KUWAIT: "A person is not well unless he is well as a whole," says Dr Jack Kreindler, one of the three founders of UK-based Health and Human Performance Center

that hosted a press conference yesterday at the British Embassy in Kuwait. The three multi-disciplinary doctors are here to promote their newly established medical center in London. "We are here not just to build existing relationships but more importantly, to promote our integrated and combined approach toward medicine with local Kuwaiti doctors and
government's Ministry of Health (MoH)," noted Kreindler.


The Health and Human Performance Center based at the 76 Harley Street in London is the first institute of its kind which integrates top specialists and researchers in medicine, surgery and dentistry with complimentary disciplines including clinical psychology, clinical nutrition and exercise. The center was established three years ago and are said to received patients from Kuwait continuously.

What happens to our patients when they get back to Kuwait? We want to collaborate with the local doctors and institutions here to continuously follow up their medical development. Who takes responsibility when they are out from our care? We are here to establish the link that enables us to monitor their progress," he elaborated.

Three years ago, founder doctors Kreindler, Farid Modini and Hiten Patel decided to create a new approach in medical treatment which combined together the very best care.

We considered our approach as multi-disciplinary medicine. This approach doesn't exist anywhere. We put together a team of specialists and provide the level of inter-disciplinary care for wide range of conditions for people to get the very best treatment. Not only does it combine the best in clinical specialties, but we also integrate most importantly, the key things that determine our long term health outcomes such as our nutrition, our physical fitness, psychology and health, as well as factors includin
g sleep. So we are not just involved in your clinical specialist treatment but also factors in your lifestyle," Kreindler explained.

Kreindler also hoped to work with Kuwait on issues connected to obesity and diabetes. "We share the same problems so we want to collaborate on ways to tackle obesity and influence policy. This is an issue we share, which involves not just the environment but also genetics," he said.

The Center would also like to develop educational cooperation with Kuwait. "We are interested in collaborating with Kuwait in terms of continuous learning. You have experts in Kuwait and we also have them in England. We can combine that expertise, through joint learning and sharing expertise," Dr Hiten Patel said.
Dr Patel also stressed their willingness to share technology from tele-mentoring, tele-surgery to tele-robotics.

We can do things through the internet, like we can see your doctors here while performing surgical procedures and vice versa. We would like to share information and talk to each other. Instead of Kuwaiti people going to London (for treatment), by collaborating with us, maybe we can bring technology here instead," he said. - Kuwait Times