Committees

​Chair

Dr. Hanadi Khamis Al Hamad
Head of WHO Collaborating Centre for Healthy Ageing and Dementia

Scientific Planning Committee

We would like to warmly acknowledge the guidance and support of Prof Antonio Cherubini, Director of Geriatrics and Geriatric Emergency Care at IRCCS-INRCA, Ancona, Italy & Associate Professor of Gerontology and Geriatrics at the University of Perugia Medical School, Academic Director of EuGMS; and Prof Tahir Masud, Consultant Physician and Professor at Nottingham University Hospital and past president of BGS; towards developing the conference program.

  • Dr. Shafi Hashmath Ulla Khan
    Scientific Committee Co-Chair
    Senior Consultant Geriatrician, HMC
    Geriatric Fellowship Program Director
    Assistant Prof Weill Cornell Medicine - Qatar (WCM-Q)
  • Dr. Shirmila Syamala
    Scientific Committee Co-Chair
    Senior Consultant Geriatrician, HMC
    Member, HMC Institutional Review Board
  • Ms. Mariam Nooh J.H. Al-Mutawa
    Acting Chief Nursing Officer, Corporate Nursing & Midwifery
  • Dr. Mani Chandran
    Senior Consultant, Clinical Lead for Memory Services
  • Dr. Anand Bhaskaran Kartha
    Senior Consultant, Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine WCM-Q
  • Dr. Amir Ibrahim Abdalla
    Director of Acute Geriatric Services
  • Dr. Audrey Fitzgerald
    Consultant Home Health Care Services
  • Dr Ahmed Fouaad Abdelwahed
    Clinical Pharmacist
  • Ms. Feda Bilal Mohammad Alshar
    Physiotherapist
  • Mr. Mamoun M R Al Khoub
    Occupational Therapist
  • Ms. Shirley Vinodhini John Anandaprasad
    Occupational Therapist

  • Dr. Pravija Manikoth
    Senior Consultant Memory services

  • Dr. Jorge Louis Passarelli

  • Mr. Syed Rashid Buhari

Organizing Committee

  • Mr. Abram Asaad
    Corporate Communications Department – Events Lead
    Member

  • Mr. Christopher Chorus
    Project Manager
    Member

  • Ms. Dina Mohammed
    Project Manager
    Member

  • Ms. Elizabeth MacGillivray
    Executive Director of Marketing
    Member

  • Ms. Jasmeen Ul-Haque
    AED Corporate communications
    Member

  • Dr. Mani Chandran
    Senior Consultant
    Member

  • Mr. Mohammed Momal
    Executive Secretary of Department of Geriatrics & LTC
    Administrator

  • Dr. Shafi Hashmath Ulla Khan
    Geriatric Fellowship Program Director
    Member

  • Dr. Shirmila Syamala
    Senior Consultant
    Member