SENIOR EDITOR:

Hajar A. Hajar Albinali, MD, FESC, FACC

Director of Medical Education, Heart Hospital; Chairman, Department of Cardiology & Cardiothoracic Surgery (1980-2011), Heart Hospital, Hamad Medical Corporation

Doha - Qatar

EDITOR-IN-CHIEF:

Rachel Hajar, MD, FACC

Senior Cardiologist Consultant, Director of Publications and Executive Coordinator for Research, Heart Hospital, Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha, Qatar

ASSOCIATE EDITORS: 

Abdul Rahman Al Arabi, MD, FACC

Deputy Chair for Clinical Affairs, Director of Cathlab. Program Director of Cardiology Fellowship, Heart Hospital, Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha, Qatar

Abdulwahid Almulla, MD, FESC

Senior Consultant Cardiothoracic Surgeon, Cardiothoracic Surgery Department, Heart Hospital, Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha, Qatar

Amer Chaikhouni, MD, FACC

Senior Consultant, Cardiac Surgery Department, Al-Ahli Hospital, Doha, Qatar

Awad Qahtani, MD

Senior Consultant Interventional Cardiologist, Deputy Chairperson of Adult Cardiology for Professional Development, Heart Hospital, Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha, Qatar

Fahad Abdulla Alkindi, MD

Adult Fellow Cardiologist Consultant, Adult Cardiology Department, Heart Hospital, Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha, Qatar

Jassim Al-Suwaidi, MBChB, FESC, FACC

Senior Consultant Interventional Cardiologist, Executive Director of Research, Heart Hospital, Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha, Qatar

Mohammad Dilawar, MBBS, FACC

Pediatric Cardiologist Consultant, Pediatric Cardiology Department, Hamad General Hospital, Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha, Qatar

Mohammed Abdulla Alhashemi, MBBch

Senior Cardiology Consultant, Director of Cardiac Rehab, Cardiac Rehabilitation Center, Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha, Qatar

 Nidal Asaad, MBBS

Senior Consultant Cardiac Electrophysiologist, Chairman of Adult Cardiology, Heart Hospital, Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha, Qatar

Sherif Mahmoud Helmy, MBBch, MD

Senior Consultant, Non-Invasive Cardiology Department, Heart Hospital, Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha, Qatar

GULF HEART ASSOCIATION EDITORS:

Dr. Habib E. Tareef

Consultant Cardiothoracic & Vascular Surgeon, IBN Al-Nafees Hospital Co. B.S.C.(C), Manama, Bahrain

Prof. Mary Lynch AlTareif 

Interventional Cardiologist consultant, Consultant Interventional Cardiologist MKCC and Adjunct Professor, Medicine Royal College of Surgeons of Ireland – Medical University of Bahrain, Manama, Bahrain

Dr. Ahmed Salah Hersi

Consultant Cardiologist & Cardiac Electrophysiologist, King Khalid University Hospital, Riyadh, K.S.A.

Professor of Medicine at King Saud University, Riyadh, K.S.A

Dr. Hani Najm

Chair of Congenital and Heart Surgery, Cleveland Clinic, Ohio, USA

Dr. Hussam Al Faleh 

Cardiology, Internal Medicine (General Medicine), Cardiothoracic Surgery, Department of Cardiac Sciences, King Saud University, Riyadh, KSA

Dr. Khalid Al Habib

Associate Professor of Medicine, King Fahad Cardiac Center, College of Medicine, King Saud University, Riyadh, KSA

Dr. Mohammad Zubaid

Professor of Medicine and Head of Cardiology Division, Kuwait University, Mubarak Al-Kabeer Hospital, Kuwait City, Kuwait

Dr. Kadhim Jaffer Sulaiman 

Senior consultant cardiologist and Deputy Director General for Medical Affairs, Royal Hospital, Muscat- Oman.

 Dr. Abdulla Shehab 

Associate Professor of Medicine at the United Arab Emirates (UAE) University, Al Ain, UAE

Consultant Interventional Cardiologist, Al Ain Hospital and Al Noor Hospital, Al Ain, UAE

Dr. Alawi Sheikh

Consultant Cardiac Electrophysiologist, Dean - College of Medicine, Mohammed Bin Rashid University, Abu Dhabi, UAE

Dr. Abdul Nasser Munibari 

Senior Researcher & Professor of Cardiology, Department of Internal Medicine, Sana’a University, Sana’a, Yemen

Dr. Ahmed Lutf Al Motarreb

Cardiologist, Medical Department, Faculty of Medicine , Sanaa University, Sana’a, Yemen

STATISTICAL EDITOR:

Rajvir Singh, Ph.D.

Senior Statistical Consultant, Statistics Department, Hamad Medical Corporation Doha, Qatar