Dr Michael is a Consultant Paediatrician and Immunologist with over 30 years of experience. He is well known for his ability to put children and families at ease while managing both general and complex medical conditions.

He completed his medical degree at the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa, before receiving a Medical Research Council Scholarship to study bone metabolism. He continued his paediatric training in both the UK and South Africa, followed by sub-specialist training in Immunology and Allergy at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto, Canada. During this time, he was appointed Assistant Professor of Paediatrics at the University of Toronto and served as a Staff Physician in the Division of Immunology and Allergy at The Hospital for Sick Children.

In South Africa, Dr Michael held Honorary Senior Lectureships in the Department of Child Health and the Department of Immunology at the University of Witwatersrand.

In the Middle East, he has served as Senior Consultant Paediatrician at the King Fahad National Guard Hospital in Riyadh, Head of Allergy and Immunology at the King Faisal Specialist Hospital in Riyadh, and Chief of Paediatrics at the American Hospital Dubai.

In 2007, Dr Michael established Infinity Family Medicine Clinic in Dubai, which he managed until 2019 before moving to Circle Care Clinic, where he played a key role in its development.

• European Society for Immunodeficiency
• Clinical Immunology Society

Dr Michael combines deep expertise in paediatrics, immunology, and allergy with a strong commitment to delivering compassionate, family-centred care. He continues to uphold the highest standards of medical practice, providing trusted support for children and families across the region.

If you’d like an appointment with Dr Michael, please do get in touch.

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• Loubser, MD, Hoh,M., and Sreeram, N. Sudden Death in Incomplete Kawasaki Disease. Archives of Diseases in Childhood. 1989; 64:637-638.
• Loubser, MD, Mahoney, P., and Milligan, D W A. Hazards of Routine Endotracheal Suction in the Neonatal Unit. The Lancet. 1989; 24 June p1444-1445.
• I R Friedland and Loubser, M D. Prolonged Salmonella Bacteraemia Associated with Schistosomiasis in an Infant. Transaction of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. 1990; 84:121.
• Loubser, MD Limb Pain in Childhood. CME South Africa’s Continuing Medical Education Monthly. 1993; 11: 1305-1317.
• Loubser, MD, Davies, V A., Meyers, K E C and Christianson, A L. Severe Illness Caused by Rickettsia Canorii. Annals of Tropical Pediatrics. 1993; 13:277-280.
• Loubser MD, Meydan, N., and Roifman, C.M. Approach to the Child with Primary Immune Deficiency. Pract Allergy Immunol. 1994;3:166-126.
• Santisteban, Arredondo-Vega, F X., Kelly, S., Loubser, M D, Meydan, N., Roifman, C., Howell, P L., Bowen, T., Weinberg, K I., Schroeder, M L., Hershfield, M S. Three new adenosine deaminase mutations that define a splicing enhancer and cause severe and partial phenotypes: implications for evolution of a CpG hotspot and expression of a transduced ADA cDNA. Human Molecular Genetics. 1995; 4:2081-2087.
• Loebstein, R., Dalal, I., Nisbet-Brown, E., Berkovitch, M., Meydan, N., Andrews, D., Loubser, M D, Koren, G., Roifman, C M., Olivieri, N F. Immune function in patients with B-thalassaemia receiving the orally active iron-chelating agent deferiprone. Br J Haematol. 1997 Sep;98(3):597-600.
• Arredondo-Vega FX, Santisteban I, Richard E, Bali P, Koleilat M, Loubser M, Al-Ghonaium A, Al-Helali M, Hershfield MS. Adenosine deaminase deficiency with mosaicism for a “second-site suppressor” of a splicing mutation: decline in revertant T lymphocytes during enzyme replacement therapy. Blood. 2002 Feb 1;99(3):1005-13.
• Picard C, Fieschi C, Altare F, Al-Jumaah S, Al-Hajjar S, Feinberg J, Dupuis S, Soudais C, Al-Mohsen IZ, Genin E, Lammas D, Kumararatne DS, Leclerc T, Rafii A, Frayha H, Murugasu B, Wah LB, Sinniah R, Loubser M, Okamoto E, Al-Ghonaium A, Tufenkeji H, Abel L, Casanova JL. Inherited interleukin-12 deficiency: IL12B genotype and clinical phenotype of 13 patients from six kindreds. Am J Hum Genet. 2002 Feb;70(2):336-48.
• Ferrari S, Giliani S, Insalaco A, Al-Ghonaium A, Soresina AR, Loubser M, Avanzini MA, Marconi M, Badolato R, Ugazio AG, Levy Y, Catalan N, Durandy A, Tbakhi A, Notarangelo LD, Plebani A. Mutations of CD40 gene cause an autosomal recessive form of immunodeficiency with hyper IgM. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2001 Oct 23;98(22):12614-9.
• Loubser MD A Practical Approach to Antibody Deficiency Syndromes. Current Allergy and Clinical Immunology 2005 Nov 18 (4):169-174.
• Fernandes JF1, Rocha V, Labopin M, Neven B, Moshous D, Gennery AR, Friedrich W, Porta F, Diaz de Heredia C, Wall D, Bertrand Y, Veys P, Slatter M, Schulz A, Chan KW, Grimley M, Ayas M, Gungor T, Ebell W, Bonfim C, Kalwak K, Taupin P, Blanche S, Gaspar HB, Landais P, Fischer A, Gluckman E, Cavazzana-Calvo M; Eurocord and Inborn Errors Working Party of European Group for Blood and Marrow Transplantation. Transplantation in patients with SCID: mismatched related stem cells or unrelated cord blood? Blood 2012 Mar 22;119(12):2949-55
• Pavlovic MA and Loubser MD. Paroxysmal Acral Haematoma is a More Appropriate Name for Achenbach Syndrome. Clin and Exp Derm 2019 44:18-19e
• Pavlovic, MD and Loubser MD. The Effect of Platelet-rich Plasma Injection for Rejuvination of Photoaged Facial Skin: A randomized Clinical Trial. JAMA Dermatology JAMA Dermatol. 2019 Jun 1;155(6):755