Dr. Faruq M Badiuddin is Consultant Surgeon with over 25 years of experience and has acquired specialization in Counselling for Breast and Colon Cancer. He was a Consultant Surgeon in the UK & Ireland from 1995 to 2001, and was also a leading surgeon at Welcare Hospital, Dubai from 2001 to 2005. He currently runs an independent practice with privileges at several hospitals in Dubai.

Dr. Faruq has been a forerunner in the development of genetic Counselling practice recommendations with surgery and thus helping patients to get the maximum benefit with his advice and treatment. He is a popular speaker and has publications which complement his profession as a Counsellor.

Dr Faruq founded the Emirates Society of Laparoendoscopic Surgery in 2004 and has served the Society as President from 2004 to 2008. He has since been the Organising Chairman for four conferences during his tenure with the Society.

Dr Faruq regularly contributes to professional conferences and meetings and his contributions to the field of Minimally Invasive Surgery have received recognition through awards which were conferred on him in recent years.

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Dr. Justine Badiuddin is a Gynaecologist with major interest in the genetics of common diseases. She worked as a Consultant Gynaecologist in UK and Saudi Arabia. Currently she is practicing in Jebel Ali Hospital in UAE. She has the ability to excavate patient's internal emotions which brings her very close to the patient and his family.

Dr. Justine has special interest in Clinical Genetics, Inborn Errors of Metabolism, Dysmorphology, Prenatal Diagnosis and Premarital Screenings. She counsels and treats patients with sexually transmitted diseases like cervical cancer and make them aware about the severity of Ovarian Cancer.

She is an active member of Emirates Obs-Gynae Society and speaks at various conferences in UAE to share the knowledge of advanced women's healthcare. Her excellent Counselling, interpretation of reports and advice helps patients understand their current health status and also lead them to complete recovery with appropriate treatments.

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Dr. I. C. Verma is a Senior Consultant and Head of Department in Genetic Medicine, Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, New Delhi, India. He was the Professor of Paediatrics in Universities in Libya and India and worked in Harvard Medical School, Boston, various hospitals in UK, Switzerland and Tanzania.

Dr. Verma has made enormous contributions in the field of paediatric genetics and community health in India. He was one of the main investigators to show the increased frequency of Down Syndrome in the Monazite Belt of Kerala. He applied this knowledge for prenatal diagnosis in Indian patients, and this experience was published in PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS (WILEY International). He is a member of the World Health Organization (WHO), Geneva and has been on the Expert Advisory Panel in Human Genetics since 1981.

He successfully demonstrated that genetic services, such as screening for beta thalassemia, could be introduced in a district hospital. He has been a pioneer for the mutational studies in Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD) and Cystic Fibrosis, and Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia. He was the first to establish the DNA technology for prenatal diagnosis of DMD in order to prevent it's severe burden in the community.

He was quick to establish molecular technology for the post-natal and prenatal diagnosis of a large number of disorders – Achondroplasia, Albinism, Alpha 1 anti-trypsin, Apert Syndrome, Ataxia Telengiectasia, Cystic Fibrosis, Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia, Connexin 26 gene mutations in sensory neural deafness, Friedrich Ataxia, Spino-cerebellar Ataxia, Haemophilia, Huntington Disease, Leber’s hereditary optic atrophy, mitochondrial disorders, myotonic dystrophy, Prader Willi syndrome, Rh genotyping, Wilson Disease, and X-linked ichthyosis.

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Dr. Sanjida Ahmed is a Cell Biologist, dealing with DNA based Clinical Diagnosis. She is currently working as Counsellor for the DNA based Molecular Genetic Analysis in Eastern Biotech & Life Sciences. Her innate ability to speak to patients provides a level of comfort to express their confidential reports to her without any hesitation.

She has remarkable interest for the Molecular and Genetic Diagnosis which includes mutation analysis and carrier screening for haemoglobin disorders (Thalassaemia, Sickle cell anaemia, Hemophilia), Cystic Fibrosis, DMD mutation, Glycogen storage disease, Polycystic kidney, Rett’s syndrome and many others.

Dr. Ahmed has been the speaker for many conferences, including Arab Health, Arab Lab, Pan Arab Genomic Conferences and has also been part of an awareness campaign of various healthcare seminars.

She has worked as a free-lance writer for Khaleej Times with several publications in local and international journals, magazines and newspapers.

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