Biographies
19:00 - 19:30 New Treatment of SMA and How to Afford it with GMAP Program
Khalid Omer Ahmed IBRAHIM, MBBS, MD, FRCPCH, FRCP, CCST (UK) - Sidra Medicine & Weill Cornell Medical College, Qatar
Dr. Khalid Omer Ahmed Ibrahim is a senior Attending Pediatric Neurologist at Sidra Medicine, Doha, Qatar.
He is also an assistant professor of pediatrics at Weill Cornell Medical College in Qatar.
Dr. Ibrahim graduated with an M.D. in pediatrics and child health from the University of Khartoum in Sudan. He then completed his training in Pediatric Neurology in the UK. He became a fellow of the Royal College of Pediatrics and Child Health in 2006 and a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh in 2010. Dr. Ibrahim is licensed by the General Medical Council (UK), the Supreme Council of Health of Qatar and the Sudan Medical Council. He worked as a consultant Pediatric Neurologist in Edinburgh and The Royal London Hospital in the UK before joining Hamad Medical Center and then Sidra Medicine in Qatar.
He is an active member of the British Pediatric Neurology Association. He is also an active researcher and has authored many publications and research projects. He has expertise in acute neurology, complex epilepsy and movement disorders.
19:30 - 19:50 Kuwait Local Experience: Treating SMA with Gene Therapy
Laila Ali Akbar Bastaki, MD, M.sc, MBBCH - Kuwait Medical Genetics Centre, Kuwait
Dr. Laila Ali Akbar Bastaki is director & consultant at the Kuwait Medical Genetics Centre in Kuwait.
Dr. Bastaki graduated with an M.D. in Genetics from the faculty of medicine Ain Shams University in Egypt. She pursued a Master of Sciences degree at the Medical Genetics Glasgow University in the UK. Dr. Bastaki joined the Human Genetics Institute Heidelberg University in Germany in 1983. She started communications with other genetic centers in the USA and Europe and established several protocols covering the most common genetic disorders in Kuwait. In 2005, she established the neoborn screening program in Kuwait followed by the establishment of the neuromuscular genetic registry in Kuwait in 2006.
She is an active member of many societies and association such as the American Society of Human Genetics, the European Society of Human Genetics and the Kuwait Medical Association. She is an active researcher with high expertise in genetic science who has authored many publications and books. She received the United Arab Emirates Foundation prize awarded by WHO in recognition of her outstanding contribution to health development in 2013.