Manal Kasem

Manal Kasem is a member of the teaching staff of the Ophthalmology Department, Faculty of Medicine, Mansoura University, Mansoura, Egypt, with a subspecialty in strabismus. After graduating from the Mansoura Faculty of Medicine in 1996, Dr. Kasem completed an M.S. thesis on the non-surgical treatment of primary esotropia (2002) and an M.D. thesis on vascular endothelial growth factor in diabetic retinopathy (2007), and was appointed lecturer in 2007 and assistant professor of ophthalmology in 2013. Published work covers strabismus surgery, consecutive esotropia and exotropia, dissociated vertical deviation, amblyopia treatment and macular changes in amblyopia, in journals including the Journal of AAPOS and Clinical Ophthalmology. Teaching includes undergraduate ophthalmology, the Mansoura Manchester programme and supervision of postgraduate theses on strabismus, amblyopia and Duane syndrome. Dr. Kasem is a member of the Egyptian Ophthalmological Society.