Dr. Rowena Eadie

Specialist Family Medicine

Specializations

• Health Checkups, Preventive Health, and Lifestyle Medicine
• Women’s health, including menopause and perimenopause management, contraception, Pap smears, and breast screening
• Pediatric and adolescent health, including growth and development
• Men’s health and wellness
• Travel medicine and childhood/adult vaccinations
• Diagnosis and management of acute health conditions, including upper and lower respiratory tract infections, urinary tract infections, and gastrointestinal complaints
• Diagnosis and management of chronic conditions, including hypertension, hyperlipidemia, type 2 diabetes, and asthma
• Obesity and weight management
• Musculoskeletal conditions
• Skin complaints and rashes

Experience

Dr Rowena Eadie is a highly experienced Family Medicine Specialist with more than 25 years of clinical practice in South Africa and the UAE. Her career is built on a foundation of holistic, preventive, and continuous care, guiding patients of all ages through wellness, acute illness, and chronic disease management. She regularly attends conferences both locally and internationally to stay up to date with current guidelines and best practices.

She is deeply committed to a patient-centered philosophy, offering a continuum of care grounded in trust and evidence-based medicine for the entire family.

Dr Rowena Eadie graduated from the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa, in 1989 with a Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery (MBBCh). She later specialized in Family Medicine and was awarded Membership of the Faculty of General Practitioners of South Africa in 1994, receiving the Claude Leon Harris Medal for the most outstanding candidate in the membership examination. She attained Fellowship of the College of Family Practitioners in 2006 and holds a full-time license with both the Health Professions Council of South Africa (HPCSA) and the Dubai Health Authority (DHA).

She worked in private general practice in Johannesburg before relocating to the UAE with her family in December 2012. Dr Rowena has since been practicing as a Family Medicine Specialist in Dubai for over a decade.

Qualifications

• MBBCh (Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery) – University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa
• MFGP (Member of the Faculty of General Practitioners, now known as the College of Family Physicians) – Colleges of Medicine of South Africa
• FCFP (Fellow of the College of Family Practitioners, now known as the College of Family Physicians) – Colleges of Medicine of South Africa