DOHA: The Al Wakrah Hospital (AWH) recently 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 health care.
Organised by the Division of Medicine at AWH, the two-day conference allowed healthcare professionals to review current medical practices, 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.
Topics at the conference were centred on various clinical problems that physicians are faced with in their daily practice and provided insights into the management and diagnosis of such cases.
The lectures were divided in 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.
International speakers at the conference included: Professor Meguid El Nahas, Chairman, Global Kidney Academy, Sheffield, UK; Professor Mohammad Zubaid, Head of the Division of Cardiology, Mubarak Al Kabeer Hospital, Consultant Interventional cardiologist, Chest Diseases Hospital and Professor of Medicine at Faculty of Medicine, Kuwait University; Professor Hashem El Serag, leads the Clinical Epidemiology and Outcomes Program at the Houston Center for Quality of Care and Utilization Studies as well as Cancer Prevention and Population Sciences Program in the Dan Duncan Cancer Center; Dr Hossein Gharib, thyroid expert, lecturer, author and editor, Rochester, US, Dr Andrew Menzies, clinical lead for severe asthma, Royal Brompton Hospital and honorary senior lecturer, Imperial College London.
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