Summary
Overview
Work History
Education
Skills
Certification
Current Active Roles
Project Samples
Interests
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SHEHAB AL-ABED MBBS FRCS FICO MRCSED

SHEHAB AL-ABED MBBS FRCS FICO MRCSED

Medical Retina Senior Specialist
Amman

Summary

A highly skilled and compassionate ophthalmologist with over ten years of experience in diagnosing and treating a wide range of eye conditions, especially those concerning the retina. I am a coder and developer for web, computer, and android apps.

Overview

15
15
years of professional experience
14
14
years of post-secondary education
6
6
Certifications

Work History

Medical Retina Senior Specialist

Royal Medical Services
Amman
2016.07 - Current
  • Diagnose and treat medical retinal conditions like diabetic retinopathy, retinal vascular occlusions, age-related macular degenerations, and post-operative maculopathies.
  • Diagnose, follow up and treat the associated complications of hereditary retinal conditions like retinitis pigmentosa, cones dystrophies, and retinoschisis.
  • Diagnose and treat uveitic disease that affect the retina, iris, choroid and the sclera from inflammatory, infectious or oncologic causes.
  • Communicate the treatment plan with the other ophthalmic subspecialties when needed and collaborate with other medical teams to formulate medical plan that best fits the patient condition ( mostly with rheumatologist, pulmonlogist, endocrinologist, and the internists)
  • Continued my duties as an ophthalmologist (doing cataract surgeries and taking care and triaging other ophthalmic conditions the patients coming to my clinic) - treating the patients and not just their eyes.

Medical Retina Fellow

Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
London
2015.07 - 2016.07

Moorfilelds is one of the world’s leading eye hospitals, providing expertise in clinical care, research and education for more than 200 years and it continues to be at the forefront of new breakthroughs and developments.

I have done my clinical Fellowships in the Medical Retinal Service that was divided into three fixed rotations with each rotation has been designed with particular bias to a sub-specialty of the medical retina service (uveitis, general medical retina, and heriditary).

Ophthalmologist

Royal Medical Services
Amman
2013.09 - 2015.07
  • Managed ophthalmic conditions, taking into account both medical and psychological aspects of patient care.
  • Performed, ordered and interpreted results of diagnostic and clinical tests.
  • Carried out eye surgery using operating microscopes to perform small incision surgery (cataract surgery) mainly.

Ophthalmology Resident

Royal Medical Services
Amman
2009.06 - 2013.09
  • Deliver high quality ophthalmic care under supervision of the attending clinic specialists including being able to interpret all tests and studies, make a diagnosis, initiate therapy, and perform a broad range of ophthalmic surgical procedures on both routine and complicated cases.

General Practioner

Royal Guard of the Jordanian Armed Forces
Amman
2008.06 - 2009.06

Triaging and giving primary care to the personnel and people involved in the unit.

Education

Fellowship - Medical Retina

Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
London
2015.07 - 2016.07

Jordanian Board - Ophthalmology

Jordanian Royal Medical Services
Amman
2009.06 - 2013.09

Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery -

University of Jordan
Amman, Jordan
2000.09 - 2006.06

High School - Tawjihi -

The Jubilee Institute
Amman, Jordan
1997.09 - 2000.06

Skills

Medical and surgical treatment of eye diseases

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Certification

MRCSEd - Membership of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh - Credential ID: 195788

Current Active Roles

  • Programmer and Coder at the Quality, Inspection, and Excellence Division in the Royal Medical Services: providing, accommodating and developing e-solutions (Apr 2022)
  • Editor at the Royal Medical Services Journal (Dec 2021)
  • Designing and renovating the royal medica services website by giving back its original role of serving the patient and the staff by providing an authentic Arabic/English medical info-material for the patient to educate themselves about their conditions and serving the staff by a portal through which they have easy access for work-related forms and materials. (started working on it Jun 2021)
  • Member of the media committee for the recent 10th royal medical services conference (Mar 2023): I was responsible for targeting and orchestrating paid ad campaigns and freely promoting the event over more than a dozen of specialized conferences-related web services.
  • Member of the Electronic Library of Medicine (ELM) consultants committee on behalf of the royal medical services (Since Sep 2022)
  • Member of the Scientific Research Committee in the royal medical services (Started Jun 2022)

Project Samples

SAMA

Smart Advance Measurement Analysis: a tool to ease the mission of Quality officers and the decision-makers by providing them with the mean of collecting, analyzing, and precisely reporting the Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) close to real-time.

E-questionnaires

to collect feedback from the services provider and receivers (over 8500 filled out questionnaires in a mere a couple of months as of April 2023)

Gr8iDoc (http://gr8idoc.com/): 

a growing home for some of my medical apps with a feature of Uveitis Classifier that provides step-wise questions to approach the uveitis condition that will give a weighted differential diagnosis list that the attending doctor can furthermore scrutinize by pointing out patient's associated systemic symptoms and signs and results of investigation and imaging workup. It was first unveiled at the Luxor Egyptian Society for Continuous Ophthalmic Education 2023 conference, with follow-up lectures at the Eye Specialty Hospital, Jordan Medical Association Conference, and for my colleagues in the royal medical services.

Drugs in Jordan (Android App) and its complementary web app on Gr8iDoc for desktop and iOS (iPhones and Mac)

7400 Jordanian and International medications searchable guide: Free and offline app

Active ingredients, their concentrations, and other trade names containing this ingredient.

Formula (tablet, caplet, capsule, IM injection, IV injection, etc.)

Price (to be taken as a guideline as the drug prices continuously change)

Mechanism of action: how the active ingredient works

Class and Subclass

Indications and contraindications

 دليل المرأة الحامل تابعي حملك 

Use this program to keep track of what happens to your child week by week during pregnancy.

Enter the expected date of birth specified by your doctor or use the program to give the expected date of birth when entering the information for its calculation. Follow all the developments of your fetus in Arabic inspired by reliable medical sources and translated for you by medical staff so that we can ensure that the correct and useful information reaches you. You can know the size or weight of your fetus every week and compare its size, length, or weight with any of the fruits or vegetables so that we bring that information closer to your understanding. You can also know what organs were formed or matured in that week.

o Other similar drugs containing the same active ingredients.

- Search more than 300 Jordanian drug stores and get their listed drugs and contact information!

Interests

Coding and development of web, computer, and mobile applications and games.

Artificial Intelligence and computer vision

Conducting and participating in medical research studies

Mentoring or teaching residents and junior specialists

Speaking at and attending medical conferences and continuing education courses

Timeline

MRCSEd - Membership of the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh - Credential ID: 195788

2019-04

Medical Retina Senior Specialist

Royal Medical Services
2016.07 - Current

Medical Retina Fellowship

2016-07

Medical Retina Fellow

Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
2015.07 - 2016.07

Fellowship - Medical Retina

Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
2015.07 - 2016.07

FICO - Fellowship of the International Council of Ophthalmology

2014-10

FRCS - Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons (Glasgow) - PID: 92924

2014-05

Ophthalmologist

Royal Medical Services
2013.09 - 2015.07

Jordanian Board in Ophthalmology

2013-09

Ophthalmology Resident

Royal Medical Services
2009.06 - 2013.09

Jordanian Board - Ophthalmology

Jordanian Royal Medical Services
2009.06 - 2013.09

General Practioner

Royal Guard of the Jordanian Armed Forces
2008.06 - 2009.06

M.B.B.S

2006-06

Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery -

University of Jordan
2000.09 - 2006.06

High School - Tawjihi -

The Jubilee Institute
1997.09 - 2000.06
SHEHAB AL-ABED MBBS FRCS FICO MRCSEDMedical Retina Senior Specialist