Dr.

Ihab Anwar: Surgeon Specializing in Laparoscopic Procedures

Dr. Ihab Anwar is an internationally prominent surgeon working as the Head of General Surgery
at the King Faisal Specialist Hospital in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Born in Egypt, he completed his
first full-time residency at the University of Alexandria in 1986. He moved on from there to receive
extensive training and education in various hospitals and other medical facilities around Europe.
After training extensively in breast reconstructive surgery and laparoscopic surgery, he worked at
hospitals in the United Kingdom, including Hinchingbrooke Hospital in Cambridge, England,
where he dealt with all kinds of surgical emergencies and developed a reputation as an excellent
multiple trauma treatments.
He also performed elective surgical procedures with outpatient and inpatient care. He also devoted
himself to researching based on the work he performed at the time. He presented a study on the
Outcome of Multiple Trauma Management to the Cambridge shire meeting of trauma
management in 1997.
Dr. Ihab Anwar refined his emphasis on laparoscopic surgery later after he worked at the Security
Forces Hospital in Riyadh. The Security Forces Hospital is a five hundred bed tertiary referral
hospital where Dr. Anwar gained a wealth of experience in laparoscopic surgery, specifically
laparoscopic cholecystectomies, or the removal of the gall bladder, in addition to general surgery.
Laparoscopic cholecystectomy is a change from the typical cholecystectomies of the past, a change
that Dr. Anwar hopes to help bring to the forefront.
Open cholecystectomies involve a five to eight inch incision in the patients abdomen, right below
the ribs to the just below the waist. Laparoscopic cholecystectomies are reducing the invasiveness
of the surgery while achieving the same results. Laparoscopic surgery uses a device called a
laparoscope, which is an instrument used to project a video image from inside the body.
The laparoscope is a thin tube inserted through a small incision just below the navel. Small,
sophisticated surgical instruments are then also inserted into the patients abdomen through small
incisions.
This method gives surgeons like Dr. Ihab Anwar the ability to view the patients gall bladder as a
three-dimensional image on a TV monitor in the operating room. Dr. Anwar controls the miniature
surgical instruments using robotics.
After the procedure, as is true of all laparoscopic surgeries, the patient recovers faster, with less
pain and less scarring. Dr. Anwar believes that laparoscopic surgery is the wave of the future,
which is why he has devoted his research and professional career to it.
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