and obesity
Dr. “Basma” is the first Saudi surgeon specializing in laparoscopic and obesity surgery. She is the first Saudi surgeon to have a fellowship in laparoscopic surgery and obesity from Claude Bonnard University in Lyon, France under the supervision of a well-known surgeon in this field in France and is considered a reference for these cases.
Where she completed the fellowship successfully and returned to Saudi Arabia with a large sum of experience to serve the country and citizens. And the consulting doctor “Basma” is the only specialist in bariatric surgeries and gastrointestinal endoscopy, and the only pioneer in gastric sleeve surgeries, gastric bypass surgeries, all general surgeries and gastrointestinal endoscopic surgeries, and she holds several international memberships, including:
Member of the European Society for Endoscopic Surgery of the Digestive System EAESEA
Member of the American Society for Bariatric and Endoscopic Surgery (SAGES)
Member of the International Society of Obesity and Laparoscopic Surgery IFSO
Member of the Saudi Society for Obesity and Endoscopic Surgery (SAMBS)
In March 2016, Dr. Basma received a Certificate of Excellence from the American Society for Laparoscopic and Bariatric Surgery, as the first Saudi woman to receive it.
