Yehia El-Gamal is Professor of Pediatrics, Pediatric Allergy and Immunology Unit, and Ex-Chairman of the Department of Pediatrics, Children"s Hospital, Faculty of MedicineCairo, Egypt.
Career
He established the first specialized unit of Pediatric Allergy and Immunology in Egypt in February 1988, and is president of the Egyptian Society of Pediatric Allergy and Immunology (ESPAI) which he has founded in 2002, and editor-in-chief of the Egyptian Journal of Pediatric Allergy and Immunology. Supervised 30 Doctor of Philosophy and 89 Masters Theses in pediatrics.
Membership
He has been a member of the Technical Advisory Group of the World Health Organization (World Health Organization) for polio eradication since 2003 and shared in research projects with the World Health Organization, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (Atlanta, Georgia) and the Egyptian Ministry of Health to evaluate the efficacy of different types ad regimens of oral polio vaccination. He has 110 publications in international regional and national periodicals and is member of the editorial board and regular reviewer of many national and international journals. He was member of the World Allergy Organization (WAO) Board of Directors (2007-2011) and Chair of the WAO Bylaws Committee and Company-Chair of its Ethics Committee (2009-2011).
He is a member of several Egyptian National Specialized Councils and the Egyptian Academy of Scientific Research and Technology grants a 10,000 Egyptian pound distinction award carrying his name yearly since 1989.