Biography

Hany Atalah is the Director of Robotic and Minimally Invasive Surgery at Coliseum Medical Centers. He has completed over 5,000 Robotic procedures in US and worldwide. He earned his medical degree at the University of Alexandria School of Medicine 1993. He remained at the University of Alexandria to complete his residency and fellowship in the Department of General Surgery and Pediatric Surgery. In 1999 he started his Minimal Invasive surgery career in Baltimore, where he was appointed as Instructor of Minimal Invasive surgery training various Residents from Johns Hopkins Hospital, and other Community hospitals in Baltimore (1999-2008). Then he was appointed as Clinical lecturer and Co- director for residency program training for Robotic surgery and Minimally Invasive surgery Department of Urology University of Florida, College of Medicine (2008-2010). He has authored several peer-reviewed manuscripts, abstracts (over 44) and book chapters (Atlas or Robotic Surgery) and has received an Audio-Visual award for the topic Robotic Surgery at American Urological association in 2010.

He has done many workshops and live surgery all over the world and he is world’s pronounced novel robotic surgeon and innovator. He enjoys teaching and training surgeons and other healthcare providers in Robotic and minimal Invasive surgery.

Research Interest

Robotic surgery, Minimally Invasive Surgery, General Surgery and Pediatric Surgery.

Biography

Research Interest

My research interests are reflected in the work of my PhD students, working on thesis for doctoral disertations. Every theses includes at least four publications.

Biography

Maqsood Elahi, is a Adult and Pediatric Cardiothoracic Surgeon who is the Founder and Chairman CardiacEye International Heart Foundation, Texas, USA with its branches in Pakistan, UK, Kenya and Australia. He enjoys the honored HEC professorship of cardiovascular diseases. In the past, he served as an Assistant Professor to Texas A&M Health Science Centre, USA.He graduated from the University of Glasgow, UK (1998-2000), and completed BUPA/ BHF Clinical Research Fellow, University of Southampton, UK (2005-2007). He completed Basic Surgical Training in UK (1999-2001) and he received Complex Adult Cardiothoracic Fellowship, St. Vincent’s Hospital, Melbourne, Vic, Australia (2008-2009), and he completed Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow, Centre for Human Development and Health, University of Southampton, UK (2008 till present), he graduated in MRCS: Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow (2000). He graduated in MMedSci, University of Glasgow, Scotland, UK (2000), he holds FACS, American College of Surgeons, USA (2008), and he certified FRCSI, Royal College of Surgeons of Ireland (2010), he studied Ph.D, School of Medicine, University of Southampton, United Kingdom (2011).

Research Interest

• Investigating the role of blood-dependent redox activity and the biology of Nitric Oxide (NO) modulation in ischemia-reperfusion induced organ injury during extracorporeal circulation in ischemic heart disease.
• Effects of genes encodings and polymorphisms in the promoter regions of the Tumour Necrosis Factor in ethnicity-specific risk of cardiovascular disease; defining gene silencing for gene therapy in preventing early origins of atherosclerosis, and studying the usage and implications of endothelial progenitor cells in tissue engineering models of heart/ lung transplant and mechanical circulatory support.
• He has developed a unique mouse model.
• Developmental programming of cardiovascular diseases.