Dr. Elsayed Elmistekawy, MD, holds academic ranks of professor of Cardiothoracic surgery at Tanta University, Egypt, as well as of associate professor of surgery at the University of Ottawa. He has been practicing cardiac surgery at different cardiac academic and non-academic institutions, including Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and Canada. Dr. Elmistekawy has a special interest in improving patients' experience in cardiac surgery and the quality of care of those patients. He works with cardiac surgery trainees at different stages of their training journey as well as medical students. He is academically busy with presentations at different cardiac surgery meetings as well as publications in most cardiac surgery journals, and he is also a co-author in multiple cardiac surgery textbooks.Professor Nabil A. Shallik, MD, is an Associate professor of Clinical Anaesthesiology at Qatar University in Qatar, Associate professor of Clinical Anaesthesiology at Weill Cornell Medical College in Qatar and Associate professor of Anaesthesiology and Surgical Intensive Care at Tanta Faculty of Medicine in Egypt, Associate head of anaesthesia services Ambulatory Care Centre, Anaesthesia Department IT, CPD, Research & Simulation Lead at Hamad Medical Corporation in Qatar. He also works as a senior consultant in Anaesthesia, ICU and Perioperative Medicine at Hamad Medical Corporation in Qatar. He has published more than 100 articles in national and international peer-reviewed medical journals, including perioperative, pain, and airway publications. He is the principal author of numerous book chapters and editor of many medical books. Dr Shallik is a leading researcher in airway management in the Middle East, and his research interests mainly focus on perioperative care and on new tools for airway assessment and management.Dr. Nabil is a pioneer in anaesthesia education and a dedicated clinical teacher with more than 30 years of anaesthesia practice and 25 years of dedicated anaesthesia teaching. Dr. Nabil is a core faculty member of the Anaesthesia Residency Program, the first ACGME-I-accredited program in the Middle East. As a course director for all airway workshops and courses in Qatar Robotic Surgery Centre and Itqan Simulation Centre, he is continually testing, inventing, and tailoring basic and advanced educational modules related to airway skills to suit different health care providers. Dr. Nabil is the founder of the Difficult Airway Management (DAM) Society for the Middle East and Gulf area (MENA). He received innovation funding from the Academic Health System (AHS) in HMC and Qatar Foundation (QF) for the development of many airway-related projects. Dr Shallik has five United States (US) patents for airway projects, and he has received many Awards from national and international bodies. He is the director of Head and Neck Anesthesia and the Advanced Airway Management Fellowship program (HANAAM).
