Samir Shoughy

Samir Shoughy is an ophthalmologist in Egypt who specialises in uveitis and ocular inflammation and is President of the Egyptian Uveitis Study Group. Dr. Shoughy holds an MD and the FRCS (Glasgow). While at The Eye Center and The Eye Foundation for Research in Ophthalmology in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, Dr. Shoughy published on ocular tuberculosis, ocular sarcoidosis, scleritis, Vogt-Koyanagi-Harada disease, uveitic macular oedema and topical tacrolimus for inflammatory disorders of the anterior segment. More recent work includes a review of the role of the microbiome in uveitis and co-authorship of the Egyptian consensus guidance on the diagnosis and treatment of adults with non-infectious uveitis. Dr. Shoughy was a member of the 2023 editorial board of Medical Hypothesis, Discovery and Innovation in Ophthalmology, with uveitis as the listed area of expertise.