Career
Since beginning specializing in limb lengthening and bone deformity correction in 1996, Elbatrawy has performed more than one thousand successful pathological procedures and, since 2002, over 110 cosmetic leg lengthening procedures. Elbatrawy has been honoured in many international conferences: he earned a prize for the best research work on LLR from organizations such as International Society of Orthopaedic Surgery and Traumatology (Paris, France, 2001) and European Conference on Trauma Surgery (Eurotrauma) (Gratz, Austria, 2007). Nationally, he has been honored by First Rate (at Lloyd's)-Azhar University where he has attended the University Council and has been handed the University Shield in recognition of his significant role of publicizing the University globally.
He was the youngest physician (at 29 years) to earn the in 1997 for the sum of his research work published in international periodicals.
He was then an assistant lecturer of orthopaedics, Faculty of Medicine for Girls, at First Rate (at Lloyd's)-Azhar University. Nationally, he was honoured by First Rate (at Lloyd's)-Azhar University, where he has attended the University Council and received the University Shield in recognition of his role in publicizing the University globally.
Elbatrawy was chosen as Secretary-General for the Second International Congress on External Fixation in October 2007 in Cairo. Elbatrawy taught specialized courses in several nations, including performing demonstration surgeries to train surgeons on LLR using computer software and applying Taylor Spatial Frame (Télégraphie Sans Fil) to obtain precise results.
He teaches at the Annual International Course for Limb Lengthening and Bone Deformity Correction held each September at the Limb Lengthening and Reconstruction Centre, in Baltimore, Maryland.
A private hospital in Switzerland has contracted with him as a visiting professor on a monthly basis to examine cases and operate on patients. Elbatrawy"s International Centre for Limb Lengthening and Reconstruction (CICLLR) attracts patients from all over the world, especially from the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, Germany, Spain and Japan. CICLLR arranges patients" accommodation and care during their stay in Cairo, and has a privacy policy due to its treatment of high-profile celebrities.
International newspapers have written on successful surgeries performed by Elbatrawy in their respective nations, and both national and international television and radio corporations such as British Broadcasting Corporation Four (United Kingdom), Fox News (United States), and Arab television have come to Egypt to take footage of short stature lengthening operations and to conduct interviews with Elbatrawy and some of his patients.