Mamdouh Mohamed Wahba

CURRICULUM VITAE

Name: Mamdouh Mohamed Wahba D.O.B.: July 10, 1940
Nationality: Egyptian Gender: Male
Social Status: Married (1970) Daughter (1972) and Son (1975)
Address: 99 Misr Helwan Road, Maadi, Cairo 11431, Egypt
Telephone: (20) 100 316 8888 Fax: (20) 2 2528 0111
E-mail: Mamdouh.wahba@gmail.com
Qualification: MB, BCh 1964 Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt
MRCOG 1972 Member, Royal College of Ob. & Gyn., London,
FRCOG 1984 Fellow, Royal College of Ob. & Gyn., London, UK
MFFP 1993 Founding Member, Faculty of Family Planning &
Reproductive Health, London, UK
FFSRH 2006 Fellow, Faculty of Sexual & RH, London, UK

PRESENT POSTS:

President and senior program manager: Egyptian Society for Adolescent Medicine
President, Egyptian Family Health Society,
Vice-President, International Association for Adolescent Health (IAAH),
Founder, Arab Coalition for Adolescent Medicine

Executive Consultant, Society of Friends of Liver Diseases in the Arab World; 1979-2002
Regional Medical Training Consultant, Engender Health 1991-1996
Assistant Minister of Population of Egypt, 1994 – 1995
Director General of the contraceptive Social Marketing project, Egypt 1989 – 1991 Director, Promotion Center for Scientific Activities, Egypt 1983 – 1989
Medical Director, Egyptian Fertility Care Society., 1979 – 1982 Consultant, Ob. & Gyn., Jeddah, Saudi Arabia., 1973 – 1979 Registrar, Ob. Gyn. National Health, UK. 1968 – 1972

INTERNATIONAL ASSIGNMENTS:

Facilitated and participated in several international scientific meetings related to sexual and reproductive health, Adolescence and gynecology in:
Indonesia, Hong Kong, Thailand, Philippines, Singapore, Malaysia, Afghanistan Sri Lanka, India, Japan, China, South Africa, Kenya, Tanzania, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Egypt, Tunis, Lebanon, Morocco, Jordan, Oman, Cyprus, Turkey, Germany, England, Finland, Poland, Romania, Kosovo, Denmark, Switzerland, Sweden, Czech Rep., Portugal, USA, Canada, Brazil and Chile.
Organized and Represented Egypt in the Second Colloquium on Sex Education held in Sri-Lanka, the American University, Washington, D.C., USA. In 1982
Organized and facilitated the first regional family life education workshop in Cyprus in 1983.
Represented Egypt in the African Development Conference held in Arusha, Tanzania in 1989.
Participated in a working group for the development of guidelines for community-based family planning programs organized by MCH of the WHO, Washington, D.C. (1990)
Designed, organized and facilitated a series of reproductive health workshops and other training activities for physicians and nurses in Romania (12) and Yemen (10) during the period 1991-1996
Facilitated “Adolescent Health and Sexuality & Reproductive Health Workshop”, NGO Forum, International Conference on Population & Development (ICPD), Cairo 1994
Acted as District Governor for Lions Clubs International in 2002
Member of the Board of Directors of the White Ribbon Alliance for Safe Motherhood, Washington, DC, USA (2007)
Conducted a consultancy on RH Commodity Security for UNFPA in Yemen, 2008.
Granted a Rockefeller Foundation Residency at Bellagio center, Italy for developing Rh and life skills curriculum for Egyptian Schools (2010).
Acted as Chairperson for the Lion Quest project for D352, Lions Clubs International and participated in the Lions Quest Workshop held in Nicosia, Cyprus (2011).
Participated in the Adolescent Medicine workshop Summer School organized by EuTEACH organization, Lausanne, Switzerland, July 2012.
A study tour of SRH education programs and initiatives in Amman, Jordan, March 2013.
Delivered an oral presentation entitled: “SRH myths and misconceptions among Egyptian adolescents” during the First Global Conference organized by the European Society for Contraception in Copenhagen, Denmark, May 2013.
Presented a Plenary talk on “Youth in the Arab World; between biology, religion and tradition” in Istanbul, Turkey during the 10th Global Congress of the International Association of Adolescent Health, June 2013
Participated in the International Consultation on Menstrual Education and Hygiene organized by UNESCO, Kenya, July 2013.
Participated in the Regional Sexual and Reproductive Health Forum organized by the American University, Beirut, Lebanon, October 2013
Conducted a consultancy assignment for UNICEF in Muscat, Oman for the occasion of celebrating the Gulf Day for School Health and Adolescent Health. The assignment included delivering key-note speech, lecture on adolescents’ lifestyle and media interviews, November 2013.
Founding Member of the Network for Arab Sexuality Scholars, American University of Beirut, February 2014
Participated in the working group to develop guidelines on adolescents’ competence in Clinical Care, Organized by Lausanne University for WHO, Geneva June 17th-19th, 2014
Founded and presided over the Arab Coalition of Adolescent Medicine which was officially launched June 24th, 2014 in Cairo (15 Arab countries).
Presented a paper during the 19th European Meeting of International Association of Adolescent Health (IAAH), Lisbon, Portugal June 2015.
Facilitated a Training Workshop for Hotline Counselors in Afghanistan for UNFPA, 2015
Shared in the organization committee for the First International Conference of the Saudi Society of Adolescent Medicine, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, November 2015
Facilitated a session during the capacity building workshop on Adolescent Health and Medicine for Arab Physicians held in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, February 2016.
Granted a residency at the Brocher Foundation, Geneva to edit a health education manual for Egyptian Adolescents, April 2016.
Chaired a session on Adolescent Health during the 14th ESC Congress in Basel, Swiss, May 2016.
Co-chairing of the Conference on Arab Youth Health and Well-Being, AUB, Lebanon, November 2016
WHO, EMRO Consultant, Adolescent Health Consultancy Meeting, Cairo, March 2017
Organized and Presided over the MENA region Conference of the International Association of Adolescent Health, Cairo, May 2017
Represented Egypt in the TOT Course for the National Gynecology & Obstetric Societies, Organized by WHO/EMRO, Beirut, August 2017
Represented Egypt in Workshop on Immunization and Adolescent Health, Dubai, UAE, October 2017
Chaired a session and acted as a workshop faculty, World Congress on Adolescent Health, IAAH, New Delhi. 2017
Shared in facilitating the training workshop for healthcare providers on Adolescent Health organized by EuTeach and The Indian Academy of Pediatrics, Sharjah, UAE, November 2017
Organized and facilitated 2 Training Workshops for Healthcare providers (Total 52) on Adolescent Health, Egypt, December 2017.

NATIONAL SCIENTIFIC EXPERIENCE:

Since returning back to Egypt in the year 1979, I have been devoting all my time and efforts in scientific and community work for improving of health determinants of the Egyptian families in the area of:

The population problem and family planning,
Reproductive health information and health,
Young people’s reproductive health,
Adolescent Medicine and health.
Liver diseases

Activities included:

Health education and behavior change communication at a national level in the Universities and schools, vast experience all over the country.
Media activities including a national television weekly program for 3 years.
Capacity building of physicians and school teachers. Facilitated more than 100 training workshops in Egypt.
Organized and presided over 24 national conferences.
Social Marketing for contraceptives nationwide.
Established several youth-friendly clinics in Egypt.
Advocacy for family planning, youth sexual and reproductive health and Adolescent Medicine.
Establishing and operating a Liver Diseases Hospital

PUBLICATIONS:

Fertility Management monograph 1981 and 1982.
Fertility Care Bulletin 1980-1982
Pharmacist and Family Health 1980-1982
Family Health Review 1982-1985
Editor, Pharmacist Family Health Journal 1982-1985
No for Obesity”, a book about weight reduction, Dar Akhbar El Youm, Egypt 1998.
“I want a Child”, a book about infertility, Dar El-Helal Publishing House, Egypt 2000.
“Youth Questions about Reproductive Health”, a book published by the Egyptian Family Health Society, Egypt 2001.
Editor, a series of reproductive health publications directed to young people in Egypt, 7 booklets published by Tahseen / Catalyst project, USAID, Cairo 2004.
Editor, Curriculum for Reproductive Health and Life Skills Education in Egyptian Schools, Cairo 2010.
Editor, Adolescents Concerns, EFHS, Cairo 2011
Findings from Study of RH and life skills education in schools, EFHS, Cairo 2011
The Need for RH Education in Schools in Egypt, PRB, Washington DC, 2012.
Bedouin Youth and Reproductive Health, EFHS, Cairo 2012.

MEMBERSHIP:

President, the Egyptian Family Health Society.
President, Egyptian Society for Adolescent Medicine.
Founder, Arab Coalition of Adolescent Medicine.
Vice President, of the International Association of Adolescents Health (IAAH)
Past member of the Board of Directors of the White Ribbon Alliance for Safe Motherhood, Washington, DC, USA
Member of the Society of Friends of Arab Liver Patients.
Member of the Egyptian Fertility Care Society
Member of the Association for Reproductive Health Professionals, Washington, D.C., USA.
Founding Member of the Faculty of Sexual and Reproductive Health Care of the Royal College of UK,
Past District Governor, Lions Clubs International, District 352, Egypt.
Member of the European Society of Contraception.