Dr. Shaden Najeb Al Mahamed

Specialities: Gastroenterology / Hepatology
Paediatric Gastroenterology
Languages: English, Arabic

Management of a wide variety of digestive diseases in children such as:

Constipation
Recurrent abdominal pain
Recurrent vomiting
Gastritis
Gastro-oesophageal reflux (GOR)
Vomiting blood (hematemesis)
Celiac disease
Chronic diarrhoea
Blood in stools (melena)
Allergic bowel disorders, eosinophilic esophagitis
Inflammatory bowel disease Crohns and ulcerative colitis
Very early onset inflammatory bowel disease
Jaundice and liver diseases
Pancreas disorders in children
Failure to thrive
Nutrition disorders
Total parenteral nutrition in children
Post liver transplant care in children
Oesophageal PH impedance study
Urea breath test for H pylori gastritis

Endoscopic services offered include:

Diagnostic gastroscopy and colonoscopy
Therapeutic gastrointestinal endoscopy procedures

Nationality: Syrian
Summary: Dr Shaden is a Consultant Paediatric Gastroenterologist with more than 20 years’ experience in Paediatrics and Paediatric Gastroenterology, who specialises in paediatric digestive diseases, liver, nutrition disorders and endoscopy procedures in children. Dr Shaden is an Adjunct Clinical Assistant Professor at Mohammed Bin Rashid University of Medicine and Health Sciences (MBRU) in Dubai, UAE.

Dr Shaden is a graduate of the Medical College at Damascus University, Syria from 2000. She holds an Arab Board degree in General Paediatrics 2005, and the MRCPCH 1 and 2 from the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, UK. She completed a clinical fellowship training in paediatric gastroenterology, hepatology and nutrition in Saudi Arabia, and trained in endoscopy procedures in children at many specialised hospitals in the Gulf region. She has worked in various prestigious tertiary hospitals and in paediatric liver transplant centres in the Gulf region, and has performed more than 1500 endoscopy procedures in children such as diagnostic gastroscopy and colonoscopy, esophageal varices banding and sclerotherapy, oesophageal dilatation, foreign body removal and management of gastrointestinal bleeding in children.

Dr Shaden has been published in many international journals of paediatric gastroenterology and has contributed to academic teaching and research activities. She has contributed as a committee member to the academic fellowship training program in paediatric gastroenterology at Saudi Arabia and she is a member of the paediatric gastroenterology societies in the Gulf Region.

: SCFHS Fellowship in Paediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition. KSA
MRCPCH. UK
CABP Arab Board in Paediatrics
Syrian Board / Specialist Degree in Paediatrics
MBBS