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Dubai Bone & Joint Center, A member of Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum Academic Medical Center
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Dr. Christina Kabbash Dr. Jamal Al Saleh
Consultant Rheumatologist

Dubai Bone & Joint Center LLC
1st floor, Block F, Al Razi Building - 64,
Dubai Healthcare City
P.O.Box: 118855, Dubai, UAE
Telephone +971 4 4231400
Fax +971 4 4231488
Website www.dbaj.ae & www.dhcc.ae
   
Experience
2008 - 2011
  Consultant Rheumatologist & Head of Rheumatology Section, Dubai Hospital, Dubai, UAE
 2005 - 2011
  Head of Rheumatology Section, Dubai Hospital, Dubai, UAE
 2004 - 2010
  Specialist Rheumatologist (Part time), Emirates Hospital , Dubai, UAE
 2004 - 2007
  Specialist Senior Registrar Department of Medicine, Rheumatology Section, Dubai Hospital
 1999 - 2004
  Specialist Registrar, Department of Medicine, Rheumatology Section, Dubai Hospital
 
Research
  • The principal investigator and the initiator of the Study PRODubai; a study that look at Prevalence of Rheumatic diseases and Osteoporosis in Dubai (PRODubai), started on November 2008 – ended on 31st December 2009.
  • Studying the Clinical and immunological features in SLE patients attended Dubai Hospital between the years 2002- 2007.
  • Morbidity and mortality associated with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus  
  • Guidelines for clinical practice, diagnosis and treatment of rheumatological disorders in 2003, updated in 2006 and 2009, literature review.
  • The prevalence, risk factors, and the treatment of osteoporosis in patients with inflammatory bowel disease. A meta-analysis of published literature 2000-2002.
 
Publications
Published number of articles and abstracts on Systemic Lupus Erythematosus, Arthritis, Osteoporosis, and soft tissue Rheumatism.
 
Credentials
FRCPE : Fellowship of the Royal College of Physicians, Edinburgh, 2010
Diploma VSCR, Diploma of Clinical Research, Vienna School of Clinical Research, 2010
FRCP: Fellowship of the Royal College of Physicians, London , 2009
MSc(Rheumatology): Master in Clinical Rheumatology, University of Manchester (UK), 2003
MRCP (UK), Membership of Royal College of Physicians, UK, 1999
LRCP&S (IRE), B.A.O. & M.B.B.CH. Royal College of Surgeons of IRELAND, 1995
 
Associations
Ex- chairman of Emirates Osteoporosis Society 2006-2008
Chairman of the Organising committee of I.O.F. Global Lunch of WOD in DUBAI 20th October 2007
Member of Emirates Medical Association/Emirates Rheumatology Society
U.A.E Rheumatology Club Secretary for the year 2004
 
Specialty
Rheumatoid arthritis
Seronegative Arthritis including psoriatic arthritis, Ankylosing Spondylitis, Reiter’s Disease
Osteoporosis
Vitamin D Deficiency
Widespread pain syndrome
Medical treatment for osteoarthritis
Medical treatment for soft tissue Rheumatism
Gout & Pseudogout
Connective Tissue Disease including Systemic lupus and scleroderma
Anti-Phospholipids Syndrome
Vasculitis