General Surgery

With more than 40 years of experience, the Division of General Surgery at Makassed General Hospital has an excellent reputation in patient care, education and research in Lebanon and the region.

Skilled and professional team members guarantee a high quality patient care in different general surgical subspecialties. The services provided in addition to general surgery include:

Liver surgery
Pancreatic surgery
Breast Surgery
Cancer Surgery
Colorectal Surgery
Endocrine Surgery
Bariatric Surgery
Gastrointestinal Surgery
Laparoscopic procedures
Pediatric Surgery
Trauma Surgery
Minor surgery procedures

It also provides high quality undergraduate medical education for the top medical schools in Lebanon. With its postgraduate program, the division succeeded to graduate more than 100 surgeons competent in all aspects of modern surgery.

The General Surgery Residency program, affiliated with AUBMC and Beirut Arab University, graduates residents each year and provides outstanding technical and academic training over the course of 5 years. It is also affiliated with the "Le Centre Hospitalier Centre Hospitalier Régional Universitaire de Lille" for a fellowship program in different subspecialties.

Name	Department	Level	Title
Dr. Souhaib Abdouni	Internal Medicine – Nephrology	FII	Anemia parameters in a dialysis facility- A single-center quality improvement experience
Dr. Mostafa Abdulkader	Internal Medicine – pulmonary	FIII	CPAP compliance and its effect on the outcome for patients with obstructive sleep apnea
Dr. Samer Labban	Internal Medicine Cardiology	FIII	Physician-driven prospective implementation pilot of an AI-powered ECG model detecting occlusion myocardial infarction (OMI) using surface 12-lead ECG in all-comer suspect ACS patient pathway.
Dr. Alaa Hajjar	Internal Medicine	PGY3	Assessing the Rationality of Proton Pump Inhibitor Prescriptions among Hospitalized Patients: A Comprehensive Study in a Lebanese Secondary Hospital
Dr. Amal Sabaa Tayon	Internal Medicine	PGY3	Insights into Breast Cancer Awareness, Screening Behaviors, and Socio-Cultural Determinants among Lebanese Women: Implications for Public Health Interventions
Dr. Nourhan El Zein	Internal Medicine	PGY3	Burden of the Elderly on their Caregivers in the Absence of Eldercare Facilities in Lebanon
Dr. Ahmad Al Arab	Orthopedic Surgery	PGY5	Treatment of Distal Radius Fractures by Percutaneous Pinning versus Volar Locked Plating
Dr. Aya Shaaban	OB-GYN	PGY4	Can Placental Thickness Predict Gestational Age? Cross Sectional Study
Dr. Chaymaa Saadieh	OB-GYN	PGY4	The pre-gestational weight, trimester specific weight gain, total gestational weight gain in relation to perinatal outcome
Dr. Rozana Dghaily	Pediatrics	PGY3	Common Pediatrics Cases Presenting to “Makassed General Hospital” (MGH) Intensive Care Department, in Lebanon
Dr. Walaa Ghanoum	Pediatrics	PGY3	Epidemiology, patterns, and mechanisms of pediatric trauma: a retrospective review of 453 patients
Dr. Abdul Rahman Hamad	Pediatrics	PGY3	Epidemiology of Inborn Error of Metabolism in Lebanon

General Surgery

General Surgery

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Ziad El Khatib, MD

Mohamad Siblini, MD,

Mohammed Nseif, MD

Mustafa Asaad Oweidat, MD

Mohamad El Zaatari, MD

Mustapha Mneimne, MD

Riad Zbibo, MD