Qualifications

• Bachelor of human medicine, Damascus University
• Postgraduate certificate in paediatrics, Damascus University
• Certificate of paediatric and adolescent medicine (paediatrician), Medical Chamber of Lower Saxony, Germany
• Certificate of paediatric gastroenterology (paediatric gastroenterologist), Medical Chamber of Lower Saxony, Germany
• Certificate of neonatology (Neonatologist), Medical Chamber of Lower Saxony, Germany
• Member of the German Society of paediatrics and adolescent medicine (DGKJ)
• Member of the German Society of paediatric Gastroenterology and Nutrition (GPGE)

Professional Background

After completing his training in paediatrics in Germany, Dr. Al Tahhan completed further training in paediatric gastroenterology and neonatology-perinatal medicine.

• Consultant of general paediatrics and paediatric gastroenterology in St. Marienhospital Vechta (Academic teaching hospital of the Hanover Medical University), Germany (2019-2023)
• Consultant of neonatology in perinatal centrum of St. Marienhospital Vechta (Academic teaching hospital of the Hanover Medical University), Germany, (2019-2023)
• Specialist of paediatrics, Children´s University Hospital Damascus, (2008-2013)

Clinical Expertise

• Performance of gastroscopy, colonoscopy, video endoscopy, liver biopsies, rectal suction biopsy.
• Carrying out foreign body extraction in the stomach and oesophagus. PEG tube insertion.
• Performing sonography of the digestive tract including Doppler/duplex sonographies.
• Treatment of diseases and dysfunctions of the digestive tract including the liver, bile ducts, pancreas, nutritional disorders, inflammatory bowel diseases, and coeliac disease,
• Intensive care measurement procedures including intubation, central venous catheterisation, umbilical vein catheterisation and pleural drainage including underweight preterm infants (< 1500 g).
• Treatment of complicated neonatal clinical pictures including underweight premature babies, especially surfactant deficiency, sepsis, necrotising enterocolitis, intracranial haemorrhage.
• Developmental neurological diagnostics - differentiated ventilation technique and ventilation weaning including surfactant treatment, Nitric oxide therapy, hypothermia treatment of newborns with asphyxia.
• Performance of cranial and hip sonography.