Dubai, UAE, Business News, June 7th 2022: The GIS concluded today the launch of the first of its kind event in the MENA region, the “GIS Valves Program”, which presented the recent updates on the Intervention Cardiology. The goal was to share knowledge and experience from both the International and the Gulf experts and was held from the 3rd-4th of June in Sofitel Dubai downtown. This new leading technology aims to open-up blocked arteries—a leading cause of death.
The two-day hybrid event program is developed and formulated from leading experts and founders of GIS – President Fawaz Almutairi, Consultant Interventional Cardiologist King Abdulaziz Cardiac Center National Guard Hospital, Riyadh, Dr. Altayyeb Yousef from Kuwait Interventional Cardiologist and Structural Heart & Valve Specialist Interventional Dabbous Cardiac Centre, Hatim Al Lawati Oman; Senior Consultant Interventional Cardiology & Structural Heart Disease at Sultan Qaboos University and Husam Noor Bahrain; Consultant Interventional Cardiologist, Director of The Cardiac Cath Laboratories Mohamed Bin Khalifa Cardiac Centre Bahrain.
The 1st of its kind event in the MENA region witnessed a huge number of participants 460+ from all over the region and internationally, The Event is organized by ICOM as core PCO in charge.
In line with the GIS vision to encourage the exchange of experiences between professionals within the healthcare industry, cases were live-streamed from The Prince Sultan Cardiac Center, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia and Chest Diseases Hospital, Kuwait to aid the spread of information between GCC healthcare professionals.
During the two days event healthcare professionals, and cardiology experts from across the GCC were exposed to the integration of advanced technologies in the Structural Heart Diseases. Demonstrations and live discussions & debates took place through open-discussions, with the goal of sharing experience and knowledge for a better future for patients in the GCC.
At the end of this year in the GIS 5th Annual conference that’s happening from 3rd-5th of November at Intercontinental Festival City, Dubai, the audience will see a combination of live speakers regionally and internationally more than 100+ faculty will be sharing cutting edge news, alongside live streamed cases from different countries. GIS wants to empower their fellow physicians to share responsibility for their patients, each other, and the health care sector as a whole”.
