Prof. Dr. SYED HUSAIN

Prof Syed Arshad Husain is a Consultant Pulmonologist at Al Zahra Hospital, Shiekh Zaid road, in Dubai, specialising in Pulmonary medicine and Professor Adjunct Pulmonology at Gulf Medical University.

Prof Husain has over 30 years of experience working in the UK as part of the National Health Service (NHS) and over 18 years of specialist experience in respiratory medicine.

He completed his primary medical degree in 1988 and became a Member of the Royal College of Physicians, UK in 1996. He later was awarded a Fellowship of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons, UK and a Fellow of the College of Chest Physicians, USA.

He completed higher specialist training in General Internal Medicine and Elderly Care Medicine in the Oxford region in UK in 2002. He then completed his specialist training and (CCST)certification in Respiratory Medicine in South West region UK in 2005.

Prof Husain has specialist interest and expertise in Chronic cough, severe Asthma, interventional bronchoscopy and medical thoracoscopy, gained a fellowship at the University of Lille, France in 2005.

For over 15 years, Prof Husain practised as a Consultant Respiratory Physician in the Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust. During this time he was also appointed as an Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer at King's College London. Dr Husain was also a Trust Innovation Lead in the NHS, in this position he started services for Endobronchial Ultrasound-Transbronchial Needle Aspiration Biopsy to diagnose and stage lung cancer and other cancers as well as diagnose tuberculosis, lymphoma and sarcoidosis.

In his current position at Al Zahra Hospital, Dubai, he sees patients with a range of respiratory conditions, including: severe allergic asthma, chronic persistant cough, Obstructive Sleep Apnea, COPD, smoking-related lung disease, lung cancer and (ILD)pulmonary fibrosis.

Prof Husain also remained the Training Program Director in Respiratory medicine at the KSS Deanery in UK with experience of the Specialist Training Committee and Specialist Advisory Committee of the Royal College of Physicians in London. He has worked as a trainer and course director for many internationally recognised courses in his field of expertise.

He has also published numerous research papers in international peer-reviewed journals on topics such as Asthma, COVID-19 and COPD, ventilator related Pneumonias

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