Dr. Hassan Jaafar

Consultant Medical Oncology

Nationality: Lebanese

Language Spoken: English, Arabic

Dr. Hassan Jaafar is a consultant medical oncologist with more than 25 years of professional experience. He commenced his career in internal medicine in 1994 and ultimately qualified in oncology/haematology in the year 2000 from the American University of Beirut Medical Centre. Later that year, Dr. Jaafar relocated to the UAE and joined Tawam Hospital, a 500+ bed, tertiary-care hospital, affiliated with the reputed Johns Hopkins University Hospital in the USA. During that time, he served as an adjunct assistant professor of Internal Medicine at the College of Medicine and Health - UAEU. He later relocated to Sheikh Khalifa Specialty Hospital (SKSH) operated by Seoul National University Hospital (SNUH) in Ras-Al-Khaimah. With his arrival to BCI as a consultant medical oncologist, Dr. Jaafar moves up yet another notch in his career to be rated as one of the frontline oncologists and cancer research specialists in the UAE region. Major areas of clinical and research interest include breast cancer and gynecological cancers, lung cancer, colorectal cancer, sarcomas, and other solid tumours. Dr. Jaafar worked on multiple publications in esteemed journals and has a plethora of abstracts and cases presented at conferences around the world. Below is a brief sample of his publications.