More than 300 healthcare professionals and residents converged in Abu Dhabi on Friday at Sheikh Khalifa Medical City for the Third Annual Multispecialty Conference: Board Reviews and Clinical Updates.

The two-day meeting, which is sponsored by Abu Dhabi Health Services Company (SEHA) and endorsed by the American College of Physicians (ACP), will discuss a wide ranging topics including coronary artery diseases, dyslipidemia, obesity, epilepsy, osteoporosis, Vitamin D, transcultural psychiatry, diabetes in Children, Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), neonate jaundice, down syndrome in UAE and many other interesting topics.

The conference will have parallel tracks in internal medicine and pediatrics and will cover the major disease in cardiology, neurology, oncology, haematology, nephrology, endocrinology, gastroenterology, respiralogy, infectious disease, dermatology and psychiatry.

As achieved in previous years, the rich scientific content will be elaborated and discussed by distinguished local, regional and international faculty.

"Building on the success of the previous conferences, we are delighted once again to organize an exciting scientific program this year focusing on how to adapt international practice guidelines of multiple specialities to the local patient population. The conference explores the Global, Genetic and Geographic (G3) differences in disease incidence, prevalence pathophysiology response to treatment and prognosis as well as the influence of internationally developed clinical practice guidelines and their relevance and impact on local practice and patient outcomes.," said Dr. Abdulmajeed Al Zubaidi, Conference President and Chief Medical Officer at SKMC, certified with the American Board of Internal Medicine.

The conference will provide an opportunity to review an in depth study and analysis of variations in disease behaviour across geographic and genetic pools, examine differences in the epidemiology, pathophysiology response to treatment and prognosis of various diseases and explore the relevance international clinical practice guidelines in the treatment protocols of the local patients The conference aims at teaching pediatricians, general practitioners, family physicians, medical residents and fellows, clinical and community pharmacists and healthcare professionals in all sub-specialties how to apply clinical reasoning to uncommon manifestations and common problems while making recommendations for optimal management of the disease.