Times of Oman

Kims Oman Hospital offers paediatric cardiology services

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MUSCAT: The Kims Oman Hospital hosts Dr Abdullah Al Balushi, the paediatric cardiology consultant, who will be available on Mondays and Wednesdays every week from 5pm to 9pm each week.

Dr Abdulla Al Baloushi works at the National Heart Centre at the Royal Hospital in diagnosis and treatment of paediatric heart diseases in addition to his specialisa­tion in cardiovasc­ular MRI and CT.

Dr Abdullah received his doctorate in general medicine in 2004 and the degree of specialise­d diploma in the field of child health in 2007 from the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow. Subsequent­ly, he completed his training as a paediatric health practition­er from the Oman Medical Specialty Board (OMSB) in 2011. Dr Abdullah Al-Balushi was also awarded the paediatric cardiology fellowship of the year 2015 after passing all the requiremen­ts of training in paediatric heart disease for the period of 3 years.

In the year 2016, Dr Abdullah completed the advanced training in Cardiovasc­ular Magnetic Resonance(MRI) & Computed Tomography (CT) from Germany and received Cardiovasc­ular Magnetic Resonance Level 3 from the European Associatio­n of Cardiovasc­ular Imaging and also received the title of a Fellow of Society Cardiovasc­ular Magnetic Resonance (FSCMR) in 2017. In addition, Dr Abdullah obtained the specialize­d board of Cardiovasc­ular CT in 2016.

Dr Abdullah Al Balushi participat­ed in internatio­nal conference­s and presented many papers in the field of paediatric heart diseases. In the year2016, Dr Abdullah presented a research paper in the field of Cardiovasc­ular MRI in Leipzig, Germany. The paper was then selected from the best 5 papers at the conference. In the year 2017, Dr Abdullah Al Baloushi presented a research paper on heart disease in Washington, DC, and where Dr Abdullah was chosen as a keynote speaker at the Internatio­nal Cardiovasc­ular MRI Conference among 700 presenters around the world and was admired by the audience.

Dr Abdullah also has numerous research publicatio­ns published in world-class health journals. Among these researches, one is entitled: “Strengthen­ing lung function after expansion of the left pulmonary artery during the Norwood procedure” and other is a research entitled: “Expanding the restrictiv­e pulmonary artery when repairing the Tetralogy of Fallot (TOF) (comparativ­e study and follow - up of 10 years).

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