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Prof. Dr. Najib Wazea Abdulhameed Abu Osba

Consultant Nephrologist & Kidney Transplant Specialist

Associate Professor of Internal Medicine and Nephrology at Sana'a University Faculty of Medicine, Consultant Nephrologist since 2000, and Vice President of Yemen's Kidney Transplant Team.

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Prof. Dr. Najib Wazea Abdulhameed Abu Osba

Consultant Nephrologist

Qualifications

PhD, Internal Medicine & Nephrology — St. Petersburg, Russia (2000)
MSc, Nephrology — St. Petersburg, Russia (1996)
MBChB, Medicine & General Surgery — Vitebsk Medical University, Belarus (1990)
Specialized training in kidney transplantation — Mansoura Center, Egypt (2000)

Roles & positions

Associate Professor, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Sana'a University
Consultant Nephrologist & Transplant Specialist since 2000
Former Head, Department of Nephrology — Al-Thawra General Modern Teaching Hospital, Sana'a
Vice President, Yemen Kidney Transplant Team (since May 2012)
Secretary General, Yemeni Society for Kidney Disease and Transplantation (since 2009)
Former Advisor to Yemen's Minister of Public Health and Population
Yemen Representative, International Society of Nephrology (ISN)

Achievements & recognition

01Promoted to Associate Professor at Sana'a University Faculty of Medicine and honored by Al-Thawra General Modern Teaching Hospital (November 2020)
02Co-founder and lead of Yemen's national kidney transplant programme at Al-Thawra General Modern Teaching Hospital (since 2003)
03Speaker, MESOT 2016 — Middle East Society for Organ Transplantation
04Participant, 57th Annual Congress of the Egyptian Urological Association

Selected publications

Challenges in Renal Transplantation in Yemen
Annals of Transplantation, 2015
Open paper
Underlying Primary Causes of Chronic Renal Failure: A Three-Year Study at Al-Thawra General Hospital, Sana'a, Yemen
Yemeni Journal of Medical Sciences, 2016 · DOI: 10.20428/yjms.v10i1.958
Open paper
The first reported case of successful pregnancy in a haemodialysis patient in Yemen
Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation (Oxford), vol. 19, 2004
Open paper
Human Leukocyte Antigen Class I and II Variants in Yemeni Patients with Chronic Renal Failure
Iranian Journal of Immunology, 2017
Open paper
Side Effects of Cyclosporine Compared to Tacrolimus among Yemeni Kidney Transplant Patients
Universal Journal of Pharmacy, 2020
Open paper

Research interests

Kidney transplantation outcomes and post-transplant complications in Yemen
Epidemiology of chronic renal failure in the Yemeni population
Acute kidney injury and its clinical management

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