Biography

Teaching & Service

• Professor of Medicine & Endocrinology, HOD GIM, Dubai Medical University, Dubai, UAE
• Clinical Professor, College of Medicine & Clinical Sciences, U.A.E. University Al Ain, Abu Dhabi. UAE. Since June 2003 up to date.
• Senior Consultant Endocrinologist, Burjeel Specialty Hospital, Sharjah, UAE, since October 2022 up to date (PT)
• Member of REC* in Burjeel Specialty Hospital.
• External Examiner for final exit exam Sharjah University
• External Examiner for final exit exam Gulf Medical University
• Chair of “Student Disciplinary Committee” COM, DMU
• Member of Dubai Medical University’s Interprofessional Education Committee (IPE)

Education

• Master’s degree Clinical Sciences & Endocrinology, University of Liverpool UK
• Consultant Endocrinologist and Practicing Clinician
• Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery
• Membership of the Royal College of Physicians UK and Ireland
• Fellowship of the Royal College of Physicians UK and Ireland
• Certificate of Completion of Training UK

Research Publications

• El Houni A, Robinson A, Lorains J, Gill G. Reducing coronary risk in type 2 diabetes- an integrated risk-focused approach. Diabetic Medicine 2002; 19(Suppl.2): 28-115
• El-Houni A, Younis N, Soran H, Bowen-Jones D. Diarrhoea soon after levothyroxine replacement therapy. Q J Med 2002; 95: 125-126
• Younis N, El-Houni A, Soran H, Jones I. Management of amiodarone-induced thyrotoxicosis. Hospital Medicine 2002; 63(9): 546-48
• Vallie Y, Afandi B, El-Houni. Retrospective review of glycaemic, lipid and blood pressure control in patients with type 2 diabetes in a major UAE hospital.  Emirates Medical Journal 2007; 25 (1): 49-52
• El-Houni A, Afandi B. Hyperthyroidism following primary hypothyroidism in middle aged man. Emirates Medical Journal 2007; 25 (2): 231-232
• Khouri A, El-Houni A, Afandi B. Complicated case of prolactinoma- Emirates Medical Journal 2007; 25 (2): 241-243
• The decline in radioiodine use but not total thyroidectomy in thyroid cancer patients treated in the United Arab Emirates-A retrospective study. Azhar, Malik, Faisal Aziz, Salama Almuhairi, Mohammad Alfelasi, Ali Elhouni, Rizwan Syed, Humaid O. Al-Shamsi, and Khaled M. Aldahmani. Annals of Medicine and Surgery 64 (2021): 202-203.
• Abu Zidan FM, El-Houni A, Al-Ayyan M, Faour I, Neidl van Gorkom K & El-Taji H. Adrenal Insufficiency following Blunt Abdominal Trauma: Report of two Cases and Review of the Literature. ANZJ Surg, 2008; 78 (Suppl 1): A145
• Sajwani S, El-Houni A & Gariballa S. Not just a case of thyrotoxicosis. Emirate Medical Journal, 2008; 26(2); 129-130.
• Abu Zidan FM, El-Houni A, Al-Ayyan M, Faour I, van Gorkom K.N & El-Taji H. Adrenal insufficiency following blunt abdominal trauma: report of two cases and review of the literature. Proceedings: International Conference –Trauma Management, Critical Care and Prevention. Al Ain, UAE (2009).
• Malik A, El-Houni A, Gulshad H, Elsiah S & Al-Salam S. An interesting case of paraganglioma. BMJ Case Reports, 2009; doi:10.1136.
• El-Adawy A, El-Houni A, Khan F & Stewart A. Favourable pregnancy outcome in a complicated case of acromegaly; Abstract # 20 at 3rd annual SEHA research conference in UAE (2011) & an abstract in European Society of Endocrinology ESE clinical update meeting, Cyprus (2011).
• Abstract: EOC AD042 Differentiated Thyroid Cancer: Tawam Hospital Experience in radioiodine treatment and follow up; Moh’d Mohamadiyeh, Bachar Afandi & Ali El-Houni; The Emirates Oncology conference (2013).
• Al Mazrooei R, El-Houni A, Houcinat Y & Ghellai A; Klinefelter’s Syndrome with Retroperitoneal Teratoma Masquerading as Adrenal Mass: A Very Rare Occurrence in Adults; Ibnosina Journal of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences. 2014; 6(2).
• Afandi B, Malik AA, AlKaabi J, El-Houni A & Aziz F. Clinical Diabetes Care of Patients with Type 2 Diabetes at a Major Tertiary Care Hospital in the United Arab Emirates; Journal of Diabetes, Metabolic Disorders & Control. 2015; 2(1).
• Kalra S, Farooqi MH & El-Houni A. High-mix insulins. Indian journal of endocrinology and metabolism. 2015; 19(5):686.
• Abstract: EOC AB030: Management Challenges in a Case of ACC with Severe Hypercortisolism; Fatima AlKendi, Raya Almazrouei, Fatima Alkaabi, Sadir Al Rawi, Hassan Jafar, NadeenPervez & Ali El-Houni; The Emirates Oncology conference (2015).
• El-Houni A & O’Connell IM. Acquired Hypogonadotrophic Hypogonadism and Bipolar Disorder in a Middle-Aged Man: Unresolved and Perplexing Management Issues; Ibnosina Journal of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences. 2016; 23-25.
• Chaaban A, Gebran N, El Houni A, Alamri K & Bernieh B. Renal replacement therapy for metformin and sitagliptin overdose. Ibnosina Journal of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences. 2018; 10(2):68.
• Boharoon H & El Houni A. Maturity onset diabetes of the young: a first case description of PAX4 mutation in the UAE. Presented at Society for Endocrinology BES 2019; Endocrine Abstracts. 2019; 65. BioScientifica.
• Khaled Al Dahmani, Bachar Afandi, Ali Elhouni, Denish Dinwal, Jim Philip, Alaaeldin, Bashier, Salem A Beshyah, Nico Nagelkerke, Juma M. Alkaabi; Clinical Presentation, Treatment, and Outcome of Acromegaly in the United Arab Emirates; Oman Medical Journal [2020], Vol. 35, No. 5: e172
• Malik A, Al Muhairi S, Alfelasi M, Aziz F, El Houni A & Aldahmani K; Trend in Clinical Presentation and Management of Thyroid Cancer: Experience from a large referral centre in the UAE; Abstract in The Seventh Annual Congress of The Gulf Chapter of AACE (2019).
• Hind E Al Shamsi, Ahmed Chaaban, Abdulkader Tahari, Watfa Al Dhaheri, Ali El-Houni. Mystery case of thyroid dysfunction in teenager with Alport syndrome. Poster number 22/065 in the Sixth SEHA/ Tawam Research Conference, UAEU, 18 June 2022
• Al-Nuami M, Milad M, El Houni A. Was it a case of “Flatbush diabetes” with severe hypertriglyceridemia? A case report & literature review. Accepted, IJMBS August; 2022,