Hatem Abdallah, MD
Hatem Abdallah, MD
Dr. Hatem Abdallah is a Board Certified, fellowship trained general surgeon and serves as the MUSC Florence Division's Medical Director for Robotic Surgery. His clinical interests include Robotic & minimally invasive surgery and has completed hundreds of robotic surgeries with a special interest in abdominal wall hernias, complex abdominal wall reconstruction, robotic inguinal and ventral hernia surgery as well as emergency robotic surgery. Other clinical interests include robotic gallbladder surgery, small intestinal tumors, gastric surgery including feeding access surgery, distal pancreatic tumors, splenic surgery as well as robotic surgery for diverticular disease & colon cancer. Dr. Abdallah is also interested in treating thyroid cancer as well as parathyroid disease, breast cancer, skin cancers including melanoma, lipoma removal, and skin lesions in addition to performing port placements for chemotherapy.
Dr. Abdallah was born and raised in Ontario, Canada and obtained his Bachelor's degree in Science at the University of Windsor. He subsequently completed medical school at the American University of the Caribbean School of Medicine, followed by his internship and general surgical residency at the Henry Ford Hospital, a busy level 1 Trauma center in Detroit, Michigan. He went on to complete his fellowship in the Mastery of General Surgery program at Wake Forest Baptist Hospital in Winston-Salem, NC where he received extensive additional training in Robotic Surgery, emergency general surgery as well as thyroid, parathyroid & breast surgery. Dr.Abdallah's patient care philosophy is to treat each patient as family and to strive for clinical excellence throughout each phase of a patient's care, this includes before, during and following any procedure.
"Each patient is unique with regards to their clinical and social needs, and should be approached with a thoughtful and tailored care plan to include both the patient and their support system, regardless of what their surgical needs may be." - Dr. Abdallah
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My Offices
Insurances Accepted
- Absolute Total Care (NEIC)
- Absolute Total Care Healthy Connections Prime Dual Medicare/Medicaid Plan
- Aetna (PPO)
- AllWell by Absolute Total Care
- Ambetter from Absolute Total Care (Marketplace)
- BCBS Blue Essentials (Marketplace)
- Blue Choice Blue Option (Exchange Plan)
- Blue Choice Medicaid
- Blue Choice MyChoice (Available as individual commercial product)
- Blue Cross Blue Shield Blue Choice HealthCare (Group Health Plan)
- Blue Cross Blue Shield Federal (FEP)
- Blue Cross Blue Shield Planned Administrators
- Laparoscopic surgery
- Hernia surgery
- Robotic and minimally invasive surgery
- Fellowship at Wake Forest Baptist Hospital
- Residency at Henry Ford Hospital
- Internship at Henry Ford Hospital
- Medical School at American University of Caribbean School of Medicine
- English
- Male
