Cleveland Clinic has announced the opening of a new state-of-the-art cancer facility, named the Fatima bint Mubarak Center, at Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi.
Tom Mihaljevic, MD
“[This] marks the next step in fulfilling our mission to provide compassionate, complex care in the United Arab Emirates [UAE)]” said Tom Mihaljevic, MD, Chief Executive Officer (CEO), and President and Morton L. Mandel CEO Chair of Cleveland Clinic. “Eight years ago, our mission in the UAE began with the opening of Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi. It continues with the Fatima bint Mubarak Center, which will allow patients to receive world-class cancer care in the UAE.”
Clinical Trials and Services in the Middle East
The Fatima bint Mubarak Center is modeled after Cleveland Clinic’s Taussig Cancer Center. It is a facility of 205,000 square feet in which cutting-edge, personalized care is provided for each patient’s cancer journey. The new cancer facility brings an integrated and transformative approach to diagnosing and treating the disease in the UAE and the Middle East.
Alex A. Adjei, MD, PhD
Stephen Grobmyer, MD
“Our vision is for anyone diagnosed with cancer to have access to the most advanced care in a way that’s convenient for them,” says Alex A. Adjei, MD, PhD, Chair of Cleveland Clinic Taussig Cancer Institute. “Cleveland Clinic offers that through its comprehensive global network of cancer experts who share best practices and provide patients around the world personalized treatments and innovative clinical trials.”
The Cleveland Clinic’s global cancer team includes more than 800 physicians, researchers, nurses, and technicians who care for thousands of patients each year and provide access to a wide range of clinical trials. The Fatima bint Mubarak Center employs an expert team of 150 nurses, physicians, and radiologists who have experience caring for patients with cancer. Clinicians at this center will collaborate with colleagues at Cleveland Clinic’s cancer program in the United States to bring multidisciplinary care, precision medicine, and cell-based therapy to patients in the Middle East.
“Cleveland Clinic will bring cancer clinical trials from North America to the Middle East,” commented Stephen Grobmyer, MD, Chair of the Oncology Institute at Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi. “This will establish a foundation for patients to have access to the latest and best treatments, from early to late stages of disease.”
Beyond clinical services, the facility will house critical support services intended to reduce cancer’s psychological stress, including a healing, comforting environment offering meditation and spiritual areas, and a rooftop and surrounding gardens.
Honoring H.H. Sheikha Fatima bint Mubarak
The naming of Abu Dhabi’s cancer center honors the pivotal leadership role played by H.H. Sheikha Fatima bint Mubarak, Chairwoman of the General Women’s Union, President of the Supreme Council for Motherhood and Childhood, Supreme Chairwoman of the Family Development Foundation, and the Mother of the Nation, in the development of the UAE’s health-care sector. The name recognizes the pivotal gift from the UAE to Cleveland Clinic, made in the name of H.H. Sheikha Fatima bint Mubarak.
