His Excellency Humaid Mohammed Obaid Al Qatami, Chairman of the Board and Director General of the Dubai Health Authority, Inaugurates the Worlds Largest Laboratory Exhibition and Congress, MEDLAB

The initial standalone edition of MEDLAB Exhibition & Congress, the world's largest research laboratory event, was officially inaugurated today by His Excellency Humaid Mohammed Obaid Al Qatami, Chairman of the Board and Director General of the Dubai Health Authority. Adhering to 15 years of success together with the region's front runner healthcare event, Arab Health, the lab show is currently a standalone event and ranges from Sixth - 9th February 2017 at the Dubai International Convention & Exhibit Centre in the United Arab Emirates (UAE).

Spanning over 6 exhibit halls, the show fits greater than 700 global exhibitors, over 400 ground breaking medical lab product or services, 11 CME-accredited meetings and invites over 30,000 laboratory and trade professionals.

With MEDLAB looking at connecting the space between the research laboratory and medical setups, the congress today focused on two key topics - research laboratory monitoring and heart markers (dimension of heart features), with medical care leaders attending to topics varying from the threats of making use of social media sites in health care, to how to improve cardiac testing.

Today additionally saw the beginning of the 5th Middle East Diabetes mellitus Conference, led by Dr Nader Lessan, Specialist Endocrinologist, Imperial College London, Diabetes mellitus Centre, that offered regional insights into diabetes mellitus care. The conference, which is generally held at Arab Health, is currently part of MEDLAB to enhance the connection in between the laboratory and clinicians when diagnosing and treating diabetes.

During the four-day congress, MEDLAB will certainly unveil the industry's latest updates on laboratory screening and developments in clinical diagnostics. Within its new scientific programme, consisting of 11 multi-disciplinary meetings, the congress will present 3 new tracks including blood transfusion medication, laboratory informatics, and scientific diagnostics of cardiology and diabetes mellitus, in addition to the much more established lab monitoring, microbiology, immunology and clinical chemistry tracks.

Using delegates the opportunity to make as much as 28.0 credits of Continuing Medical Education (CME), the seminars are led by regional and global industry leaders, who will certainly present the current study, advancements, and drive discussions on ideal practice in research laboratory medicine.

Simon Page, Managing Director of Informa Life Sciences Exhibitions, the organisers of MEDLAB, described exactly how important the show remains in bringing medical care professionals together to boost the provision of health care in the region.

" MEDLAB offers access to hundreds of lab advancements and understandings into medical breakthroughs that will certainly help improve healthcare, both between East and around the world. The congress has been made to foster collaboration and encourage the sharing of knowledge and abilities in between 2 pillars of healthcare - the laboratory and medical professionals - to eventually boost person treatment outcomes, particularly in this part of the world," he said.

For more details about MEDLAB Event & Congress 2017, please visit www.medlabme.com