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Our top priority is providing value to members. Your Member Services team is here to ensure you maximize your ACS member benefits, participate in College activities, and engage with your ACS colleagues. It's all here.

Become a Member
Become a member and receive career-enhancing benefits

Our top priority is providing value to members. Your Member Services team is here to ensure you maximize your ACS member benefits, participate in College activities, and engage with your ACS colleagues. It's all here.

Membership Benefits
ACS
ACS Fellow Since 2005

Maher A. Abbas, MD FACS FASCRS

Board Certification

  • American Board of Colon and Rectal Surgery
  • American Board of Surgery - General Surgery

Society Memberships

  • Am Soc of Col& Rec Surg
  • Pacific Coast Surg Assn

Additional Information

Gender

Male

Type of Practice

Clinic

Colon-Rectal Surgery

Dubai Colorectal and Digestive Clinic

@ Al-Zahra Hospital

Al Barsha 1

Dubai

United Arab Emirates

Contact Information

Biography

Subspecialty care. Practice Limited to endoscopy and colon and rectal surgery

Subspecialties and Areas of Clinical Concentration

Anorectal Disease

  • anal abscess
  • anal fissure
  • anal fistula
  • anal sphincter repair
  • anal tears
  • anal warts
  • anorectal malformations
  • colonoscopy
  • hemorrhoid problems
  • hemorrhoidal banding
  • prolapsing hemorroids
  • pruritus ani
  • rectal bleeding
  • rectal prolapse
  • recto-vaginal fistula
  • sphincter repair
  • sphincter sparing surgery

Colon and Rectal Disorder/Procedures

  • colectomy
  • colon polyps
  • colon surgery
  • colonoscopy
  • colostomy
  • diverticular disease
  • diverticulitis
  • flexible sigmoidoscopy
  • ileostomy
  • intestinal failure management
  • intussusception
  • laparoscopic colon surgery
  • Meckel's diverticulum
  • parastomal hernia repair
  • pelvic floor dysfunction
  • peritonitis
  • pilonidal disease
  • removal of colon polyps
  • sigmoidoscopy
  • small bowel syndrome
  • stoma revision
  • surgery for diverticulitis

Colon and Rectal Cancer/Tumors

  • anal cancer
  • colon cancer screening
  • colon surgery
  • colon/rectal cancer
  • colonic polyps
  • colostomy
  • diverticular disease
  • ileostomy
  • intestinal failure management
  • intussusception
  • laparoscopic colon surgery
  • Meckel's diverticulum
  • peritonitis
  • small bowel syndrome

Colon and Rectal Other

Vaginal-Rectal Disorders/procedures

  • enterocele
  • rectocele
  • rectovaginal fistula
  • vaginal surgery

Diagnostic Imaging/procedures

  • colonoscopy
  • endoscopic surgery
  • flexible sigmoidoscopy
  • sigmoidoscopy

Bowel Control

  • bowel incontinence
  • incontinence, fecal

Inflammatory Bowel Disease

  • Crohn's disease
  • ulcerative colitis

Minimal Invasive/Endoscopic Procedures

  • colon/rectal cancer screening
  • colonoscopic polypectomy
  • colonoscopy
  • colonscopy
  • endoscopic surgery
  • flexible sigmoidoscopy
  • laparoscopic surgery for colon and recta
  • Local excision
  • minimally invasive surgery
  • Procedure for prolapsing hemorrhoids
  • robotic-assisted colon surgery
  • Sphincter sparing surgery
  • Trans anal Endoscopic Microsurgery
  • Trans anal Endoscopic Surgery
  • Trans anal Minimally Invasive Surgery

Hospital Appointments

Kaiser Permanente

Los Angeles,

Director

09/2003—11/2013

Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi

Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates,

Chairman

11/2013—12/2016

Cleveland Clinic

Cleveland, Ohio,

Consultant, Urological Surgeon

11/2013—12/2016

Al Zahra Hospital

Dubai,

Consultant, Urological Surgeon

03/2017—Present

King's College Hospital London - UAE

Dubai,

Consultant, Urological Surgeon

08/2019—Present

Academic Appointments

University of California, Los Angeles David Geffen School of Medicine

Los Angeles, CA

Associate Professor

01/2011—Present

Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine at Case Western Reserve University

Professor

12/2014—Present