The Hamad Medical Corporation (HMC) will host several visiting consultants from various medical specialities in September.
The visits are part of the organisation’s effort to provide patients with additional access to international experts and continue to enhance the quality of healthcare services in its hospitals.
Prof Alan Saber, chief of Bariatric and Minimally Invasive General Surgery at Brooklyn Hospital Centre in Brooklyn, New York, will visit HMC from September 2 to 10.
Dr John Herzenberg, director of Paediatric Orthopaedics at Sinai Hospital Baltimore and director of the International Centre of Limb Lengthening in Baltimore, Maryland, will visit the hospital from September 9 to 16.
Prof Yasuhiro Ogura, a transplantation surgery specialist from Nagoya University Hospital in Japan,will be available on September 10 and 11.
Dr Antonio Torres, professor of surgery at the Complutense University of Madrid and chief of the General, Digestive and Thoracic Surgery Service at the Clínico San Carlos Hospital in Madrid, Spain, will be visiting HMC from September 16 to 19.
Dr Jan Magnus Becker, a plastic surgery senior consultant at Skåne University Hospital SUS in Lund, Sweden, will be available at HMC from September 16 to 22.
Dr David Shu Chih Chu, an ophthalmology specialist and founder and director of Metropolitan Eye Research and Surgery Institute of New York and New Jersey, US, will visit HMC from September 30 to October 3.
Many other experts are scheduled to visit HMC throughout the year as part of the organisation’s focus on hosting highly-respected physicians and surgeons from around the world. Hosting visiting international consultants who are experts in their field is in line with HMC’s policy to provide specialised medical services to the people of Qatar.
Members of the public wishing to book an appointment with one of the visiting consultants are advised to discuss with their physician. If the doctors feel that an appointment with a visiting consultant is appropriate, they will provide a referral.
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