Dr. Abdul-razaq Musa is a Paediatric Emergency Physician at the Women’s and Children’s Hospital in Australia, with a special interest in emergency mental health care and the advancement of paediatric resuscitation skills in low-resource settings. He is the founder of the International Resuscitation Group, Inc., a not-for-profit organization dedicated to improving paediatric resuscitation practices in developing countries. In 2014, Dr. Musa established the International Paediatric Life Support (IPLS) course, which now operates in 5 paediatric teaching hospitals and 3 medical colleges across Iraq and Australia. In addition to his medical and humanitarian work, Dr. Musa is a co-founder and currently serves as Chair of the Board at Playford College.

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IMI's Global President, Dr. Asad Sadiq is a competitive Dental Professional with a proven track record of success in Dental practice sector. He has successfully lead and mentored high performance teams. He has facilitated dynamic turn around and low performing individuals. He is an innovative professional with over 20 years of expertise in management level roles.

Professor Bagher Larijani was trained as an endocrinologist at Tehran University of Medical Sciences (TUMS) and obtained his Fellowship distinction from the American College of Endocrinology (FACE). He is the Founding President and Chief Scientific Officer of the Endocrinology and Metabolism Research Institute (EMRI), the largest medical research center in Iran with dozens of scientists and hundreds of employees. He is currently Professor of Medicine at TUMS and serves as Deputy Minister of Health. He has served as the Chancellor of Tehran University of Medical Sciences, the oldest and most prestigious medical school in Iran, and has held the position of the Chairman of the Policy-making Council at the Ministry of Health and Medical Education. In addition to his leadership role in Iranian medicine, Dr. Larijani continues to practice endocrinology and conducts clinical research. He has authored hundreds of journal articles and published several books in the fields of endocrinology, osteoporosis and medical ethics. With more than 16000 citations and an H-index of 68 recorded by Google Scholar in 2019, he is arguably the most prominent physician in Iran. Internationally, he has contributed to several global-scale research and policy-making conventions and assemblies, such as Lancet Commission on Obesity, and has been involved in different capacities in many projects of the International Osteoporosis Foundation, World Health Organization and other global health-related groups. It is noteworthy that during the past two decades, his main interest at the EMRI has been promoting pioneering translational medicine in Iran and bridging the gap between basic and clinical research in diabetes, osteoporosis, and other non-communicable diseases. Recently, as the Deputy-Chair of the National Supreme Committee for Prevention and Control of Non-communicable Diseases, Dr. Larijani has made significant contributions to design and development of national-scale, multi-sectoral policies aiming at controlling the rampant nation-wide increase in the burden of non-communicable diseases which is predicted to dramatically inflict the nation in the future.

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Dr. Fozia Qamar is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at UMass Chan Medical School and a board-certified infectious disease specialist. She serves as the Medical Director of the Antimicrobial Stewardship Program at Milford Regional Medical Center, where she leads initiatives to optimize antibiotic use and improve infection-related outcomes. Her work has focused on infectious disease management in both primary care and hospital settings, with a strong emphasis on quality improvement and community education. She is trained in Internal Medicine and Infectious Diseases and has over 15 years of clinical experience spanning primary care, infectious disease consult services, and academic teaching. She has been a key contributor to quality improvement efforts, particularly in reducing unnecessary antibiotic use in outpatient settings. Dr. Qamar is also deeply engaged in global health. She co-authored HIV Testing, Care, and Treatment: A Guide for Health Care Providers in Pakistan, a landmark resource aimed at strengthening HIV response strategies in low-resource settings. Her work bridges clinical practice, public health, and medical education, with a focus on anti-microbial stewardship and HIV. She is also a committed educator, mentoring medical students and residents, and developed curriculum focused on vulnerable patient populations. She is a frequent speaker at regional and national conferences and remains actively involved in community education and professional development.

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Dr. Jaffer Syed originally hails from Hyderabad, India. A graduate of the University of Toronto Medical School, he went on to complete residencies in Internal Medicine and Cardiology at the University of Toronto, and a Clinical Fellowship in Interventional Cardiology at Sunnybrook Hospital, Toronto. Prior appointments include a Faculty position at the University of Western Ontario, at which time he completed a Master’s of Education, and rose to the level of Associate Professor of Medicine, before moving on to McMaster University where he is currently Associate Clinical Professor in the Department of Medicine. For over 12 years, he has been actively involved in undergraduate and postgraduate medical education, and he continues as teaching Faculty at the annual Interventional Cardiology Fellows’ Course, a national meeting organized by the Canadian Association of Interventional Cardiology. Dr. Syed’s clinical interests include complex/high-risk coronary interventions and trans-catheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI), for which he is the founder and program lead at St. Mary’s General Hospital, Kitchener, Ontario, Canada. For the last few years, he has volunteered with the IMI Arbaeen medical mission in Iraq.

Dr. Riaz is a Vice President of Architecture and Engineering at Ameriprise Financial in the insurance, finance, HR, and enterprise risk domains. Previously he was the Director of Data Engineering at Securian Financial. At Securian Financial, he was focused on instituting enterprise data strategy and creating data engineering discipline that drove innovative solutions for insurance and financial products. He was also the Director of Architecture and Strategy at Thomson Reuters where he worked on natively built AI solutions and Third-party AI systems like IBM Watson. He has been providing architectural oversight in various industries for more than a decade. He is a science advisor for various AI startups. Kashif specializes in design and architecture of large-scale data analysis and data platforms that focus on Big Data, Data Science, Artificial Intelligence (AI) and search frameworks in and across multiple domains. He has a doctorate in Computer Science from the University of Minnesota Twin Cities with a focus on Machine Learning, information retrieval, and linguistics. He specializes in the intelligent processing of morphologically rich languages with an emphasis on Urdu. He has various peer-reviewed publications.

Prof Mulazim Hussain Bukhari did his MBBS in 1983. Following which he proceeded to King Edward Medical University for his Postgraduation, MPhil, FCPS and PhD. He went to University of Sydney to get the training of Electron Microscope, University of Kagoshima for PCR and Moffitt Cancer Center; University of South Florida for Research of his PhD. He is the first PhD scholar of King Edward Medical University, Lahore, Pakistan. Dr Mulazim Hussain Bukhari is working as Head of the Department and Chairman of Pathology Department, University of Lahore since 2016. He worked as HOD Pathology PMC for one years 2015-16, FJMC one year 2014, Associate Dean in American University of Barbados since may 2013 and worked as Prof of Pathology at King Edward Medical University, Project Director for Advanced Lab and Diagnostic Center and Director PhD Program. He is also working Visiting Scholar Physician at Moffitt University of South Florida USA. Dr Bukhari has also been selected by Commonwealth NSH programme for Postdoctoral fellowship in Manchester University, UK for 2011. Over the years, he was awarded an award from Prime Minister of Pakistan as a best PhD scholar in 2011. He has given lectures of different topics of Research about 27 countries and visited 58 countries. He has more than 200 Research Publication on Google scholar and med lines (Pubmed). He has many book chapters in internationally written books on cancers. He had been working as a Dean of Basic Medical Sciences at Fatima University New York.

Dr. Naweed Syed is Professor and Chief Scientist, Creative Destruction Lab and the Peak Scholar, Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary. Dr. Syed's team was the first to develop a bionic hybrid which enabled direct dialogue between the brain cells and the silicon chip. This study was highlighted in Time Magazine and on the Discovery Channel, Global and Mail etc. Dr. Syed has published extensively (over 160 papers) in peer-reviewed scientific journals including Nature, Science, Neuron and the Journal of Neuroscience. He holds multiple research grants from the Canadian Institute of Health Research and the Natural Science and Engineering Council of Canada. He has also been a co-PI on CIHR and CFI team grants. Dr. Syed has been the recipient of more than 150 prestigious international and national awards including the Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship (USA), Parker B. Francis Fellowship (USA), Alberta Heritage Foundation for Medical Research Scholar, Senior Scholar and Scientist Awards, Canadian Institute for Health Research (CIHR) Investigator Award and the Fellowship of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. In 2016, Dr. Syed was awarded the Tamgha-e-Imtiaz (Medal of Excellence – the highest civilian award for research and innovation) from the Government of Pakistan.

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Dr. Shahriar Heidary completed an Echocardiography fellowship at Harvard University Medical School, Brigham & Women's Hospital after he received his general Cardiology training at the University of Southern California. After this, Dr. Heidary finished an advanced cardiac imaging fellowship in Cardiac MRI at Stanford University. He was an Adjunct Clinical Assistant Professor at Stanford University Medical School and was part of a private practice in San Jose, California for the last 10 years. He has a focus in preventative cardiology, cardiac imaging and general outpatient cardiology.

Syed F Jafri MD F.A.C.P. is a BC Gastroenterologist that has over 35 years of experience both in academic and private practice arenas . He is currently practicing in the Greater Metropolitan Houston, Texas. He has served as Board Member (2004-2015) Texas Society of Gastroenterology and Endoscopy and a Fellow, American College of Physicians. Member IMI Global Board of Regents, Dr. Syed Jafri has served in IMI conferences held in Houston for the past two decades and being a speaker in other IMI conferences. He has also served in the IMI Texas Advisory Board and will add representative voice from our Southern US membership . In addition to professional work, he has been active in serving multiple Islamic organizations over the past four decades in USA.

Dr. Syed Wajih Rizvi graduated from Dow Medical College, Karachi, Pakistan. He did his internal medicine residency at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital in Philadelphia, and then completed a fellowship in Endocrinology, Metabolism, and Lipid Disorders from the Medical College of Pennsylvania, Hahnemann University, and the University of Pennsylvania. For 8 years he headed the Endocrine Division of the Dakota Clinic and Innovis Health Systems in Fargo, ND, and was Associate Professor of Clinical Endocrinology at the University of North Dakota. Currently he is an Associate Professor, Clinical Endocrinology, at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, and Chief of R-Endocrinology and R-Research, in Hamilton, NJ. Dr. Rizvi is one of the founding members of Medics International, and serves as Advisor, International Relations & Affairs and the Permanent Representative to the United Nations and oversees the Global Headquarters. He has an avid interest in philosophy, Urdu poetry, traveling and wild life. He lives with his family in New Jersey.

Dr Talib Tahir is a Rheumatologist and Consultant Physician. Dr Tahir’s areas of interest are inflammatory arthritis, osteoporosis, connective tissue disease, Musculoskeletal conditions and vacuities with a special interest in Behcet’s disease and also a variety of internal medicine complex disease. After graduating from Mosel medical school in 1987 Iraq, Dr Tahir achieved his fellowship and PhD in internal medicine in 1996 from Baghdad university. He was appointed as a lecturer in internal medicine at University of Kufa, College of medicine. Since migrating to Australia, Dr Tahir has worked as a specialist physician training in both internal medicine and rheumatology. He works in public hospitals for more than 15 years throughout Victoria hospitals with extensive variety of patient’s management experience and both rheumatology in general medicine. Dr Tahir obtained his FRACP qualifications in Australia in 2009. After that he worked in major general teaching hospitals in Melbourne, and was engaged in student teaching at Deakin University in Geelong. He is currently focused on improving his private practice at Coburg rheumatology service and other private hospitals. As well as consulting in his private rooms and attending private hospital mostly at North Park Private Hospital, John Fawkner private hospital and Brunswick private hospital, looking after of a varieties of general medicine and rheumatology acute on chronic case management, seeing patients almost every day as inpatient and outpatient, Coburg Rheumatology Service is a grand complex in which Dr Tahir will be primarily consulting from and offering same day treatment of both general medicine and rheumatology. With parking available at the back of the building and a vision to expand and offer additional specialist consultancy service, Coburg rheumatology service is a well renovated and modern medical complex that is open from 9am-5pm Monday to Friday. Dr Tahir also consults at Shepparton as well as private hospital appointments through Melbourne at Brunswick private, North Park private Hospital and John Fawkner private hospital. Dr Tahir attended national and international conferences to keep up to date with the advanced medicine and rheumatology, also attended some of the sessions of Austin rheumatology unit Journal club. He regularly attended international conferences, EULAR and APLAR. Many national conferences as well. Also, he attended international teaching for medical students back in Iraq medical colleges. He is also involved in research and publishes many papers mainly in rheumatology.

Dr Zafar Naqvi is a board-certified psychiatrist with subspecialty certifications in Addiction Psychiatry and Addiction Medicine. With over two decades of experience in academic psychiatry and clinical leadership, he currently leads outpatient services at CONFIDANTE Psychiatry Services and Massachusetts Psychiatry Services. Dr. Naqvi received his medical degree from Dow Medical College and completed his postgraduate training in psychiatry at Aga Khan Medical College in Pakistan, the United Kingdom, and the United States. He held prominent academic roles including faculty at Harvard Medical School for 10 plus years and Assistant Professor at UMass Medical School, where he also served as co-director and preceptor in addiction psychiatry education. His clinical expertise includes inpatient detox, outpatient psychiatry, and integrated consult-liaison psychiatry across medical, surgical, and critical care settings. He has published on topics such as opioid dependence and chronic pain, contributed to national guidelines on benzodiazepine use, and established innovative treatment clinics including Sublocade and Vivitrol programs. Dr Naqvi is an International Associate of the Royal College of Psychiatrists (UK) and a founding member of the Institute of Coaching at Harvard Medical School. A frequent presenter at academic forums, Dr. Naqvi has delivered grand rounds and keynote lectures on addiction and mental health and is dedicated to demystifying psychiatry through community outreach and public education - His presentations also includes Psychoanalytic review of Urdu poetry specially Urdu Ghazals from famous poets