Following my promotion to consultant surgeon,
I have started to develop an interest in the field of surgical oncology. Being working at King Abdulaziz Hospital and
Oncology Centre, I am doing a large number of cancer cases in collaboration
with medical oncologists and radiation therapists. My fields of interest include thyroid,
parathyroids, salivary glands, breast and GIT, including hepato-biliary
pancreatic malignancies.
I have attended the following training
courses in this field:
1. Early
gastric cancer detection and related digestive tumours, National Cancer Centre
Hospital, 13 January - 11 March 1992; Tokyo, Japan (Prof. Maruyama service).
2. Hepato-biliary-pancreatico
tumours, Paul-Brousse Hospital, 19 November-22 December 1993, Villejuif, Paris,
France (Prof. H. Bismuth service).
3. Oesophageal
tumours, Thoracic Unit, Birmingham Heartlands Hospital, 14 November - 2
December 1994, Birmingham, U.K.
4. 3rd
Postgraduate Course in Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Diseases, 8-10 December
1994, Athens, Greece.