Dr Haytham El Salhat

Speaker for:

Arab Health Congress 2019


Conference:

Surgery Conference 2019

Speaker profile:


Dr. Haytham offers cutting edge surgery with compassion and personalized care as he is interested in gastro-intestinal, pancreatic and colorectal surgeries. He is a European Board certified doctor in General Surgical Oncology.

He is currently the only surgeon in the Abu Dhabi who performs trans-anal microsurgery, and bottom up rectal resection. He is an associate professor of surgery in the UAE University Faculty of Medicine.

His expertise is dedicated to colon diagnosis and treatment from preoperative to postoperative care. He also has a considerable experience in laparoscopic colorectal cancer resections.

​He specializes in the evaluation and treatment of benign colorectal disorders such as colon polyps, inflammatory bowel disease, diverticulitis and diverticular disease, anal problems, and motility problems of the colon.

He also has long surgical experience in inflammatory bowel disease, mainly Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis. He has performed numerous laparoscopic bowel resections for patients with Crohn’s disease, and has performed many restorative proctocolectomies.