Presentations
With his unique experience and expertise Professor Abu-Sittah is much in demand as a speaker at conferences worldwide. His speaker platforms and presentations include:
International Conference Presentations
Winter 2000 | British Association of Aesthetic & Plastic Surgery, “But I still Look Tired”- The role of primary endoscopic Brow lift in blepharoplasty patients. |
Summer 2005 | British Association of Dermatology, “Melanoma micro-metastasis identified in sentinel lymphadenectomy: a 4 year experience at the Barts and London Trust skin cancer center.” |
Winter 2005 | British Association of Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery, “Management of mangled lower limbs following blast injuries at the Royal London Hospital following the London Underground Bombings.” |
Summer 2007 | British Association of Oral & Maxillofacial Surgery, “The Role of Rejuvenative Surgery for Patients with Pseudoxanthoma Elasticum.” |
Sep 2009 | International Society for Craniofacial Surgery, Biennial International Congress, “Incidence of raised ICP in Crouzon Syndrome.” |
March 2010 | Craniofacial Society of Great Britain & Ireland, “The effect of vomerine flaps and neo-mucosal turnover flaps on complication rates in palate repair in UCLP.” |
Oct 2011 | 1st Congress of The Lebanese Society of Plastic, Reconstructive & Aesthetic Surgery and World Congress of Plastic Surgeons of Lebanese Origin,
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Invited Speaker
Sep 2019 | Centre for Global Health, University of Oslo, Global Health Inspiration Days 2019, War Wounds, Resistance and Impact on the Displaced Population. |
Jul 2019 | Center for Blast Injury Studies, Imperial College University of London, Blast Injury Conference Plenary Speaker, Conflict Medicine and “The War to end all wars”: Rising up to the challenges of protracted conflict. |
Dec 2018 | International Federation of Red Cross Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) War Surgery Report launch day, Training the War Surgeon of today |
Nov 2018 | 1st MSF Lebanon Antibiotic Resistance Awareness Day, Infected war wounds and AMR: regional perspective. |
Nov 2018 | War: The beginning and end of antibiotics? Fondation Brocher, Switzerland, AMR and War: a surgeon’s perspective. |
Nov 2018 | Conflict: A deadly convergence creating new threats with global ramifications, Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva. AMR in War: a surgeon’s perspective |
Oct 2018 | Humanitarian challenges facing the Middle East, MSF-OCBA, Amman, Jordan, Prolonged Conflict and Ecology of War |
Sept 2018 | Georgetown University’s Center for Contemporary Arab Studies, and the Greater Washington DC AUB Alumni Chapter present: Wounds of Gaza: A surgeon’s lessons from 20 years of operating on Palestinians |
Sept 2018 | Association of Academic Health Centers-International, Transformation of Medical Education in the New Era. Technology in the Service of the Poor |
Feb 2018 | 3rd symposium, Surgery in War and Austere Zones, Armed Forces Military Hospital Rabat, Morocco. Complicated Facial Injuries |
Jan 2018 | Royal Society of Medicine, ‘Moving NCD management in contemporary conflict settings’. Cancer and Conflict |
Dec 2017 | Dubai International Humanitarian Aid & Development Conference & Exhibition (DIHAD). Building The Capacity Of Local Aid Workers Through Technology-Based Learning. |
Mar 2017 | 1st Consensus meeting- Optimizing the care for patients with complex Craniomaxillofacial (CMF) injuries in war and austere environments. Queen Mary University of London, Avoiding complications in CMF war injuries |
June 2017 | Middle East Chapter, The American College of Surgeons, Amman, Jordan Complicated Facial War Injuries; Secondary Cleft Naso-labial Deformities |
Dec 2016 | Rebuilding Health Post-Conflict, American University of Beirut, Global Health Institute Conflict Medicine: Transition from Clinical Care to Healthcare |
April 2017 | Médecins sans frontières (MSF), MENA Region Country Directors Retreat. The Ecology of War |
Sept 2016 | The American College of Surgeons General Surgery Review Course, Wound Healing |
Feb 2016 | “Iraqibacter”: anthropological approaches to war, injury and infection. Collège d’études mondiales, Fondation Maison des Sciences de l’Homme, Paris. . War Wound infections amongst Iraqi patients. |
May 2016 | Changing Ecologies of War and Humanitarianism: Reflecting on MSF’s 40 years of working in conflict. Political Capital of War Wounds |
May 2015 | United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA): Persons with Disabilities in Emergencies: Building Resilience, Protecting Lives. “Disability in time of war” |
May 2015 | United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA): Persons with Disabilities in Emergencies: Building Resilience, Protecting Lives. “Disability in time of war” |
May 2015 | Médecins sans frontières (MSF), MENA Region Country Directors Retreat. Political Capital of War Wounds |
May 2015 | Lebanese Order of Nurses National Conference. Training in War Surgery |
Oct 2015 | Reconstructive Plastic and Maxillofacial Surgery in Austere and War Zones, Marrakesh, Morroco. “Management of blast injuries to the face.” |
Aug 2015 | The 6th Annual Pediatrics Update Symposium, American University of Beirut Medical Center, Multidisciplinary Cleft Care |
Feb 2014 | Assessing Medical Professionalism – American University of Beirut Medical Center, Medical Professionalism in times of Conflict |
Nov 2103 | Physicians, Torture and the Ethics of Medicine, American University of Beirut Medical Center, Doctors and Torture |
March 2013 | The Lancet, Palestine Health Alliance Conference, Cairo. “The Wounds of Gaza” |
May 2013 | Middle East Medical Association (MEMA), Beirut. “The Wounds of Gaza: The Challenges of Prolonged Conflict.” |
Dec 2012 | College of Global Studies, Fondation Maison des Sciences de L’Homme (FMSH)- Paris, “ Social Epidemiology and the new wars.” |
