Brief Profile

Doctor Atef Faisal BASSAS, Laparoscopic general surgery Consultant,

Has 36 years of experience in All types of general and laparoscopic surgery,

Bariatric surgery, Oncology Surgery, Liver and Pancreas Transplantation and

Pediatric Liver Transplantation, Hepatopancreatobiliary surgery and

Transplantation.

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Professional Journey

• Head of the Department of Surgery, National Hospital Care
• Head of the Prince Sultan Unit for Liver and Hepatopancreatobiliary
• Transplantation Armed Forces Hospital, Riyadh.
• Head of the Bariatric Operations Unit, Endoscopy and Advanced Obesity,
• Armed Forces Hospital, Riyadh
• Head of the Department of Surgery and Surgical Training, Riyadh Armed Forces Hospital
• Member of the Saudi Society of Obesity Medicine and Surgery
• Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland
• Faculty member, College of Medicine, Al-Faisal University
• Ph.D. University of Hamburg - Germany / Department of liver and biliary
• surgery, liver and pancreas transplantation, and multi-organ
• transplantation Doctor of Surgery.
• Ph.D. King Saud University.
• Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland.
• Master's degree in liver transplantationAccomplishments :
• Completed more than 175 liver transplants from living donors from 1999 to 2010.
• The first Saudi surgeon to perform a liver transplant for a child from a live
• donor in the Middle East and was successful in 2008 at the Armed Forces Hospital.
• A Saudi international medical achievement: Performing two liver
• transplants by exchanging double organs between members of two families at the same time.
• Started his expertise at bariatric surgery early 2000, by doing a diversity of weight loss procedures, such as laparoscopic vertical banded gastroplasty, classical gastric bypass, mini gastric bypass and all kinds of limbs elongations.
• Active on the educational programs at all social media platforms, producing regular advisory and educational short videos for public awareness and answering needful enquiries from patients prospect.