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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

Ghassan Nawfal, MD FACS

Board Certification

  • American Board of Surgery - General Surgery

Additional Information

Gender

Male

Type of Practice

Hospital Based

General Surgery

Suite 12 A, Specialty Clinics Center

Maamary Street

Hamra

Beirut

Lebanon

Contact Information

Biography

Dr. Ghassan Nawfal is the Chief of the Department of Surgery at the Beirut General Hospital. Having finished his Medical studies at the American University of Beirut in 1987, Dr. Nawfal completed a 5-year General Surgery Specialty Training Program at the American University of Beirut Medical Center (AUBMC) and a 2-year fellowship program in HPB Surgery at the Hammersmith Hospital, Royal Postgraduate Medical School, University of London. Dr. Nawfal returned to Lebanon late 1994 as Chief of the Surgery Department at the Beirut General Hospital. He has a special interest in HPB, Laparoscopic and Bariatric Surgery. Dr. Nawfal is the Governor and Past President of the American College of Surgeons (ACS) - Lebanon Chapter and serves on the executive board of several Lebanese and international Medical and Surgical Societies such as the Lebanese Society for General Surgery (LSGS) and the International HepatopancreatoBiliary Association (IHPBA). In addition to his medical and surgical studies, he has completed a 2-year Masters Program in Hospital and Health Management in 2012 at the E.S.A. - Paris VII University. More recently, in January 2018, Dr. Nawfal was re-elected as Chief of Staff and President of the Medical Committee at the Beirut General Hospital for a period of 3 years.

Subspecialties and Areas of Clinical Concentration

Bariatric (Severe Obesity) Procedures

  • laparoscopic gastric bypass
  • roux-en-Y gastric bypass

Liver, Gallbladder, Pancreas Disor/Proc

  • bile duct malignancies
  • bile duct surgery
  • biliary tract disease
  • cholecystectomy
  • hepatobiliary surgery
  • laparoscopic cholecystectomy
  • liver biopsy
  • liver surgery
  • liver/hepatic disease
  • pancreatic cancer
  • pancreatic cysts
  • pancreatitis

Minimally Invasive Procedures

Hospital Appointments

Department of Surgery, Beirut General Hospital

Beirut,

Chief