Dr. Hussein Faour

Acting Head of Dept for Surgery & Specialist General & Laparoscopic Surgery

Department: General & Laparoscopic Surgery

Qualifications:

• Certified as Surgeon of Excellence in Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery (SOEMBS).
• Fellow American College of Surgeons (FACS).
• Fellow American Society of Metabolic & Bariatric Surgery (FASMBS).
• Member of the Society of American Gastrointestinal and Endoscopic Surgeons (SAGES).
• Member of the International Federation for the Surgery of Obesity (IFSO). 
• Member of the European Association for Endoscopic Surgery (EAES).
• Fellowship in the Research Institute against Digestive Cancer (IRCAD) - Strasbourg - France.
• Fellowship in the Laporoscopic & Bariatric surgery at Louis Pasteur University in Strasbourg - France.
• More the 22 years experience in the field of laparoscopic and bariatric surgery.

Experienced In:

• Weight loss, Bariatric Surgery (sleeve, gastric bypass, gastric band)
• Removal of band and conversion to sleeve or bypass
• Gastric band adjustment under fluoroscopy 
• Laparoscopic management of reflux disease and hiatal hernia
• laparoscopic removal of the gallbladder for stone disease
• laparoscopic surgery for all hernia types with mesh
• Breast surgery for benign and malignant tumor
• Thyroid and parathyroid Surgery
• Laparoscopic digestive system surgery (Stomach, small bowel & colon)
• Anal surgery (Hemorrhoids, fissure, fistula & abscess), pilonidal sinus.