KNOW YOUR DOCTOR:

• Experience for more than 30 years
• Medical degree from Cairo University (1978)
• Surgery in Aberdeen University in Scotland (1986)
• Head of the Surgery and Emergency Unit at the Armed Forces Hospital (1989)
• Managed Al-Sabah Hospital and Al-Sabah Health Zone during the Iraqi invasion
• Director of the Cancer Center in Kuwait and Head of the Oncology Department (1991)
• Head of the Medical Services Department of the Ministry of Defense (1995)
• Minister of Health in Kuwait from 1999 to 2005
• Fellowship of the American College of Surgeons
• Honorary member of the Royal College of Surgeons, Edinburgh, UK
• Editor-in-Chief, Asian and Australian Journal of Cancer
• Fellowship of the International College of Surgeons in Chicago
• Member of the International Surgeons Society, Switzerland
• Member of the International Federation of Obesity Surgery
• International Federation of Obesity Surgery - Head of Kuwait Branch
• Member of the European Society of Oncology
• Member of the international body for liver, pancreatic and gallbladder surgery
• Fellow of the European Society of Thoracic Surgeons
• Fellow of the American Society of Endoscopic Surgery
• Member of the Academy of Sciences, New York
• Honorary President of Arab Endoscopic Surgery Society
• Former President (Founder) Kuwait Society for Cancer Science
• Former President (Founder) Gulf Cancer Association
• President of the Arab Union of Cancer Records
• Vice President (former) Arab Council for Cancer Control in Egypt
• Member (founder) of the Mediterranean and Middle East Association of Endoscopic Surgeons