Committee Biography

Hani M. Sabbour is currently Consultant Cardiologist and Electrophysiologist at Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi and also formerInternal Medicine Residency Program Director at Al Ain Hospital, Al Ain,United Arab Emirates. He served as Director of Cardiac Arrhythmia andElectrophysiology at Landmark Medical Center in Rhode Island USA from2003 until 2012 . Since January 2013, he has held an academicappointment as Clinical Assistant Professor Cardiovascular Disease atWarren Alpert School of Medicine, Brown University.He established acomprehensive Pulmonary Hypertension Center and PH registry at SKMCas well as leading the SEHA PH guideline writing team to complete theSEHA clinical practice guidelines in PAH. Dr Sabbour received his medical training at the Faculty of Medicine,Kuwait University, culminating in a medical doctorate in 1994 and awardedHis Highness The Emir's Gold Medal with First Class Honors . Hecompleted residencies at Kuwait Institute for Medical Specializations andSUNY Stony Brook – East Meadow Campus in 1995 and 1998,respectively. He was also Clinical and Research Fellow in clinical cardiacelectrophysiology at Massachusetts General Hospital – Harvard MedicalSchool, where he received ABIM Clinical Cardiac ElectrophysiologyCertification in 2003. He is ABIM certified in Internal medicine,Cardiovascular Disease , Cardiac Electrophysiology, Advanced HeartFailure and Cardiac Transplant , ECHO and Nuclear Cardiology. Dr Sabbour has been involved in multiple clinical trials; his extensiveresearch on cardiovascular diseases has been published in a number ofmulti center clinical trials and publications. His clinical interests includeintegrated device therapy and CHF, correlative cardiac imaging, nuclearcardiology, arrhythmia management particularly atrial fibrillation,management of valvular heart disease, drug monitoring and managementprogram and particularly Pulmonary Hypertension Dr. Sabbour is currentlya Fellow of the American College of Cardiology , Heart Rhythm Societyand the American College of Physicians , and Egyptian American Medical Association.