Consultant Pediatrics & Neonatology

Assistant professor of Pediatrics, Zagazig University, Egypt.

Head of Neonatology Department, Dar Al Shifa Hospital, Kuwait

Dr. Yasser Elsayed graduated and completed his pediatric training in Egypt. He completed a fellowship degree in neonatology at the University of Manitoba and a fellowship in advanced neonatal echo and hemodynamics at SickKids hospital Toronto. He is an academic fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and surgeons of Canada.

He is an associate professor of pediatrics at the University of Manitoba, staff neonatologist, registered echo-cardiologist, and researcher at Manitoba's children's hospital research institute. He is the founder and director of Winnipeg's integrated hemodynamics program and point of care ultrasound. He is an executive committee member of the area of the focused competency programs at the Royal College of Physicians of Canada. Dr. Elsayed is co-chair of the point of care ultrasound (POCUS-NEO) international group. He organized more than 100 workshops in the last 5 years in Canada and internationally. He has published and reviewed for publication ⟩ 100 articles.

Dr. Muzafar Gani Abdul Wahab is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Pediatrics, Division of Neonatology. Dr. Gani pursued his medical training in India, where he graduated from Madurai Medical College in 1991 and completed his postgraduate training in Pediatrics and Neonatology at Manipal University in 1997.

For the next several years he practised as a Neonatologist with the Ministry of Health at Al Adan Hospital and Al Ahmadi Hospital in Kuwait before joining the Neonatal Fellowship program at McMaster, which he completed in 2012. He is currently a candidate for a Masters in eHealth through McMaster, which he will complete in 2013. With 10 years of neonatal experience, Dr. Gani’s interests focus on optimizing health information technology adoption in neonatology, online and distance education, and functional echocardiography.

As a keen web-developer, Dr. Gani is always looking for new ways of integrating web interface for clinical and training purposes. Accordingly, he played a key role in the development and implementation of an electronic total parenteral nutrition (TPN) calculator software for McMaster Children’s Hospital (MCH) and was the project leader and developer of an electronic database for daily rounds, hand-over and automated discharge summaries for the hospital. He also founded the MCH Neonatal Research Club, devoted to building research skills and providing training on statistical software.

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Dr. Ruben Alvaro is the medical director of the Neonatal Sleep Laboratory at the Health Sciences Centre, the Medical Director of Neonatology at the St. Boniface General Hospital and Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Manitoba. Dr. Alvaro’s neonatal professional activities have encompassed education, research, administration and clinical care. His main research focus has been on control of breathing and respiratory care in the fetus and the neonate. He has also collaborated in many local and international randomized clinical trials in the area of respiratory medicine and family integrated care in NICU.

Dr. Yogen Singh is a Full Professor of Pediatrics at the Loma Linda University School of Medicine, California and he has been a Consultant Neonatologist and Paediatrician with Expertise in Paediatric Cardiology at Cambridge University Hospitals since 2013.

Prof. Singh is the Chair for ESPNIC Cardiovascular Dynamics Section and POCUS Working Group and as a lead author he has contributed to the ESPNIC hemodynamic monitoring guidelines for the use in neonates and children. He has special interest in neonatal and paediatric hemodynamics and advanced functional echocardiography imaging. He has published extensively in this field and is an Associate Editor, for Frontiers in Pediatrics (Neonatology). He has published over 50 papers and scholarly articles in the peer reviewed journals.

Dr. Singh is passionate about echocardiography and point of care ultrasound (POCUS) training for the neonatal and paediatric intensivists so that they can be widely applied while making clinical decisions in emergency situations. He is the lead author for the ESPNIC evidence-based POCUS guidelines for use in neonatal and pediatric intensive care unit and “Expert Consensus Statement on Neonatologist Performed Echocardiography (NPE): Training and Accreditation in the UK”. He has published extensively in the peer review journals, especially around neonatologist performed echocardiography, neonatal hemodynamics and neonatal cardiology. He is the Director at ‘Cambridge Paediatric and Neonatal Echocardiography Course’ and TINEC course in Switzerland.

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Job Titles

Pediatrician and Infectious Diseases Specialist at the Amiri Hospital, Ministry of Health, Kuwait.

Prof. / Consultant of Pediatrics, Cairo University, Egypt. Sheikh Kalifa Medical City (SKMC), Abu Dhabi, UAE