Dr. Hakam Al-Balas
Gastroenterology
Experience: 10+ Years
Location: Dubai
Introduction
Dr. Hakam Al-Balas is a highly experienced and board-certified Consultant Gastroenterologist with over 13 years of clinical practice, including more than 8 years of specialized training and work in gastroenterology across renowned medical institutions in Germany.
Before relocating to the UAE, Dr. Al-Balas served as Head of the Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology at Helios Frankenwaldklinik in Bavaria, Germany. He has extensive expertise in diagnosing and treating a wide range of gastrointestinal and liver diseases, with proficiency in managing inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), chronic liver diseases, and nutritional optimization in gastroenterology.
Dr. Al-Balas is an expert interventional endoscopist. He is proficient in advanced diagnostic and therapeutic procedures including upper and lower GI endoscopy, video capsule endoscopy, and bariatric endoscopic techniques such as intragastric balloon placement, endoscopic sleeve gastroplasty (ESG), and transoral outlet reduction (TORe).
Gastroenterology
- MBBS
- Jordan University of Science and Technology
- 2011 Emergency Medicine
- North Rhine-Westphalia
- Germany
- 2014 German License and Board Certification in Internal Medicine andGastroenterology
- Germany
- 2020 Certified by the German Society for Gastroenterology (DGVS) inHepatology
- Gastrointestinal Oncology and Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD)
- Gastroenterology
- Diagnostic and therapeutic endoscopy: upper GI endoscopy (EGD)
- colonoscopy
- flexible sigmoidoscopy
- capsule endoscopy
- and deep enteroscopy Percutaneous Endoscopic Gastrostomy (PEG) placement Advanced resection techniques: endoscopic mucosal resection (EMR)endoscopic submucosal dissection (ESD) and Endoscopic Full-Thickness Resection(eFTRD) Abdominal ultrasound for gastrointestinal and liver evaluation
- including biopsy and interventional procedures (e.g.
- liver abscess drainage) Endoscopic Retrograde Cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) with biliarystenting and tumor biopsy
