Abbas El-Khatib, MD
Belfast, Maine – MaineHealth Waldo Hospital is pleased to welcome Abbas El-Khatib, MD, a board-certified nephrologist specialized in treating patients with kidney disease and hypertension, to its Nephrology Belfast practice.
Dr. El-Khatib comes to Waldo Hospital from Princeton Community Hospital in Princeton, W.Va., where he spent the past eight years as a nephrologist. Prior to that, he spent 15 years as medical chief of the Section of Nephrology at King Hussein Cancer Center in Amman, Jordan. Dr. El-Khatib has also practiced in Michigan.
Dr. El-Khatib earned his medical degree from the University of Jordan School of Medicine in Amman, Jordan, in 1984. He did his fellowship in Nephrology at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Mich.
For more information, visit mainehealth.org/providers/abbas-el-khatib-md.
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