NMC Specialty Hospital, Abu Dhabi

About

Dr. Diab has been working with NMC since May 2014 as Consultant Medical Oncologist. He completed his MD in 2004 from Karolinska University, Sweden. Subsequently, he completed his Certificate in Bone Marrow Transplantation in 2008 from Oncology Hospital, Radiumhemmet. Dr. Diab was instrumental in setting up the Oncology clinic at NMC hospital, where he implemented updated chemotherapy protocols according to the highest international and European standards. He has also set up a one of its kind, unique tumor board, which meets weekly to discuss all cancer cases to ensure that each patient’s treatment is personalized and most appropriate to his/her needs. This tumor board is multi-disciplinary & consists of the onco-surgeon, onco-pathologist & onco-radiologist in addition to allied specialties. Prior to joining NMC, he was a Consultant Medical Oncologist since 2008 in the West Gotland Region in Sweden that had 2 hospitals having capacities of 525 and 300 beds respectively. He was also instrumental in setting up and leading the oncology clinics of these hospitals while in Sweden. Dr. Diab manages his own Medical Oncology study and participates actively in many studies for different Tumor diagnosis. He is multilingual and can communicate fluently in English, Arabic, Swedish and has knowledge of conversational Norwegian and Danish.