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SAMS 23rd International Conference: Healing Syria Together: Advancing Healthcare & Educational Excellence
July 4, 2025 to July 6, 2025
The SAMS 23rd International Conference is dedicated to addressing the profound challenges currently facing Syria’s healthcare system, which has been drastically impacted by over a decade of conflict and consequential deficiencies in infrastructure, workforce, and resources. Through a series of expert-led sessions, practical workshops, and interdisciplinary tracks spanning public health, mental health, medical education, research, and specialty fields such as cardiology, neurology, nephrology, women’s health, and oncology, the conference delivers evidence-based knowledge and critical clinical skills to participants. This comprehensive educational approach is designed to bridge key gaps in competence and performance, empower healthcare professionals, and support the rebuilding of Syria’s healthcare and academic infrastructure, ultimately fostering the delivery of high-quality, context-appropriate care and strengthening workforce capacity in post-conflict settings.
Target Audience
This activity has been designed for physicians, allied health professionals, students, humanitarian clinicians and other healthcare professionals interested in leadership within the field of medicine.
Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this activity, participants will be able to:
- Apply evidence-based public health and mental health strategies to design low-resource interventions for displaced and trauma-affected populations in Syria;
- Assess current gaps in medical education and training programs in Syria and formulate solutions to enhance clinical teaching, mentorship, and academic continuity in conflict-affected regions;
- Critique existing models of care delivery in specialty fields and adapt these models for use in under-resourced, disrupted health systems;
- Compare international research ethics and methodologies with practices in conflict zones to develop contextually appropriate research protocols for Syrian healthcare settings.
Damascus University Conference Center
Damascus
Syria
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ACCESSIBILITY The University of Chicago is committed to providing equal access appropriate to need and circumstances and complies fully with legal requirements of the Americans with Disabilities Act. If you are in need of special accommodation, please contact our office at [email protected].
The University of Chicago reserves the right to cancel or postpone this conference due to unforeseen circumstances. In the unlikely event this activity must be cancelled or postponed, the registration fee will be refunded; however, The University of Chicago is not responsible for any related costs, charges, or expenses to participants, including fees assessed by airline/travel/lodging agencies.
COURSE DIRECTORS
Nidal Elwiher, MD
Hazar Jaber, DDS
Ruba Azzam, MD
Abdulfatah Elshaar, MD
Mufaddal Hamadeh, MD
Kamal Fakiani, MD
Hazar Jaber, DDS
Ruba Azzam, MD
Abdulfatah Elshaar, MD
Mufaddal Hamadeh, MD
Kamal Fakiani, MD
Disclosure Declarations
As a provider accredited by the ACCME, The University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine asks everyone in a position to control the content of an education activity to disclose all financial relationships with any ineligible companies. This includes any entity whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients. Financial relationships are relevant if a financial relationship, in any amount, exists between the person in control of content and an ineligible company during the past 24 months, and the content of the education is related to the products of an ineligible company with whom the person has a financial relationship. Mechanisms are in place to identify and mitigate any relevant financial relationships prior to the start of the activity.
Additionally, The University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine requires Authors to identify investigational products or off-label uses of products regulated by the US Food and Drug Administration at first mention and where appropriate in the content.
As a provider accredited by the ACCME, The University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine asks everyone in a position to control the content of an education activity to disclose all financial relationships with any ineligible companies. This includes any entity whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients. Financial relationships are relevant if a financial relationship, in any amount, exists between the person in control of content and an ineligible company during the past 24 months, and the content of the education is related to the products of an ineligible company with whom the person has a financial relationship. Mechanisms are in place to identify and mitigate any relevant financial relationships prior to the start of the activity.
Additionally, The University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine requires Authors to identify investigational products or off-label uses of products regulated by the US Food and Drug Administration at first mention and where appropriate in the content.
Physician Credit
This activity has been planned and implemented in accordance with the accreditation requirements and policies of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) through the joint providership of The University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine and The Syrian American Medical Society. The University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine is accredited by the ACCME to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
The University of Chicago Pritzker School Of Medicine designates this live activity for a maximum of 11.50 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Other Participant Credit
Nurses and other healthcare professionals will receive a Certificate of Participation. For information on the applicability and acceptance of certificates of participation for educational activities certified for AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™ from organizations accredited by the ACCME, please consult your professional licensing board.
Nurses and other healthcare professionals will receive a Certificate of Participation. For information on the applicability and acceptance of certificates of participation for educational activities certified for AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™ from organizations accredited by the ACCME, please consult your professional licensing board.
Please Note: The credit claiming process will close three months after the conference end date. Requests to claim credit after three months will be subject to additional fees.
REGISTRATION: Registration is limited to SAMS members. For complete information and registration, click below!
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Please Note: The credit claiming process will close three months after the conference end date. Requests to claim credit after three months will be subject to additional fees.
Please Note: The credit claiming process will close three months after the conference end date. Requests to claim credit after three months will be subject to additional fees.
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