More About The Doctor:
Dr. Fatma Bastaki - Consultant Clinical Geneticist and Metabolic has more than 25 years experience in the field of genetics and metabolic in Scotland, Canada, and Dubai Health Authority.
She provides clinical evaluation and care for newborns, children, and adults with genetic and metabolic diseases or who are suspected to have genetic and metabolic diseases.
Conditions include:
- Down syndrome and other chromosomal disorders
- Genetic and inherited syndromes
- Birth defects and congenital malformation
- Developmental delay, intellectual disability, and behavioral disorders
- Skeletal dysplasia and growth failure
- Inborn error of metabolism (metabolic disorders) including newborns with abnormal newborn screening
- Familial hereditary cancers; Inherited and genetic hearing impairment, eye, neurological, endocrine, cardiovascular, pulmonary, renal, gastrointestinal, skeletal, dermatological, immunological, and hematological diseases
- Infertility and recurrent miscarriages
- Prenatal fetal malformation and abnormal NIPT.
She also provides preventive genetic counseling for patients and families for:
- Genetic and metabolic diseases
- Carriers of genetic diseases
- Pre-marital genetic screening, and testing
- Preimplantation genetic diagnosis and screening (PGD/PGS).
Professional Membership:
- Member of Society for the Study of Inborn Error of Metabolism (SSIEM)
- Member of the Middle East Society for Inborn Error of Metabolism (MESIEM)
- Member of the American Society of Human Genetics
- Member of the American College of Medical Genetics
- Member of the European Society of Human Genetics
- Member of Emirates Medical Association
- Member of National Neonatal Screening Committee
- Member of the National premarital testing committee
- Member of UAE Down syndrome society and advisory committee
- Member of Executive board of Centre for Arab Genomic Studies
- Member and founder of UAE Rare Disease Society
Education:
- Canadian board and fellowship in Medical Genetics, Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada
- Master in Medical Genetics from the University of Glasgow, Scotland
- Bachelor of Medicine & Bachelor Of Surgery from Kuwait University
- Bachelor of Basic Medical science from Kuwait University
