Chief Executive Officer Consultant
Director of Infection Prevention and Control Department
Education:
- MD. Clinical Pathology (Microbiology), Faculty of Medicine, Ain Shams University, Cairo.
- MSc. Clinical Pathology (Microbiology), Faculty of Medicine, Ain Shams University, Cairo.
- BSc. Medicine and Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, Ain Shams University, Cairo.
- Professional certificate in Infection Control from University of Paris-6/ Pitie- Salpetriere Hospital, France, 1991.
Courses and Diplomas:
- Hospital management intensive course, AUC, 1987
- Hospital management course, ASU, 2004
- Medical Statistics Diploma, 1989
- Internal Auditing ISO, 2000- 2004- 2007
- Free-lance Consultant Infodemic Management of WHO, 2020
- External Consultant IPC WHO/ EMRO 2021
Memberships:
- Egyptian Society of Laboratory Medicine, since 1989.
- The French Medical Society of Egypt, 1994.
- Egyptian Society of Infection Control, since 1997.
- International Federation of Infection Control, since 2001.
- Association NOSOMED, 2002.
- President SPIC-EGYPT, 2008 to date.
- French Society of Hospital Hygiene, (SPIC-EGYPT partner), 2010.
- Secretary of IFIC, EMRO coordinator, from March 2014 to December 2017.
- Vice – President, Club France- Egypt, 2015 to December 2017.
- Board Member of IFIC for EMRO region, from Jan 2012 to December 2021.
Selected Publications:
- Survey of the potential sources of hospital acquired infection, MS Thesis, 1990.
- Rapid diagnosis of the human CMV, MD Thesis, 1995.
- Clostridium difficile associated diarrhea in hospitalized tube fed patients, 2001.
- Molecular typing of Stenotrophomonas maltophilia in an intensive care nursery, 2002.
- B-lactamase and mex-R gene mutation in a nosocomial outbreak of carbapenem resistant Pseudomonas, 2004.
- Diagnosis-Based Isolation Measures in the ICU, 2005.
- Developing a Rational Approach of Surgical Site Infection Prevention in a Tertiary Care Hospital in Cairo, 2008.
- A Microbial Survey of Food Served to Oncohematology Patients at a University Hospital, 2011.
- One Health Concept. 2018.
- Success of Antimicrobial Stewardship Program: Is it Awareness or Behavior Change? 2019.