Mr Maitham Alwhouhayb

Job title

Consultant general surgeon

Related services

General surgery

Location

Biography

Mr Alwhouhayb has been a consultant general surgeon with colorectal interests at Barnet and Chase farm hospitals since Sept 2013.

He considers himself an excellent team player and has worked well within different medical and surgical teams, he is well-liked by colleagues and all medical staff and most importantly by patients over the last 12 years at the trust. Throughout the years, Mr Alwhouhayb has consolidated his knowledge, skills and confidence to become a fine independent surgeon.

His current job involves being on-call one in six and weekend on-call one in 11. Mr Alwhouhayb is rostered to be a CEPOD consultant surgeon one in five which involves being emergency operating surgeon for a block of five consecutive weekdays.

The emergency operations he carries out ranges from surgery to complex abdominal injuries, perforated bowel and inflammatory bowel disease complications. He has done abdominal trauma surgeries for splenic ruptures, internal abdominal haemorrhage.

Languages

English

Dutch

Arabic

• Alwhouhayb, M and Howard A ‘A false aneurysm mistaken for a DVT after hip surgery’ Turkish Journal of Trauma & Emergency Surgery April 2005, 179-181
• Alwhouhayb, M et al ‘Metastatic melanoma presenting as a perforated small bowel’ Turk J Gastroenterol 2006; 17 (3): 223-225
• Alwhouhayb, M et al ‘Cardiotoxic Effects of Tangential Breast Irradiation in Early Breast Cancer Patients: The Role of Irradiated Heart Volume’ Int J Radiat Oncol Biol Phys 2007 Jun 30: 17606332, 1131-1138
• Alwhouhayb, M et al ‘Colorectal Cancer Target Referrals – Help or Hindrance?’ Abstract – Colorectal Disease magazine July 2007 Volume 9 Issue s1 Page 105-109
• An unusual case of fever and a sigmoid mass Tamara Kubba, 1 Mio Takatsuka, 2 Eve Stern, 1 Thomas Smith, 1 Jason Lee, 1 Maitham Al-Whouhayb, 1
Michael Saunders 1BMJ Case Reports 2011; doi:10.1136/bcr.07.2010.3196
• Total Msorectal excision for cancer following ventral mesh rectopexy
SS Antonowicz. Mal-whouhayb, S.middleton
Ann R coll Surg Eng 2013.95doi10.1308/003588413X1362960047353
• Asymptomatic giant appendicolith managed conservatively
Darren Leonard Scroggie, Maitham Al-Whouhayb
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jscr/rjv149 rjv149 First published online: 23 November 2015

Research interests include June 2007 'Cardiotoxic Effects of Tangential Breast Irradiation in Early Breast Cancer Patients: Th Role of Irradiated Heart Volume', led by Dr JH Borger, Maastricht University. Role: data collection and analysis.