on novel approach of managing patent ductus arteriosus in premature babies.

He leads the Newborn haemodynamic group in the UK and is member of international and European advisory committees on managing newborn circulation problems. He has been director of Research and Innovation at his institute in the UK for many years and member of Regional ethics committee. He is the founder and conference director for Annual International Neonatal Cardiology & Haemodynamics Conference (NeoCard UK).

• Assistant professor of Pediatric and child health
• Max Rady College of Medicine- Rady Faculty of health sciences- University of Manitoba - CANADA
• Staff Neonatologist at Health sciences Centre and St Boniface hospital – Winnipeg - CANADA
• Research scientist: Children's Hospital Research Institute of Manitoba, and Biology of Breathing Theme - Department of Physiology
• Registered echo-cardiologist

Qualifications

• 1994 - MD - Doctor of Medicine - Faculty of Medicine, Zagazig University, Egypt
• 1998 - M.Sc. - Masters of Pediatrics - Zagazig University, Egypt
• 2006 - Ph.D. - Doctorate in Pediatrics (Highest medical degree in Egypt), Al-Azhar University, Egypt
• 2011 - 2011 Neonatal- Perinatal Medicine Fellowship, University of Manitoba, Canada

International presentations and workshops:

• Neonatal hemodynamics workshop with the Turkish neonatal society every year since 2015.
• Multiple workshops in Egypt since 2014
• Pulmonary hypertension workshop in Maryland, USA 2016
• Multiple workshops on point of care ultrasound and targeted neonatal echocardiography in Canada