Organizing Committee
Dr. Ashraf Maghrabi
President
Dr. Ashraf Maghrabi
- Training and Experience o May 2015 – Current: Director, General Surgery Residency Training Program at King Abdulaziz University Hospital, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Aug. 2021 – Current: Associate Profesor of Surgery, Thoracic & GI Minimally Invasive and Bariatric Surgeon, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Feb 2014 – Current: Part-time locum job as Thoracic, GI Minimally Invasive and Bariatric Surgeon, King Abdullah Medical City (KAMC), Makkah, Saudi Arabia. July 2010 – November 2013: Thoracic Surgery Clinical Fellowship at Division of Thoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada July 2011 – June 2012: Foregut and GI Minimally Invasive Surgery Clinical Fellowship, Department of Surgery, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, Canada
Dr. Murad AlJiffry
Vice-President
Dr. Murad AlJiffry
EDUCATION
Graduate Degree (Master of Science, M.Sc.):
Master of Experimental Surgery program (thesis based), McGill University. 2012
Project: Anti-inflammatory therapy with high dose insulin in deceased organ donors
Postgraduate Medical Education:
Hepato-pancreato-biliary and Multi-organ Transplant Surgeon (ASTS certified). 2011
Degree: FRCSC (Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of Canada) in the specialty
of General Surgery. 2009
Medical School:
Degree: M.B.;Ch.B. (Bachelor of Medicine & Surgery)
Faculty of medicine & allied sciences, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia,
1995 – 2001
High School:
Al-Thaghr secondary school, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, Grade: Excellent (maximum of
grade). 1993 – 1995
Dr. Nadim Malibary
Member
Dr. Nadim Malibary
PUBLICATIONS
Trabulsi NH, Malibary NH, et al. Short-term outcomes of stents in obstructive rectal cancer: A systematic
review and meta-analysis. Saudi J Gastroenterol. 2021 May 6. doi: 10.4103/sjg.sjg_506_20. Epub ahead of
print. PMID: 33976008.
Malibary N, Almohaimeed A, Alshareef A et al. Complications and postoperative ileus in laparoscopic
versus open colectomy: A retrospective cohort study [version 1; peer review: awaiting peer review].
F1000Research 2021, 10:383, https://doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.51649.1
COVIDSurg Collaborative, GlobalSurg Collaborative. SARS-CoV-2 vaccination modelling for safe
surgery to save lives: data from an international prospective cohort study, British Journal of Surgery,
2021;, znab101, https://doi.org/10.1093/bjs/znab101
Basendowah M, Malibary N, et al. Impact of optional multidisciplinary tumor board meeting on the
mortality of patients with gastrointestinal cancer: A retrospective observational study. Cancer Rep
(Hoboken). 2021 Mar 19:e1373. doi: 10.1002/cnr2.1373. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 33739628.
COVIDSurg Collaborative and GlobalSurg Collaborative. Timing of surgery following SARS‐CoV‐2
infection: an international prospective cohort study. Anaesthesia. 2021
March. https://doi.org/10.1111/anae.15458
GlobalSurg Collaborative and National Institute for Health Research Global Health Research Unit on
Global Surgery. Global variation in postoperative mortality and complications after cancer surgery: a