Resounding success for Tawam at Arab Health

Tawam Hospital, the region's leading medical institution in affiliation with Johns Hopkins Medicine International, lived up to its reputation demonstrating its commitment and dedication to providing world class treatments to the UAE at this year's Arab Health.

Among Tawam's leading roles at the exhibition held at the Dubai International Exhibition Centre, the hospital was an active participant of the Vascular Interventional Therapy Workshop.

It also unveiled the first ever mobile mammography screening unit in the UAE and the hospital brought home two Arab Health 2008 Highly Commended Awards presented at the lavish gala dinner ceremony held at the Dubai's Jumeirah Beach Hotel.

At the Arab Health Awards 2008 Ceremony, Tawam Hospital received two achievement and innovation awards recognizing the hospital's contribution to the growth and development of the Arab Health Industry. The Specialist Achievement Award in Surgery was received by Dr. Heitham T. Hassoun, Assistant Professor of Surgery at Johns Hopkins, Director of Vascular Interventional Therapy and Vascular Interventional Surgeon, and Dr. Mohammad Hamdan Senior Consultant & Head Division of Pediatric Cardiology Department. Brian de Francesca, Chief Operating Officer, and Ahlam Al Sheiban, Acting Manager Department of Performance Innovation of Tawam Hospital, received the Specialist Achievement Award for Quality Healthcare Improvement Initiative.

Commenting on the first award, Dr. Heitham T. Hassoun, Assistant Professor of Surgery at Johns Hopkins and Director of Vascular Interventional Therapy at Tawam said: 'My team and I are delighted to have been presented with this prestigious award for our hard work towards advancing Cardiovascular Interventional Therapy. I am delighted that my team's dedication, commitment to training and expertise has been acknowledge. There is no doubt that this will be maintained and we hope to achieve greater heights in the future.'

'In November we launched a new initiative known as the Contractors Partnership Program for which we received our second award at the Award Ceremony; Specialist Achievement Award for Quality Healthcare Improvement Initiative. The initiative aims for Tawam to engage in longer term mutually beneficial relationships with selected quality suppliers and partners. As a result we can live up to our promise of delivering high quality healthcare services to our patients while recognizing our key service and product contractors that make this possible. We, therefore, share this great achievement with our partners!' added Heindel.

With the aim to expand the portfolio of clinical conferences, Arab Health included a series of workshops at this year's congress, one of which looked at one of the leading causes of death in the UAE; Cardiovascular Disease. These were presented by acclaimed lecturers and professors from the United States including Dr. Mahmoud Malas, Assistant Professor of Surgery at Johns Hopkins University and Director of Vascular Interventional Therapy at Johns Hopkins Bayview Campus. Tawam Hospital supported the conference with a live transmission of a carotid stenting procedure performed at Tawam Hospital by the Chairman of the session, Dr. Heitham T. Hassoun, Assistant Professor of Surgery at Johns Hopkins Medicine and Director of Vascular Interventional Therapy.

Michael E. Heindel, CEO of Tawam Hospital, said: 'Tawam Hospital is proud to have actively participated in the newly introduced seminar regarding cardiovascular disease. It is a disease that few understand and more often are unaware of its true origins. I believe that the live transmission of the procedures performed by our very own internal specialist added great value to the seminar and the audience gained clearer understanding and insight. It once again reinforced the hospital's aim to provide the best healthcare facilities to its patients and thus minimizing the number of patients being referred abroad for complex operations.'

'Tawam also unveiled the first mobile mammography unit in the UAE at Arab Health. According to recent studies, 1 in 10 women are at risk of developing cancer. This unique program aims to reach the women of the interior and seeks to screen up to 20 patients per day. By screening more women, more regularly, we hope to significantly reduce the number of fatalities. The ultrasound images are instantly transmitted to the support team at Tawam Hospital where they are diagnosed and within hours the correct treatment can be recommended to the patient, should this be necessary,' added Heindel.

Tawam Hospital, Al Ain's largest hospital, is the preferred choice in specialist healthcare offering orthopedic surgery, oncology, family medicine, fertility services, intensive care, neurosurgery, pediatrics, a cardiac center, the national center for cancer registry, and the newest and largest blood bank in the UAE.