Dr. Anas Abu Hazeem graduated from the Jordan University of Science and Technology, and became American board-certified in Pediatrics (Cleveland Clinic) and Pediatric Cardiology (Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia). He also obtained additional training in interventional cardiology from Colorado Children’s Hospital. He has worked as a consultant in Jordan (King Abdulla University Hopsital) and in Saudi (King Faisal Specialist Hospital, Riyadh) before joining Kids Heart Medical Center, UAE.

Dr. Anil graduated from Mysore Medical College, one of the oldest and reputable Medical Schools in India. He completed his post-graduation in Anesthesiology from St. John’s Medical College, Bangalore securing first rank for the whole state. Then, he went on to do his sub-specialty training in Cardiac Anesthesiology from Narayana Hrudayalaya Institute of Cardiac Sciences, a premier institute which performs the largest number of cardiac surgeries in India. He has fellowships in Perioperative Transesophageal Echocardiography from National Board of Echocardiography and Indian Society of Echocardiography. He has many publications in peer-reviewed journals in the field of Cardiac Anesthesiology and Critical Care and Perioperative Echocardiography. Before joining Al Jalila Children’s in December 2016, Dr Anil was the Senior Consultant Cardiac Anesthesiologist and Intensivist at M S Ramaiah Heart Center and was instrumental in setting up Heart Transplant Unit there.

Dr. Christoph is Consultant Paediatric Intensivist at Al Jalila Children’s. Born and raised in Austria, he obtained his Doctorate in General Medicine from the University of Innsbruck, Austria, Medical School between 1977 to 1984. He went on to get his Board Certification in 1988 as a General Practitioner State Hospital, Feldkirch, Austria. In 1994, he decided that treating children is a cause that he would like to pursue, so he continued his studies at the University Children’s Hospital, Innsbruck, Austria to get his second Board Certification as a General Paediatrician and Paediatric Cardiology and followed it with a fellowship at Berlin Heart Center and Berlin Charite, Paediatric Cardiac Critical Care.Dr. Christoph’s work experience is quite unique and of international standards. He worked in some of the best hospitals in Germany. His last position was as Director and Consultant Paediatric Critical Care at the University Children’s Hospital Tuebingen, Germany. Then in 2014, he made a significant step in his career by working as the Director and Consultant Paediatric Cardiac Critical Care in Changchun, Jilin, China.

Dr. Haitham has about 25 years of experience in many leading medical organizations and institutions in the USA, UAE and Syria. Prior to joining Danat Al Emarat Hospital, he was a Senior Paediatric Cardiology Consultant at Sheikh Khalifa Medical City (SKMC), Abu Dhabi since 2006 and was the division chief of paediatric cardiology at SKMC since 2012. Dr. Haitham’s scope of services includes assessing and managing paediatric cardiology patients of all ages in addition to post-operative care, and his main areas of expertise are clinical cardiology and non-invasive cardiac imaging especially echocardiography.

Dr. Ho-Sung Kim, M.D., is Paediatric Cardiology Consultant at the Cardiovascular Center of Sheikh Khalifa Specialty Hospital, Ras Al Khaimah, with 29 years of professional experience.  His major areas of interests are Morphologic Diagnosis of Congenital Heart Disease and Percutaneous Intervention in Congenital Heart Disease. After receiving his medical degree from Seoul National University College of Medicine, he had 6 years of residency and fellowship training in Pediatrics and Pediatric Cardiology department at Seoul National University Hospital.

Dr. Mahmoud is Consultant Paediatric Cardiologist at Al Jalila Children’s. Graduating from Damascus University in 1997, he went on to receive the Arab Board Certificate in Paediatrics/Paediatric Cardiology. He followed that with a fellowship programme in paediatric cardiology at King Khaled University Hospital, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, and later another fellowship programme at Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha, Qatar.He enjoys a unique knowledge and understanding of common cardiac diseases in children across the Middle East and Arab countries with 14 years of experience in invasive and non-invasive diseases at different centres in Syria and the UAE. Dr. Mahmoud is also an adjunct professor at Sharjah University since 2014.

Dr. Mohamed Hamdan is Paediatric Cardiology Consultant and Co-Director at KidsHeart Medical Center. He is American Board certified in Pediatric Cardiology from Yale University School of Medicine, Connecticut, and University of Iowa Hospitals & Clinics, Iowa. Dr. Hamdan is a Fellow of the American College of Cardiology (FACC) and a Fellow of the American Academy of Pediatrics (FAAP).

Dr. Roberto is Consultant Paediatric Cardiac Surgeon at Al Jalila Children’s and an established paediatric cardiac surgeon from Italy. He started his medical career by training in some of the top hospitals in the world – Mayo Clinic and Boston Children’s Hospital. His medical career in nothing less than remarkable as he spent 24 years working and researching Paediatric Cardiology, and held a director position in three different world class medical centers in the USA (Newark, New Jersey), Italy (Rome) and Saudi Arabia (Riyadh), respectively.He dedicated most of his career to offer a chance to unfortunate children born with a congenital cardiac anomaly. His professional expertise ranges across the entire spectrum of cardiac repairs, including heart and/or lung transplantations. In particular, over the years he has focused mostly in the management of complex cardiac anomalies in the neonatal age, including transposition of the great arteries, hypoplastic left heart syndrome, truncus arteriosus, etc.

Dr. Sameer is a consultant paediatrician with over 20 years experience in the field of Paediatric Cardiology. His work is focused on the assessment and management of congenital and acquired heart disease and cardiac arrhythmias. He performs and the interprets the following cardiac investigations: echocardiography, ECG and holter monitor.He is a founding member of the Nabadat initiative, which provides paediatric cardiac services worldwide in collaboration with Shaikh Mohammed bin Rashid Charity and Humanitarian Establishment. He also maintains strong ties with reputed speciailty units in the UK such as Great Ormond Street Hospital to provide the highest standard of care to his patients.