AUB Medical Center Physician’s Directory

Physician’s Name ALI HALLAL, MD, FRCS(Gen Surg)

Faculty Appointment Assistant Professor of Clinical Surgery

Department of Surgery
Division of General Surgery

Academic Associate Program Director, General Residency

Appointment Director, Surgical Critical Care & Trauma Fellowship

Specialty General and Laparoscopic Surgery

Upper Gastrointestinal surgery
Surgical Critical Care Specialist
Trauma Surgery
Office / Clinic
Location 4th Floor, AUBMC Surgery Private Clinics
Hours Mondays 11:00 am – 3:00 pm
Wednesdays 10:00 am – 1:00 pm
Fridays 1:00 – 4:00 pm

Contact/Scheduling Information
Telephone 00961-1-350000 Extension: 5897
Fax 00961-1-363291
Department surgery@aub.edu.lb
Individual ah05@aub.edu.lb
ali.hallal@aub.edu.lb
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Clinical Interests Esophageal and Stomach Cancer

Benign esophageal pathology
Trauma Surgery, Trauma system development
Abdominal compartment syndrome and treatment of open abdomen
Intensive care
Sepsis management
Surgical education

Operations and Esophageal cancer surgery (Open / Laparoscopic)

Procedures Stomach cancer surgery (Open / Laparoscopic)
Surgery for Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumors (GIST) (Open / Laparoscopic)
Surgical treatment of Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease (Nissen Fundoplication)
Surgical Treatment of Achalasia (Heller Myotomy)
Gastric Surgery for Benign pathologies (Open / Laparoscopic)
Small Bowel Surgery
Appendectomy (Open / Laparoscopic)
Cholecystectomy and Intraoperative Cholangiogram (Open / Laparoscopic)
Common Bile duct Exploration for Common Bile Duct Stone with Intraoperative
Choledocoscopy
Colonic Surgery Cancer and Benign (Open / Laparoscopic)
Benign Recto-Anal Surgery
Surgery for Melanoma
Thyroid Surgery
Hernia Surgery (inguinal or groin, ventral recurrent) (Open / Laparoscopic)
All Emergency Surgery Including Trauma Surgery
Gastroscopy, Percutaneous Endoscopic Gastrostomy (PEG) placement
Colonoscopy
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Medical School American University of Beirut 1991-1995

Residency American University of Beirut (General Surgery) 1995-2001

Fellowship University of Miami

Ryder Trauma Center – Jackson Memorial Hospital
Surgical Critical Care 2001-2002
Trauma Surgery 2002-2003

University of Witwatersand, 2003

Johannesburg General Hospital and Chris Hani Baragwanath
Hospital
Johannesburg, South Africa

Additional Training Upper GI Surgery

Royal Sussex County Hospital – Brighton, UK 2006-2007
Guys & St. Thomas’ Hospital – London, UK 2007-2009

Research Interests Sepsis and critical illness scoring

Trauma surgery and trauma system development in Lebanon
GIST
Abdominal Compartment Syndrome
Surgical Education