Dr. Mohammed Al-Temimi

Board Certified Surgeon

Complex surgical oncology and hepatopancreatobiliary surgery

Colon and rectal surgery

General Surgery

Dr. Al-Temimi is a general surgeon with dual sub-specialization in complex surgical oncology and colorectal surgery. He completed medical school at the University of Baghdad. He then joined the University of Utah as a Fulbright scholar and completed a Master of Public Health with emphasis on cancer epidemiology. He finished his general surgery residency training at Arrowhead Regional Medical Center/Kaiser Fontana with excellent training in all aspects of general surgery. Dr. Al-Temimi graduated with more than 1,000 operations performed during his training.

Dr. Al-Temimi then completed Minimally invasive colon and rectal surgery fellowship at Baylor University Medical Center followed by fellowship training in Complex Surgical Oncology/Hepatopancreatobiliary surgery at Indiana University.

Upon completion of his training, Dr. Al-Temimi joined Kaiser Permanente San Francisco Medical Center as a surgical oncologist and colon/rectal surgeon. He expanded the surgical oncology program at Kaiser Permanente San Francisco Medical Center and built the highest volume robotic Hepatopancreatobiliary surgery program in Northern California. Dr. Al-Temimi and his family lived in the South Bay area over the past five years, and he is passionate about bringing compassionate, ethical and expert-level surgical care to our community in the Bay Area.

He is privileged at Good Samaritan and El Camino hospitals and he is serving as the director of surgical oncology at Good Samaritan Hospital. Over the past year, he had performed many general and GI specialty surgical procedures including the first robotic Whipple, robotic proximal gastrectomy and robotic esophagectomy in the south bay area.

Dr. Al-Temimi’s interests are GI surgical oncology program development, robotic complex GI surgery and the management of colorectal cancer, particularly colorectal cancer liver metastasis. He is the author of more than 50 peer-reviewed publications, has presented at multiple national and regional conferences, and is always at the forefront of adopting new surgical techniques and technology. He is board-certified by the American Board of Surgery (ABS) and the American Board of Colon and Rectal Surgery (ABSCRS) and certified by Americas HepatoPancreatoBiliary Association (AHPBA). He is a member of many national societies including the American College of Surgeons (ACS), Americas HepatoPancreatoBiliary Association (AHPBA) and the American Society of Colon and Rectal Surgery (ASCRS).