Current Positions

Associate Professor of Pediatrics at the University of Manitoba, staff neonatologist, registered echocardiologist, and researcher at the Children's hospital research institute of Manitoba. He is an academic fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Canada.

Education

September 2013- March 2014 : Echocardiology Fellow, Echo Lab, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto.

September 2009- August 2011: Clinical and Research Fellow, Neonatal/Perinatal Medicine Program, University of Manitoba.

2001-2006 PhD (MD – Doctorate in Pediatrics), Al-Azhar University, Egypt

1996-1998 MSc (Masters of Pediatrics), Zagazig University, Egypt

1987-1994 MBChB Doctor of Medicine, Zagazig University, Egypt

Research Focus

He founded and directed the integrated hemodynamics program and point-of-care ultrasound. He conducted more than 100 workshops in the last seven years locally, Nationally, and Internationally. His research interests are in the field and hemodynamics, point-of-care ultrasound, and physiology-oriented practice. He published more than 100 articles, book chapters, and abstracts. Editor of multiple international journals. He authored 10 institutional, Canadian pediatric society, and American Academy of Pediatrics guidelines. He founded the first internationally recognized websites POCUNEO.ORG and neopeds.academy dedicated to virtual education in medicine and physiologic based practice, the website has over 8000 members from 116 countries. He is the designer, instructor, and director of Manitoba's neonatal educational curriculum of the learning management digital system (LMS). The founder of the lung ultrasound program, replacing XR for diagnosing lung diseases, founded the first training program for respiratory therapists to perform lung ultrasounds. He founded the intelligent monitoring in NICU by Near Infrared Spectroscopy and trained all staff (nurses, physicians, RTs) on the clinical applications.

Research Interests

Neonatal hemodynamics and end organ functions.