Dr. Ahmad Ojjeh

Dr. Ahmad Ojjeh has over 34 years of experience as a Nephrologist. He earned his DIS in Nephrology from the University of Paris V in Paris, France in 1989. Prior to that, he obtained an MD in Medicine from Damascus University in Damascus, Syria in 1984. During the early years of his career, Dr. Ahmad worked as a Nephrologist at leading hospitals in France. He then moved to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, where he served as the Head of the Nephrology Department at Riyadh Medical Complex and Prince Salman Bin Abdul-Aziz Hospital for five years. Dr. Ahmad subsequently moved to Syria and joined a leading multi-specialty tertiary hospital. He became the Director of the Kidney Hospital in Damascus, Syria, and initiated and started the first kidney transplant program in the Ministry of Health. In 2010, after serving one year as Director of Hospitals Directorate in the Ministry of Health in Damascus, he became the General Director of Damascus Hospital (the largest hospital in Syria). In 2013, Dr. Ahmad moved to the United Arab Emirates, helping to initiate the Nephrology and Dialysis Department at Sheikh Khalifa General Hospital in Umm Al Quwain, and served as Head of the Department for nine years before joining Burjeel Home Care in 2022.