YOUR DOCTOR
From cardiovascular
surgery to prevention.
Years spent treating established heart disease. An increasing interest in what can be understood earlier.
Dr Rajan brings a surgical and cardiovascular background to the Clinic’s focus on abdominal obesity and metabolic health.
That is why the Clinic looks beyond a smaller waist: towards medical assessment, relevant risk factors and decisions followed through over time.
MEDICAL CONSULTANT
Dr Rajan
MBBS (1987)
MS General Surgery (1993)
A medical career that has moved from intervention towards earlier assessment, risk and prevention.
From treating the consequences
to asking earlier questions.
Dr Rajan’s career began in surgery, followed by approximately a decade of hands-on cardiovascular surgical experience. Much of that work involved people whose heart disease was already established and required intervention.
Over time, his attention increasingly turned to what happens before that point: the risk factors, metabolic changes and clinical questions that may deserve attention earlier in a person’s life.
His subsequent work at the Dubai Heart Centre brought a sustained focus on preventive cardiology, metabolic health and patients with overlapping chronic conditions. Prevention became a direction for his medical thinking, not simply a subject added to his surgical experience.
THE CAREER BEHIND THE APPROACH
Experience built
over decades.
Surgical practice, metabolic medicine and responsibility for clinical teams inform different aspects of his approach.
- 1987
Medical qualification
MBBS.
- 1993
Surgical training
MS General Surgery, followed by approximately ten postgraduate years of hands-on cardiovascular surgery.
- From 2003
Dubai Heart Centre
Lead Consultant, with work in preventive cardiology, metabolic health and chronic disease.
- 2020–2021
UAE COVID-19 response
Chief Medical Officer within a field-hospital network, with responsibility for clinical protocols and medical-team training.
- Today
The Pot Belly Clinic
Medical consultancy bringing surgical, cardiovascular and metabolic experience to the investigation of abdominal obesity.
WHY THE POT BELLY?
Not simply how the abdomen looks.
What it may be telling us.
For Dr Rajan, the connection is a clinical one: experience with established cardiovascular disease has strengthened his interest in understanding the person’s health before problems become more advanced.
THE PHILOSOPHY HE BRINGS
Investigate.
Do not simply assume.
That interest does not mean every pot belly signals heart disease. It means asking which factors may be relevant to this individual, developing a working medical explanation and deciding what can appropriately be addressed.
His field-hospital responsibilities added another perspective: organising care across medical teams, developing protocols and making decisions while evidence was changing. The same discipline matters in individual care: observe the response and reconsider the plan when new information challenges it.
The Pot Belly Clinic brings these strands together in a focused service. The purpose is earlier understanding and appropriate management of metabolic risk, rather than cosmetic correction alone.
A CLINIC, NOT A SINGLE-DOCTOR DEPENDENCY
Different doctors when appropriate.
One continuous medical picture.
Dr Rajan contributes his medical thinking and experience as a consultant. Other appropriately qualified doctors may participate, with your investigations, treatment, response and next steps held in a continuing clinical record.
The institution behind this care is STRONG4LONG. Stronger for Longer is its broader purpose; The Pot Belly Clinic remains a focused medical service.
How that thinking becomes careNEXT