Hamad Medical Corporation (HMC) has announced that it will welcome a number of visiting consultants from various medical specialities in March and April.
Members of the public wishing to book an appointment with one of the visiting consultants have been advised to discuss this option with their physician.
“If your doctor agrees that an appointment with a visiting consultant is appropriate, they will provide a referral,” HMC said in a statement.
The visiting consultants are as follows:
l Dr Nikhil Shah, chief of Minimally Invasive and Robotic Surgery at Piedmont Healthcare, Atlanta, Georgia, US, who will visit from March 7 to 12.
l Dr Ahmed Nassar, a specialist orthopaedic surgeon, who will visit from March 9 to 15.
l Dr Noriya Uedo, vice-director of the Department of Gastrointestinal Oncology at Osaka Medical Centre for Cancer and Cardiovascular Diseases, Osaka, Japan, who will visit from March 18 to 21.
l Dr Philippe Morel, a digestive laparoscopic surgery specialist from Clinique de Genolier, Genolier, Switzerland, who will visit from April 4 to 11.
l Dr Duncan Whitwell, consultant orthopaedic surgeon at the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre NHS Trust in Oxford, England, who will visit from April 7 to 10.
Patients wishing to make an appointment should call the Bone and Joint Center at 40411140 or 40411141.
Other experts are scheduled to visit this year as part of HMC’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 commitment to providing specialised medical services to the people of Qatar”, the statement adds.
For more information and the full listing of visiting consultants, one can visit www.hamad.qa
Dr Nikhil Shah, Dr Philippe Morel
