EDINBURGH CARDIAC CT COURSE JEDDAH, SAUDI ARABIA
5-9 May 2013 (five days course)
Dr. Erfan & Bagedo Hospital, Jeddah
Faculty
Dr Saeed Mirsadraee, MD PhD MRCS FRCR FSCCT
Course director
Consultant Cardiothoracic Radiologist and Senior Lecturer in Radiology
University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK
Dr. Mirsadraee is a cardiothoracic Radiologist, with advanced training in Cardiovascular Computed Tomography (CT) and Cardiovascular Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) (level 3 certified by SCCT and SCMR).
His clinical interests include advanced non-‐invasive imaging for coronary artery disease, imaging of aorta, and congenital heart disease. His research interests include myocardial and lung perfusion CT and MRI, radiation dose protection, and cardiac CT clinical trials (SCOT HEART, PROTECTION).
Dr John Reid, MD FRCR
Consultant Cardiac Radiologist
Borders General Hospital, Melrose, UK
President of the Scottish Radiological Society
Graduated MB ChB 1979 Glasgow University
Trained in diagnostic radiology in Edinburgh 1981-‐86 DMRD 1983, FRCR 1984.
Cardiac radiologist Royal Infirmary Edinburgh 1986-‐1996
Visiting consultant Thorax Institute Karolinska Hospital Stockholm 1988
Hon. Senior Lecturer Diagnostic Radiology Edinburgh University 2010 – Present.
Radiologist for SCOTHeart Cardiac CT Trial CRIC Edinburgh 2010 – Present.
Special interests: Cardiac and thoracic imaging and venous thromboembolic disease.
Dr Sherif Hashem MD, FACC
Consultant Cardiologist
Director of Cardiovascular Imaging
Erfan Bagedo Hospital
Jeddah, Saudi A.
Dr Sherif Hashem is a consultant non-invasive cardiologist with special interest in cardiac imaging. He helped set up the Non-Invasive Cardiology services at the Jeddah Heart Institute, at Erfan-Bagedo Hospital in Saudi Arabia. He finished his doctorate degree (Ph.D.) in Cardiovascular Medicine from Cairo, Egypt in 1993.
Dr Hashem has since participated in developing the Jeddah Heart Institute’s Cardiac Imaging services and his own experience in that expanding field. More recently, he has completed SCCT Level II training in Cardiac CT. Dr Hashem is a Fellow of the American College of Cardiology; Member of the Canadian Cardiac Society, and the Canadian Society of Echocardiography.
