AI Cures • MENASA 2022

The MIT Jameel Clinic, Wellcome Trust and Community Jameel host a one-day seminar in Dubai addressing health challenges and solutions in the Middle East, North Africa and South Asia (MENASA), where climate change, lengthening life expectancies and sedentary lifestyle contribute to a rise in non-communicable diseases.
MIT Jameel Clinic professors Regina Barzilay, Dina katabi, Adam Yala and Shrooq Alsenan join the seminar to expand the clinic's AI Cures initiative to the MENASA region, unlocking new pathways for AI in health.
Participants
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Eray Ozcan
Director of software, Ministry of Health, Turkey
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Mubaraka Ibrahim
Acting chief information officer, Emirates Health Services
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Mohaymen Abdelghany
CEO, Danat Al Emarat Hospital
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George Yacoub
Group director of IT, Abu Dhabi Health Services Company - SEHA
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Fatih Mehmet Gul
CEO, Fakeeh University Hospital
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Zeina Tawakol
Executive director, Magdi Yacoub Foundation
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Paul Sebastian
Head of public health and palliative care, Cancer Care Programme of Tata Trusts
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Mohammed Alhamid
Director of the Centre for Healthcare Intelligence at King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Centre
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Kashif Rajpoot
Computer science programme director, University of Birmingham Dubai
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Mecit Can Emre Simsekler
Associate professor, industrial and systems engineering department, Khalifa University
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Mohammad Yaqub
Assistant professor, computer vision department, Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence
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Eric Xing
President, Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence
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Omar bin Sultan Al Olama
Minister of State for Artificial Intelligence, Digital Economy and Remote Work Applications, UAE

Ignacio Fuentes Ribas
Executive director, MIT Jameel Clinic

Tala Al Ramahi
Director, Reaching the Last Mile

Shrooq Alsenan
2022 Fellow, MIT Jameel Clinic

Fady Jameel
Vice chairman, Community Jameel

Adam Yala
Assistant professor, Computational Precision Health Statistics, UC Berkeley

Dina Katabi
Principal investigator, MIT Jameel Clinic; Andrew and Erna Viterbi Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, MIT

George Richards
Director, Community Jameel

Regina Barzilay
Faculty lead for AI, MIT Jameel Clinic





