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Dr. Antonio Privitera is a Consultant General surgeon, Colorectal and Proctology, with over 20 years of experience including Dubai UAE. He is an Internationally Renowned Surgeon and Speaker, and is amongst only a handful of Colorectal surgeons in the world to have both a Mayo Clinic (Rochester-USA) Colorectal Fellowship and a London (UK) Colorectal fellowship, Robotic fellowship in Seoul – South Korea under the supervision of Prof. Nam Kyu Kim.
- Consultant Colorectal and Pelvic Floor Surgeon
- Laparoscopic and Robotic Surgeon
- Pioneer in Hernia Mesh Surgical Techniques
Practice In
- Clemenceau Medical Center Hospital, Al Jadaf, DHCC 2, Dubai
Qualifications
- MD
- Fellow Board General Surgery (Italy)
- Member Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh (FRCS)
- PhD (Italy)
- Fellow Royal College Surgeons of England Apr 2010
- Fellow Minimal Access Surgery (FMAS)
- Diploma Minimal Access Surgery Feb 2014 (DMAS)
- Fellow American Association Colorectal Surgeons (FASCRS)
- Advanced Fellowship Lap/Robotic Surgery (Prof. Nam Kyu Kim, Seoul - S.Korea)
- Bariatric Surgery training- Taiwan
Languages spoken
- English
- Italian
Treatments
- Treatment of Ano-Rectal Diseases with Laser and Radiofrequency (haemorrhoids, anal fistula, anal fissure, pilonidal sinus)
- Pelvic Floor Disorders (Rectal prolapse, fecal incontinence, constipation).
- Inflammatory Bowel Diseases (Ulcerative colitis and Crohn’s disease).
- Scarless Treatment of Abdominal Wall Hernias (inguinal hernia, umbilical hernia, incisional hernia, etc.)
- Abdominal Wall Reconstruction.
- Laparoscopic Surgery
Experience
Professor Dr. Antonio Privitera is an internationally renowned surgeon and speaker in major meetings and congresses nationally and internationally. He is the General secretary of Emirates Society of Colon & Rectal Surgery. He is also an Associate Professor of Surgery in the United Arab Emirates University (UAEU).
Dr. Antonio’s main interests are bowel cancer, inflammatory bowel diseases (Ulcerative colitis and Crohn’s disease), ano-rectal and pelvic floor diseases (hemorrhoids, fistula, fissure, prolapse, pilonidal sinus, obstructed defecation, fecal incontinence, constipation) hernias of the abdominal wall, abdominal wall reconstruction, laparoscopic and robotic surgery.
He had extensive training in general and colorectal surgery in world-renowned institutions including The John Radcliffe in Oxford (UK), The University College of London (UK), St. Guy’s St. Thomas’ Hospital in London (UK), and the prestigious Mayo Clinic in Rochester- Minnesota (USA). Dr. Antonio is the only amongst a handful of colorectal surgeons in the world to have both a Mayo Clinic (Rochester-USA) Colorectal Fellowship and a London (UK) Colorectal fellowship.
He completed an advanced laparoscopic and Robotic fellowship in Seoul – South Korea under the supervision of Prof. Nam Kyu Kim, a pioneer in the field.
He worked as a consultant general and colorectal surgeon in renowned UK University Hospitals and busy district hospitals. Subsequently, he moved to Saudi Arabia where he was the Section Head of the national tertiary referral center of the whole Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia and also the Program Director of the Eastern Province Colorectal Fellowship. His team performed the first robotic colorectal resection for cancer with the Xi Robot in Saudi Arabia.
He was the Lead Colorectal Surgeon in Tawam Hospital- John Hopkins in Al AIn, Abu Dhabi. His team performed the first high sacrectomy for recurrent rectal cancer in UAE.