WORLDWIDE CANCER NETWORK - Key Persons
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After completing an ophthalmology residency at Cairo University, Dr Fawzi completed two years of research fellowship at UCLA. She went on to complete another ophthalmology residency at UCLA, followed by a vitreoretinal surgical fellowship at the Doheny Eye Institute, University of Southern California. Dr. Fawzi was appointed to the faculty of USC, Keck School of Medicine in July 2006, where she specializes in surgical and medical retinal disease. She has received several awards at UCLA and USC for her clinical work and her research. Dr. Fawzi is a member of the USC Biomimetic Microelectronic Systems-Engineering Research Center at USC, where she collaborates on several projects. Dr. Fawzi's research interests include hyperspectral imaging modalities for retinal diseases, and novel, non-invasive therapeutic approaches to retinal disease.
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- Member of the Board of Directors
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- Reviewer
Dr. Mohamad Abou El-Nasr was born in Beirut, Lebanon in 1971. He is a Professor and Head of Computer Engineering department, Arab Academy for Science, Technology & Maritime Transport (AASTMT), Alexandria, Egypt. He is also affiliated with Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University where he works as an adjunct professor in the Bradley Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering - Virginia Tech- Middle East and North Africa (VT-MENA) program.
Dr. Abou El-Nasr received the B.Sc degree with highest honor from Arab Academy for Science, Technology & Maritime Transport (AASTMT) in 1995. He earned both his Ph.D. and M.Sc. in Electrical and Computer Engineering in 2003 and 1999, respectively, from the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta GA, USA. While at Georgia Tech, he received the International Graduate Student Scholarship and M.S. Dean's Honor List of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department in 1998 and 1999, respectively. He also received the Multi-disciplinary program award in manufacturing in 2003. He joined the faculty at the Arab Academy for Science, Technology and Maritime Transport (AASTMT) in June 2003, and became the Head of Computer Engineering department in 2008.
Dr. Abou El-Nasr works on multiple areas, and his research spans a wide spectrum of topics in the field of computer and communications networks. His research group works on different projects related to UWB systems, physical layer issues in wireless networks, VANET security issues, human locomotion tracking, wireless ad-hoc networks, intelligent semantic web, cross-layer design for moving in mobile and ad-hoc networks, embedded systems design and FPGA implementation of face detection and recognition algorithms as well intrusion detection systems. He graduated one Ph.D. and fifteen master students. He is currently supervising four Ph.D. and ten master students.
Dr. Abou El-Nasr has coauthored two book chapters and more than 40 papers in refereed journals and renowned conferences. He received many awards for his distinguished research including, the third place in the wireless design contest that was held by Lantronix at the Embedded system Design conference CA in 2007, Computer Engineering Department at AASTMT distinction award in 2004, AASTMT outstanding scientific research award for distinguished publications in international and highly recognized periodicals (four times), AASTMT college of engineering graduation project competition (received 2nd place out of 93 projects admitted to the competition) in 2011, and he was the supervisor of two recipients of the young scientist awards at the URSI general assembly in 2008 and 2011.
Dr. Abou El-Nasr serves as a reviewer for multiple international conferences and journals, and a permanent Technical Program Committee (TPC) member of the International Conference on Computer Theory and Applications (ICCTA). He is also the Middle East and Africa Chapter Head, Institute of Computer Sciences, Social Technologies and Telecommunications. He is a current Member of IEEE, IEEE communications and computer societies, a member of ACM, and a member of ASEE.
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- Member of the Board of Directors
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Dr. Noreddin received his Ph.D. in Pharmaceutical Sciences from the University of the Pacific, California and received research training as a visiting scholar at the Department of Medicine, Stanford University. He had postdoctoral fellowship (Pharmacokinetics and Pharmacodynamics of Antimicrobials), Department of Medical Microbiology, University of Manitoba followed by an American College of Clinical Pharmacy postdoctoral fellowship (Infectious Diseases). Dr. Noreddin's research interest includes Pharmacoklinetic/Pharmacodynamic modeling of anti-infective and anti-cancer therapy, clinical simulation and Monte Carlo analysis and bacterial resistance in biofilm studies. Dr. Noreddin has outstanding records of scientific and academic accomplishments with multiple research funding, numerous publications in highly prestigious journals and various presentations in both national and international conferences. He served as a scientific reviewer for the NIH as well as other national and international research institutions
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- Director of the Center for Remote Sensing
- Member of the United States National Committee for Geological Sciences of the National Academy of Sciences
- Research Professor and Director of the Center for Remote Sensing at Boston
Dr. Farouk El-Baz is Research Professor and Director of the Center for Remote Sensing at Boston University, Boston, MA, U.S.A. He is Adjunct Professor of Geology at the Faculty of Science, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt. He is also a Member of the Board of Trustees of the Geological Society of America Foundation, Boulder CO.He was born on 1 January 1938 in the Nile Delta town of Zagazig. Twenty years later, he received a B.Sc. in chemistry and geology from Ain Shams University, followed by a scholarship for graduate study. In 1961, he received a M.S. degree in geology from the Missouri School of Mines and Metallurgy; his performance won him membership in the honorary society of Sigma Xi. In 1964 he received a Ph.D. in geology from the University of Missouri after conducting research in 1962-1963 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge MA. In 1989, he received an Honorary Doctor of Science (D.Sc.) degree from the New England College, Henniker NH.
Dr. El-Baz taught geology at Assiut University, Egypt (1958-1960) and the University of Heidelberg, Germany (1964-1965). He joined the Pan American - U.A.R. Oil Company in 1966, where he participated in the discovery of El-Morgan, the first offshore oil field in the Gulf of Suez.
From 1967 to 1972, Dr. El-Baz participated in the Apollo Program as Supervisor of Lunar Science Planning at Bellcomm Inc., a division of AT&T that conducted systems analysis for NASA Headquarters in Washington DC. During these six years, he was Secretary of the Landing Site Selection Committee for the Apollo missions to the Moon, Principal Investigator of Visual Observations and Photography, and Chairman of the Astronaut Training Group. His outstanding teaching abilities were confirmed by the Apollo astronauts. While circling the Moon for the first time during Apollo mission 15, Alfred Worden said, "After the King's [Farouk's nickname] training, I feel like I've been here before."
During the Apollo years, Dr. El-Baz joined NASA officials in briefing members of the press on the results of the lunar missions. His appeal rested in a unique ability to simplify complex issues in clear, succinct and easily understood words. His remarks on the scientific accomplishments were regularly quoted by the media during the Apollo missions.
In Episode 10 ("Galileo Was Right") of the TV series "From the Earth to the Moon," produced by Tom Hanks for HBO, his role in the training of the Apollo astronauts was featured in a segment entitled: "The Brain of Farouk El-Baz." In his honor, the popular television program "Star Trek: The Next Generation" featured a shuttle craft named "El-Baz."
After the Apollo Program ended in 1972, Dr. El-Baz joined the Smithsonian Institution in Washington DC to establish and direct the Center for Earth and Planetary Studies at the National Air and Space Museum. At the same time, he was elected as a member of the Lunar Nomenclature Task Group of the International Astronomical Union. In this capacity, he continues to participate in naming features of the Moon as revealed by lunar photographic missions.
Dr. El-Baz is a member of the United States National Committee for Geological Sciences of the National Academy of Sciences. He serves on the Board of Trustees of the new Alexandria Library, the Arab Science and Technology Foundation, the Egyptian Center for Economic Studies, the Egyptian-American Affairs Council, the Moroccan-American Council, the World Affairs Council of Boston, as well as the editorial boards of several international professional journals. He is a member of many national and international professional societies and a Fellow of the Geological Society of America, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Royal Astronomical Society (London), and the Explorers Club (New York).
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- Member of the Medical Advisory Committee
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- Member of the Leadership Team
- Member of the Medical Advisory Committee
A native of Egypt, Dr. Hamoda completed a psychiatry residency at the Harvard South Shore program followed by a fellowship in child and adolescent psychiatry at Children's Hospital Boston/ Harvard Medical School. He also has a Masters in Public Health from the Harvard School of Public Health. He is currently an attending psychiatrist at Children's Hospital Boston and an Instructor at the Harvard Medical School. He has over 30 publications and poster presentations and his academic accomplishments have been recognized through awards from Children's Hospital Boston, Harvard Medical School and several national and international organizations including the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, the American Psychiatric Association, the International Association of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Allied Professions, the American Association of Directors of Psychiatry Residency Training, and the Group for Advancement of Psychiatry. He has also consulted to the Eastern Mediterranean Office of the World Health Organization on Mental Health services in the region.
Dr. Hamoda has also been actively involved with non-govermental organizations and community work. He was elected as the project director of the International Federation of Medical Students Associations (IFMSA) and served as a Co-Chairperson of the 2010 Harvard Arab Weekend Medicine and Public Health Conference. He also serves as Secretary of the NGO American Board Certified Doctors for Egypt (ABCDE) and as a founding member of Egypt NEGMA.
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- Member of the Medical Advisory Committee
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- President of the Board of Directors
- Assistant Clinical Professor at the UCLA School of Medicine
- Board Certified Plastic Surgeon
- Jonathan Bailey Architect
Dr. Hisham Seify is a Board Certified Plastic Surgeon in Newport Beach California specializing in aesthetic and reconstructive Plastic Surgery. He is a fellow of the American College of Surgeons and an active member of the American Society of plastic Surgeons (ASPS). Dr. Seify spent nearly 13 years in post-graduate training. He was trained in general and plastic surgery overseas before coming to the US in 1998 to finish his Doctor of Science Degree thesis at Emory University.
At Emory University he was privileged to attend advanced training in Endoscopic Plastic Surgery with the late Dr. John Bostwick. He conducted multiple clinical and basic science research projects on newer techniques in the applications of Endoscopic Plastic Surgery which were presented in national meetings and published in peer reviewed journals. This research constituted the main stem of his PhD thesis which he defended in February of 2000.
Following this, he engaged in general surgery training and plastic surgery training at Emory University, during which time he also served as Administrative Chief Resident in Plastic Surgery. Dr. Seify participated in specialized training in Occuloplastic Surgery with Dr. Clinton McCord at Paces Plastic Surgery in Atlanta. He developed a special interest in surgery of the eye lids and the lacrimal system.
Dr. Seify is the 2007 recipient of the prestigious Sherrell J. Aston Award from the American Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery. He published a wide range of scientific articles and has also contributed chapters to medical textbooks on the subject of plastic surgery.
He has lectured and presented scientific papers nationally and overseas. Since 2008 , he is the invited visiting professor to hospitals overseas to perform surgeries on both civilians and veterans. Since 2007, His Orange County Practice in collaboration with Emory University has been inviting international guest plastic surgeons for both training and research.
While training at The Emory Clinic, a world renowned center for aesthetic and reconstructive breast surgery, Dr. Seify developed a special interest in surgery of the breast including augmentation, reduction and reconstruction.
He is currently the President of the Egypt Cancer Network designed to help children and adults with cancer. He is also a board member of several health care organizations e.g United Doctors of California and Future care.
Dr. Seify is currently an Assistant Clinical Professor at the UCLA School of Medicine as well as being a Clinical Assistant Professor at the University of California at Irvine (UCI medical Center). He is affiliated with several of Orange County's premier hospitals including Hoag, Saddleback, and Fountain Valley Hospitals. All of which are recognized for their outstanding health care contributions to the southern California area.
Dr. Hisham Seify is a Board Certified Plastic Surgeon. He is a fellow of the American College of Surgeons, an active member of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS) and The American Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgeons (ASAPS).
Dr. Seify graduated from Cairo University with honors in 1992. He spent 13 years in post-graduate training, earning a masters degree, a PhD and board certification in plastic surgery. He finished his plastic surgery Fellowship at Emory University in 2005. He furthered his surgical training with a fellowship in Occuloplastic and aesthetic Plastic Surgery.
He is currently an Associate Clinical Professor at the David Geffen UCLA School of Medicine in addition to being in private practice in Newport Beach CA.
Dr. Seify has published a wide range of scientific articles, book and medical textbooks chapters on the subject of plastic surgery. He has lectured and presented scientific papers nationally and overseas. Since 2008, he has been a visiting professor and guest speakers to hospitals overseas to perform surgeries on both civilians and veterans.
He is the Winner of the 2007 prestigious Sherrell Aston Award form the American Society of Aesthetic Plastic surgeons (ASAPS). He is the winner of the 2013-2017 Orange county Physicians of excellence award as well as being the winner of the 2012- 2016 US News Top Doctors In America award by Castle Connelly and US News. He is the president elect for the Orange County Society of Plastic Surgeons.
He has been the chairman of the Board of World Wide Cancer Network since 2011.
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- Member of the Board of Directors
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- Chief of the Nuclear Medicine Service and Director of the Nuclear Medicine Residency
Dr. Hussein M. Abdel-Dayem is the Chief of the Nuclear Medicine Service and Director of the Nuclear Medicine Residency training program at SVCMC and Professor of Radiology at the New York Medical College since 1992. He is a Fellow of the American College of Nuclear Medicine (past President), and Fellow of the American College of Nuclear Physicians.
Dr. Abdel-Dayem has published over 250 papers in refereed journals and 8 book chapters. He serves as an editorial board member and reviewer for 8 journals, including Radiology, Journal of Nuclear Medicine, European Journal of Nuclear Medicine, Cancer, Gastroenterology and the American Journal of Clinical Oncology. His current areas of interest include new developments in the field of Nuclear Medicine, Nuclear Oncology, Nuclear Cardiology, Obstructive Uropathy, Infection Localization, Traumatic Brain Injury, training and education.
Dr. Abdel-Dayem has been named one of the "Best Doctors in New York" from 2000 to 2006 and one of the "Top Healthcare Professionals" in 2005.
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- Professor of Tumour Surgery at the University of California
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- Member of the Board of Directors
- Member of the Leadership Team
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- Member of the Medical Advisory Committee
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- Architect
- Jonathan Bailey Architect
The international architectural design firm Jonathan Bailey has been selected by CCHE to design the planned CCHE expansion. An American firm, Jonathan Bailey was chosen as it is renowned for its unique vision for healthcare facilities. Not only is Jonathan Bailey an expert in hospital design, but firm leaders also know current European and American benchmark standards for pediatrics, oncology and hospital design. They have numerous healthcare facilities in their repertoire located in the Arab world and in other global locations and we are confident that they will build on CCHE's image of being a world class hospital.
Jonathan Bailey was selected from a pool of many proposals to design the expansion, which
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- POSITION TITLE / Director, Nursing / Patient Services, Pediatric Hematology / Oncology
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- Member of the Board of Directors
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- Treasurer of the Board of Directors
- Director of Pediatric Medical Neuro - Oncology at Dana - Farber Cancer Institute
- Member of the Society for Neuro - Oncology
Mark W. Kieran, MD, PhD, is Director of Pediatric Medical Neuro-Oncology at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Children's Hospital Boston. He is also an Associate Professor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Kieran's primary research interest is the development of new therapies for children with brain tumors. His laboratory has tested many new biologic and anti-angiogenic agents and many of these are currently being tested in patients. Dr Kieran is the Principal Investigator at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute for the Pediatric Oncology Experimental Therapeutics Investigators Consortium (POETIC); he is a co-chair of the malignant glioma section of the Children's Oncology Group (COG) and is the chair of the glioma section of the Department of Defense (DOD) NF1 Consortium.
Dr. Kieran is a member of the Society for Neuro-Oncology, the Society of Pediatric Research, and the American Society for Clinical Oncology. He is the editor in chief of Clinical Oncology in Adolescent and Young Adult and serves on the Editorial Board of Neuro-Oncology. Dr. Kieran is an ad hoc reviewer for many journals including the New England Journal of Medicine, Pediatric Blood and Cancer, Cancer Research, and the Journal of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology. He is a recipient of many awards including the Nick Palmer Lecture Award from the International Symposium on Pediatric Neuro-Oncology and presents lectures both at home and abroad, most recently at the Children's Cancer Institute of Egypt and the Beijing Children's Hospital.
Dr. Kieran received his PhD in 1983 from the University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada, and his MD in 1986 from the University of Calgary. He completed postgraduate training in molecular biology at the Pasteur Institute in Paris. After a pediatric residency at McGill University in Montreal, he received postdoctoral education at Children's Hospital Boston. Dr. Kieran became Director of Pediatric Medical Neuro-Oncology at Dana-Farber in 1999.
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- Member of the Board of Directors
- Member of the Leadership Team
- Managing Director and Co - Founder / Citadel
- Managing Director and Co - Founder of Citadel Capital
Mr. Hisham El-Khazindar is Managing Director and Co-Founder of Citadel Capital, the leading private equity firm in the Middle East and Africa. Established in 2004, Citadel Capital controls investments in excess of US$ 8 billion in industries including mining, oil and gas, cement, transportation and food.
Prior to co-founding Citadel Capital in 2004, Mr. El-Khazindar was Executive Director of Investment Banking at EFG-Hermes, a leading regional investment bank, where he advised on key transactions in the Middle East and Africa including the IPOs of Orascom Construction Industries and Orascom Telecom, and where he started his career in 1996. In 1999-2000, he was on secondment to Goldman Sachs in London, where he advised European firms on strategic options and M&A transactions.
Mr. El-Khazindar sits on the boards of a number of leading Egyptian and regional companies including ASEC Holding and El Sewedy Cables.
Mr. El-Khazindar was the Chairman of the Capital Markets and Investment Committee at the American Chamber of Commerce in Egypt in 2008-2009, was nominated as a member of US-Egyptian Business Council starting 2009, and also serves as a member of the Advisory Committee of the Emerging Markets Private Equity Association, a founding board member of the Egyptian Private Equity Association, a board member of the Egyptian Capital Markets Association, and a member of the board of advisors of the American University in Cairo's School of Business.
He holds a BA in Economics from the American University in Cairo (1996) and an MBA from Harvard Business School (2003).
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Born and raised in Egypt -Ms. Fatma Abboud earned her Bachelors' degree in History from the United States in 1981while raising her then three children.
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- Member of the Board of Directors
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- Vice Chair
Dr. Gaber is the Director of Transplantation and Vice Chair for Administration and Faculty Affairs in the Department of Surgery in The Methodist Hospital Physician Organization in Houston, TX. Before joining The Methodist Hospital Physician Organization in May, 2007, he was a Professor in the Department of Surgery and Director of the Transplant Division at the University of Tennessee in Memphis, and is still currently a Professor in the College of Nursing and Pharmacy of the University of Tennessee in Memphis. He also held the Chair of Excellence in Transplantation for the Baptist Memorial Health Care Foundation. He received his medical degree from the Ainshams University School of Medicine in Cairo, Egypt and completed an internship and residency in general and pediatric surgery at Ainshams University Hospital. He also completed a residency in general surgery at Boston University Medical Center and clinical and research transplant fellowships at the University of Chicago in Illinois.
Dr. Gaber has had a long career in transplantation research including being the Principal Investigator of several NIH-funded research projects, including the Treatment of Type 1 Diabetes by Gene Therapy Approaches. Dr. Gaber has extensive clinical experience in managing and designing immune suppression protocols. He has also led several multicenter clinical studies, phases II-IV. Dr. Gaber was also a Councilor at Large for the American Society of Transplant Surgeons. He serves on the editorial boards of Transplantation, Cancer Molecular Biology, and Graft. Dr. Gaber is a two-time recipient of the Gift of Life Award by the National Kidney Foundation West Tennessee Chapter and the recipient of the 2002 Memphis Business Journal Health Care Physician Hero Award. Dr. Gaber has authored or co-authored more than 200 journal articles, 13 book chapters, and almost 300 abstracts that have been presented and/or published. He is an invited lecturer and presenter at numerous US and international meetings.
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- Advisory Council
- Member of the Board of Directors
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- Secretary of the Board of Directors
- Specialist
Sherif Abouelnaga has been a specialist of pediatric oncology for 25 years and received his appointment of Professor Pediatric Hematology Oncology in 2005 through the Cairo University and the National Cancer Institute. Dr. Sherif has had extensive experience in pediatric oncology as well as broad experience in program development and has been the visionary and driving force of the Children's Cancer Hospital Egypt 57357 the first in Egypt, Africa and the Middle East, . Dr. Sherif lead the change for upgrading standards of healthcare for pediatric oncology patients at the National Cancer Institute in Cairo and adopting the most current healthcare management techniques believing that management is a science whose techniques must be applied in the overburdened healthcare system existing in Egypt. His passion for improving the lives of Egyptian children with cancer has lead him into tackling many issues from the development of the first clinical pharmacies in Egypt, upgrading blood bank and donor programs, creating proper tools for statistical gathering, fundraising, marketing, training and continuing professional development for all disciplines and levels of staff, clinical research, to facility design and program implementation. His most significant achievement is the state of the art Children's Cancer Hospital Egypt 57357 which was opened in 2007 after 10 years of planning and construction. It is the largest children's cancer hospital in the world and is completely free for all patients. Under his direction, the training and development and research departments have developed comprehensive programs and strategies to ensure the position of the CCHE as a leader in quality healthcare delivery. He is the acknowledged leader in developing an entirely new concept of fundraising in Egypt and is responsible for raising over 2 billion LE for his various healthcare projects in the last 25 years.
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- Member of the Board of Directors
- Member of the Leadership Team