Takeda Pharmaceuticals, UAE

Mohamed Abu Shawish – Cluster General Manager GCC, Kyowa Kirin

Mohamed Abu Shawish discusses some of the core challenges facing rare disease patients in the GCC region and how Kyowa Kirin is engaging in multi-stakeholder partnerships across the healthcare sector…

Jorge A. Guzman – CEO, Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi

Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi ranks as the UAE’s best hospital, in the top 150 globally, and recently opened a new comprehensive state-of-the-art cancer centre. CEO Dr Jorge A. Guzman outlines…

Sara Al Dallal – President, Emirates Health Economics Society

Founded in July 2020, the Emirates Health Economics Society – led by Dr Sara Al Dallal – aims to create a space for the discussion of health economics within the…

Mohamed Ezz Eldin – Head, Novartis Gulf

Mohamed Ezz Eldin oversees Novartis operations in the UAE, Kuwait, Bahrain, Oman and Qatar. He outlines how the company’s strategy has evolved in the Gulf region following the spin-off of…

Omer Abdel Rahman – CEO, Burjeel Hospital

Burjeel Hospital is one of Abu Dhabi’s leading private healthcare facilities, and – as CEO Omer Abdel Rahman explains – is at the forefront of pushing forward medical innovation and…

Naim Hanna – General Manager Middle East & Gulf, Pierre Fabre Group

French-headquartered Pierre Fabre has merged its dermo cosmetics and medical care arms under a single management team over the past four years; a strategy that has helped the firm to…

Shahad Mahdi – Acting Secretary General, PHRMAG

PHRMAG represents the interests of the 26 leading research-driven biopharmaceutical companies in the Gulf region. Acting Secretary General Shahad Mahdi outlines the association’s core priorities, how it fosters partnerships to…

Rodrigo Rodriguez – Area Head UMEA, Takeda

Rodrigo Rodriguez, as area head for UMEA at Takeda, leads a vast and varied region that includes Ukraine, the Middle East and Africa and is characterised by what he calls…

The Rise of Patient Advocacy in the UAE

While patient advocacy is still less prevalent in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) than in other parts of the world and there are no UAE patient organisations among the World…

Basel Thaher – Regional Head Middle East & GM Middle East & Africa,…

Head of the Middle East region and GM for the Middle East & Africa affiliate, Basel Thaher outlines his 18-year career at Menarini and discusses the Italian family-run company’s footprint…

Andrew Bird – Interim Chief Executive Officer, Acino

Speaking as GM and head of the Middle East, Turkey, and Africa region, Andrew Bird, who has since become Acino’s Interim Chief Executive Officer, discusses the Swiss company’s “being global…

Mohamed Mostafa – CEO, PDC CRO

Only a small percentage of global clinical research takes place in the Middle East and Africa region today. This means that full-service MEA-focused clinical research organisation PDC CRO has a…