Dr. Susan Khalafallah
| Departments: | Anesthesia Department |
| Languages: | English, Arabic |
| Speciality: | Specialist Anesthesia |
| Availability: | Full Time |
| Board Certificate: | European Diploma of Anesthesia and Intensive Care (EDAIC) |
| Departments: | Anesthesia Department |
| Languages: | English, Arabic |
| Speciality: | Specialist Anesthesia |
| Availability: | Full Time |
| Board Certificate: | European Diploma of Anesthesia and Intensive Care (EDAIC) |
Anaesthesia Specialist | Perioperative Medicine | Critical Care | Regional Anaesthesia & Pain Management
Dr. Susan Anwar Mabrouk Khalafallah is a highly experienced Anaesthesia Specialist with more than 18 years of clinical experience in anaesthesia, intensive care, perioperative medicine and pain management. She has been practicing at Al Garhoud Private Hospital, Dubai, since 2017, providing comprehensive anaesthetic and perioperative care for a wide spectrum of elective and emergency surgical procedures.
Her clinical experience encompasses obstetric and gynaecological, bariatric, paediatric, general, neurosurgical, cardiothoracic and open-heart, vascular, orthopaedic and trauma, ENT, maxillofacial, plastic, urological, ophthalmic and emergency surgery, as well as anaesthesia for imaging procedures. Her experience also includes postoperative intensive care and the management of critically ill patients.
Dr. Khalafallah has particular clinical expertise in complex and high-risk perioperative patients, including patients requiring advanced airway management, invasive haemodynamic monitoring, mechanical ventilation and critical care. Her technical expertise includes endotracheal intubation, arterial catheterization, central venous access and in regional anaesthesia especially labour epidural analgesia and ultrasound-guided peripheral nerve block.
Dr. Khalafallah’s approach is centred on providing safe, individualized and evidence-based anaesthetic care. She carefully considers each patient’s medical condition, surgical procedure, risk factors and individual needs when developing the anaesthetic plan, with the goal of achieving the safest possible perioperative course, optimal pain control and smooth recovery.
Her broad experience across multiple surgical specialties, combined with critical-care expertise, enables her to approach challenging cases with a comprehensive understanding of the patient’s condition throughout the preoperative, intraoperative and postoperative journey.
Her combination of extensive clinical experience, critical-care expertise, commitment to patient safety, academic involvement and evidence-based practice makes her a highly regarded specialist in comprehensive perioperative anaesthetic care.
Since 2026, Dr. Khalafallah has served as a Core Faculty member of the Medical Internship Program at Al Garhoud Private Hospital, contributing to clinical teaching, supervision, mentoring and assessment of medical interns.
She is also a member of the CME Education Committee at Al Garhoud Private Hospital, contributing to continuing medical education and professional development activities.
Her educational activities include CME lectures on:
In June 2026, she successfully completed the Training-of-Trainer (ToT) Course: Teaching and Assessment of Postgraduate Healthcare Trainees at Mohammed Bin Rashid University of Medicine and Health Sciences (MBRU) and earned the designation “Certified Trainer.”
She also completed a Mini Master of Hospital Management in 2026, a 60-hour program with a grade of Excellent.
She had recently two publications as an author &two publications as co author.
Dr. Khalafallah is also a medical conference speaker, contributing to continuing medical education and sharing her clinical expertise with healthcare professionals.
She believes that every patient deserves joyful, safe, and tailored anesthesia experience.