Famous Alumni
- Ahmed Zewail
- Mohammed Aboul-Fotouh Hassab (1913-2000):
The Professor Emeritus in gastro-intestinal surgery. He is well known for the description of his operation Hassab’s decongestion operation for the treatment of oesophageal varices as a result of portal hypertension. Dr. Mohammed Aboul-Fotouh Hassab was one of the surgery professors in medicine school at Alexandria University in Egypt and his operation is proved to be one of the most effective operations to treat bleeding varices at that time. Now this operation has been replaced by the TIPS (Transjuglar intrahepatic portosystemic shunt).
- Hassan Sallam
founding member of the IVF center at King's College Hospital in London (1982) and in the St. Luke's/Roosevelt Hospital Center (affiliated to Columbia University) in New York (1984) and editor of the following periodicals.
- Associate editor for "Human Reproduction" the official journal of the European Society for Human reproduction and embryology.
- Member of the editorial board of the journal "RBMOnline". Chief editor is Professor Robert Edwards (Professor at Cambridge University and Test-tube baby pioneer).
- Editor for the "Middle East Fertility Society Journal"
- Current President of the Mediterranean Society for Reproductive Medicine
- Board member of examiners to the Royal College of Obstetrics and Gynaecologists in London in 1998.
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“Nelson’s famous signal before the Battle of Trafalgar was not: “England expects that every man will be a hero.” It said: “England expects that every man will do his duty.” In 1805 that was enough. It should still be.”
—Johan Huizinga (1872–1945)