Dr. Abdelrahman Nimeri
Research DirectorBariatric and Metabolic Institute, UAE
Highest Degree
M.D. in Medicine from Al-Azhar University, Cairo, Egypt
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Highest Degree
M.D. in Medicine from Al-Azhar University, Cairo, Egypt
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Dr. Abdelrahman A. Nimeri is currently the Chief of Division of General, Thoracic, & Vascular Surgery, Director of Bariatric & Metabolic Institute (BMI) Abu Dhabi, and Surgeon Champion of ACS NSQIP at SKMC. He is an adjunct staff at the Cleveland Clinic’s Endocrine and Metabolic Institute in Cleveland Ohio and an Adjunct Clinical Professor of Surgery at the UAE University. Dr Nimeri is leading Surgeon Champion for the American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement Program SEHA collaborative in the UAE. He has completed his M.D from Al-Azhar University.
Dr Nimeri is the Associate Program director of the ACGME-I accredited Surgery Residency Program in Abu Dhabi and the Fellowship program director for the MIS and Bariatric surgery fellowship program at SKMC. In addition, Dr Nimeri is the Chairman of the Communication Committee for the International Federation for Surgery of Obesity and Metabolic diseases (IFSO). Dr Nimeri joined SKMC as a consultant surgeon in May 2009. Prior to this he was an Assistant Clinical Professor at University of California San Francisco. He finished his general surgery residency training at Huron hospital Cleveland Clinic Health System in Cleveland Ohio in 2004. Dr Nimeri did his fellowship in Minimally Invasive and Bariatric Surgery at Washington University School of Medicine in St Louis Missouri in 2005. He has been in practice at the University of California San Francisco-Fresno starting in 2005. At UCSF Fresno he was on faculty at the general surgery residency program, and was one of three faculty of the Minimally Invasive and Bariatric Surgery Fellowship program at UCSF Fresno. Dr Nimeri has interests in Minimally Invasive Surgery, Bariatric Surgery, Surgical Education and Surgical Quality. He has published 21 research articles in journals as well as 1 book chapter. He is professional member of Society of American Gastrointestinal and Endo- scopic Surgeons, Fellow of the American College of Surgeons, American Society of Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery, International Federation for the Surgery of Obesity and Fellow of the American Society of Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery FASMBS. He also delivered number of invited presentation in scientific meeting.