3rd Laboratory Conference
 
Dr. Afrozul Haq
Conference Chairman
Director of Research & Development, Gulf Diagnostic Center Hospital

Dr. Haq is currently working as the Director of Research & Development, Gulf Diagnostic Center Hospital. He worked as Senior Clinical Scientist & Head of Referral Services at Sheikh Khalifa Medical City (SKMC), Abu Dhabi, UAE. Additionally, Prof. Haq is working as an International Consultant and Advisor for Vitamin D Research. He is a graduate of Aligarh Muslim University, India and trained as a postdoctoral fellow at National Institute of Health and Medical Research (INSERM), Paris, France. 

He started his professional career from All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS), New Delhi in 1984. Dr. Haq has been invited and worked as a visiting Professor to Pasteur Institute, Paris in 1993 and Royal Victoria Hospital, McGill University, Montreal, Canada in 1991. He worked as a Scientist & Head of Protein Chemistry at King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Centre, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia from 1988 till 2000. 

In the year 2000, Dr. Haq was appointed as a Professor at Dubai Medical College, Dubai. From 2001 to 2006 he was working as the Head of Biochemical Diseases Investigation Laboratory at Mafraq Hospital, Abu Dhabi, UAE. Dr. Haq has developed and modified successfully high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) technique for the measurement of Vitamin D3 and Vitamin D2 in 2006. Dr. Haq has published 58 research articles in peer reviewed journals, 2 book chapters, and 70 abstracts presented in the International & regional scientific conferences. He is working on several research projects on vitamin D in collaboration with clinicians and researchers at SKMC, Zayed University, and Khalifa University, Abu Dhabi and SUNARC Research Center, San Francisco, USA. 

Dr. Haq is an active member of the Institutional Review Board (IRB), member of the leadership group of Pathology & Laboratory Medicine Institute at SKMC and is the Editor of the International Journal of Medicine & Medical Sciences, Prime Research on Medicine, American Journal of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Asian Journal of Clinical Nutrition, International Journal of Biological Chemistry, Trends in Medical Research, International Journal of Cancer Research, member Advisory Board of International Journal of Nutrition, Pharmacology and Neurological Diseases and reviewer for Oral Oncology, International Journal of Dermatology and Clinica Chimica Acta.
 
Dr. Amrish Kamboj
Laboratory Director and Specialist Clinical Pathologist
Eastern Clinical Laboratories, Lifeline Hospital

Dr. Amrish Kamboj, brings with him over a decade long dedicated experience as a clinical pathologist. He has worked extensively in diagnostic centers of international repute in India, Gulf and South America. Through his tenure so far, he has actively been involved in setting, measuring and maintaining quality standards of the laboratories under his supervision and worked closely with various disciplines to ensure seamless management of the patient throughout the entire care continuum by providing accurate correlation with laboratory data. He is at the forefront of conducting educational programs amongst the medical, laboratory technical and support staff about latest trends and tests available.

His extensive experience in managing clinics efficiently has lead him to be selected for his current additional position of group director of operations where he works closely with all functions of hospitals to ensure smooth patient service delivery and high standards of patient satisfaction.

 
Dr. Setul Varma
Specialist Clinical Pathologist
Dar Al Mouasah Diagnostic Centre

Dr. Setul is a Specialist Clinical Pathologist having 12 years of experience. He is a graduate of MBBS and MD-PATHOLOGY and alumnus of M.P. Shah Medical College, Jamnagar, Gujarat, India. He is a member of International Fellow in CAP (College of American Pathologists). He has expertise, knowledge and keen about Quality Assurance and Quality Control system. He worked with Zydus Hospital Chains in India as Head of Laboratory Medicine and Lab Business Unit Head-developing Laboratory Business by evaluating all Profit and Loss Account: like HR, Finance, Economy, and Revenue Generation. Presently, he is working in Abu Dhabi as Quality Manager for ISO: 15189:2012 and CAP accredited laboratory. 


 
Dr. Najood Amer Omar
Specialist Physician/ Hematopathologist
Lead of Clinical Chemistry, Corniche Hospital

Dr. Najood has 15 years excellent experience in her filed that includes interpretation of bone marrow aspirates and biopsies, peripheral blood smears, and lymphoid tissue specimens. She is hands-on in flow cytometric data analysis and integrates immune-histochemical, cytogenetic, FISH, and molecular genetic results with morphologic and flow cytometric findings. She worked for Sheikh Khalifa Medical City as a Specialist Physician under Clinical Chemistry and Pathology Lab Department for 8 years before she start serving Corniche Hospital as the lead of the Clinical Chemistry Department in 2013.
 
Dr. Ripu Daman Chauhan
Laboratory Director and Clinical Pathologist
Gulf Radiology & Laboratory, Medsol Group, under Gulf Healthcare International, Abu Dhabi

Dr. Ripu Daman Chauhan has joined Gulf Radiology & Laboratories as a Specialist Clinical Pathology reporting to Director - Medsol Operations.

He has more than 21 years of extensive experience as Lab Director and Clinical Pathologist managing placement of staff in different hospitals, allotment of budgets, technical evaluation of proposals for laboratory equipment, as team mentor and leadership.

In addition, he was also employed as Deputy Inspector General and was supervising the investigations, medicare of the troops and their families in Indian Armed forces. He was also involved in general administration of hospitals including planning and executing purchases of medicines and other medical equipment.  

 
Dr. Mohamed Elsawy
Laboratory Director / Clinical Pathology Professor
Health and Life Medical Group / Alexandria Medical School,Egypt

Prof. Dr. Elwasy is a top-performing, highly accomplished, healthcare professional, researcher and educationist with chronicled success in spearheading all facets of laboratory operations management, knowledge development, service quality improvement and general management functions in the healthcare sector. He is a visionary leader with expertise achieving success in clinical Pathology, Hematology and Esoteric Testing. He has proven ability to plan and implement cost effective strategies streamlining testing processes, research procedures and administrative functions in a laboratory.

Prof. Dr. Elwasyis capable of leading through initiative and personal example with proficiency in improving processes and achieves organizational goals. He combines flair for managing research projects with expertise and experience in guiding and mentoring research professionals through exemplary subject knowledge development and trainings. He has strong academic background as he is a PhD degree holder in PhD, Molecular Biology from Tulane University, New Orleans, USA in 2003 and finished Clinical Pathology at Alexandria Medical School, Alexandria, Egypt, 2004.His fields of interest include Hematology, Hemato-Oncology, Molecular Biology&Pharmacogenetics, Quality Management and Accreditation.

 
Dr. Sushma Umrao
Specialist Clinical Pathologist
Danat Al Emarat Hospital

Dr. Sushma completed her MBBS and MD Pathology from Mumbai University, India in 2008. She has experience of over 8 years in her area of expertise. In India she has worked in reputed organizations like Suburban Diagnostics, Mumbai and NM Medical, Mumbai from 2008 to 2013.

Dr. Sushma has been working in the Abu Dhabi since 2013. She has worked at New National Medical Centre, Abu Dhabi as the Lab Director and Specialist in Clinical Pathology. She was the team leader and successfully completed CAP accreditation for NNMC Lab on 9th March 2016. Her area of expertise are Hematology, Clinical Pathology, Biochemistry & Serology. She also participated and successfully completed ISO audit of Danat Al Emarat Hospital and Health Plus Laboratory on 25- 26th Sept 2016.

She has presented various National and International CMEs, like Food Allergy Vs Food Intolerance, Recent Advances in the diagnosis of H.Pylori, Hematology Interesting Cases with CBC report Interpretation, Medlab 2017 CME on Quality Control in Clinical Laboratory.

 
Dr. Lamya Ibrahim
Laboratory Director
Advanced Center For Day Care Surgery

Dr. Lamia Ibrahim completed her doctorate in clinical pathology and hematology at Mansoura faculty of medicine, Egypt in 2010. She joined the clinical pathology department from 2000 till now, promoted from assistant lecturer to lecturer and finally Assistant professor. She published regularly in international and national journals with about publications. She is also working as a reviewer of many peer- reviewed medical journals. Dr. Lamia Ibrahim also contributed and presented her work to many international conferences such as European Hematology Association 2014. She is also a member of many organizations such as European Hematology Association (EHA), American Hematology Association (ASH), Emirates Medical Hematology Association (EMHA), Egyptian Society of Hematology (ESH), Egyptian Society of Laboratory Medicine (ESLM), and Pan- Arab Hematology Associations. She’s been working as Consultant Clinical Pathology in UAE since 2013 and currently as Laboratory Director of Advanced Center For Day Care Surgery.

 
Dr. Gehad ElGhazali
Director of Transplant Immunology Laboratory
Sheikh Khalifa Medical City (SKMC)

Dr. Gehad ElGhazali is a health professional with medical, academic and research career in clinical Immunology and Genetics. He is holding a MD and PhD degrees, in addition to Board certifications in Clinical and Medical Laboratory Immunology from Sweden and the US.

He has more than 20 year of medical teaching with academic title of Professor of Clinical Immunology where he focuses in teaching Immunology and Genetic basis of diseases. Currently, he is assisting resident doctors on grand rounds and on group discussions for those planning for the clinical board examinations in Sheikh Khalifa Medical City. His research area includes Immunopathology, infection and Immunity, Molecular genetics and molecular basis of diseases.

Since 2012, he has been working as Consultant and Service Lead Immunologist and Director of Transplant Immunology Laboratory at SKMC.

 
Dr. Yasser Ismail
Founder & President and General Manager
Amerispec Diagnostics FZLLC

Dr. Ismail has been involved in cutting edge science and technology in the US for the past 27 years. He served in many academic, professional and industrial roles during that time in some of the most prestigious institutions, including Brigham’s and Women Hospital (Boston, MA USA), a Harvard Medical School Teaching Hospital working in Clinical Chemistry, while conducting research on Molecular Dosimetry for DNA Adducts at Northeastern University, (Boston, MA USA).

Yasser began his post graduate studies professional career in September 2001 at Waters Corporation (Milford, MA USA), where he worked for 10 years in various global product development, management and marketing roles. Subsequently, he managed Waters consumable business globally for the Pharmaceutical Division before joining Thermo Fisher Scientific (Waltham, MA USA) in October 2010 as Director for R&D, with responsibility for the development of a novel class of mass spectrometry clinical analysers, integrating company-wide technologies and the acquisition of enabling innovative intellectual properties. He was named Managing Director for Thermo Fisher Scientific Middle East in January 2014 and moved from Boston USA to Dubai UAE to create a local presence for Thermo Fisher with a Customer Experience Centre, a training facility, and a team of talents.

Yasser is a graduate of Alexandria University Egypt, where he earned a bachelor’s degree in Microbiology. He received an MBA from Northeastern University School of Business Administration (Boston, USA), while pursuing a Doctorate in Philosophy in Biomedical Sciences at Bouvé College of Health Sciences at Northeastern University (Boston, USA), subsequent to a Master of Science in the field of pharmaceutical sciences from Northeastern University school of Pharmacy and Allied Health Professions (Boston, USA).
 
Zain Al Yafei, MSc, PhD
Technical Supervisor and Deputy Service Lead, Immunology and Histocompatibility, SKMC
Laboratory Manager, Corniche Hospital

Dr. Zain works as Laboratory Manager of Corniche Hospital and Technical Supervisor and Deputy Service Lead of the Immunology and Histocompatibility Department of Sheik Khalifa Medical City. At the same time, he serves as the Senior Clinical Scientist and Laboratory training and development manager of Mafraq Hospital/SKMC.

He participates in the activities related to national and international accreditation processes such as HAAD, JCIA, CAP and ISO. He is responsible in ensuring that standard operation procedures (SOP) and quality assurance test/audits are maintained with all sections. He partakes in audits to ensure quality management programs and policies are implemented. He supervises, validates, and authorizes day-to-day analytical, scientific and clinical aspects of clinical immunology and transplant immunology laboratory assays. He is responsible to have efficient performance of assays, monitor and advice on reference ranges and monitor the performance of staff conducting clinical samples.

With his remarkable works, he received numerous recognition including Best SKMC Emirati Employee in July 2015 and “Young Emirati Researchers Prize 2013” by the National Research Foundation, UAE.