Doctor Profile
Prof. Salah Abusnana
Consultant Diabetes and Endocrinology / Head of Department
LANGUAGES:
ArabicEnglish
QUALIFICATION:
- Worked in UK where he got his MRCP (Membership of the Royal Colleges of Physicians).
- Awarded MSc in Neuroendocrinology in 1996 at Imperial College, University of London.
- Continued his clinical and academic work at Hammersmith University Hospital where he was granted PhD by year 2001 at Imperial College, University of London.
- Granted CCST in Diabetes and Endocrinology (certificate of completion of specialist training) and a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians (FRCP), UK.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
- More than 26 years of excellent clinical experience
- Worked in various hospitals in UK in the field of Internal Medicine.
- Worked in the field of diabetes and endocrinology, in London University Hospitals, Hammersmith Hospital, Guys and St Thomas Hospital, Sussex University and Brighton University hospital.
- Academically, associated as a Professor in University of Sharjah.
- Deputy chair of clinical science department, college of medicine, and Program director for Master of Science in diabetes management. Leading the diabetes research, and supervise researchers and PhD students, combining research and clinical practice in medical education.
- An editor to many medical journals.
- Has numerous research studies published widely in international peer review journals.
- Member of British Endocrine Society, Diabetes UK, European Society of Diabetes, and American Diabetes Association, Association of American College of Endocrinologist and Emirates Diabetes Society.
INTERESTS:
- Diabetes and its complications
- Gestational diabetes (diabetes in pregnancy)
- Insulin Pump therapy
- Pituitary gland disorders
- Thyroid gland dysfunction (hyper and hypothyroidism)
- Goiter and fine needle aspiration of thyroid nodules
- Adrenal gland disorders.
- Parathyroid gland disorders.
- Osteoporosis (thinning of bones)
- Hyperlipidemia (elevated cholesterol)
- Endocrine hypertension
