Dr. Wael Lateef Jebur

Dr. Wael completed his M.B.Ch.B at Al Mustansiriya Medical College in Iraq followed by Fellowship of Iraqi Board of medical specialisation in Internal Medicine. He received a C.A.B.M in Internal Medicine and F.I.C.M.S in Nephrology. Dr. Wael was honoured with Fellowship from the American College of Physicians in 2012 and also a Fellowship from the American Society of Nephrology in 2014. He is the Head of the Department of Nephrology and Dialysis department in NMC Specialty Hospital since 2006.

Dr. Wael’s experience spans 19 years. Dr. Wael worked for 2 years as a Senior Registrar in General Internal Medicine and 4 years as Specialist Physician in Al Kadhemya University Hospital, Baghdad, Iraq. He worked for 3 years as Head of Department of Nephrology and Dialysis Unit in Al Karamah Teaching Hospital, Baghdad, Iraq which is one of the major tertiary hospitals in Iraq and renowned for its Kidney transplantation program.

Dr. Wael has teaching and training experience of the Iraqi nephrology board candidates, in General Nephrology and kidney transplantation at Al Karamah Teaching Hospital and also medical college students in internal medicine at Al-Mustanseriya Medical College. He was chosen as the prestigious Editor and Author of Journal of Transplantation Technologies and Researches (JTTR) for the year 2011 and two of his papers have been chosen by the biomedical library (BioMedLib)

Dr. Wael is the Member of the Acute Kidney Injury Network (AKIN) , Member of Emirate Medical Association In Nephrology (EMAN), Member of the American Sociaty of Transplantation (AST), Member of the European Dialysis and Transplantation Association (ERA-EDTA), Member of Arab Society of Nephrology and Renal Transplantation (ASNRT), Member of International Society of Peritoneal Dialysis (ISPD), Member of Iraqi Association of Nephrology and Transplantation, and Member of American Society of Nephrology.

He has presented in two conferences in the 6th International Congress of Nephrology in the Internet, held during November 2011 titled Characteristics of Atheromatous Renovascular Disease In Dubai. He also presented one paper in the 5th Iraqi Society of Nephrology workshop held in Erbil-Iraq during September 2011, titled Nephrotic syndrome: Minimal Change Disease vs. IgA Nephropathy. He has over 14 publications to his credit.

He is a member of the Editorial Board of The Journal of Transplantation Technologies and Research. He is the reviewer of the Saudi Journal of Kidney Disease and Transplantation since 2009. He is also the Member of the Editorial board of Journal of Nephropathology since 2011. He is the Reviewer of the Journal of Orthopaedic Surgery and Reviewer of Kidney failure journal.

Dr. Wael likes to keep himself abreast with the latest developments in the field of Nephrology, Transplants and Hemodialysis. He attends congresses and courses internationally namely 5th ISN Nephrology, ERA-EDTA Congress & MESOT Congress..