Abdullah Shehab, MD, MMEd, PhD, FACC

Conference Vice Chair

  • Professor of Cardiology, Vice President Gulf Intervention Society, Vice President and Head of Hypertension Working Group, Emirates Cardiac Society, Editor in Chief NEMJ
  • UAE University
  • Al Ain, United Arab Emirates
25 years of experience in Internal medicine, cardiology and interventional cardiology, and medical education. Awards from UAEU: Best Service, Best Teaching, and Best clinical research. Professional Affiliations: Chairman of Scientific Committee in Emirates Medical Association, Past President of Emirates Society of Cardiology, currently Vice President of Emirates Cardiac Society, and Vice President of Gulf Intervention Society. Fellow of the royal college of Physicians UK, fellow American college of Physicians, fellow European Society of Cardiology, fellow of the American College of cardiology, fellow American Society of cardiac intervention, and a fellow of the American heart association. Areas of Special Interest: Heart failure, Coronary artery disease, Dyslipidemia, Hypertension, Arrhythmias, Cardiac intervention, Cardiac imaging, Screening for cardiac disease in sports players, cardiovascular disease  in pregnancy Professor Shehab is a Chief Editor of the Emirates Medical Journal and also serves as an editor in many other regional and international journals. Professor has published 152 papers in Medline.