Dr. Jafaru Abu Consultant Gynecological Oncology Surgeon

Biography

Dr. Jafaru Abu is a Consultant Gynecological Oncology Surgeon who, before joining Burjeel Specialty Hospital, Sharjah, occupied a senior position at Nottingham University Hospitals, UK, and in a career span of nearly three decades, has put in almost 20 years of extensive work in the obstetrics and gynecology specialty, across a chain of leading hospitals in the UK. During this term of his service, from 2003 to 2006, Dr. Abu was Subspecialty Fellow in Gynecological Oncology/Senior Registrar in Obstetrics and Gynecology, University Hospitals of Leicester, United Kingdom. He was a visiting Fellow in Gynecological Oncology at Royal Brisbane Hospital and Royal Women’s Hospital, Queensland, Australia, and Royal Northshore Hospital, Sydney, Australia.

During the early part of Dr. Abu’s career, he worked as a Specialist Registrar and Senior House Officer in obstetrics and gynecology in the UK. As for Dr. Jafaru Abu’s educational background, he was a brilliant academic performer throughout his studies and qualified in the profession with excellent undergraduate and post-graduate medical qualifications. After gaining his first degree in medicine, MBBS, from the University of Benin Medical School, Nigeria, Dr. Abu moved to the United Kingdom, where he undertook all of his postgraduate training and qualified as a Member (and later a Fellow) of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, UK, (MRCOG, FRCOG) and also gained the BSCCP Accreditation from the British Society for Colposcopy and Cervical Pathology. Dr. Abu also studied and gained a master’s degree in clinical sciences from the University of Leicester, United Kingdom. Dr. Abu earned two certificates during his specialist training years: the certificate of completion of specialist training in obstetrics and gynecology specialty from the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, UK, and the certificate of completion of sub-specialty training in gynecological oncology from the Postgraduate Medical Education and Training Board (PMETB) and the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, UK. Dr. Abu was also a visiting Fellow at the Centre for Gynecological Cancers and Minimally Invasive Surgery at the Royal Brisbane Hospital and Royal Women’s Hospital in Queensland, Australia, in 2005 and the Royal Northshore Hospital in Sydney, Australia, in 2006. He was appointed as a Consultant Gynecological Oncology Surgeon at Nottingham University Hospitals in 2006, one of the UK’s biggest teaching hospitals. He led a significant transformation in the surgical management of gynecological cancers by pioneering the introduction of several surgical procedures. He was instrumental in introducing minimally invasive techniques (keyhole operations) in the direction of cancers of the womb, cervix (neck of the womb), and early stages of ovarian cancer. Dr. Abu is well known for his exceptional ability to perform complex key-hole procedures both laparoscopically and with the DaVinci robot. He was one of the first gynecologists in the UK to do Single Incision Laparoscopic Surgery (SILS), a “scarless” procedure. Dr. Abu is also well known for performing extensive surgery for advanced stages of ovarian cancer and led the Department of Gynecological Oncology at Nottingham University Hospital, UK, to become an Accredited Advanced Ovarian Cancer Cytoreductive Surgical Centre by the European Society of Gynecological Oncologists (ESGO). He was the Head of Gynecological Oncology at Nottingham University Hospitals, UK, until he joined Burjeel Holdings.

Committed to training other consultants, he established the annual Nottingham advanced laparoscopic training course for gynecology consultants across the United Kingdom in 2008, where he trained and mentored other consultant colleagues and Senior Trainees to acquire the skills needed for safe advanced laparoscopic surgery in women. The masterclass course has become very popular across Europe. He also teaches advanced laparoscopic surgical skills as a member of an international faculty of experts in the IRCAD minimally invasive surgical training center in Strasbourg, France.

A star performer throughout his career, Dr. Jafaru Abu has received several awards for his outstanding work. He is a recipient of the RCOG Ethicon Travel Award in 2005; the Hospital Doctor Merit Award for the one-stop Menstrual Clinic at University Hospitals of Leicester, UK; the 1st position award from The Royal Society of Medicine, Registrars’ Prize Meeting in Obstetrics and Gynecology; and the 1st prize for joint RCOG and the Trinidad Society of Obstetrics and Gynecology Meeting. In 1997, Dr. Abu also secured the second prize from the Oxfordshire Regional Health Authority Forum in Obstetrics and Gynecology at the OXFOG event. He was named to the Who’s Who in Medicine and Healthcare list in 2009 was also a big step in his career. His areas of expertise include,

• All diagnosed or suspected gynecological cancers
• Ovarian masses
• Postmenopausal bleeding
• Abnormal uterine bleeding
• Abnormal PAP smears
• Suspicious vulvar lesions
• Suspicious cervical lesions
• Cervical abnormalities
• Cervical cancers
• Uterine or womb cancers
• Ovarian cancers
• Vaginal cancers
• Vulvar cancers
• Post coital bleeding
• Irregular menstrual bleeding
• Uterine fibroids
• Keyhole hysterectomy (laparoscopic or robot assisted)
• Abdominal hysterectomy
• Cytoreductive surgery (ultraradical surgery) for advanced stages of ovarian cancer
• Pelvic and para-aortic lymphadenectomy (open/laparoscopic/robotic)
• Radical hysterectomy (open/laparoscopic/robotic)
• Pelvic exenterative surgery for locally recurrent gynecological cancers
• Colposcopy
• Hysteroscopy
• Myomectomy (open/laparoscopic/robotic)
• Vaginectomy (open/laparoscopic/robotic)
• Fertility preservation surgery for cervical cancer (trachelectomy – simple or radical)
• Laparoscopic cervical cerclage
• Ovarian transposition procedures (laparoscopic or robotic)
• Sentinel lymph nodes for cervical and endometrial cancers (laparoscopic or robotic)
• Sentinel lymph nodes for vulvar cancer
• Vulvectomy (radical or simple)
• Groin nodes dissection