Mass General Brigham Presents

MESH Core

RIYADH 2025

Official Healthcare Innovation Bootcamp

14-15 April 2025
InterContinental Hotel
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

MESH Core™ is the official, award-winning innovation course of Mass General Brigham, the #1 healthcare innovation hospital in the world.

For the first time, MESH Core, Mass General Brigham's renowned healthcare innovation course, created by Harvard innovators, is coming to the middle east! Join this two-day intensive, in-person, hands-on healthcare innovation bootcamp with extensive networking of top Saudi innovators and officials.Suitable for physicians, researchers, investors, allied health professionals, regional startups, MBAs, students, executives, and the public. A combination of lectures, hands-on cases, extensive networking, lively panels, and startup pitch sessions.MESH Core Course Director: Marc Succi, MD
Chief Innovation Officer: Chris Coburn

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Course Trailer

Learn, Network, Collaborate

Unmatched Access

The MESH Incubator™ offers MESH Core™, the official Mass General Brigham healthcare innovation course, with extensive networking opportunities for physicians, trainees, healthcare professionals, startups, executives, and the public.All registrants receive complimentary 1-year access to the MGB Innovation MESH Network, an invite-only private online platform with over 2,500 MGB and Harvard faculty registered in a searchable database, with messaging ability.

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SPEAKERS

By Order of Appearance | Subject to Change

Chris Coburn

Chief Innovation Officer, Mass General Brigham

Marc Succi, MD

Founder & Executive Director, The MESH Incubator at Mass General Brigham
Attending Radiologist & Faculty, Harvard Medical School
Course Director, MESH Core

Esam Albanyan, MD

Chief Education and Training Officer, KFSHRC

Majid Alfayyadh, MD

Chief Executive Officer, KFSHRC

Mahmoud Al Yamani, MD

Sector Head, NEOM Health and Wellbeing

Ahmad Hersi, MD MBA

Chief Executive Officer, King Saud University- Medical City (KSUMC)

Roger Kitterman, MBA

Senior Vice President, Mass General Brigham
Managing Partner, Mass General Brigham Ventures

Yousef Alyoussefi, MBA

Chief Executive Officer, Joa Capital

Luca Barbi, MBA

Partner and Chief Operating Officer, STV

Nallan Sriraman

Chief Technology Officer, Mass General Brigham

Suzy McKinney, MBChB

Director, Mass General Brigham Artificial Intelligence

Petros Kotsidis, PhD MBA

Chief Digital Officer, KFSH&RC

Amani Albraikan, PhD

Associate Professor, Princess Nourah Bint Abdulrahman University

Angela Shen, MD

Vice President, Mass General Brigham; Head of Regulatory, MGB Gene and Cell Therapy Institute

Nimra Taqi, MSc

Vice President, Mass General Brigham

Ayman Jazaeri, MD

Consultant, Pediatric Surgery, KSUMC

Mohammed Al-Sofiani, MD

Assistant Professor of Endocrinology, Diabetes, & Metabolism at King
Saud University

Bashayer Almubarak, PhD

Director of Scientific Research, Hevolution Foundation

Sufana AlMashhadi, PhD

Director of Innovation, Saudi NIH

program

Under the patronage of His Excellency the Minister of Education, Mr. Yousef bin Abdullah Al-Benyan.All attendees will receive a certificate of completion at the conclusion of the Bootcamp. To qualify for the certificate, attendees must participate in both days of the program.

The Program has ended. See you in 2026!

Location

King Faisal Hall, InterContinental Hotel, Riyadh

MM8R+MV6, King Saud Rd, Al Mutamarat, Riyadh 11481, Saudi Arabia

Hotel Website

Organizing team

Mass General Brigham

Marc Succi, MD
Course Director
MESH Incubator Founder & Executive Director, Co-Director, MGB Innovator Growth Division, Radiologist and Faculty at Harvard Medical SchoolChris Coburn
Chief Innovation Officer, Mass General BrighamAnu Gupte
Project Lead, Innovator Growth DivisionDiana Schwartzstein
Vice President, Co-Director, MGB Innovator Growth DivisionCasey Frazier
Communications and Digital Marketing Manager, InnovationSarah Szubowicz
PMO Director, Mass General Brigham Global Advisory

King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Centre

Esam Abdullah Albanyan, MBBS, FAAP, MMM
CHIEF EDUCATION AND TRAINING OFFICER
CONSULTANT, PEDIATRIC INFECTIOUS DISEASESAli Alshehri, MD
DEPUTY EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, ACADEMIC AND TRAINING AFFAIRS
CONSULTANT, NEUROLOGY AND NEUROMUSCULARFahad Alobaid, MD
MANAGER, CONTINUING MEDICAL EDUCATION,
ACADEMIC AND TRAINING AFFAIRS
CONSULTANT, PULMONARY MEDICINEHamad H. Aldraye, MD
Neurologist - Neurosciences Center of ExcellenceNivine Alakili, BIS, MBA
Continuing Medical Education Specialist
Academic and Training Affairs

King Saud University Medical City

Prof. Majid Abdulrahman Almadi, MBBS, MSc (Clinical Epidemiology), FRCPC
Chief of Academic AffairsNorah Mesfer Algahtani, MSc, CInP®, Scientific Research
Head of the Scientists UnitDivina Asug, MMHoA, RN, RM
Coordinator

NEOM

Khaled Hamawi, MD, FACHE, MBA
Executive Director, Health System Design and PlanningZaki Algasemi, MBBS, SBFM
Intervention Design DirectorMahmoud Gaddoury, MBBS, MPH, DrPH, GEMBA
Health Systems Senior Manager

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