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Dr. Hussam Ghalib

is a Consultant Cardiologist and Director of the Cardiomyopathy Center at Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi (CCAD), specializing in heart failure and transplant cardiology since July 2017. He also serves as Director of Inpatient Services at the Heart, Vascular & Thoracic Institute (HVTI) at CCAD since January 2022. His expertise includes managing complex cardiovascular conditions and leading multidisciplinary teams in advanced heart failure treatments and heart transplantation. Previously, Dr. Ghalib worked as a Consultant Internist at the University of Michigan Hospital from 2009 to 2012, where he provided comprehensive inpatient care and contributed to clinical research and education in internal medicine.

Dr. Anna Kostareva

has been the Director of the Institute of Molecular Biology and Genetics at the Almazov Medical Research Centre in Saint Petersburg, Russia, since 2009. Additionally, she serves as an Associate Professor at Oslo University in Norway and at Pavlov Medical University and Almazov Research Centre in Russia, both since 2015, with a commitment of 0.25%. Since 2007, she has also held the position of Visiting Scientist at the Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm, Sweden, in the Department of Woman and Child Health. Previously, in 2006, she was a Principal Investigator at the Almazov Medical Research Centre’s Laboratory of Cell Therapy.