Language Spoken: English and Arabic
Dr. Fathi Giurani is a senior consultant physician at Burjeel Medical City, MBZ, Musaffah, Abu Dhabi, UAE. Dr. Fathi Giurani received his medical degree from Tripoli University in Libya. He has more than 38 years of experience working in clinical medicine and management with almost 33 years of experience in England and Ireland. He has wide experience in medicine including diabetes, endocrinology, rheumatology, cardiology, respiratory medicine, and geriatric medicine. His main interest is in metabolic bone disease in which he was the lead physician for the osteoporosis services in King’s Mill Hospital for 11 years.
Furthermore, he has experience in management, helping set osteoporosis guidelines, helping with shortlisting and interviewing for hospital jobs including consultant positions. He was the associate service director for the department for 2 years, charring and preparing the agenda once a month for the department and he was responsible for the implementation of the clinical governance standard.
As a consultant physician, he has seen many patients with cancer including bowel cancer, liver, pancreas, and he diagnoses these patients for further treatments. Dr. Fathi has extensive research experience and has authored many geriatrics and osteoporosis articles.
- He also has experience in teaching which includes teaching medical students for The University of Nottingham’s medical school, and the educational and clinical supervision for F1, F2, and Specialist register trainees. He has presented to the grand round clinical cases and audits many times and has been a guest speaker for many meetings outside the hospital to local GP’s.
He is fluent in Arabic and English.
Qualifications
Research & Publications
- Osteoporosis- Poster Presentation to the Nos in Haregate, June 2006/ Ecceo Meeting in Porto 2007/ Poster Presentation.
- Hospital Arrival Time and the Factors Associated with Early Presentation of Acute Stroke. (F Giurani, S Vasishta, M Hasan) The Aims of the study are to:
- Investigate the Time Interval between Onset and Presentation to the Hospital. To Investigate the Factors Which Associated with Early Representation.
- The Effects of Community-Acquired Pneumonia on the Activities of Plasma Esterases in Older People. (Abou-Hatab; Gancshalingam K; Giurani F; O’mahony and Woodhouse Kw).
- The Effect of Community-Acquired Pneumonia on the Inducibility of Cytochrome P450 in Peripheral Blood Monocytes (Abou-Hatab; Gancshalingam K; Giurani F; O’mahony and Woodhouse Kw).
- Congestive Cardiac Failure Survey (CCF Survey), Conducted in 1996 not published because of a very poor response rate.
Publications:
- Post-Myocardial Infarction use of Beta-Blockers, published in the Communication of the British Geriatric Society Spring Meeting in Cork, April 1999.
- Abuse in Elderly People: The Granny Battering Revisited Published in the Archives of Gerontology and Geriatrics, 31 (2000) 215-220, www.elsevier.com/locate/Archger.
- The effect of community-acquired pneumonia on the activities of Enzymes of drug metabolism in older people, submitted for Publication to Age and Ageing in November 1999.
- The effect of community-acquired pneumonia on the activities of Plasma Esterases in older people. Published in the proceeding of 1st Transatlantic Geriatric Meeting, 2nd Franco-American Geriatric Meeting, September 1999, Paris and Eur J Clinical Pharmacol (2001) 57: 55-60
- The effect of community-acquired pneumonia on the inducibility of Cytochrome P450 in Peripheral Blood Monocytes. Published in the proceeding of 1st Transatlantic Geriatric Meeting, 2nd Franco-American Geriatric Meeting September 1999 and Paris.
Clinical Expertise & Services
- Bone Health
- Osteoporosis
- Metabolic Bone Disease