Hamad Medical Corporation’s (HMC) Al Wakra Hospital (AWH) has hosted its inaugural conference on general medicine, bringing together international experts and local healthcare professionals to discuss the latest developments in the fields of internal medicine and healthcare.
Organised by the medicine division at AWH, the two-day conference allowed healthcare professionals to review current medical practices and global healthcare challenges and gain state-of-the-art medical knowledge about new ways of diagnosis and treatment of a variety of diseases and medical conditions. The conference also highlighted rapidly-changing trends in the healthcare industry around the globe.
Dr Nabeel Mohamed Shaath, chairman of the organising committee and managing senior consultant of the medicine division at AWH, said: “The conference definitely puts AWH in the forefront as a first-class health service provider engaged in the constant improvement of healthcare services and speaks for the consistent hard work and dedicated efforts of the entire team of consultants, specialists, physicians and administration at AWH in making the hospital a success.”
Lecture topics at the conference focused on various clinical problems that physicians faced in their daily practice and provided insights into the management and diagnosis of such cases. The lectures were divided into six sessions with each featuring expert speakers who shared recent findings, management techniques, risk factors and treatment options of diseases such as clostridium difficile diarrhoea (diarrhoea caused by an infection that occurs as a result of antibiotic medication), hepatocellular carcinoma (a type of liver cancer), sleep apnea (sleep disorder in which paused or shallow breathing occurs at intervals), management of acute severe asthma, hyperthyroidism, hypertension, diabetes mellitus, gestational diabetes (diabetes that develops during pregnancy), chronic kidney disease and corona-virus (MERS).
International speakers at the conference included Professor Meguid El-Nahas, chairman of Global Kidney Academy, Sheffield (UK); Professor Mohamed Zubaid, head of the Division of Cardiology at Mubarak al-Kabeer Hospital, consultant interventional cardiologist, Chest Diseases Hospital, and professor of medicine at faculty of medicine, Kuwait University; Professor Hashem El-Serag, who leads the Clinical Epidemiology and Outcomes Programme at Houston Centre for Quality of Care & Utilisation Studies as well as the Cancer Prevention and Population Sciences Programme at Dan Duncan Cancer Centre; Dr Hossein Gharib, thyroid expert, lecturer, author and editor, Rochester (US); and Dr Andrew Menzies, clinical lead for severe asthma, Royal Brompton Hospital, and honorary senior lecturer,
Imperial College London (UK).