Academia - Syria 2026

Dr. Ahmed Mostafa Abdelrahman, MD, FRCSEd, is a Professor of Ophthalmology at Cairo University (since 2009). He earned a Professional Postgraduate Diploma in Total Quality Management for Healthcare Reform in 2015 and is the founder and president of the Egyptian Society for Continuous Ophthalmic Education.

He is a glaucoma consultant with national and international publications and innovations in glaucoma surgery, with special interests in non-penetrating glaucoma surgeries, laser trabeculoplasty, and childhood glaucomas. He serves as a glaucoma reviewer for several PubMed-indexed ophthalmology journals.

Dr. Abdelrahman is the owner of the Giza Specialized Eye Center, a tertiary glaucoma care facility, and has been the director of the certified Glaucoma Workshop Program since 2019. In 2016, he was appointed by the Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh (RCSEd) as an examiner for college exams.
He received the Education Award from the American Academy of Ophthalmology in 2019 and the International Scholar Award in 2021.

.Glaucoma clinic, Department of ophthalmology at Almouassat university hospital, Damascus, Syria.
-supervisor on ophthalmology residents and learning surgery.
-teaching medical students.
-examination under anesthesia for referred children from pediatric university hospital (one of the largest pediatric hospital in middle east.

Dr. Buraa is an Ophthalmologist specializing in Uveitis, Ocular Immunology, Cornea, and Anterior Segment at Eye Surgical Hospital in Damascus, Syria. He completed his ophthalmology residency in 2015, followed by a fellowship in Uveitis and Ocular Immunology at the Massachusetts Eye Research and Surgery Institute (MERSI). He holds the CABO certification from the Arab Board of Health Specializations and the FICO from the International Council of Ophthalmology. He has multiple publications, international presentations, and is an active member of the American Academy of Ophthalmology and the Ocular Immunology and Uveitis Foundation.

Dr Gdih graduated from Al-Arab Medical school, Benghazi-Libya, in the year 2000, he then moved to Canada, where he completed his residency training in Ophthalmology at the University of Ottawa, then he completed a postdoctoral clinical fellowship training in Glaucoma at the University of Toronto, Canada.
After completing his training he was appointed as a teaching staff and glaucoma specialist at the University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada, he has been practicing glaucoma and anterior segment surgery for 11 yrs, he is also heavily involved with research, medical and surgical teaching at the department of Ophthalmology, University of Manitoba. He practices at both Misericordia Health center and the Children Health Science Center where he provides tertiary care at these centers , he is also the founder and medical director of Aqua i Laser center.
Dr. Gdih contributed significantly to international ophthalmology, where he travels twice a year to volunteer his time for teaching and providing ophthalmic care to different hospitals in Libya for the last 10 yrs.

Hashem Abu Serhan, Department of Ophthalmology, Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha-Qatar. He has special interests in education, teaching, and research. He is a peer reviewer in more than 15 journals, including top ophthalmology journals like the British Journal of Ophthalmology and the American Journal of Ophthalmology.

Dr. Hassan Adel Khaled, MD, MSc, FRCS (Glasg), JBOphth, ABOphth, is a Consultant Ophthalmic Surgeon specializing in glaucoma and cataract surgery at Magrabi Eye Hospitals & Centers, Saudi Arabia. He earned his MD and MSc from the University of Damascus and completed his residency at Damascus University Hospital. He has performed over 20,000 ophthalmic surgeries and developed the published Khaled Sutures for glaucoma surgery and the Khaled Technique for phacoemulsification. An active researcher, international speaker, and surgical educator, he also shares educational content through his YouTube channel, Hassan Adel Khaled (youtube.com/@HassanAdelKhaled).

Professor of ophthalmology Mansoura university Egypt
Founding chief of strabismus unit , Mansoura
ophthalmic center at Mansoura university since 2002
Founding president of Egyptian Strabismological
Society ESS since 2020

Professor at Qatar University
Consultant Ophthalmic Surgeon at The View Hospital, Qatar

Associate Professor of Optometry
PhD in Optometry from the National University of Malaysia 2014
Previous Dean- Faculty of Optometry and Visual Science University of Ibn
Sina and Head of Department of Contact Lenses, University of Al-Neelain,
Khartoum, Sudan
Senior Optometrist in the Department of Optometry, University of Jeddah
since 2019
Member of International Contact Lens Educators (IACLE) since 2018
Area of research interest is Cornea, Keratoconus and Contact Lenses

Pediatric ophthalmologist & strabismologist
25 yeas experience
Currently, he works as strabismus consultant in UAE, Syria Qatar, and Oman.
He was a speaker at many international conferences.
He has five international patents in ophthalmology.

Prof. Dr. Tarek El-Naggar, MD, FRCS, is Head of the Refractive Surgery Unit and Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology in the Cornea and Refractive Surgery Department at the Research Institute of Ophthalmology (RIO), Giza, Egypt. He is also a Consultant in Cataract, Cornea, and Refractive Surgery at the International Eye Hospital in Cairo.

His clinical and research work focuses on refractive surgery outcomes and complication management, keratoconus treatment, corneal biomechanics, and corneal tomography. He published the first worldwide case report of ectasia after a Femtosmile procedure in JCRS, and received the Best Paper in Session Award at ASCRS 2013 in San Francisco, CA.
Dr. El-Naggar serves as a reviewer for several ophthalmology journals, including JCRS and IJO.

Mr. Elhousseini, MD, MSc, FRCOphth, is a specialist in surgical and medical retina. After completing his medical degree in 2006 and a Master?s in Ophthalmology, he moved to the UK in 2013 and became a Fellow of the Royal College of Ophthalmologists.
He is currently a consultant specialist within the NHS, Lead of the Retina Clinical Pathway Group, and Clinical Lead for the North Central London Diabetic Eye Screening Programme.
He has supervised many trainees and fellows, serves as Deputy Academic Lead, and is an examiner for medical students at University College London (UCL).
Mr. Elhousseini conducts multiple research projects at the Royal Free Hospital, has co-authored several publications in ophthalmology and vitreoretinal surgery, and has presented at national and international meetings.

Optometry Program Chair, University of Buraimi -Oman