Welcome Message



Dr. Muna Al Maslamani
Medical Director, Communicable Disease Center
Senior Consultant, Infectious Diseases
Hamad Medical Corporation Qatar

On behalf of Qatar International Infectious Diseases Conference (QIIDC) Organizing and Scientific Committee, and Qatar Infectious Diseases Association (QIDA), it's my pleasure to personally invite all of you to the first QIIDC. It's an exciting time for Communicable Disease Center as we continue to grow and always adaptable, motivated, and responsive to the dynamic evolutions in our field. Infectious Diseases is a rich area of specialty in which to be part of and play significant clinical role, we meet and bring inspired people together in forums like this, to ensure our Communicable Disease Center remains at the cutting edge.

I'd like to give you an idea of what we hope to achieve in this conference taking you through following sessions: -

  • Learning from the pandemic - getting ready for the next
  • Shedding the light on resistance!
  • Infectious Diseases and Quality; Integrated
  • Infection challenges in vulnerable population
  • It's a small world!
  • Bon Voyage! Having a great trip

In this conference we're aiming to transform the way we clinically operate to continuously improve our ability to be part of the scientific evidence, share and exchange experiences with our colleague experts, and strengthen our clinical outcomes for better patient care. Our Infectious Diseases colleagues have continued to meet the challenges of our field and to excel despite setbacks and hard times the whole world have been through in the past few years. We should all be very proud of where we are today and excited about where we are heading to in future.

Finally, I would like to encourage each of you to attend our conference and witness presence of expertise at this important gathering. Everyone one of the experts have the vision, the knowledge, and the experience to help us pave our way into the future of Infectious Diseases.

Throughout this conference, I kindly ask you to stay engaged and take this opportunity to enjoy our beautiful country Qatar.