For the last seven years, Mohammad Badran has been working as a consultant interventional radiologist at King Faisal Specialist Hospital. He obtained his MBBS from the University of Jordan in 1993. After doing his internship and one year of Medicine in Jordan, he did his five-year Radiology Training at the Chelsea and Westminster Hospital in London.

Dr. Badran did his two-year Interventional Radiology fellowship at Royal Liverpool Hospital in the UK and worked for eight years as a Consultant Radiologist at Mid Essex Hospital NHS Trust before joining his current hospital.

Dr. Badran’s interest is in the management and treatment of Vascular Malformations. He lead a multidisciplinary team at his institution to treat these conditions, including AVM, Venous Malformation, lymphatic malformation and several related syndromes. Dr. Badran has a considerable role in diagnosing and management of vascular tumors, such as hemangiomas.

Dr. Badran has a long experience in almost all aspects of international radiology, particularly the management of peripheral vascular disease and aortic aneurysms. For the past years, Dr. Badran has treated a significant number of patients with varicose veins, including pelvic congestion syndrome and genital varices. He has carried out a significant number of intra nodal lymph angiograms procedures to help manage lymphatic leaks and diagnosing congenital abnormalities.

Karim Abd El Tawab is currently holding the position ofInterventional Radiology Consultant; Interventional Radiology Unit, Ain Shams University Hospitals, Cairo, Egypt; which is one of largest Interventional Radiology Institutes in Egypt and the Arab world providing him with 13 years of experience in various Vascular and Non Vascular Interventional Radiology procedures especially Interventional Oncology and HCC management, GIT and Biliary interventions as well as Uterine Artery Embolization for fibroids. He started the first team in Egypt and the Middle East to perform prostatic artery embolization in 2012, he is the first in Egypt and the Middle East to do Hemorrhoidal embolization in 2015 and also the first in Egypt to perform Bariatric embolization in 2016. It is worth mentioning that Dr. Abd El Tawab is also one of the pioneers in Egypt in emergency embolization procedures “a 24/7 service in Ain Shams University Hospitals”. He is a board member in the Pan Arab Interventional Radiology Society and the head of the Marketing and Media committee, Head of #IAM_PAIRS Interventional Radiology awareness program, founding and board member of the Egyptian Society of the Interventional Radiology. He is also a member of SIR and CIRSE. He has given more than 140 talks and lectures in various international and local conferences.

Mohammad Arabi is a Consultant Interventional Radiologist at the King Abdulaziz Medical City and King Abdullah. Specialized Children Hospital, National Guard Health Affairs, in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

Dr. Arabi earned his medical degree from Damascus University in Syria and completed his residency in diagnostic radiology at the American University of Beirut, Lebanon. Dr. Arabi received fellowship training in interventional radiology, nuclear medicine, and diagnostic neuroradiology at the University of Michigan, and he is American Board Certified in diagnostic radiology, nuclear medicine, and vascular medicine. Dr. Arabi has been a Fellow of the Royal College of Radiologists in United Kingdom since 2007 and was awarded a fellowship from the Pan Arab Interventional Radiology Society (PAIRS) in 2017.

Dr. Arabi is the founder and first Editor-in-Chief of The Arab Journal of Interventional Radiology (AJIR) and serves as editor and scientific reviewer of several medical and interventional radiology journals (JVIR, Cardiovascular and Interventional Radiology, Catheterization and Cardiovascular Interventions, the Saudi Medical Journal, the Avicenna Journal of Medicine, and others).

Dr. Arabi’s main areas of interest are venous, transplant, portal hypertension, and oncological interventions.

Refaat Salman is a Consultant Vascular and Interventional Radiologist at King Abdulaziz Medical City- Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. He obtained his medical degree (Dr. med. univ.) from Karl-Franzens University, Graz, Austria and completed his training in diagnostic and interventional radiology in well-known clinical institutes in Switzerland and Germany. He obtained the German Board (Facharzt) in Radiology. He held the position of diagnostic and interventional radiology consultant at the Institute of Diagnostic and Interventional Radiology in Ingolstadt Hospital, Germany.

Academically, Dr. Salman has a Master Degree in Health Business Administration from Friedrich-Alexander University, Nuremberg, Germany. Additionally, he obtained the European Board in Interventional Radiology (EBIR).

Dr. Salman participated actively in many international radiology conferences. His main interest and expertise is in the field of peripheral vascular diseases and related interventions.