Dr. Faisal Alam

Is a Senior Consultant General and Vascular Surgeon. He graduated in 1994 from Sultan Qaboos University with BSc in Health Sciences and MD in Medicine. He was trained in General Surgery and was the first to obtain MRCS in Oman in 1999. He later started his higher surgical training in the prestigious Ninewells Hospital in Dundee, United Kingdom and was the first Omani to obtain the Certificate of Completion of Training (CCT) in General surgery from UK in 2008 with a fellowship in Vascular Surgery. Upon return to Oman He was promoted to Senior Consultant in General and Vascular surgery in 2009 at the Royal Hospital. He was also academically active in training medical students and surgical resident. He was an Honorary Senior Lecturer at SQUH and was a member of Education Committee (EC) for General Surgical training at OMSB for 2 consecutive terms. He is also an Examiner of MRCS part B OSCE for the Royal college of Surgeons of Edinburgh and also the college’s International Surgical Advisor (ISA) and the Local Convener for MRCS part B OSCE exam in Muscat. He was the Head of General Surgery department at the Royal Hospital Muscat from 2012 to 2016. He brings with him more than 22 years of clinical experience in various general surgical pathologies and in particular vascular surgery. He is an expert and highly skilled in most vascular surgical pathologies and procedures including Carotid, Aortic, Peripheral Vascular, Vascular Accesses for hemodialysis (AV Fistulas), Lymphoedema, Vascular malformations, Varicose Veins and diabetic foot. He is also experienced in thyroid, breast, hernia and gall bladder diseases and laparoscopic surgeries.