Dr. Sumayah Sulaiman Bafana

📌 Basic Information:

• Current Title: Consultant Internal Medicine and Rheumatology.

• Specialty: Medicine and Rheumatology (Non-Surgical).

• Sub-Specialty: Adult Rheumatology.

• Medical License: Consultant, Saudi Commission for Health Specialties (SCFHS).

• Years of Experience: 15 Years.

• Languages: Arabic, English.

🎓 Education:

• Saudi Fellowship in Adult Rheumatology.

• Saudi Board of Internal Medicine.

• Bachelor of Medicine & Surgery (MBBS), Umm Al-Qura University.

🩺 Conditions & Procedures: Specializes in treating adults (from 18 years of age), providing care in:

• Conditions:

  • Acute and chronic joint pain, and chronic back pain.

  • Autoimmune rheumatic diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis, lupus, psoriatic arthritis, ankylosing spondylitis, vasculitis, myositis, and other autoimmune diseases.

  • Familial Mediterranean Fever.

  • Gout.

  • Steroids-induced Osteoporosis.

• Procedures:

  • Steroids and hyaluronic acid injections.

  • Joint fluid aspiration.

🏅 Memberships:

• Saudi Society for Rheumatology.

🏆 Privileges:

• Hospital admission.

• Joint aspiration and joint injection.

• Soft tissue and bursa injection.

• Immune suppression prescription and biological therapy prescription.

📚 Publications:

• Rituximab Positioning and utilizing in Rheumatoid Arthritis patients 2024.