Scientific Program

Satellite Symposium (Madinah HBD Association)

Chairperson: Dr. Mohamad Zolali

08:00 – 08:40

Prof. Flora Peyvandi 🇮🇹

Rare Bleeding Disorders Then & Now

08:00 – 08:40

Prof. Flora Peyvandi 🇮🇹

Von Willebrand Disease: Diagnosis and Management Updates

Session 111

Bleeding Disorders

Chairperson: Dr. Mohamad Zolali – 🇸🇦
Chairperson: Dr. Asem AlAmri – 🇸🇦

Session 121

Acute Leukemia

Chairpersons: Ensherah Barnawi 🇸🇦
Chairpersons: Turky Wasidy 🇸🇦

08:00 – 08:20

Dr. Hanan AlKhaldi 🇸🇦

Novel approaches & Targeted therapy in Acute Myeloid Leukemia

08:20 – 08:40

Dr. Eman AboDallah 🇱🇧

Non-chemotherapy Approaches in Philadelphia Positive Acute Lymphoid Leukemia: Is the time right?

08:40 – 09:00

Dr. Mansour AlFayez 🇸🇦

How I treat secondary acute myeloid leukemia

Oral Abstracts / Dental Hematology

Session 131

Oral Abstracts (1): Best Eleven Abstracts

Chairpersons: Prof. Galilah Moktar 🇪🇬
Chairpersons: Dr. Muneer AlBagshi 🇸🇦

08:15 – 08:30

Dr. Alaa Hamad 🇸🇦

Abstract 11: Predictors of Discordant End-of-Treatment PET Positivity in Advanced-Stage Classical Hodgkin Lymphoma Patients with Negative Interim PET Response

08:30 – 08:15

Dr. Mansoor Neelum 🇵🇰

Abstract 10: Cytogenetic findings and post induction MRD in B-Lymphoblastic Leukemia

08:30 – 08:45

Dr. Maram Aljohani 🇸🇦

Abstract 8: Unraveling the Prognostic Impact of CDKN2A/2B Gene Deletion in Children Diagnosed with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia, In Saudi Arabia , A Multicenter Study

Early Career Hematology

09:00 – 10:00

Meet the expert Challenging in Lymphoma (Ticketed session)

Prof. Andrew Davies 🇬🇧

Dr. Alfadel Alshaibani 🇸🇦

10:30 – 11:15

MENA HEMATOLOGY CONGRESS 2025

OPENING CERMONY

11:30 – 12:30

Meet the expert How to conduct and design a research study (Ticketed session)

Prof. Flora Peyvandi 🇮🇹

Prof. Tarek Owaida 🇸🇦

13:00 – 14:00

MENA Board of Director Assembly

Poster Abstracts

08:00 – 12:00

Dr. Ahmed Embaby 🇸🇦

SCREEN 1 Diffuse Large B-Cell Lymphoma Development Post-COVID-19 Vaccination in a Sickle Cell Patient: A Complex Clinical Scenario

08:00 – 12:00

Dr. Mohammed Saeed 🇸🇦

SCREEN 2 Predictors of choices for place of death for Saudi patients with incurable cancer from King Abdul-Aziz Medical City, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

08:00 – 12:00

Dr. Ahmed Badheeb 🇸🇦

SCREEN 3 Clinical and Therapeutic Profile of Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma: A Retrospective Study From a Najran Oncology Center

08:00 – 12:00

Dr. Salma Hassan 🇪🇬

SCREEN 4 Telomere Length and response to imatinib therapy in newly diagnosed Chronic Myeloid Leukemia patients-Chronic phase: Measured by Flow-FISH technique

09:00 – 11:00

Time	Topic	Speaker
09:00 – 9:05	Introduction	Dr. Hany Al Hashmi
09:05 – 9:20	Opening Remarks Saudi Hemophilia Landscape	Dr. Ashraf Warsi
09:20 – 09:40	Hemophilia unmet needs	Dr. Sarah Sewaralthab
09:40 – 10:10	Marstacimab New Era in Hemophilia Management	Dr. Guy Young
10:10 – 10:25	From Clinical Trial to Real world experience	Dr. Yasser Wail
10:25 – 10:45	The Transition: the Omani Experience	Dr. Murtada AL Khaburi

11:00 – 13:00

Jomaa Prayer

13:00 – 13:30

Lunch

Session 211

MENA-HL / Saudi Society of Hematology Joint Symposium Platelet Disorders

Chairperson: Prof. Soaad AlJaouni 🇸🇦
Chairperson: Prof. Tamer Hassan 🇪🇬

Session 221

Prophetic Medicine

Chairperson: Prof. Soaad AlJaouni 🇸🇦
Chairperson: Dr. Raed Basry 🇸🇦

9:00 – 9:25

Dr. Hassan Chamsi-Pasha 🇸🇦

Horizons of Prophetic Guidance: A Health Perspective

9:25 – 09:50

Dr. SaLah AlSayed 🇸🇦

The role of Cupping Therapy in Thalassemia disorder for precision medicine

9:50 – 10:20

Prof. Soad Al Jaouni 🇸🇦

Prophetic And Precision Medicine in the Spotlight: Global Research Trends And Scientific Breakthroughs

Oral Abstracts / Dental Hematology

Session 231

Dental for Hematologists

Chairpersons: Dr. Hani Fadel 🇸🇦
Chairpersons: Dr. Shaimaa Bahammam 🇸🇦

09:00 – 09:25

Dr. Hani T Fadel 🇸🇦

Hemoglobinopathies: Dental Perspective

09:25 – 09:50

Dr. Adnan Almaghlouth 🇸🇦

Why Dental Clearance before Hematologic Treatment Matters

09:50 – 10:15

Dr. Hani Salam 🇸🇦

Managing Dental Surgeries in Patients with Coagulopathies: What We Need from Hematologists

Abstracts / Resources Hematology

Session 241

Oral Abstracts (3): Hemophilia

Chairpersons:

Dr. Amal Bihan (KSA)
Dr. Faisal AlGamdi (KSA)

09:00 – 09:15

Dr. Sanjeev Khera 🇮🇳

Real World Data Of Emicizumab Prophylaxis In Young Children With Severe Hemophilia A Without Inhibitors

09:15 – 09:30

Dr. Muhammad Faisal Khanani 🇦🇪

Treatment Patterns and Clinical Outcomes Following Transition to Efanesoctocog Alfa in Paediatric Haemophilia A: A UAE Single-Centre Study

09:30 – 09:45

Dr. Somayyeh Fahiminiya 🇨🇦

Unraveling novel complex genomic rearrangements in severe hemophilia A patients using optical genome mapping

Early Career Hematology

10:00 – 10:45

Meeting of Saudi Hematology Societies

14:00 – 15:00

Meeting of Saudi Council of Hereditary Blood Disorders Associations

15:00 – 16:00

Meeting of Madinah Hereditary Blood Disorders Association Board

Poster Abstracts

08:00 – 12:00

Dr. Rehab AL-Ansari 🇸🇦

SCREEN 1 Epidemiology of Vascular Thrombosis in the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia: A Single Center Study and Comparison with National Data

08:00 – 12:00

Dr. Mohamed Safa 🇸🇦

SCREEN 2 Brain Iron Accumulation With Neurodegeneration

08:00 – 12:00

Dr. Abdulaziz Aljohani 🇸🇦

SCREEN 3 CLPB-Related 3-Methylglutaconic Aciduria Type VII : A Crucial Consideration In Severe Congenital Neutropenia with Epilepsy , Case Report

08:00 – 12:00

Dr. abdulrahman al raizah 🇸🇦

SCREEN 4 A Quality Initiative to Improve IVC Filter Use and Retrieval: Translating Guidelines into Practice

08:00 – 08:20

Dr. Sarah Sewaralthahab 🇸🇦

Quality Improvement in Sickle Cell Disease

08:20 – 08:40

All-Comers Treatment Option : Repurposing RBC Energetics Across the Spectrum of Thalassemia

Speaker:Dr. Ali Taher

Session 311

MENA-HL / ESHR Joint Symposium Sickle Cell Disease

Chairpersons: Prof. Amal Bishlawi 🇪🇬
Chairpersons: Dr. Sarah Sewaralthahab 🇸🇦

08:40 – 09:00

Dr. Saif Elislam 🇸🇦

Modern Approaches to Managing Acute Vaso-Occlusive Crises

Session 321

Happen in Hematology with light grey background

Chairpersons: Sabri Kemahli 🇹🇷

08:00 – 08:20

Prof. Abeer Abd Elmoneim 🇸🇦

Modifiable risks of pediatric cancer

08:20 – 08:40

Prof. Murtadha Al-Kabori 🇴🇲

Acquired Bleeding Disorders in Malignancy

08:40 – 09:00

Sabri Kamili 🇹🇷

Hematology Education and Training

5th Saudi Forum of Hereditary Blood Diseases Associations

Session-1 (331)

Me and My Illness – Towards a Better Life

Chairperson: Dr. Mohammed Al-Shahrani 🇸🇦
Chairperson: Mr. Othman Barnawi 🇸🇦

08:00 – 08:45

Commitment to treatment Iron pumps Follow-up on Hydroxyurea

Dr. Islam El-Hawary 🇪🇬
Dr. Mona Hamdy 🇪🇬
Dr. Marwa Zakaria 🇰🇼

Session 2 (332)

Associations and Health Services – Our Vision for the Future

Chairpersons::

Eng. Ahmed Al-Harthi
Mr. Yasser Hawsawi
Ms. Aisha Qader
Session Supervisor: Prof. Ahmed Tarawah

08:45 – 09:30

Mr. Ahmed Al-Ahmadi
Al-Madinah Association

Mr. Khaled Al-Dhibyan
Jazan Association

Dr. Mohammed Al-Shahrani
Riyadh Association

Dr. Mohammed Darwish
Qatif Association

Prof. Hatoon Izzat – Director, Blood Disorders Division, Ministry of Health SaudiArabia 🇸🇦

· Dr. Ahmed Khalifa – Director of “Mohja” Initiative Saudi Arabia 🇸🇦

· Mr. Ahmed Al-Ahmadi 🇸🇦

· Mr. Khaled Al-Dhibyan🇸🇦

· Dr. Mohammed Al-Shahrani🇸🇦

· Dr. Mohammed Darwish 🇸🇦

Abstracts / Resources Hematology

Session 341

Oral Abstracts (5)

Chairpersons: Prof. Galila Moktar 🇪🇬
Chairpersons: Prof. Faisal Algamdi 🇸🇦

08:15 – 08:30

Dr. Faisal Al-Harbi 🇸🇦

Impact of Cytoreductive Nephrectomy on Outcomes in Metastatic Renal Cell Carcinoma Patients with Concurrent Hematological Malignancies Receiving Immune Checkpoint Inhibitor Therapy: A Multi-Institutional Retrospective Cohort Analysis

08:30 – 08:45

Dr. Sara Mostafa 🇪🇬

Clinical Spectrum Of An Egyptian Cohort Of Children With Myelodysplastic Syndrome

08:45 – 09:00

Dr. HASIB TK 🇮🇳

Evaluation of TP53 Expression in pediatric B- Cell Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia and Its Correlation with Clinicopathological Profiles

Early Career Hematology

08:00 – 08:30

MENA Hematology Congress 2025 / 2026 joined meeting

08:30 – 09:00

MENA Hematology Congress 2026 meeting

09:00 – 10:00

Meet the expert

Challenging in Thrombosis

(Ticketed session)

Dr. Ashraf Warsi 🇸🇦

Dr. Sarah Sewaralthahab 🇸🇦

10:00 – 11:00

Meet the expert

Hematology fellowship exam, tricks & pitfalls

(Ticketed session)

Dr. Fawaz AlKasim 🇸🇦

Dr. Ashraf Warsi 🇸🇦

Poster Abstracts

08:00 – 12:00

Dr. Samar Elfiky 🇪🇬

SCREEN 1 Netrin-1 and Clusterin: Valuable Markers for Early Detection of Kidney Injury in Children with Transfusion-Dependent Thalassemia

08:00 – 12:00

Dr. Ahmad Darwish 🇪🇬

SCREEN 2 Investigating the role of B-cell activating factor (BAFF) in multi-transfused children with thalassemia

08:00 – 12:00

Dr. Ruqaiya Al Ghazali 🇴🇲

SCREEN 3 Clinical and Laboratory Outcomes of First and Second Episodes of COVID-19 in Patients with Sickle Cell Disease: A Retrospective Comparative Cohort Study

08:00 – 12:00

Dr. Sajidah Alalwan 🇸🇦

SCREEN 4 The Role of Platelet-to-Neutrophil Ratio (PNR) as a Biomarker for Pulmonary Hypertension and Echocardiographic Changes in Sickle Cell Disease Patients: A Retrospective Cohort Study