Ibrahim Obeidallah

Highlights:
• Independently performed diagnosis therapeutic and Gastroenterology interventional techniques for over 7746 Procedures until May 2016.
• Successfully performed varied Gastroenterology procedures and coordinated expert care by providing an excellent level of clinic competence and knowledge.
• Recorded a consistent and excellent yearly evaluation for all the years at Security Forces hospital.
• Recognized as the “employee of the month” in January 2014 for outstanding performance of duties.
• Accorded with an appreciation letter for providing faithful services to security Forces hospital for 20 years on 2014

Key Responsibilities - Consultant Gastroenterology:
• Bringing to the position a truly impressive track record in patient experience and clinical success, combined with expertise covering all aspects of gastroenterology and hepatology, offering a complete range of investigations, treatments and operations.
• Providing a high standard of inpatient and outpatient clinic and endoscopy services in gastroenterology; accomplishing daily arrangements including ER round and ICU patients with the fellows, registrar, resident and interns; offering cutting-edge diagnostic and treatment of patients.
• Contributing to the gastroenterology, medical and endoscopy care with specialized interest a variety of fields such as Hepatology, advanced endoscopy, Capsule endoscopy, inflammatory bowel disease, etc.
• Providing leadership and sharing expertise and skills to deliver high quality care, creating scientific discussion about the cases, analyzing repots of laboratory and radiological investigation and developing a comprehensive plan of management, and long term plan on discharge.
• Offering a spectrum of procedures in treating almost any gastrointestinal disorder and covering a weekly booked list of endoscopy including about 20-30 patients; mentoring the registrar/ fellows during the procedure in 3 endoscopy rooms.
• Attending to extra-list of endoscopy on Thursday for the urgent cases and extending a continuing responsibility for the care of patients with a pre-booked list for 4-6 months.
• Supplying an efficient convenient health care to all patients including supervision of emergency and booked admissions of endoscopy cases/ on call gastroenterology cases as well as on order by administration for VIPs.
• Passionately giving patients the best possible care in invasive procedures entailing Lumbar Puncture (LP), abdominal paracentesis, thoracentesis and insertion of central lines, endotracheal intubation, bronchoscopy, pleural biopsy, arterial line insertion, bone marrow aspiration and biopsy.
• Delivering expertise in performing fibroscan and capsule endoscopy including many challenging diagnostic and therapeutic gastrointestinal endoscopy, liver biopsy and oesophageal pH interpretation
• Attending weekly scientific meeting with the resident doctors, colleagues and consultant to keep current with of all new developments in the field, researches papers, lectures and reviews to gain exposure to all kind of therapeutic endoscopic procedures
• Striving to deliver excellent patient focused care across 2 OPD clinics with average of 17 patients in each clinic including gastro-cases and hepatology.
• Demonstrating familiar with the techniques and range of equipment used in current medical practice for the diagnosis, treatment and care of patients.
• Ensuring the timely production and delivery of patient procedures and maintaining a professional and courteous relationship with all hospital departments.

Key Responsibilities - Internal Medicine:
• Providing long term comprehensive care for adults, adolescents and the elderly and diagnosed a wide variety of illnesses.
• Tending to the general medical needs of patients including disease prevention, early detection of disease, screening, patient education and follow-up care from hospitalization.
• Analyzing records, reports, test results, or examination information to diagnose medical condition of patient.
• Prescribing medication, therapy, and other specialized medical care to treat or prevent illness, disease, or injury.

Gastroenterology Interventions (Total 7746 and counting):
• Upper GIT endoscopy: 5200
• Colonoscopy: 2276
• Bronchoscopy: 17
• Capsule endoscopy: 37
• Flexible sigmoidoscopy: 146
• Gastrostomy tube insertion: 180
• Gastrostomy balloon tube replacement: 31
• Gastrostomy tube re-insertion: 62
• Manometery: 4
• 24 hours PH study: 8
• Urea breath test: 12
• Fibroscan: 60
• Intragastric Balloon insertion: 30
• Intragastric Balloon removal: 37

Endoscopic Procedures and Conditions:
• Hot Biopsies, Esophageal banding, Insertion of Linton Nachlas Tube, Sclerotherapy, Polypectomy
• Heat Probe Application, Gastro-intestinal dilatation, Argon Gas coagulation, Mechanical haemostasis, Histoacryl injection
• Upper Endoscopy with acute upper GI bleeding Esophageal Variceal injection, and banding/Fundal varices injection with histoacryl, bleeding peptic ulcer with Adrenaline injection, Heat probe and Argon application and clipping of bleeding vessels and applying Hemospray /taking biopsies from lesions/Polypectomy /Dilatation of strictures and achalasia
• Insertion of Gastrostomy Tubes by both push and pull methods and replacement with balloon tube
• Insertion of intragastric balloon for weight reduction
• Sigmoidoscopy and Colonoscopy with Ileoscopy with biopsy taking, Polypectomy and application of Argon for angiodysplasia, stenting of tumours and dilatation of strictures.
• Liver biopsy
• Abdominal Paracentesis

Key Responsibilities - Teaching:
• Contributing to clinical and academic excellence in the department by supervising and teaching medical students, interns, and residents and GIT Fellows
• Mentoring gastroenterology fellows, residents and medical students as faculty in the Division of Gastroenterology.
• Selected as an examiner at Saudi Board and instituting a regular, comprehensive evaluation and feedback process for the medical students, interns, and residents and GIT Fellows.