Professional Activities:

Experience:

• Associate Residency Program Director
  Family Medicine Residency Program, Meharry Medical College, Nashville, TN.
  December 1, 2014 to the present.

• Core Faculty, Assistant Professor of Family Medicine
  Meharry Medical College, Department of Family & Community Medicine, Nashville, TN. July 1, 2013 to the present.

• Family Medicine Attending
  Nashville Metro-General Hospital, Nashville, TN. July 1, 2013 to the present.

• Family Medicine Attending
  TriStar Skyline Medical Center, Nashville, TN. July 1, 2013 to the present.

• Sleep Medicine Specialist
  TriStar Skyline Medical Center, Nashville, TN. July 1, 2013 to the present.

• Sleep Medicine Fellow:
  University of Nebraska Medical Center, Department of Internal Medicine, Section of Pulmonary, Critical Care, Sleep Medicine, and Allergy, Omaha, NE. July 2012 – June 2013
  
  • Continued graduate medical education in Sleep Medicine.
• Family Medicine Chief Resident, July 2011-June 2012
  Meharry Medical College, Nashville, TN
  Department of Family Medicine & Community Medicine
• Coordinated the Family Medicine Residency on-call and clinic schedules for residents
• Served as a liaison between the faculty and residents on residency issues as needed
• Assisted in coordination of the weekly didactics for Family Medicine residents.
• Participated in teaching of Family Medicine clerkship for the 3rd and 4th year medical students at Meharry Medical College, and Vanderbilt University Medical Center.
• Family Medicine Resident:
  Department of Family Medicine, Meharry Medical College/ Nashville Metro General Hospital, Nashville, TN. July 2009 – June 2012
  
  • Continued graduate medical education in Family Medicine.
• Postdoctoral  Research Fellow:
  Department of Medicine, St. Michael’s Hospital, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada January 2008 – June 2009
• Conducted air sampling for influenza bioaerosols in health institutions
• Conducted real time PCR for viral bioaerosols
• Conducted pulmonary function testing
• Taught courses in cancer biology, toxicology, and genetic toxicology for graduate students at University of Toronto Graduate School and Dalla Lana School of Public Health.
• Postdoctoral Research Fellow:
  Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Medicine, Tulane School of Medicine, New Orleans, LA, USA, August 2006-December 2007
• Conducted immunohistochemistry studies on human and animal tissues.
• Conducted tissue perfusion experiments on animal tissue to measure excretions
• Conducted electrophysiology experiments
• Conducted mutagenesis assays
• Taught courses in toxicology, ventilation, mathematical modeling, and genetic toxicology for graduate students at Tulane University School of Public Health & Tropical Medicine.

• Research Associate
  Industrial Hygiene and Toxicology Laboratories, Tulane University Health Sciences Center, New Orleans, LA, USA, May 2002- July 2006
• Collected air sampling in NIH funded study to measure occupational exposure in ten wood-processing plants across the country.
• Conducted gravimetric and DRIFT analyses of wood dust.
• Conducted pulmonary function tests and coordinated quality control of spirometric studies.
• Managed data set and conducted statistical analysis.
• Conducted mutagenesis and DNA damage assay due to wood dust.
• Assisted in teaching courses in Occupational Hygiene and Occupational Epidemiology to graduate students at Tulane University School of Public Health & Tropical Medicine.
• Lecturer of Medicine
  Minia University, School of Medicine, Egypt, June 1998- December 2001
• Practiced Medicine at Minia University Hospitals.
• Taught courses in General Medicine, Pulmonary Medicine and Occupational Medicine.

• Consultant of Occupational Medicine
  Health Insurance Hospitals, Cairo, Assuit, and Minia, Egypt, June 1998- December 2001
• Evaluated occupational disabilities and injuries among workers in industrial settings.
• Coordinated the Egyptian Workers’ compensation Board.

• Fellowship in Pulmonary Medicine & Critical Care Medicine
  Glasgow University, Scotland, May1996- April1998
• Continued graduate medical training in Pulmonary Medicine & Critical Care Medicine

Associate Lecturer of Medicine
Minia University, School of Medicine, Egypt, March 1995-April 1996

• Practiced Medicine Minia University Hospitals.
• Trained and supervised Internal Medicine residents.
• Coordinated Schistosomiasis Surveillance System Network in Egypt.
• Coordinated Nosocomial Infection Surveillance at Minia University Hospitals.
• Successfully completed M.Sc. in Occupational Medicine & Public Health.

• Internal Medicine Resident
  Minia University Hospitals, Minia University, Egypt, March 1992- February 1995
• Continued graduate medical training in Internal Medicine.
• Assisted in research on occupational lung diseases, and prevalence of infertility, anemia and renal failure in Egypt.
• Successfully completed M.Sc. in Internal Medicine.

• Intern Physician
  Minia University Hospitals, Minia University, Egypt, March1991- February1992
• Successfully completed one-year rotating internship in Internal Medicine and medical subspecialties.

Honors & Awards:

2104:	Health Policy Associate at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Center for Health Policy at Meharry Medical College
2013:	Outstanding Fellow Award, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Department of Internal Medicine, Section of Pulmonary, Critical Care, Sleep Medicine, and Allergy,Omaha, NE.
2012:	2012 NIH – NMA Fellow Award
2012:	Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society Gamma Chapter Inductee.
2012:	Chief Resident Award, Meharry Medical College, Nashville, TN
2012:	Outstanding Resident Award, Meharry Medical College, Nashville, TN
2012:	Scholarship recipient “Fundamentals of Pain Management: Principals and Practice”, Endo Pharmaceuticals / CMM Global Inc. May 14-19, 2012, Honolulu, HI
2011:	Resident Community Outreach Award, 38th National Conference of American Academy of Family Physicians, July 28-30, 2011, Kansas City, MO.
2011:	Outstanding Resident Award, Meharry Medical College, Nashville, TN
2011:	The 8th Annual Southeast Center of Excellence in Geriatric Medicine (SCEGM) Resident Award Summit, May 20-21, 2011, University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB), Birmingham, AL.
2010:	Academic Achievement Award, Meharry Medical College, Nashville, TN
2010:	Community Service Award, Meharry Medical College, Nashville, TN
2007:	Delta Omega Award, New Orleans, LA
2005:	Who’s Who among Students in American Universities and Colleges
2003:	Recipient of Johnson Bennett’s scholarship, New Orleans, LA. This scholarship was for supporting my doctoral dissertation
2002:	Recipient of research scholarship, Tulane University School of Medicine, Department of Medicine, Section of Pulmonary & Environmental Medicine
2000:	Physician of the year 2000 for Junior Physicians, Egyptian Physician Syndicate Association

Membership in scientific and professional organizations:

1. Diplomate of the American Board of Family Medicine.
2. Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow, Scotland.
3. American Medical Association
4. American Academy of Family Physicians
5. American Academy of Sleep Medicine
6. American Pain Society
7. Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society Gamma Chapter at Meharry Medical College
8. Tennessee Academy of Family Physicians
9. North American Primary Care Research Group
10. Alumni of Meharry Medical College, Nashville, TN
11. Alumni of Tulane University, New Orleans, LA
12. Alumni of University of Toronto, Canada
13. American College of Toxicology
14. Canadian Society of Toxicology
15. American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists
16. Egyptian Medical Syndicate
17. Egyptian Society of Internal Medicine
18. Egyptian Society of Pulmonary Medicine