M.D., CMO, Sidra Medicine
Biography
Prof. Hijazi has nearly 40 years of experience in Congenital Cardiology and has pioneered several groundbreaking Interventional procedures in the field. He is an internationally recognized leader in the nonsurgical repair of congenital and structural heart defects in children and adults and in the development of novel transcatheter devices. As CMO of Sidra Medicine, Prof. Hijazi will be responsible for the overall management of the hospitals Medical operations, upholding its clinical excellence and patient safety programs and ensuring that patients in Qatar receive the highest standard of medical care.
Session Abstract – PMWC 2023 Silicon Valley
Track 3 - January 27 9.00 A.M.-4.15 P.M.
Track Chairs:
Sharon Terry, Genetic Alliance & Alice Rathjen
- PMWC 2023 Award Ceremony:
Pioneer Honoree: David Bentley, Ilumina
- Learnings and Advancements of Population Studies (PANEL)
Chair: Sharon Terry, Genetic Alliance
- David Bentley, Illumina
- Slavé Petrovski, AstraZeneca
- Andrea Ganna, FinnGen
- Robert Wildin, University of Vermont Health
- Alexander Charney, Mount Sinai - Precision Medicine in Understudied Populations
- Ryan Taft, Illumina
- Aimé LUMAKA, WALGEMED - Building Future Precision Care in Qatar
Chair: Khalid Fakhro, Sidra Medicine
- Ziyad M. Hijazi, Sidra Medicine
- Edison T. Liu, The Jackson Labs
- Challenges and Opportunities for National Precision Medicine Initiatives (PANEL)
Chair: Alessandro Riccombeni, Microsoft UK
- Catalina Lopez-Correa, Genome Canada
- Khalid Fakhro, Sidra Medicine
- Framework to Improve the Translation of Genomics into the Clinic (PANEL)
Chair: Kathleen Barnes, Tempus Labs
- Carlos Bustamante, Galatea Bio
- Ora Gordon, Providence
- Abasi Ene-Obong, 54gene - Identifying Relationships Between Disparate Data Sets to Monitor and Control Pathogen Outbreak (PANEL)
Chair: Charles Chiu, UCSF
- Amy Kirby, CDC
- Smruthi Karthikeyan, Caltech - Increasing Diversity in Population Studies
- Manual Rivas - Global Biobank Engine, Stanford Rivas Lab
- The Missing Diversity in Human Epigenomic Studies
- Charles E. Breeze, National Cancer Institute
- The Transition from Genomics to Phenomics in Precision Population Health
- Lee Hood, Phenome Health
Session Abstract – PMWC 2023 Silicon Valley
Track 3 - January 27 9.00 A.M.-4.15 P.M.
Qatar Foundation’s Sidra Medicine is a leading regional research hospital and tertiary care facility for women and children, seeing nearly 200,000 patients in 2020. This session will explore the work at Sidra Medicine to take from bench to bedside the applications arising from newly analysed datasets of the Arab genome that will have benefits for patient care, pharmacogenomics and population health.
