Dr Maria Angelo-Khattar PhD
Managing Director - Aesthetica Clinic Oasis Center, Dubai

Dr. Angelo-Khattar obtained her B.Sc. Honours and Ph.D. from King's College and St. Mary's Hospital Medical School, University of London. She is a fellow of Royal Society of Medicine, UK.
1977-1990 served as Assistant and then Associate Professor at the Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Kuwait. In 1984, Dr. Khattar established the Toxicology Unit, a joint venture between the Ministry of Health and the Faculty of Medicine, Kuwait Univeristy. The unit offered a comprehensive analytical services to all Ministry of Health Hospitals including Therapeutic Drug Monitoring, Drug Abuse screening and Toxicological Screening in cases of acute poisoning. The Toxicology Unit in Kuwait was the only one of its kind in the Middle East, at the time.
Dr. Khattar has published 40 papers in International journals and left Academia in 1990 during the Gulf War. She was reinstated in 1991as visiting Associate Professor at the Faculty of Medicine, Kuwait University for a period of 18 months, following which she was obliged to relocate to Dubai, UAE.
1998 Dr. Khattar started a Business in retail Pharmacy in the United Arab Emirates, which is now the Lifestyle chain of Pharmacies.
2002 Dr. Khattar established Aesthetica Clinic, dedicated to non-surgical skin refinement and rejuvenation as well as Aesthetica Drug Store which specialises in the trading of Dermo-cosmeceutical products and Isolagen, the autologous fibroblast transfer treatment.

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