Bassam Bulbanat is Consultant of Cardiology (echocardiography specialist) at the Sabah Al Ahmad Cardiac Center, Ministry of health, Kuwait. During his academic career he has contributed to several international journal publications. He is the program director of the Adult Cardiology Fellowship Program affiliated with KIMS.

Dr. Shehab Abdullah Ekrouf is an MD and FACS-certified consultant general, laparoscopic, and bariatric surgeon in Kuwait.

Dr. Mousa Akbar is a Consultant Interventional Cardiologist and Head of the Cardiology Unit at Al-Sabah Hospital, Kuwait, and serves at the Chest Disease Hospital. A Kuwait University graduate, he completed internal medicine and cardiology training in Canada at the University of Western Ontario and Ottawa Heart Institute. He is certified by American and Canadian boards in Internal Medicine and Cardiology and holds fellowships including FACP, FRCPC, FACC, FESC, FSCAI, and FGHA. Dr. Akbar has held leadership roles in the Kuwait Cardiac Society, Gulf Heart Association, Gulf Interventional Society, and Chest Disease Hospital’s Cardiology Department. He has contributed to local and international publications, represents Kuwait in regional and international cardiovascular organizations, and has delivered more than 300 cardiology lectures locally and regionally.

Currently, Professor Al-Rasadi serves as a professor in the Department of Biochemistry at the College of Medicine & Health Sciences at Sultan Qaboos University (SQU) in Oman. He is a founding member and the current president of the Oman Society for Lipid and Atherosclerosis (OSLA). He is a founding member and the current director of the Oman Genome Program.

Prof. Al-Rasadi has led several groundbreaking studies both nationally and regionally, including the Gulf Familial Hypercholesterolemia Study, Gulf CALLS study and the Oman FH Cascade Screening Study. He is actively involved in national and international medical associations. Additionally, he contributes to the medical community as a member of the editorial board for the Oman Medical Journal.

With over 183 publications and 7136 citations, Professor Khalid Al-Rasadi is a respected authority in the field of medical biochemistry and lipidology.

Dr. Peter J. Lansberg is a lipidologist and senior staff member at the Department of Vascular Medicine, Academic Medical Center in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

Dr. Lansberg obtained his Bachelor, Master and Doctor of Medicine degrees from University of Amsterdam (UvA). He returned to Academic Medical Center (AMC) where he worked on his doctoral thesis “The Molecular Basis and Treatment of Familial Hypercholesterolemia (FH)” at the department of vascular Medicine under the supervision of prof. John Kastelein and prof. Jan Wouter ten Cate.

He established and supervised the Amsterdam Lipid Clinic in the Slotervaart medical center in Amsterdam and during the 1990ies he co-­‐founded, in collaboration with Prof. Kastelein, the Dutch Lipid Clinic Network, a national alliance of Dutch academic and general hospitals. For this network he conceived and promoted the Dutch Lipid Clinic Diagnostic Criteria for FH.

Dr. Lansberg is the founder and former director of the successful Dutch National FH Cascade Screening program conducted by the “Stichting Opsporing Erfelijke Hypercholesterolemie” (StOEH). Based on this experience he supported similar initiatives in Europe, Middle East, Southeast Asia, Canada, Australia and New Zealand and shared his experience and expertise, building and managing the Dutch screening program.

Dr. Hani Sabbour is a Consultant in Cardiology, Advanced Heart Failure and Pulmonary Hypertension, and Cardiac Electrophysiology at Mediclinic Abu Dhabi, UAE. He also serves as an Assistant Professor of Cardiology at Brown University's Alpert Medical School in Rhode Island, USA.

Dr. Sabbour holds six American Board certifications, including Internal Medicine, Cardiovascular Disease, Advanced Heart Failure and Pulmonary Hypertension, and Cardiac Electrophysiology. Additionally, he is board-certified in comprehensive echocardiography (ASE) and nuclear cardiology (ASNC/CBNC).

Dr. Sabbour is the lead author of the UAE Pulmonary Hypertension Guidelines and established the country’s first Pulmonary Hypertension registry and center of excellence in 2014. He also co-authored the UAE Cardiometabolic Guidelines and is a founding member of the Cardiac Amyloidosis Working Group in the Gulf and Saudi Arabia.

Dr. Amine Ghram, PhD, FESC, ACSM-CEP, CCRP, is a Clinical Exercise Physiologist in the Department of Cardiac Rehabilitation at the Heart Hospital, Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha, Qatar. He holds a PhD in Cardiovascular and Respiratory Exercise Physiology and is a Fellow of the European Society of Cardiology, an ACSM Certified Clinical Exercise Physiologist, and an AACVPR Certified Cardiac Rehabilitation Professional. His clinical and research interests include cardiac rehabilitation and preventive cardiology, exercise physiology, and sport and exercise medicine. Dr. Ghram has authored more than 70 peer-reviewed publications and serves on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Cardiopulmonary Rehabilitation and Prevention. He is committed to strengthening cardiac rehabilitation in the region through international collaboration, the development of professional and scientific networks, and continuous learning and knowledge exchange."

• Bachelor of Medicine with Honors.
• Kuwaiti Board Certification in Internal Medicine, Kuwait Institute of Medical Specialization (KIMS).
• Fellowship of the Royal College of Physicians in the United Kingdom (FRCP UK) in Internal Medicine.
• Canadian Board Certification in Cardiology.
• Fellowship of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada (FRCPC) in Cardiology.
• Fellowship of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada (FRCPC) in Interventional Cardiac Catheterization.
• Fellowship of McMaster University in Structural Heart and Valve Diseases, Canada.
• Fellowship of McMaster University in Cardiac CT Imaging, Canada.
• American Board Certification in Cardiology.

Dr. Fahad Alhajri is a Consultant Interventional Cardiologist at Mubarak Al-Kabeer Hospital in Kuwait. He is American Board Certified in Internal Medicine, Cardiovascular Diseases, and Interventional Cardiology.

Dr. Yaser Mustafa Ghadanfar is a Consultant in Adult Rheumatology, Clinical Immunology, and Allergy at Mubarak Al-Kabeer Hospital in Kuwait. He graduated from the University of Toronto and holds Canadian board certifications in Internal Medicine, Adult Rheumatology, and Clinical Immunology & Allergy. Additionally, he is certified by the American Board in Internal Medicine and Rheumatology.

Dr. Ghadanfar is an active researcher with numerous publications in both rheumatology and allergy fields. He is a member of several professional organizations, including the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada (RCPSC) and the American College of Physicians (ACP).

Dr. Abdulhamied Alfaddagh is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Kuwait University and a consultant interventional cardiologist at Jaber Al Ahmad Hospital, Kuwait. He is recognized for his expertise in coronary artery disease, with a clinical and research focus on coronary physiology, atherosclerosis, and the determinants of coronary artery disease progression and regression.

After completing his residency at Harvard and fellowship training at Johns Hopkins Hospital in the United States, Dr. Alfaddagh earned a Master’s degree in Clinical Investigation from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. He has authored numerous peer-reviewed publications in leading cardiovascular journals, with several of his studies receiving widespread recognition and citations within the scientific community.

Shaker is a specialist in clinical as well as molecular genetics. He is also a board certified clinical and anatomical pathologist. He achieved his MBBS from Kuwait University and went on to AP/CP at University of Saskatchewan, Canada, and then genetics at McMaster University, Ontario, Canada. He is currently working at the Kuwait Medical Genetics Center running a general, hemato-, and cancer genetics clinics and the unit head of the Molecular Pathology lab at Kuwait Cancer Control Center, Ministry of Health, State of Kuwait. He is a tutor and board member of the Kuwait Institute of Medical Specializations’ Pediatrics, Pathology, and Clinical Chemistry residency programs.