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Final Program
LAMDA 2015
In Cooperation with
In Cooperation with
TURKISH SOCIETY OF RADIOLOGY
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Lebanese Pulmonary Society
“Success is doing ordinary things,
Extraordinary well!”
JOIN US!
LAMDA 2015 is the Lebanese Association for Medical Diagnosis & Autoimmune
Diseases showcase congress. It’s the perfect forum where colleagues and
International experts can get together to present their investigations and
translate them into tangible, take home knowledge.
LAMDA Congress 2015 scientific program is organized in collaboration with the
Lebanese Pulmonary Society, the Lebanese Society of Nuclear Medicine & the
Lebanese & Turkish Societies of Radiology. A special session on food safety is
jointly prepared with the Ministry of Public Health.
The scientific committee planned a very comprehensive program catering for
many specialties in medicine that will deliver state of the art lectures,
workshops, panel discussions, interactive sessions, and clinical cases.
Moreover, LAMDA supports its young community; the initiative “LAMDA
Physicians of Tomorrow” will be launched during the congress for the young
Doctors from different Lebanese medical schools who are willing to shape their
future in their medical specialty.
Undoubtedly, it will be a great opportunity to share the science with colleagues
and friends and to benefit from the wide spectrum of medical topics to be
discussed in this congress.
We look forward to seeing you in this congress, mark your calendar and plan to
join us.
With my best regards,
Georges Khalil, MD, PhD
LAMDA President
President of the congress
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LAMDA BOARD COMMITTEE
President
Georges Khalil, MD, PhD
President Elect
Elie Farah, MD
General Secretary
Nada Ayoub, MD
Treasurer
Georges Azzi, MD
Members
Pierre Abi Hanna, MD
Georges Nawfal, MD
Mona Saba, MD
LAMDA CONGRESS SCIENTIFIC
COMMITTEE
Karim Bitar, MD
Marc Abboud, MD
Charlotte Abou Elias, MD
Mabel Aoun, MD
Georges Azzi, MD
Marwan Haddad, MD (LRS President)
Mohamad Haidar, MD (LNMS President)
Gilbert Helou, MD
Georges Nawfal, MD
Mona Saba, MD
Georges Saliba, MD (LOP-CME President
FMS-LU)
Salma Sfeir, MD
Mirna Waked, MD (LPS President)
INTERNATIONAL SPEAKERS
Moritz Fischer, MD (Germany)
Prof. Loïc Guillevin (France)
Prof. Nevzat Karabulut (Turkey)
Prof. Alfred Mahr (France)
LAMDA CONGRESS ORGANIZING
COMMITTEE
Pierre Abi Hanna, MD
Hala Awar, MD
Nada Sfeir, MD
Nada Ayoub, MD
Chady Kallasy, MD
Assaad Makdessi, MD
Tony Abi El Hessen, MD
Hisham Ghrayzi, MD
Nadine Bassil, MD
Karmen Kassab, MD
Charles Haddad, MD
Jhonny Barakat, MD
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Thursday May 7, 2015
14:00
Registration desk open
15:00 – 17:00
FOOD SAFETY in Lebanon, a National Perspective Session
Chairman: Georges Saad, MD (Director, Health Prevention, MOPH)
Moderators: Pierre Abi Hanna, MD - Naji Aoun, MD – Georges
Khalil, MD, PhD
Practical issues to the public for food safety: “what you don't
know can hurt you"
Elie Farah, MD
Inspection and sampling procedures: employee certificate,
results of laboratory sampling and major gaps in food
establishments
Atika Berri, MD (MOPH) & Mrs. Dana Bou Reslan (MOPH)
Food related diseases outbreak in Lebanon
Nada Gosn, MD & Ghassan Matar, PhD
Implementing HACCP at MGH Kitchen
Mrs. Noura Tayyara
17:30
Opening Ceremony
 Lebanese National Anthem
 Master of ceremony
Nada Ayoub, MD LAMDA General Secretary
 Welcome address
Georges Khalil, MD, PhD LAMDA President & Congress Chairman
 “We all have our own Mountain to climb" Inspirational Talk
Mr. Michael Haddad
 Launching of LAMDA “Physicians for Tomorrow” Initiative & Award
Ceremony for young Lebanese Physicians from different medical
schools
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Friday May 8, 2015
09:00
Registration desk open
09:30 – 11:00
« Diagnose early…Treat early » session
Moderators: Alain Asmar, MD - Assaad Mekdissi, MD
Rare non infectious febrile diseases: Schnitzler syndrome, TRAPs, ...?
Georges Khalil, MD, PhD
Myocarditis: etiologies & diagnosis
Marc Abboud, MD
Myelodysplasia: risk stratification
Colette Hanna, MD
PET/CT in pulmonary nodules
Maroun Karam, MD
Cellular regeneration: True or False??
Nada Ayoub, MD
Clostridium difficilae infection: the patient journey
from suspicion to sustained cure
Mona Saba, MD
11:00 – 11:30
Coffee Break
11:30 – 12:30
I’m prescribing L-Thyroxin for my hypothyroid patient:
is it fine?
Moderators: Charlotte Abou Elias, MD - Johnny Barakat, MD
Thyroid disorders during pregnancy
Hala Awar, MD
Update on the management of hypothyroidism Akram Eshtay, MD
(Supported by Merck Serono)
12:30 – 13:00
New Multivitamins
Camile Aizarani, MD
(Supported by Sanofi)
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13:00 – 14:00
Sessions in parallel
Joint Session with the Lebanese
Pulmonary Society: COPD/ASTHMA
Workshop
Moderators:
Imad Elias, MD - Mirna Fares, MD
Polysomnograhy/Sleep Apnea
Jocelyne Sassine, MD
COPD: a new score for diagnosis?
Mirna Waked, MD
The initiation of insulin therapy
in type II diabetic patient
Charlotte Abou Elias, MD
(Supported by Novartis)
Asthma: I read the newest guidelines
but how to apply it in my daily
practice?
Diana Sassine, MD
14:00 – 15:00
Lunch Break
15:00 –16:00
Sessions in parallel
Cardiometabolic interactive session
Clinical cases
Moderators:
Toni Abi El Hessen, MD - Samer Nasr, MD
Moderators:
Siba Kallab, MD - Anthony Saroufim, MD
SGLT2 inhibitors on the move but
how, when and for whom?
Elie Farah, MD
(Supported by Astrazeneca)
Clinical cases on the management of
diabetic patients
Charlotte Abou Elias, MD
A single pill for better blood pressure
control
Mabel Aoun, MD
(Supported by Novartis)
A case report of refractory
Thrombotic Thrombocytopenic
Purpura - TTP
Nadine Bassil, MD
Viral Polyarthritis
Georges Azzi, MD
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16:00 – 16:30
Sessions in parallel
Inflammatory session
Moderators:
Line Abou Younes, MD - Jeanine Menassa,
MD
New emerging therapies in
Rheumatoid Arthritis evidence and
future expectations
Georges Saliba, MD
Management of Horton disease: not
only steroids
Tony Abi El Hessen, MD
16:30 – 17:00
Clinical Cases
Moderator: Ziad Maalouf, MD
An atypical case-scenario of
ulcerative colitis in a young
patient
Rana Haddad, MD
T lymphoma smoldering as
hemophagocytic syndrome
Karim Bitar, MD
Breakthrough session
Moderators: Nada Ayoub, MD - Georges Khalil, MD, PhD
Treating autoimmune diseases with medical devices
Moritz Fischer, MD
(Supported by Fresenius)
17:00 – 17:30
Coffee Break
17:30 – 19:00
Meet the Experts session - Crack Vasculitis
Moderators: Karim Bitar, MD - Mona Saba, MD
Vasculitis: classification and diagnosis
Prof. Alfred Mahr
Vasculitis: update on the management
Prof. Loïc Guillevin
Giant cell Arteritis (Horton’s disease): unusual presentations and management
Prof. Alfred Mahr
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Saturday May 9, 2015
08:30
Registration desk open
09:00 – 10:00
Paraclinical tools session: Laboratory & Radiology
Moderators:
Makram Boustany, MD - Marwan
Haddad, MD
ImmunoFluorescence in
autoimmune diseases
Mireille Zouain Dib-Nehme, MD
Puzzle the unpuzzled: PET scan in
systemic diseases patients
Mohamad Haidar, MD
WORKSHOP
Vidéocapillaroscopie et mesure de
l'index de pression systolique – IPS
Chady Kallassy, MD
Reading an abdominal CT Scan
Iskandar Daou, MD
- DWIBS: Oops, I missed it
Georges Nawfal, MD
10:00 – 10:30
“Difficult but Easy”
Moderators: Georges Azzi, MD - Elie Farah, MD
Systemic Sclerosis
10:30 – 11:00
Prof Loïc Guillevain
Coffee Break
11:00 – 12:15
Infectious Diseases Session
Moderator: Oussaimi Dbouni, MD
Infectious diseases: are you ready for updates?
Pierre Abi Hanna, MD
Stop saying bacterial or viral, think fungal
Gilbert Helou, MD
Hepatitis: it is time for brainstorm
Moderators: Rana Haddad, MD - Elham Hobeika, MD
Treatment of Hepatitis B&C in immuno suppressed patients
Paul Rassam, MD
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Updates on the Hepatitis C treatment
Antoine Abou Rached, MD
12:15 – 13:15
Interactive session
Moderators: Halim Abboud, MD - Nadine Bassil, MD
Environmental toxins and chronic kidney disease
Mabel Aoun, MD
Treatment of recurrent pericarditis: an update
Salma Sfeir, MD
13:15 – 14:00
Lunch Break
14:00 –15:00
“State of the Science” Lecture
Moderators: Diana Sassine, MD - Salma Sfeir, MD
Behçet’s disease: from epidemiology to clinical practice
Prof. Alfred Mahr
15:00 –16:30
Interactive workshop
Discussants: Abdo Alam, MD - Dani Bou Abdallah, MD
My patient has diabetes and hypertension: Mmm let’s do something
Marie Merheb, MD & Elie Farah, MD
Moderators: Bachir Maouad, MD – Mansour Salameh, MD
Feed life with evidence based vitamins”
Is there a role for vitamins in my everyday practice?
Elie Farah, MD
(Session Supported by Boehringer Ingelheim)
Joint Session with the Lebanese & Turkish Societies of Radiology
“Radiology in Lung Diseases”
14:00 – 16:00
Moderators: Moussa Riachi, MD - Joe Toutouni, MD
How to write a manuscript
Imaging of cystic lung diseases
Imaging of pleural diseases
Prof. Nevzat Karabulut
Samer Abi-Khalil, MD
Prof. Nevzat Karabulut
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16:15 – 18:15
Moderators: Assaad Mohanna, MD - Carole Youakim, MD
Interstitial Lung Pneumonias: Overview
Noel Aoun, MD
Predominant distribution of diffuse lung diseases: Physiologic correlates
Prof. Nevzat Karabulut
Signs in Chest Imaging
Prof. Aghiad Kutoubi
Interactive case discussion
Prof. Nevzat Karabulut
CLOSING REMARKS
Congress organizers
International Center for Event Expertise Group
+961 1 487855
+961 71 113414 - +961 70223302
[email protected]
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