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December 02-03, 2019 | Dubai, UAE
Volume 04
Current Research: Integrative Medicine
Curr Res Integr Med, Volume 04, ISSN: 2529-797X
CAM Therapies 2019
December 02-03, 2019
World Congress on
Complementary and Alternative Medicine
The future of alternative medicine in Dubai
In recent years, more individuals are turning to alternative medicine and therapies to heal and improve their overall health and
wellbeing. Why is this getting so popular? Is this just a passing trend or is it here to stay? Find out the benefits of alternative
medicine, how to set up as a clinic and the future of alternative medicine in today’s world.
Talking points:
• Why so popular?
• The challenges
• Practical tips for setting up a practice in UAE
• Licensing, scope of services
• The future of regulations in UAE
• The future of alternative medicine
Biography
Max Mazen Sawaf is the Active Chairman and CEO of Novomed Group. He trained in general surgery at the University of Connecticut
before completing his training at Boston University in anaesthesiology. He then completed a fellowship in cardiac anaesthesiology & critical
care medicine at the University of Massachusetts. He is a diplomat of the American board of anaesthesiology, American board of pain
management and American Board of Anti-Aging medicine. He trained at McGill University in Canada in cosmetic surgery, before partnering
with Dr. Zein Obagi in Beverly Hills where they worked together in taking that brand overseas.
Max Sawaf founded and directed the largest network of plastic surgery; dermatology and lasers Clinics in the Middle East headquartered
in Dubai in year 2000. Patients from all over the region travel there to seek cosmetic surgery and anti-aging services (www.cosmesurge.
com). He helped more than 300,000 patients over the last 15 years through his eleven centres and two hospitals to look and feel younger.
His enterprise included more than 800 employees and 156 physicians. He also founded the Emirates Hospitals in Dubai and Abu Dhabi
(which was sold on January 7th 2014 ). He created in 2014 a new brand Novomed Reverse Aging Centre (www.
) headquartered in Beverly Hills at 455 N. Roxbury Drive. He regularly appears on TV and talk shows in Dubai related to
wellness, preventive and anti- aging medicine. He also appears on CNN International in connection with his philanthropy and in assisting
Syrian refugees with their medical and educational needs.
Max Mazen Sawaf
Novomed Centre, UAE