Refaat Kamel, MD
President of The Egyptian Society of Organ Transplantation
Professor of surgery, Ain Shams University
Biography
Presidency of International Societies
Presidency of Egyptian Societies
- President of the Egyptian Section of The International College of Surgeons (ICS)
- President and Co-founder of the Egyptian French Medical Association (EFMA)
- Council Member of LDLT Study Group (S. Korea)
Honorary Fellowships
- Honorary Fellow of the European Board of Transplantation: October 2011
Education and Qualifications
- Fellow of the International College of Surgeons in Hepato-Bilio-Pancreatic Surgery since November 1991.
- Fellow of the International College of Surgeons 1991
- Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, May 1991
- MD surgery, November 1991, Ain Shams University.
Academic and Clinical Positions :
- Chair of Surgical Departments Ain Shams University
- Head of Hepato-Bilio-Pancreatic Surgery Department, Ain Shams University
- Director of the National Liver Transplant program
- Chief liver transplant surgeon in three leading liver transplant programs in Egypt since 2001 with an overall experience of more than 1000 cases of Living Donor Liver Transplants
International Journals
- Reviewer in the transplantation proceedings Journal
- Associate Editor in the Experimental and clinical Transplantation Journal
- Editor in International Surgery
Further Positions and Training
- Egypt representative in the Mediterranean Transplant Network 2006-2010
- Board member for establishing the organ donation law in 2010 in the Parliament
- Head of the communication committee in the supreme Egyptian council of organ transplantation (2006-2010)
- TTS councilor 2008-2010
- Member of the Istanbul Declaration on organ trafficking and Transplant tourism and member of the custodian group.
- Dr Kamel has published more than 150 papers in local and International Journals as well as sharing in few international books on LDLT
- Dr Kamel graduated from Ain Shams University and did his residency both in ASU hospitals and Kings College Hospital- London