Dr. Javed Raza, MBBS, is a Staff Physician within the General Surgery Department of Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi’s Digestive Disease Institute.

Prior to joining Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi, Dr. Raza was a Consultant General and Upper Gastrointestinal and Laparoscopic Bariatric Surgeon at the Royal Derby Hospital, UK. In 2010, he became the Clinical Lead for Foregut Surgery and Regional Bariatric Surgery Unit at the Royal Derby Hospital.

Dr. Raza has been a technical advisor to the National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE) in the UK for bariatric surgery since 2010 and was also involved with formulating national guidelines for provision of bariatric surgery in the UK.

Dr. Raza is also is the Vice Chairman of Midland Doctors Association in the UK, a charitable organization that delivered emergency health care following an earthquake in Pakistan in 2005. Since then, the organization has constructed and is managing an eighty-bed state of the art charitable health facility in Azad Kashmir, Pakistan.

He has extensive experience in development of bariatric services and has led the development of three bariatric surgery units in the UK. He has also helped to support the development of laparoscopic surgery in Egypt and Pakistan. His special areas of interest are bariatric surgery, foregut cancer surgery and emergency laparoscopic surgery.

Dr. Raza resides in Abu Dhabi. He enjoys poetry and Sufi music.