Dr. Khaldoon Abo Dakka - Pulmonology, Dr. Khaldoon Abo Dakka
Dr. Khaldoon Abo Dakka

Dr. Khaldoon Abo Dakka

Qualification - MS (Thoracic Surgery), MD, Syrian Doctorate Degree of Thoracic Surgery

Specialization - Thoracic surgeon

Department - Pulmonology

Designation - Consultant

Location - Dubai ,United Arab Emirates

Hospital(s) - Zulekha Hospital Dubai

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Career Profile

Dr. Khaldoon Abo Dakka is a specialist in thoracic surgery with over a decade's experience in the field of specialization. He has performed various kinds of surgeries in his more than 12 years of career, including traditional and Thoracoscopic (VATS) operations of the chest. He specializes in the treatment of lung cancer, infectious diseases of lung and pleura (empyema), and conditions such as lung volume reduction surgery (COPD), Pulmonary Metastasectomy, Pneumothorax, and recurrent metastatic pleural effusions. Besides theses, he is an also experienced in chest wall and diaphragm surgery such as tumors resection with Thoracoplasty, repair of chest wall deformities, and repair of diaphragm eventration and hernias.Dr. Dakka has worked at many renowned government and private hospitals in Damascus and Asswayeda Cities in Syria, including Al Assad University Hospital, Al Eienaya Private Hospital, and Al Mazraha Surgical Hospital. He is also an academician who has been appointed as a Lecturer in the clinical training program for the medical students in the Department of Thoracic Surgery at Al Assad University Hospital, Damascus University. He has published several papers in reputed journals.

Education & Training

MS (Thoracic Surgery)

MD Syrian Doctorate Degree of Thoracic Surgery

Experience

  • Specialist Thoracic Surgery in the Government and Private Hospitals in Damascus and Asswayeda Cities, Syria - Al Assad University Hospital, Al Eienaya Private Hospital and Al Mazraha Surgical Hospital
  • Lecturer - clinical training program in the Department of Thoracic Surgery, Al Assad University Hospital, Damascus University

Clinical Focus

  • Traditional and Thoracoscopic (VATS) operations of the chest
  • Lung cancer
  • Infectious diseases of lung and pleura (empyema)
  • Lung volume reduction surgery (COPD)
  • Pneumothorax
  • Pulmonary Metastasectomy and recurrent metastatic pleural effusions
  • Airways surgery (Tracheoplasty, Rigid and Flexible Bronchoscopy)
  • Surgical treatment of mediastinum - Mediastinoscopy, Mediastinal Tumors such as Thymus and retrosternal Goiters, Esophagus Surgery, Thoracoscopic and opened pericardial window
  • Chest wall and diaphragm surgery 
  • Chest Trauma

Research and Publications

“Evaluation of the role of surgery in the management of complex and complicated thoracic tuberculosis cases, and prevention of their late sequelae” It was his doctorate degree thesis, Damascus University 2012, and it was published in the Damascus University Journal of Health Science (ISSN 2072-2265) 2013; Vol. 29, No. 1:371-382.

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