Ziad Legrand graduated médical school from Kaunas Médical University and finished his radiology residency at the Centre Hospitalier de LILLE, France. Dr. Neghaiwi served as a fellow in diagnostic and interventionnal cardiovascular départment in CHU de Lille France, chief résident for two years.

Currently he is chief at the department of Interventional and cardiovascular Imaging in Beirut Cardiac Institut.

ABD EL TAWAB is currently holding the position of Interventional Radiology Consultant; Interventional Radiology Unit, Ain Shams University Hospitals, Cairo, Egypt; which is one of largest Interventional Radiology Institutes in Egypt and the Arab world providing him with 10 years of experience in various Vascular and Non Vascular Interventional Radiology procedures especially Interventional Oncology and HCC management, GIT and Biliary interventions as well as Uterine Artery Embolization for fibroids. He started the first team in Egypt and the Middle East to perform prostatic artery embolization in 2012, he is the first in Egypt and the Middle East to do Hemorrhoidal embolization in 2015 and also the first in Egypt to perform Bariatric embolization in 2016. It is worth mentioning that Dr. ABD EL TAWAB is also one of the pioneers in Egypt in emergency embolization procedures “a 24/7 service in Ain Shams University Hospitals” namely GIT bleeding, Post-Partum Hemorrhage Bronchial Embolization for management of hemoptysis, Renal artery embolization for hematuria management etc. He has given more than 70 talks and lectures in various local and international conferences.

Hicham Abada was born in Algiers. After he had completed his medical degree in Algeria (1992), he went to Belgium for a 5-year residency program in Radiology followed by one year of fellowship in vascular and interventional radiology in the leading academic department of radiology of the University of Brussels (Erasme Hospital). He then joined the department of vascular radiology of Broussais Hospital in Paris, France; before accepting a position in the Department of Radiology at Central Army Hospital in Algiers in 1999. He came back to France, in 2001, where he joined the department of Radiology of Rene Dubos Hospital leading the vascular and interventional radiology program for 5 years. In 2006, he joined VIR section of the department of radiology at University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics in Iowa City, Iowa, as an Associate Professor, he was in charge, in addition to his interventional radiology work, the peripheral vascular imaging program and was Director of the Uterine Fibroid Clinic as well. He joined the vascular and interventional division of the department of Radiology at the University of Kentucky as an Associate Professor in 2009. He recently moved to Abu Dhabi to lead the department of interventional radiology at CCAD in august 2014.

His scholarly activities are marked by publications in major radiological journals as Radiology, American Journal of Roentgenology, European Radiology and Cardiovascular and Interventional Radiology, and has also participated in book chapters and reviews. He is currently reviewer in different radiological journals. He is regularly invited as a speaker in national and international meetings in relation to his area of expertise as uterine artery embolization for treatment of post partum hemorrhage or uterine fibroid embolization, vascular interventional procedures and cardiovascular imaging with a special focus on radiation dose optimization, and surveillance of patients post Endovascular Aortic Repair. He is also dedicating his daily practice in interventional oncologic procedures including ablation therapies for the treatment of liver tumors or cryoablation of renal tumors, and transarterial chemoembolization interventions.