17 August 2020 at 6 PM (UAE time)
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Pulmonary Pathology of Early Phase COVID-19
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The Sheikh Hamdan Bin Rashid Al Maktoum Award for Medical Sciences would like to invite you to the third webinar in the series covering topics related to COVID-19.
The faculty will share their experiences and discuss the different challenges the healthcare sector is facing as it manages the COVID-19 pandemic.
This webinar will present Professor John Nicholls, a Clinical Professor in Pathology at the University of Hong Kong. He was a principal member of the research team at the University of Hong Kong, which isolated and identified the novel SARS coronavirus, that was associated with the global outbreak of 2003.
Our second speaker, Dr. Richard Russell, a Consultant, and Clinical Director of the West Hampshire Integrated Respiratory Service, and Senior Clinical Researcher at the Nuffield Dept. of Medicine at the University of Oxford. He is the founding Editor of the International Journal of COPD.
The webinar will be moderated by Dr. Bassam Mahboub, a Clinical Professor at the faculty of Medicine, Sharjah University. He is an associate research fellow at Meakins Respiratory Research Centre, McGill University in Canada, and the General Secretary of Emirates Thoracic Society.
Clinical Professor in Pathology at the University of Hong Kong.
A principal member of the research team at the University of Hong Kong.
Isolated and identified the novel SARS coronavirus, that was associated with the global outbreak of 2003.
Professor John Nicholls is a Clinical Professor in Pathology at the University of Hong Kong. He commenced medical studies at the University of Adelaide, South Australia in 1977 and graduated in 1983. He commenced postgraduate training in pathology at the Institute of Medical and Veterinary Sciences, the Queen Elizabeth Hospital and The Adelaide Childrens Hospital.
In 1988 he moved to Hong Kong as a Lecturer in Pathology at the University of Hong Kong where in addition to clinical and teaching duties commenced research into the relationship of viruses with the respiratory tract. His publications were focused on the role of Epstein-Barr Virus in nasopharyngeal carcinoma, a common tumour in the Guangdong region. In 1997, following the first outbreak of H5N1 influenza in humans, he commenced collaboration with the Department of Microbiology to study the pathological effects of avian influenza viruses in the respiratory tract.
In 2003 he was a key member of the research team at the University of Hong Kong which isolated and characterized the novel SARS coronavirus that was associated with the global outbreak of 2003. His work on SARS and avian influenza has been published in prestigious journals such as Lancet, PLOS Medicine and Nature Medicine as listed in part of his selected biography. His current investigative work is looking at the viral binding sites in the respiratory tract and determining susceptibility to avian influenza in humans and other animals. Together with staff from the School of Public Health he has established a lung and bronchial ex vivo culture system to investigate tropism and pathogenesis of emerging viral infections, as well as potential novel antiviral agents such as DAS181 in these systems. In 2009 he was awarded a Croucher Senior Medical Fellowship to work on novel therapeutic strategies for influenza.
Consultant, and the Clinical Director of the West Hampshire Integrated Respiratory Service.
Senior Clinical Researcher at the Nuffield Dept. of Medicine at the University of Oxford.
The founding Editor of the International Journal of COPD.
Dr Russell, a Consultant at Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust, is the Clinical Director of the West Hampshire Integrated Respiratory Service, looking after COPD and asthma for 2.5 million people.
He is a Senior Clinical Researcher at the Nuffield Dept. of Medicine at the University of Oxford working with Professor Ian Pavord and Professor Mona Bafadhel to further our understanding of airway disease phenotypes.
Dr Russell is the founding Editor of the International Journal of COPD. He is keen to increase the global awareness of COPD and provide a platform for scientific developments from across the world.
Dr Russell has interests in obstructive lung disease, particularly pathophysiology of COPD and how patients should be cared for across the primary/secondary care interface. He has been a member of the British Thoracic Society (BTS) Executive, Scientific Committee and the Communications Committee, and he is active in the British Lung Foundation. His PhD at Imperial College was as a British Lung Foundation Research Fellow under the supervision of Professor Peter Barnes. The research focussed on the basic mechanisms of COPD and disease progression in a population of smokers in primary care, and this is a continuing area of study as an Honorary Senior Lecturer at Imperial.
Clinical Professor at the faculty of Medicine, Sharjah University.
Associate research fellow at Meakins Respiratory Research Centre, McGill University in Canada.
The General Secretary of Emirates Thoracic Society.
Dr. Bassam Mahboub is a Clinical Professor at the faculty of Medicine, Sharjah University. He is an associate research fellow at Meakins Respiratory Research Centre, McGill University in Canada, and the General Secretary of Emirates Thoracic Society. Dr. Bassam is the Assistant Dean at the University of Sharjah Medical College, UAE, and Head of Pulmonary Medicine, Rashid Hospital, the DHA in Dubai.
Dr. Bassam serves as the Ex-head of residency Training in Arab Board MOH-UAE, and in the advisory board Member of Smart City Research Institute of the American University of Sharjah and of H.E minister of Advanced Sciences. He is involved in innovative patient care and clinical teaching and interested in Health innovation for Respiratory Care and Translational Research in airway diseases.
Dr. Bassam is the co-editor for the Annals of Thoracic Medicine and a reviewer for many Medical Journals, and he has many contributions in books and chapters about the respiratory diseases.
