Name Abbas Kanso
Title Consultant Internal Medicine with focus on Hypertension and Kidney Disease
Languages Arabic, English & French
Contact Details
Email [email protected]
Phone +974 4400 4400

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Scope of Practice

  • General Internal Medicine
  • Preventive and Comprehensive Medicine
  • Management of Hypertension and its complications
  • Management of Kidney Disease and complications
  • Care of patients with unexplained weight loss or weight gain.
  • Care of patients with vitamin and other nutritional defi ciencies
  • Diagnosis and initial management of Anemia Medical check-up and follow-up

Highlights

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Community outreach activities/Achievements:

  • Founder and President: Volunteer Outreach Clinic (NGO) 2001-2002

Health Care Profession Achievements:

  • Founder and Member: Zooming into Medical Ethics Organizing Committee, AUB-MC 2005-2006

Experience & Education

  • Functional Medicine, Internal Medicine, Nephrology & Hypertension Physician - Green Clinics – Beirut, Lebanon
  • Nephrology & Hypertension Physician - Prince Mohammed bin Abdulaziz Hospital (PMAH) – Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
  • Nephrology & Hypertension Physician - Hôpital St Georges Ajaltoun – Ajaltoun, Lebanon
  • Nephrology & Hypertension Physician - Notre Dame University Hospital – Jounieh, Lebanon
  • Fellowship in Nephrology and Hypertension, Case Western Reserve University - Cleveland, Ohio - USA
  • Chief Medical Resident American University of Beirut - Medical Center - Beirut, Lebanon
  • Residency in Internal Medicine, American University of Beirut-Medical Center - Beirut, Lebanon
  • Doctor of Medicine, American University of Beirut
  • Bachelor of Science, Chemistry Major, American University of Beirut - Beirut, Lebanon

Certifications & Memberships

  • Lebanese Order of Physicians (LOP)
  • Lebanese Society of Nephrology and Hypertension (LSNH)
  • American Society of Nephrology (ASN)
  • American College of Physicians (ACP)

Publications

Most Recent

  • Abu Jawdeh BG, Kanso AA, Schelling JR. Evidence-based approach for the prevention of radiocontrast-induced nephropathy October 2009 J Hosp Med. 2009 Oct;4(8):500-6.
  • Thomas R, Kanso A, Sedor JR. Chronic Kidney Disease and Its Complications Prim Care. 2008 Jun;35(2):329-44, vii.
  • Kanso AA, Abou Hassan NM, Badr KF Microvascular and Macrovascular Diseases of the Kidney. Brenner and Rector's The Kidney, 8th ed. 2008: Ch 32
  • Amitava Mukherjee, Jane H. Kim, Aparna Padiyar, Robert L. Thomas, Abbas Kanso, Samuel A. Schechtman, Martha Konieczkowski, Jeffrey R. Schelling, John R. Sedor
  • Characterization and Functional Importance of the PDZ Binding Domain of WTIP. Abstract: American Society of Nephrology 2007