11th Annual Conference Non Communicable Diseases: from Prevention to Rehabilitation (Click here to download program) Click on the links below to view the corresponding presentation. Some files are large in size and may take some time. Friday 14:00-14:30 Post Coronary Revascularization Care (Stenting & Surgery) Simon Abou Jaoudeh 14:30-15:00 New Anticoagulants & Antiplatelets: Indication & Appropriate Use Abdallah Rbeiz 15:00-15:30 Chronic Heart Failure: The Role of Family Physicians Hadi Skouri 15:30-16:00 Early Detection of Bipolarity in depressed patients Wadih Naja 16:00-16:30 Coffee break   16:30-17:00 Varicose Veins- Evidence based treatment Fadi Haddad 17:00-17:30 Management of Resistant Depression Monir Khani 17:30-18:00 Bariatric Surgeries: An Update Bassem Safadi 18:00 Opening Ceremony   Saturday 08:00-9:00 Smoking Law Number 174: - Challenges & Opportunities - Role of Family Physicians in its implementation Rima Nakkash 9:00-9:30 Cosmetic Dermatology: Beauty or the Beast Dany Touma 9:30-10:00 Gestational Diabetes Ihab Usta 10:00-10:30 Chronic kidney diseases: what family physicians should know? Samir Mallat 10:30-10:45 Coffee Break   11:00-11:15 Obesity in adolescents Beatrice Khater 11:15-11:45 Coronary Artery Diseases Screening & Diagnostic Modalities & their indications Hussein Ismail 11:45-12:15 Obesity Medications (Newly FDA approved) Najla Lakkis 12:15-13:00 Moving forward in management of Diabetes Mellitus Symposium sponsored by Boehringer Ingelheim - Eli Lilly Sami Azar 13:00-14:00 Lunch break   14:00-14:30 Screening for Prostate Cancer: Is there a role for PSA? Marwan Zoghbi 14:30-15:00 Late Onset Hypogonadism Elie Nemr 15:00-15:30 Moving smoothly to Menopause Jinan Usta 15:30-16:00 ABC of nutritional assessment Antoine Aoun 14:00-18:00 Workshop - Nutritional Management of Specic Medical Conditions: Obesity, Diabetes Mellitus Type 2 Jessy El Hayek Sunday 08:00-9:00 NCD papers from the Arab World - Prevalence of metabolic syndrome among female Kuwaiti adolescents - National Plan of NCD in Kuwait - Identifying factors contributing to tailoring a smoking cessation program guide for family physicians Abdel Wahab Issa Rehab Al Watayan   Maha Moafy 9:00-9:30 Updates and new Guidelines in COPD Salah Zeineddine 9:30-10:00 Is it Multiple Sclerosis? Bassem Yamout 10:00-10:30 Imaging of Breast Cancer Jinane Slaba 10:30-11:00 Pulmonary Rehabilitation in COPD Hassan Chami 11:00-11:15 Coffee break   11:15-11:45 The journey from Inflammatory Back Pain to Axial Spondyloarthritis Nelly Ziadeh 11:45-12:15 Early Parkinson Disease: Diagnosis and management Adnan Awada 12:15-13:45 Alternative Medicine: Does it really work? Ibrahim Omari 12:45-13:15 Assessment of elderly during home visit Nazem Basil 13:15-13:45 Prevention of dementia Mona Osman 13:45 Lunch