15^th Pan Arab
Spine Society Conference

Abdulaziz Bin Shebreen

Consultant at King Fahad Medical City, KSA.

Abdulwahed Barnawi

Head of Spine Research Oncology Spine Surgery Fellowship Program Director Head of Spine Surgery Fellowship Scientific Committee in the Saudi Commission for Health Specialties

Ahmed Al Turkistany

Chairman of the Saudi Spine Society, Consultant of Orthopedics and Spine in King Faisal Specialized Hospital & Research Center, Jeddah.

Ahmed Alkhani

Professor (Adj.), School of Medicine, Alfaisal University. Head of Neurosurgery, King Abdulaziz Medical City, MNG-HA, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Chairman, Stereotactic & Functional Neurosurgery committee, WFNS. President, Pan Arab Neurosurgical Society.

Ahmed Elkhayat

Consultant Spine Surgeon, German Board in Orthopedic and German Fellowship in Spine Surgery, KSA.

Anouar Bourghli

Consultant Spine Surgeon, Adult and Pediatric King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

Barraa Tayeb

Consultant Hospice and Palliative Care, Alsalama Hospital in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Consultant in Hospice and Palliative Care, Dr. Bakhsh Hospital in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Associate Professor, Department of Anesthesia and Critical Care, King Abdulaziz University Hospital, Saudi Arabia. President of the Saudi Society of Pain Medicine.

Dalia Hasan Ali

Orthopedic & Spine Surgery Consultant, King Fahad General Hospital, Jeddah.

Dina Nabil

Professor of Anesthesia and Pain Management, National Cancer Institute, Cairo University. Member of the Ethical Committee, NCI, Cairo University. Co-founder of the Egyptian Society of Chronic Pain Physicians and Interventional Pain Practice.

Fahad Al Abdul Jabbar

Assistant Professor and Consultant in the Department of Orthopedic Surgery at King Abdulaziz University. Member of the Canadian Board of Orthopedic Surgery from McGill University, Canada. Member of the Scientific Council for the Orthopedic Surgery Training Program at the Saudi Commission for Health Specialties.

Fahad Alhelal

President of the Saudi Spine Society (SSS) & Section Head Spine Surgery at KAMC-RD Ministry of National Guard Health Affairs (MNG-HA).

Hani Alsulaimany

Assistant Professor King Saud Bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences. Consultant Orthopedics and Spine Surgery King Abdulaziz Medical City, Jeddah.

Mahdi Bassi

Consultant Orthopedic & Spine and Scoliosis Surgery. Chairman of the Orthopedics Department at Dr. Soliman Fakeeh Hospital in Jeddah. His clinical focus is on spine and scoliosis surgeries.

Majed Nasser Alosaimi

Consultant Pediatric Orthopedic surgeon, King Abdullah Specialist Children’s Hospital, King Abdulaziz Medical City. Assistant Professor Orthopedic, King Saud bin Abdulaziz University for Health Sciences, KSA.

Mohamed Hashem

Mohamed Khashab

Mohamed Malabari

Adult and Pediatric Spine Consultant, Saudi German Hospital Jeddah.

Nabil Abbas

Construction industry expert with over 40 years of experience across major public and private sector projects in Saudi Arabia. Specializes in contracts, FIDIC training, arbitration, ADR, project management, and construction claims.

Salah Addeen Khalifah

Orthopedic and Spine Surgery Consultant, Sulaiman Al Habib Medical Group Jeddah. Current AO Spine Saudi Council Chairman.

Sami Aleissa

Consultant Adult & Pediatric Spine Surgeon, and the Chairman of Orthopedic and Spine Services, at King Abdulaziz Medical City, Riyadh. Founding President of Saudi Spine Society and Co-founder of SPINE20.

Sultan Aldebeyan

Adult and Paediatric Spine Surgeon, Director of the Spine Surgery Fellowship & Council Education Ortho Officer at AO Spine. Practices at the National Neuroscience Institute, King Fahad Medical City, in Riyadh, KSA.

Sultan Alsalm

Assistant Professor of Neurosurgery at Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University & Spine Neurosurgeon.

Waleed Awwad

Chairman of the Orthopedic Surgery Department at King Saud University and a Professor of Orthopedic Surgery with a Subspecialty Focus in Spine Surgery.

Abdul Moeen Baco

Senior Consultant Orthopedics and Spine Surgery and Program Director of Spine Fellowship for Hamad General Hospital in Doha, Qatar.

Abdulaziz Almutair

Consultant Orthopedic Spine Surgeon, Kuwait. Canadian Board Certified and Current Chairman of Orthopaedic Surgery, Kuwait Institute for Medical Specialization.

Abdullah Shah

Spine surgeon at Ghurki Hospital, Lahore, Pakistan.

Abdulrazzaq Alobaid

•Consultant Orthopedic and Spine Surgeon / Canadian Board Certified•Chief of Orthopedic and Spine Surgery Department – Wara Hospital Kuwait•Chairman of Wara Hospital -Kuwait•Chairman of Kuwait Spine Society•President of Pan Arab Spine Society

Ahmed Aoude

Assistant Professor of Surgery in Orthopedic Surgery at McGill University, MSK Oncology, and Complex Spine Surgeon.

Ahmed Nassri

Affiliated with the University of Staffordshire in Stoke-on-Trent, UK, within the Faculty of Health Sciences. He has contributed significantly to spine-related research, authoring 26 publications with over 280 citations.

Alaa Arikat

Consultant Neurosurgeon (Jordan – Qatar).Head of the Scientific Committee of the Jordanian Spine Society.He has over 15 years of clinical experience in the UK, France, Jordan, and Qatar.Member of AO Spine Europe, the EuroSpine Foundation, the Jordanian Neuroscience Society, and the Jordanian Spine Society.

Alaa Azmi

Pediatric Orthopedic Surgeon Based in Ramallah, Palestine. Professor at Palestine Polytechnic University. Adjunct Professor, University of Toledo, Ohio, USA. Running Global Programs in Asia , Africa, LA. Innovated the APC Surgical Technique for Early Onset Scoliosis.

Ali Abou Madawi

Emeritus Professor in Neurosurgery Department, Faculty of Medicine, Suez Canal University, EgyptAdvanced Spine Journal, Chief EditorSecretary of the Egyptian Spine AssociationPresident of the APCSS 2017, 2024Member of the (APCSS, ESA, ESNS, AO SPINE, WFNS, PANS, PASS, MESS, ASS)

Amer Aziz

Chairman Ghurki Trust &Teaching Hospital, Lahore and Chief of Orthopaedics & Spine Surgery.

Amer Samadani

Clinical Professor (Adjunct) of Neurological Surgery and Orthopaedic Surgery at Sidney Kimmel Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, PA, USA.

Amin Henine

Professor of Spine Surgery and the Head of the Scoliosis Unit at the Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Douera University Hospital, Algeria.

Anas Dyab

Senior Consultant Neurosurgeon and Spine Surgeon. Member of Examination Committee, European Association of Neurosurgical Societies (EANS). Faculty, Advanced Spine Surgery, EANS. Faculty and Member, EUROSPINE Educational Committee, Trauma Module & AOSpine. Section Member, section on Robotics, Enabling Technologies & MIS (REMi), North American Spine Society. Reviewer, The Spine Journal, North American Spine Society.

Azmi Hamzaoglu

Senior Consultant at the Istanbul Center & Chief of the Department of Orthopaedics and Traumatology.

Dimitrios Marinopoulos

Consultant Neurosurgeon- President of the European Society of Unilateral Biportal Endoscopy (ESUBE)

Ehab Shiban

Chair of Neurosurgery at the Medical University of Lausitz – Carl Thiem (Cottbus) and previously held leadership roles in Augsburg and Munich. A skull-base, neuro-oncology and spine specialist, he has performed over 6000 surgeries, published extensively, secured multi-million-euro research funding, and serves on European neurosurgical boards.

Elsa Gonzalez

Spine & Neurosurgeon at Hospital Juaneda Miramar and Grupo Policlinica, Spain. Expert in Spine Endoscopy Especially Biportal.

Ferass Al-Zain

Master Certificate of Spine & Neurosurgery (German Spine Society DWG). Chief Physician of the Spine Center in the St. Joseph Hospital in Berlin (Teaching hospital of the Charité), Berlin, Germany.

Ferran Pellise

Chief of Spine Surgery at Hospital Vall d’Hebron, Director of the Spine Service at Hospital Quirón Barcelona and Professor of Orthopedics at the Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona.

Firas Husban

Consultant Orthopedic and Spine Surgeon with over 28 years of experience in Emirates and Jordan. His expertise is in minimally invasive spine surgery and scoliosis correction.

Firoz Miyanji

Clinical Professor, Department of Orthopedics at the University of British Columbia, and Pediatric Spinal Deformity Specialist at BC Children’s Hospital.

Florian Ringel

Chairman, Department of Neurosurgery, LMU University Hospital, Munich, Germany.

Gasbarrini Alessandro

Medical Director with Organisational duties at the Vertebral Surgery Department – Oncological and Degenerative Forms. Full Professor of Orthopedics and Traumatology at the University of Bologna.

Ghanem Al-Sulaiti

Director of the Qatar Neuroscience Institute and a Senior Consultant Neurosurgeon with extensive experience in neurosurgery, research, and education. He is also the Ex-Program Director of Neurosurgery Residency.

Hani Mhaidli

Associate Professor of Clinical Orthopedic Surgery Las Palmas Spain. Past President of Association of Iberian and Latin American Spine(SILACO) Past President of the Spanish Spine Society. CO-Chairman of deformity Committee of the North American Spine Society. Scoliosis Research Society Board of Directors.

Hazem Farid

MD, PhD, Orthopedics and Spine, Kasr Al Ainy School of Medicine, Cairo University. Consultant of Orthopedics and Spine, Saudi German Hospitals. Head of the Spinal Unit, Saudi German Hospital Dubai, UAE.

Heiko Koller

Chief of Intern. Center for Spinal Disorders and Deformities at Asklepios Clinics, Germany.International renown surgeon, researcher, and presenter in the field of complex spinal deformity treatment in pediatric and adult patients. Past-President of CSRS-Europe.

Hesham Alshagheer

Hosam Jabri

Ibrahim Obeid

Consultant Spine Surgeon at Bordeaux University Hospital and Orthopole-Jean Villar Private Hospital, France. Specialist in Pediatric and Adult Spinal Deformities, Complex Revisions, and Minimally Invasive Surgery.

Jean (Albert) Ouellet

Physician, Orthopedics, Spine Surgeon at the Shriners Hospital for Children, Canada and the McGill University Health Centre

Joseph El Khalil

Consultant orthopedic surgeon, Lebanese hospital Geitawi UMC Beirut.

Khaled Swailem

Head of Orthopaedic Department at Defence Complex Hospital and Orthopedic Consultant, Al Thawrah Hospital, Yemen.

Khalid Batterjee

Conference President & Vice President of Saudi German Health and Consultant, Spine & Orthopedic Surgery at Saudi German Hospital, Jeddah. The Founder and Member of the Middle East Spine Group, Pan Arab Spine Society, and Saudi Spine Society, KSA.

Khalil Al Kharrat

Man Kyu Park

Director of the Spine Center at Hu Hospital, Busan, South Korea, and a leading authority in Unilateral Biportal Endoscopy (UBE) spine surgery, dedicated to advancing minimally invasive spinal techniques.

Marcel Ivanov

Consultant Neurosurgeon and Spinal SurgeonChairman of European Board of Neurological SurgeryVice-Chair European Commission Expert Panel on Medical DevicesEurope and Southern Africa Regional Board Member AO SpineDirector AO SPINE Center SheffieldSpinal Lead Department of NeurosurgeryHonorary Senior Lecturer Sheffield University

Marinus de Kleuver

Professor of Orthopedics at Radboud University Medical Center, the Netherlands. Former President of the SRS & Past Chairman of AOSpine Europe.

Massimo Balsano

Director Regional Spinal Department, University and Hospital Trust, Verona, Italy.

Meriç Enercan

Professor of Orthopedics, Scoliosis and Spine Center, Turkey.

Mohamed Mousa

Mohammad Armouti

Spine Consultant, Head of Spine Department, Abdali Hospital, Jordan. Chairman of AO Spine, Jordan Chapter.

Mohammad El Sharkawy

Professor of Orthopedics, Assiut University.

Mohammad Khattab

Professor of Orthopedics in Spine Surgery, Ain Shams University, President of the Egyptian Spine Association, and Secretary General of the Egyptian Scoliosis Society.

Mohanad Ali

Orthopedic Surgeon, Sudan.

Muhammad Doghaim

Neurosurgeon with distinguished clinical expertise in both Spine and Cranial surgery, kuwait Institute for Medical Specializations. Kuwait.

Muhammad M. Abd-El-Barr

Professor of Neurosurgery at Duke University. Specializes in minimally-invasive spine surgery, including endoscopic and awake spine surgery.

Munshi Shiraz

Musa Ibrahim Zarenawa

Head of Department of Neurosurgery at Murtala Muhammad Specialist Hospital, Kano, Nigeria.

Mutaz Jadaan

MD, IMRCS, FRCS (Tr & Orth), ESCD, JBO. Consultant Orthopedic Spine Surgeon, Abdali Hospital, Jordan.

Muzahem M Taha

•Chief of the Orthopedic and Spine Department, Erbil International Hospital •AO Spine MENA Chairman •AO Spine MENA Education Officer •SICOT Spine Sub-specialty Committee Chairman •Member of the American College of Surgeons •AO Spine Iraq Past Chairman •Education Advisor in AO •AO Spine Education Task Force Member •AO Spine International Education Commission Member

Osama Aldahamshah

Adult & Pediatric Spine Surgeon. Assistant Professor, Albalqa Applied University. Fellowships: Univ. of Virginia, Univ. of Calgary & Univ. of British Columbia.

Oscar Alves

Head of Neurosurgery, Hospital Lusíadas Porto. Senior Consultant in Neurosurgery, Centro Hospitalar de Gaia Espinho. Treasurer, CSRS-E. Co-Chairman, International Academy of Spine. Board of Directors, ISASS.

Pedro Luis Berjano

Head of the GSpine Spine Surgery Dept, IRCCS Ospedale Galeazzi Sant’Ambrogio, Milano, Italy

Rami Al Qroom

President of the Jordanian Spine Society. Consultant Neurosurgeon, Consultant Spine Surgeon, and Clinical Instructor at Mutah University.

Richard Assaker

Highly experienced Spine Surgeon and Head of Neurosurgery at Centre Hospitalier Regional Universitaire of Lille, France. Designer and Conceptor of Surgical Spinal Instrumentation – ApoFix, Centaur, and Zephir.

Samer Moussa

Orthopedics and Spine surgeon, Calot Institute, France.

Sherif Elghamry

Consultant in Orthopedics and Spine Surgery in Egypt, specializing in spine anomaly surgeries. Member of the Scoliosis Research Society (SRS) and holds a European Diploma in Spine Surgery.

Sultan Al Kalbani

Fellowship-trained Orthopedic Spine Surgeon at Apollo Super Specialty Hospital, Muscat. Expert in minimally invasive spine surgeries, degenerative spine diseases, and spinal trauma.

Tarek Elfiky

Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery, Spine Surgery Unit, Department of Orthopaedics and Traumatology, Alexandria University.

Tareq Kanaan

Consultant Neurosurgeon, Associate Professor, Director of Neurosurgery Dept., Director of Spine & Pain Unit, Jordan University Hospital.

Tawfik Mahdi

Board-certified neurosurgeon specializing in endoscopic spine surgery, Neuromodulation and surgical pain management, holding an advanced certificate from the German Academy of Neurosurgery (NCA). board-certified neurosurgeon specializing in endoscopic spine surgery, Neuromodulation and surgical pain management, holding an advanced certificate from the German Academy of Neurosurgery (NCA).

Thami Benzakour

Spine and Trauma Surgeon, Zerktouni Ortho Clinic, Casablanca, Morocco.

Xavier Santander

Staff Neurosurgeon, Instituto Clavel, Madrid, Spain.

Youssry El Hawary

Past Orthopaedic Department Chair at Cairo University, Egypt. AO Spine Egyptian Chapter Chairperson & PASS Secretary-General.

Zaid Al-Aubaidi

Consultant Orthopedic and Spine Surgeon for Children. Danish Royal Board-certified orthopedic surgeon and European certified orthopedic & spine surgeon. Specialized orthopedic surgeon at the GMC of England and Sheikh Khalifa Medical City, Dubai.

Ziad Al Zoubi

Consultant Spinal & Orthopedic Surgery Honorary president Pan Arab Spine Society (PASS) President International Association of Neurorestoratology (IANR). President, Jordanian Osteoporosis Prevention Society (JOPS).

Ziad Ibrahim Aljian

Senior Consultant Orthopedic Spine Surgeon. German Board–Certified in Spine Orthopedic Surgery. Pediatric & Adult Spine Deformity Surgeon. German Board–Certified in Pain Management.