Program

Start

End

Agenda

Speaker

Moderators

8:00

8:30

Registration

 

Dr Reem Alsulaiman


Dr. Noora Ebrahim Shahbeck


Dr. Rehab Abdulrahman

8:30

8:45

Opening/ Introduction

Dr Reem Alsulaiman

8:45

9:30

Keynote/ Diagnosis and Management of Rare Diseases: What Has Been Unfolded and Yet to Come?

Prof. Georg F. Hoffmann

9:30

10:30

Diagnostic Odyssey of Rare Diseases: The Journey 

 

9:30

9:45

Dr. Sara Musa

9:45

10:00

Dr. Ghassan Abdoh

10:00

10:30

Dr. Osama Aldirbashi

10:30

10:45

Q&A

   

10:45

11:00

Coffee Break

11:00

11:30

Overcoming stigma and Discrimination in Rare Diseases: Are We there Yet?

Dr. Al Hareth Al Khater

Dr. Tawfeg Ben Omran

Dr. Mahmoud Fawzi 

11:30

12:00

Update on Genetic therapies for Rare Diseases: Lessons Learned from SMA

Prof. Christian Schaaf

12:00

12:15

The Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on Rare immunodeficiency disorders

Dr. Mariam Ali Yousuf Al-Nesf

 Dr. Hisham Abdul Sattar

12:15

1:00

Lunch and Prayer

1:00

1:30

A patient journey with Rare Diseases 

Patient and Dr Ramzi Ali 

Prof Michael Frenneaux

Dr. Mohammed Ussama Al Homsi

Dr. Ramin Badii

1:30

1:50

Applications of genomic research in rare diseases

Dr. Khalid A Fakhro

1:50

2:10

Qatar Biobank: a platform to unravel rare disease

Dr. Radja M. Badji for

Prof. Said Ismail

2:10

2:30

Cancer Genetics: From Rare to Common.

Dr Salha Bujassoum

2:30

2:40

Q&A

   

2:40

3:10

Break and Prayer

3:10

3:30

Homozygous Familial Hypercholesterolemia (HoFH)

Dr. Tawfeg Ben Omran

Dr. Hisham Abdul Sattar

Dr. Khalid Mohsin Al-Ejji

3:30

3:50

Rare Liver disease: From unknown to diagnosis

Dr Moutaz Derbala 

3:50

4:10

Closing remarks

Dr Hilal Rifai