Magdy Abdelhamid (Egypt)

Cairo University, Egypt

Magdy Abdelhamid is a Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine at the Faculty of Medicine, Cairo University, Egypt. He had a Postdoctoral Clinical Fellowship at the Heart Failure & Cardiac Transplantation centre, The Brigham & Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School ,1999. He is a Principal Investigator of the ISCHEMIA trial (Cairo University site), a major multicentre international study on the management of stable coronary artery disease.

Professor Abdelhamid is an Immediate Past President of the Egyptian Society of Cardiology (2018-2020) and Chairman of their working group on heart failure as well as a Board Member of the Society. He is a Board Member of the Heart Failure Association of the ESC (2020-2022)
, Co-Chair of the Acute Heart Failure Scientific Committee of HFA, ESC (2020- 2022) &
Co-Chair of the Valvular Heart Disease Scientific Committee of HFA, ESC (2020- 2022).

He is a Member of the Committee for Practice Guidelines, ESC (2020-2022).

He is a Fellow of the American College of Cardiology, the European Society of Cardiology (ESC), the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons, the Heart Failure Association (HFA) and the Society of Cardiovascular Angiography and Intervention. He is also a member of a number of international societies including the American College of Cardiology, the ESC and the European Association of Cardiovascular Intervention.

Professor Abdelhamid is on the Editorial Board for the ESC journal Heart Failure, European Journal of Medicine, Interventional Cardiology and the Egyptian Heart Journal. He is a Senior Reviewer for the European Heart Journal (EHJ)& EHJ Case Reports. He acted as a reviewer for the European 2017 guidelines on the management of valvular heart disease and is the national coordinator for the European Valvular Heart Disease II Survey/Registry and the European Heart Failure III Registry. He has published in multiple peer-reviewed journals, presented at several international conferences and participated in many international research projects and registries.

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