International Guest Speakers (in alphabetical Order) :
Ahdy Helmy – USA
Dr. Helmy went to Alexandria University School of medicine, where he did his first Medicine residency, had his master and Doctorate degrees, and served as a clinical instructor before moving to the US. There he did a second residency at Indiana University, a fellowship in Endocrinology and metabolism.Is triple boarded in Medicine, endocrinology and clinical lipidology. Active as a clinician, teacher and researcher. A recipient of many teaching awards, the author of many publications, a book chapter and a book.
Mario Skugor – USA .
Staff physician at Cleveland Clinic
I graduated in 1986. I was research associate in Nuclear Medicine working (metabolic bone disease and thyroid cancer) and finished residency program in 1993.
From 1993-1997 I was at Ohio State University as researcher in the Bone and Mineral Metabolism Laboratory. In 1997 I started Internal Medicine
residency program and served as a chief
resident. Endocrinology fellowship in Cleveland Clinic was from 2000-2002. I was associated director of Endocrinology, fellowship program 2009-2011.
I am associate professor of medicine and director of PBL case development at CCLCM of CWRU, and hold the Katherine and Ed Lozick chair in Endocrinology and Metabolism
Nabil Elnagar – KSA
Diabetologist & Head of Diabetes Center, Hai Aljamea Hospital.
Chairman of Jeddah Diabetes Club.
Chairman of Jeddah Hypertension and Atherosclerosis Club.
Head of CME Committee of Hai AlJamea Hospital, Jeddah
Raul D. Santos – Brazil
He is the President (2019-2021) of the International Atherosclerosis Society (IAS), the vice president of the Iberoamerican Familial Hype rcholesterolemia Network, and also a member of the Consensus Panel on Dyslipidemias of the European Atherosclerosis Society (EAS).
Director of the Lipid Clinic of the Heart Institute (InCor) of the University of São Paulo, Brazil and associate professor of the Department of Cardiopulmonary diseases at the University of São Paulo medical school.
He also holds a researcher position at the Academic Research Organization (ARO) of the Hospital Israelita Albert Einstein in Sao Paulo, Brazil. After completing his training in cardiology.