Dr. Nabil Ben Ahmed Khalfallah

Dr. Nabil Ben Ahmed Khalfallah is a senior Orthopedic and Trauma Surgeon at CHU Farhat Hached in Sousse — Tunisia's second-largest university hospital and the principal teaching hospital for the Université de Sousse Faculty of Medicine. Over a 21-year specialist career, Dr. Ben Ahmed Khalfallah has established himself as one of central Tunisia's leading arthroplasty surgeons, with particular expertise in total hip and knee replacement and in spinal surgery for degenerative conditions.

CHU Farhat Hached serves a large catchment area spanning the Sahel region of coastal Tunisia and receives referrals from across central and southern Tunisia for complex orthopedic cases. The hospital's orthopedic department is equipped with modern operative infrastructure and benefits from the academic environment of the Université de Sousse, where Dr. Ben Ahmed Khalfallah contributes to teaching and research activities. Sousse itself — a vibrant coastal city and one of Tunisia's major tourism centres — gives the hospital a strategic position for serving both domestic patients and medical tourists.

Dr. Ben Ahmed Khalfallah trained in Orthopedics and Trauma at the Université de Sousse, earning his DES in Chirurgie Orthopédique et Traumatologique, before completing a Fellowship in Arthroplasty in France. This advanced training in joint replacement surgery, combined with 21 years of high-volume operative experience, has made him one of the Sahel region's most trusted orthopedic surgeons for patients with disabling joint disease.

Dr. Ben Ahmed Khalfallah completed his Doctorat en Médecine and his DES in Orthopedic and Trauma Surgery at the Université de Sousse, one of Tunisia's leading medical faculties. The DES programme in orthopedic surgery in Tunisia encompasses the full breadth of the specialty including trauma, arthroplasty, spine, and paediatric orthopedics, providing comprehensive operative training. Following his specialist qualification, Dr. Ben Ahmed Khalfallah undertook a Fellowship in Arthroplasty in France — a focus that allowed him to train at a high-volume joint replacement centre, mastering contemporary implant systems, minimally invasive surgical approaches, and peri-operative optimisation protocols for hip and knee replacement. He has maintained close engagement with French orthopedic surgery through the Société Française de Chirurgie Orthopédique and attendance at SOFCOT (the French Orthopedic Congress), keeping his arthroplasty and spinal techniques aligned with European best practice.

Dr. Ben Ahmed Khalfallah's primary operative focus is arthroplasty: he performs total hip replacement (including primary, revision, and hip fracture cases) and total knee replacement (primary and revision) as his core elective procedures, with a substantial volume of cases accumulated over more than two decades. For hip replacement, he is experienced in both cemented and cementless implant systems and in approaches including the posterior and lateral approaches. For knee replacement, he performs total and unicompartmental knee replacement and is familiar with computer-assisted and image-guided techniques. His spinal surgery practice covers lumbar discectomy, lumbar decompression for spinal stenosis, and posterolateral fusion for instability. In trauma, he performs open reduction and internal fixation of major long bone and periarticular fractures. Arthroscopic procedures including knee arthroscopy (meniscus, ACL) and shoulder arthroscopy (rotator cuff) complement his elective practice.

Dr. Ben Ahmed Khalfallah has contributed to the orthopedic literature through the Société Tunisienne d'Orthopédie et de Traumatologie (STOT), presenting outcomes data on total hip and knee replacement at the society's annual congress. His research interests include prosthetic joint infection prevention, peri-operative blood management in arthroplasty, and outcomes of joint replacement in Tunisian patients with inflammatory arthritis. He has co-authored audit reports on arthroplasty outcomes at CHU Farhat Hached and contributed to multi-centre Tunisian data on fracture management outcomes. As a teaching faculty member at the Université de Sousse, he has contributed to orthopedic surgical training and examination processes for DES candidates.

Tunisia's position as a medical tourism destination extends strongly into orthopedic surgery, where total hip and knee replacement can be performed at costs 50–70% below equivalent procedures in France, the UK, or Germany, with waiting times far shorter than in European public health systems. CHU Farhat Hached in Sousse is located in a city with excellent international connectivity — Sousse-Enfidha International Airport receives direct flights from across Europe and the Arab world — making orthopedic surgical visits logistically convenient.

Dr. Ben Ahmed Khalfallah has experience consulting international patients, particularly from North Africa (Libya, Algeria), sub-Saharan Francophone Africa, and the Tunisian diaspora in France, who return to Tunisia for planned joint replacement or spinal surgery. He conducts pre-operative video consultations to review imaging (X-rays, MRI), discuss implant choice, and plan the procedure, allowing patients to arrive with a clear surgical plan. He advises on peri-operative arrangements including anaesthesia, physiotherapy, and accommodation. Post-operative follow-up can be coordinated with an orthopedic surgeon in the patient's home country for prosthetic check and rehabilitation review. All consultations are available in Arabic, French, or English.

Dr. Ben Ahmed Khalfallah is an established figure in the Société Tunisienne d'Orthopédie et de Traumatologie (STOT), where he has served in scientific committee roles and contributed to the organisation of the annual national congress. He has been recognised by the Université de Sousse Faculty of Medicine for his contributions to orthopedic surgical training and his mentorship of DES candidates. His 21-year career at CHU Farhat Hached — during which he has built a high-volume arthroplasty practice and contributed to the hospital's reputation as a regional centre for joint replacement surgery — is itself a testament to his standing as one of the Sahel's leading orthopedic surgeons.