Dear Colleagues,

On behalf of the scientific committee, I would like to welcome you to our 1st MENA Conference for Rare Diseases to be held on 18-20 February 2022. As the UAE regulations are allowing for physical events, we are more than happy to announce that our conference will be in a hybrid format. After longtime of strict regulations during the pandemic, it is finally a chance for us to meet and connect with you again.

The 1st MENA Conference for Rare Diseases will cover a wide range of rare diseases encountered in various pediatrics subspecialties such as neurology, cardiology, pulmonary, endocrine, metabolic, genetics, hematology, and oncology. It will be a three-day conference during which experts in each field will deliver the most updated knowledge in presentations related to various rare diseases. Laboratories, pharmaceutical companies, societies and associations, support and advocacy groups, and clinics focusing on rare diseases will also participate through booths and symposiums.

Our target audience will include general pediatricians and pediatric subspecialists such as neonatologists, neurologist, oncologists, hematologists, cardiologists, nephrologists, psychiatrists, geneticists, genetic counselors, allied health professionals such as physiotherapists and speech therapists, nurses, and academic scientists and researchers, and medical sciences students.