Abu Dhabi · United Arab Emirates

Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi — Digestive Disease Institute

Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) Program

The IBD Program within the Digestive Disease Institute diagnoses and manages inflammatory bowel disease with a multidisciplinary team spanning gastroenterology and colorectal surgery. Diagnosis runs from gastroscopy, colonoscopy and flexible sigmoidoscopy through balloon-assisted enteroscopy and capsule endoscopy to MR enterography and CT. Treatment covers oral, injected, infused and topical medication, endoscopic procedures, minimally invasive surgery, and nutritional evaluation and support, with monitoring for complications.

What this unit is strong at

  • Balloon-assisted enteroscopy and capsule endoscopy for small-bowel disease
  • MR enterography for imaging the small bowel
  • Minimally invasive surgical options within the programme
  • Nutritional evaluation and support as part of the programme
  • Gastroenterologists and colorectal surgeons listed together as one IBD team

Services

  • Adult IBD
  • IBD surgery
  • Biologics service
  • Dietitian
  • Complex IBD referral

The team

  • Sara El Ouali, MD

    Gastroenterology — Inflammatory Bowel Disease Program

  • Sacha Sidani, MD

    Gastroenterology — Inflammatory Bowel Disease Program

  • Zaher Koutoubi, MD

    Gastroenterology — Inflammatory Bowel Disease Program

  • Mohammad Badre Alam, MD

    Gastroenterology — Inflammatory Bowel Disease Program

  • Hiam Mohammed, MD

    Gastroenterology — Inflammatory Bowel Disease Program

  • Ali Al Jaberi, MD

    Colorectal Surgery — Inflammatory Bowel Disease Program

  • Lameese Tabaja, MD

    Colorectal Surgery — Inflammatory Bowel Disease Program

  • Anas Isawi, MD

    Colorectal Surgery — Inflammatory Bowel Disease Program

Where this came from

Everything on this page was read on the centre’s own published pages. Nothing here is inferred, and nothing is filled in where we could not find it.

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