Muneer Abdul-Munim Al-Ali

Muneer Al-Ali, urological and transplantation surgeon, was born (18 May 1944) in Al-Hindiya , a central Iraqi town situated between Karbala and Al-Hilla. He is a member of the Al-Ali, an offshoot of Bani Malik tribe. He attended school in Al-Hindiya until 1951,when he moved to Baghdad where he lived until he migrated out of Iraq in 1994. Al-Ali received M.B.,Ch.B. degree (bachelor's degree in medicine and surgery) at the Medical College, Baghdad University, in 1966. He received the Fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons, Edinburgh(FRCS) in 1974. He has also shown interest in Arabic ethnopharmacology. He is also interested in History and Spirituality and the interplay between faith and science, to which he has contributed .

Personal life

Al-Ali was married to Zahra Witwit, with whom he has two sons; Firas and Wisam and a daughter; Asil, and after she died he got married to Widad Witwit. In 1994, he left Iraq with his family to Jordan then to Libya until 1997, when officially migrated to New Zealand, then to UK in 1999 where he settled.

Medical career

In 1975, he was appointed as consultant surgeon at Erbil Military Hospital, Iraq and moved in 1976 to Al-Rasheed Military Teaching Hospital as a consultant urological and transplantation surgeon at the Urology & Transplantation Dept. and then as head of the department until he migrated in 1994. He is one of the pioneers of kidney transplantation in the Arab world in the early seventies of the last century . He innovated several urological operations for the treatment of challenging urological diseases and injuries involving the kidney and urinary tract viz. kidney autotransplantation for complicated overlooked injuries of the ureter, staged total urethroplasty for complex urethral injuries, optical urethroplasty for long urethral occlusions, and posterior trans-sphincteric anterior rectal wall advancement(TSARA) for complicated recto- urethral fistulae, optical procedures for the rehabilitation of the neuropathic bladder. He left Iraq in 1994 and had since held the post of consultant urologist ± transplant surgeon at the following hospitals in various countries mostly in UK, as follows:

•Royal Liverpool University Hospital,Liverpool, UK

•Swansea University Hospitals, Wales, UK

•Addenbrookes Hospital, Cambridge, UK

•St Bartholomew's Hospital, London, UK

•The Royal London Hospital, London, UK

•Homerton University Hospital, London, UK

•Kettering General Hospital, UK

•Western General Hospital, Edinburgh, UK

•James Cook University Hospital, Middlesbrough, UK

•Glasgow Royal Infirmary & Stobhill Hospitals, Glasgow, UK

•Royal Bournemouth Hospital, UK

•Central Middlesex Hospital, London, UK

• Emirates International Hospital, Al-Ain, UAE

• Dunedin University Hospital, Dunedin, New Zealand

Academic career

• Professor of Urology, The Military Medical College, Baghdad, lraq.

• Vice-President, Urology Board, Iraqi Commission for Medical Specialization which grants the degree of Fellowship of the Iraqi Board of Urology (FIBU).

• Program Director & Supervisor (Urology), AI-Rasheed Centre for Higher Medical Education, Baghdad, Iraq.

• Supervisor & Examiner ( M.Sc. and Ph.D Degrees) & Peer reviewer. University of Baghdad, Iraq.

• Examiner, Saddam Medical College, Baghdad, lraq.

• Examiner, AI-Mustansyriah Medical College, Baghdad, Iraq.

• Clinical Senior Lecturer, Dunedin School of Medicine, New Zealand.

Publications (medical)

• MRI of the bladder neck, urethra and seminal tract. In Book :Endocavitary MRI of the Pelvis (chapter 4) ed. N.de Souza, pp. 51–62. London, Harwood Academic Publishers (2001).

• Johanson's staged urethroplasty revisited in the salvage treatment of 68 complex urethral stricture patients: presentation of total urethroplasty: European Urology, 39:268-71(2001)+ Editorial comment by Prof. Mundy.

• Genito-urinary carcinoid tumours: Initial report of ureteral carcinoid tumour: Journal of Urology, 163(6): 1864-1865 (2000).

• Experience with 30 post-traumatic recto-urethral fistulae: Presentation of the posterior trans-sphincteric anterior rectal wall Advancement (TSARA): Journal of Urology, 158: 421 (1997)

• Endoscopic repair in 154 cases of urethral occlusion: The promise of guided optical urethral reconstruction (GOUR): Journal of Urology, 157: 129 (1997).

• The late treatment of 63 patients with overlooked or complicated missile ureteric injuries: The promise of nephrostomy and the role of aurotransplantation: Journal of Urology, 156:1918 (1996).

• A 10-year review of the endoscopic treatment of the vesical outlet obstruction in spinal cord injured patients (125 cases): does bladder neck dyssynergia exist? Paraplegia (now Spinal Cord), 34:34 (1996).

• Phenoxybenzamine in the management of neuropathic bladder following spinal cord injury: Aust.N.Z.J.Surg. 69: 660(1999).

• Surgically treated superficial transitional cell carcinomas of the bladder: the role of radical surgery: Saudi Med J., 23(6):695 (2002).

• Serum sodium changes during and after TUR –prostatectomy : Saudi Med J, 22(9): 765-768 (2001).

• Experience with 334 urethral strictures treated with urethroplasty or optical Urethrotomy: Emirates Med J, 19(2):96-99 (2001).

• Emphysematous pyelonephritis with large perinephric haematoma: case report & literature review: Middle East Journal of Emergency Medicine, 1(1):45-46 (2001).

• Bladder rehabilitation in patients with spinal cord injury: Egyptian Journal of Rheumatology and Rehabilitation, 15:83-89 (1988).

• Renal allograft rupture: Scandinavian Journal of Urology & Nephrology

• Leiomyosarcoma of the urinary Bladder (4 cases): Qatar Medical Journal, 11(2): 62-54 (2002).

• Tribulus Terrestris: Preliminary study of its diuretic and contractile effects and comparison with Zea mays: J. Ethnopharmacology, 85(2-3): 257-260 (2003)

• Book : Emergency Care of Surgical Patients: Army Press, Baghdad, Iraq

Books (non-medical)

• A Scientific Tafsir of Qur’anic Verses; Interplay of Faith and Science: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform (Amazon), South Carolina, USA Hard copy and Electronic (Kindle).

• A Scientific Tafsir of Qur’an; Conversation of Faith and Science (in Arabic): Arab Scientific Publishers, Beirut, Lebanon . التفسير العلمي للقرآن الكريم (وحوار الايمان والعلم)..الدار العربية للعلوم ناشرون , بيروت , لبنان

• Arabic translation of "Faith and Its Critics, A Conversation" by David Fergusson Al-Faraby Publishers, Beirut, Lebanon. حوار الايمان ومنتقديه...دار الفارابي للنشر, بيروت , لبنان

References

• https://academic.microsoft.com/#/search?iq=Composite(AA.AuN%253D%253D'muneer%2520alali')&q=muneer%20al%20ali&filters=&from=0&sort=0
• https://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=muneer+al-ali