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AGENDA

Day 1: Friday 15 November 2024

Opening

09:00 - 09:30        Opening Remarks

Diet and Nutrition
Chairperson: Dr. Wafaa Ayesh

09:30 - 09:50        Fueling the body: unraveling the mysteries of nutrition and metabolism
                             Speaker: Dr. Wafaa Ayesh
09:50 - 10:10        Effect of diet on the PCSK9
                       
      Speaker: Dr. Haydar A. Hasan
10:10 - 10:30        Maternal dietary patterns, obesogenicity, and inflammatory cytokines interrelationships
                   
           Speaker: Dr. Mona Hashim
10:30 - 11:00        Break

Obesity and Diabetes
Chairperson: Prof. Salah Abusnana

11:00 - 11:25        Management challenges of obesity and its metabolic complications
                             
Speaker: Prof. Salah Abusnana
11:25 - 11:50        Beyond weight loss: the metabolic benefits of bariatric surgery
                             
Speaker: Dr. Mohammed Al-Hadad
11:50 - 12:15        Diabetes, its all in the fat?
                             
Speaker: Dr. Sara Suliman
12:15 - 12:40        Subtypes of type 2 diabetes
                             
Speaker: Prof. Riad Bayoumi
12:40 - 01:00       

                            

Beckman Coulter diabetes diagnostics solutions: discover diabetes mellitus early and live healthily
Speaker: Dr. Ahmed Shehata

01:00 - 02:30        Lunch Break & Prayer

Metabolic Liver Diseases
Chairperson: Prof. Mohamad Miqdady

02:30 - 02:55        Progressive familial intrahepatic cholestasis (PFIC)
                           
 Speaker: Prof. Mohamad Miqdady
02:55 - 03:15        Bile acids metabolism in health and disease

                             Speaker: Prof. M. Azzam Kayasseh

Precision Medicine and Metabolism
Chairperson: Dr. Anwar Baban

03:15 - 03:40        Precision medicine approach in the management of metabolic conditions
                              Speaker: Dr. Anwar Baban
03:40 - 04:05        Pharmacogenomics: utilizing metabolism variations in personalized prescribing