Dr. Shatha Abo Moghdeb

Dr. Shatha Abo Moghdeb is a General Practitioner in Pediatrics at Dar Al Kamal Hospital in Sharjah, where she looks after babies, children and teenagers. She studied medicine at the University of Aleppo in Syria, graduating in 2015, and then trained in pediatrics at the Children's University Hospital in Damascus, where she earned a master's degree in pediatric neurology and the Syrian Board certificate in pediatrics in 2022. She holds an evaluation letter from the UAE Ministry of Health and Prevention (2024).

Her five-year residency at the Children's University Hospital covered outpatient clinics, emergency care, infectious diseases, and diseases of the digestive system, kidneys, heart and lungs, as well as children with cancer and blood disorders. Each year she also spent a month on the pediatric ward of the University Hospital of Obstetrics and Gynecology in Damascus, caring for newborn babies.

In neonatal intensive care she is trained to support premature and sick newborns: placing a breathing tube, managing mechanical ventilation, inserting umbilical lines, giving surfactant to premature babies and performing exchange transfusions. Her practical procedures include arterial blood sampling, lumbar puncture, joint aspiration, draining fluid from the abdomen or chest, and urinary catheterisation, and she reads blood smears and bone marrow aspirates.

After her residency she worked as a pediatrician at the Children's University Hospital in Damascus, at Al Raze private hospital, at Almouasat Association Hospital and with the Nour Foundation for Relief and Development. She has attended national conferences on childhood asthma, neonatology, pediatrics and rare diseases in children.

She speaks Arabic and English.