Areas of interest include laparoscopic surgery for gallbladder, bile duct, appendicectomy, and splenectomy; gastrointestinal surgery including weight loss, anti-reflux, colon, small bowel, and anal procedures; breast and thyroid surgery; open and laparoscopic hernia repair; skin and nail procedures; surgical circumcision and vasectomy; removal of lumps and bumps; and GESA-accredited gastroscopy and colonoscopy.

Practices:
Northern Private Hospital

Address:
Hume Specialist Suites, Level 2,
230 Cooper Street
Epping VIC 3076

Call:
03 9468 0369

Fax:
03 8361 6723

Email:
ftoumarooms@outlook.com

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Services:
General surgery
Upper Gastrointestinal Surgery

Profile

Mr Fidel Touma is an experienced General Surgeon with an interest in Laparoscopic surgery and Endoscopiy. Fidel is a fellow of the Royal Australasian College of Surgeons (RACS) and holds appointments as a consultant general surgeon at Northern Health, Epping. Mr Touma undertook the General Surgery Fellow position at Northern Health between 2016-2018, before being appointed as a Consultant General Surgeon with Northern Health.

 

He is a graduate of the Faculty of Medicine at Damascus University where he completed medical training in 1993 and then completed his training in General & Laparoscopic Surgery in 1998. Mr Touma was the founder of laparoscopic general surgery in the province of Hama, Syria, and extensively contributed to the education and training of laparoscopic surgery for more than 15 years. He was Director of Surgery at Assuqaylabiyah Public Hospital in Syria in 2006 and held this position until he fled the country due to the Syrian Civil War, then he migrated to Australia with his family in 2014.

 

Throughout his tenure as a general surgeon, Mr Touma has always strived to gain new insights and techniques to advance his practice to the forefront of the surgical arena. Mr Touma practices gastroscopy and colonoscopy in addition to a wide range of general surgeries including gut surgery (Gastrointestinal) including weight loss surgery, hernias, breast and thyroid surgery as well as skin surgery and lumps and bumps. He has an interest in laparoscopic procedures and repairing complex hernias.

 

Mr Touma is fluent in Arabic and likes to work with people from different cultural backgrounds, promoting respect and inclusion of people from all walks of life.

Other Spoken Languages

Arabic