GI Disorders

Safwan AbdulRahman Taha has completed his Graduation from Basrah College of Medicine on 1983 with honors where he became Professor of Surgery, on 2000 and then founding Dean of Thi Qar College of Medicine (Iraq, 2003). He holds Fellowship of the Royal College of Physician and Surgeons of Glasgow, Fellowship of the American College of Surgeons, Diploma laparoscopic Surgery from Strasbourg University; France and Certificate of the Arab Board of Surgery. He is currently Governor of the UAE Chapter of the American College of Surgeons, Member of the Board of Governors of the American College of Surgeons, Member of the International Relations Committee of the American College of Surgeons and Vice President of the Emirates Society for Laparo-Endoscopic Surgeons. He is an international speaker and has more than 37 published papers. He is the Medical Director and Director of the Bariatric and Metabolic Surgery Center, Mediclinic Airport Road Hospital, Abu Dhabi; UAE

Bariatric Surgery

Fong Fong Chu has her expertise in gastrointestinal diseases especially in inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). Her team has established a mouse model of IBD which is very-early onset. These mice are deficient in two isoenzymes which reduce hydrogen peroxide named GPx1/2-double knockout (DKO). This model is a better model than chemical-induced colitis models because it is not injury based and mimic closely to human IBD. She has built this model through 20 years of research and has identified new targets for IBD therapy. She joined Beckman Research Institute of the City of Hope, Duarte CA USA (1987). She is currently associated with the Department of Gastroenterology & Hepatology and the First Affiliated Hospital and College of Clinical Medicine of Henan University of Science and Technology, Luoyang, Henan, P R China since 2016.

inflammatory bowel disease (IBD)

Dr William Alazawi is a London-based Consultant Hepatologist and Reader in Liver Medicine. He sees private patients at The London Bridge and Sloane Hospitals and at the London Digestive Centre, Princess Grace Hospital.

His main interests are abnormal liver tests, fatty liver disease, viral hepatitis and endoscopy.

Associate Professor, Consultant Physician & Gastroenterologist, Head Of Gastroenterology & Hepatology Unit.

Gastrointestinal Diseases,Liver Cirrhosis, Inflammatory Bowel Disease, Endoscopy, Ulcerative Colitis, Gastrointestinal Endoscopy, Colonoscopy, Irritable Bowel Syndrome, Crohn's Disease.

Dr. Vito Annese achieved his MD in 1981 and subsequently the CCST in Internal Medicine and Gastroenterology at the Catholic University of Rome Italy. He has over 30-years of experience in gastroenterology, with specific interest in functional and inflammatory bowel disorders. He authored more than 250 peer reviewed publications. In the last 10-years he has been head of Gastroenterology at the Research Hospital of S. Giovanni Rotondo and at the University Hospital Careggi of Florence and aggregate professor at the University of Foggia and Florence in Italy. Since September 2016 is Consultant Gastroenterologist at the Valiant Clinic of Dubai

Gastroenterology, Inflammatory Bowel disorders