Faculty of Medicine

Prof. Dr. Somaya Mohamed El Gawhary Mostafa

Contact Information
Phone number : 084 6300587
Fax number: 084 6302350
E-mail Address: smg02@fayoum.edu.eg
Office: Faculty of Medicine Building
Post Address: Fayoum - Fayoum University - Faculty of Medicine - POBox: 63514
Academic Qualifications
M.B.B.Ch.: Faculty of Medicine - Cairo University - 1977
M.D.: Clinical and Chemical Pathology - Faculty of Medicine - Cairo University - 1987
Academic Positions
Lecture Assisstant: from 1978 to 1983 - Theodor Bilharz Research Institute
Assisstant lecturer: from 1983 to 1987 - Theodor Bilharz Research Institute
Fellow: from 1987 to 1992 - Faculty of Medicine - Cairo University
Assistant Consultant: from 1992 to 1997 - Faculty of Medicine - Cairo University
Consultant: from 1997 to 1999 - Faculty of Medicine - Cairo University
Professor: from 1999 up till now
Academic Rank
Vice Dean for Post-graduate Studies and Research from 2000 to 2005
Vice Dean for Community Service and Environment Development from 2005 to 2007
Chair of Clinical and Chemical Pathology Department Board from 2007 to 2008
Chair of Internal Medicine Department Board from 2008 to 2010
Chair of Clinical and Chemical Pathology Department Council from 2012 to 2013
Chair of Faculty of Medicine Ethical Committee from 2018 till now
Professional Positions
Referee for Clinical and Chemical Pathology Committee; the Egyptian Universities Promotion Committees (EUPC) - Supreme Council of Egyptian Universities; from October 2008 up till now.
Associate editor of the Journal of Egyptian Society of Hematology and Research (ESHR).
Editor of the Journal of Egyptian Society of Blood Transfusion (ESBT).
Referee for the Journal of International Society of Hematology (ISH)
Referee for the Journal l of International Society of Thrombosis and Hemostasis (ISTH)
Referee for the Journal of International Society of Blood Transfusion (ISBT)
Member of the International Gaucher Committee since 1999
Research Interests
Clinical and chemical pathology
Hematology
Molecular biology
Memberships
Memberships
Egyptian Medical Syndicate
The Egyptian Society of Blood Diseases
The Egyptian Society of Thalassaemic Patients
Laboratory Medicine Society
Sickle Cell Disease Association of America (SCDAA )
Union of Arab Pediatric Societies (UAPS)
The Egyptian Society of Laboratory Medicine (ESLM)
The Thalassemia International Federation (TIF)
The International Society of Thrombosis and Haemostasis (ISTH)
The European Hematology Association (EHA)
The Egyptian Society of Haematology and Research (ESHR)
The American Society of Hematology (ASH)
The International Society of Blood Transfusion (ISBT)
The Scientific Committee of Bibliotheca Alexandrina
The international Society of Hematology ( ISH )
The Egyptian Society of Blood Transfusion
The Arab Society of Blood Transfusion
Gaucher International Committee Scientific Conferenses Conference International XXVI Congers Medical Maghrebin-Tunis, speaker in the congress: splenic aspirate in metabolic disease in children - Tunisia (May 1997)
The Annual Congress of Pediatric Department (epidemiology of pediatric infectious diseases) - Cairo - Egypt (April 30th - May1st 1998)
The Annual International Conference of the Egyptian Society of Thalassaemic Patients in the International Day of Thalassaemia 8th May (from 1999 to 2022)
Speaker in Cairo Rotary about thalassaemic patients followed by donation of two automated Coulter hematology counters from the Rotary Club members to the blood clinic which l am honored to be its supervisor at that time (April 1999)
The Hereditary Blood Disease Congress (11 - 12 April 2001)
The International Conference of Thrombosis and Haemostsis - Paris - France (6 - 12 July 2001)
The International Society of Hematology (ISH) Meeting - Cairo - Egypt (January 2002)
The 5th World Congress of the International Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Association (IHPBA) - Tokyo - Japan (March 2002)
The Amercan Society of Hematology (ASH) Meeting - Tufts University - USA (April 2002)
The 3rd International Conference of Thalassaemia (8 - 9 May 2002)
The 4th International Conference of Thalassaemia (8 - 9 May 2003)
The International Society of Hematology (ISH) Meeting - Graz - Austria (6 - 11 September 2003)
The 5th International Conference of Thalassaemia Day (8 - 9 May 2004)
The Asian International Hematology Congress – Bali - Indonesia (23 - 27 September 2004)
The 1st International Conference of the Egyptian Society of Hematology and Research (28 - 30 Septmber 2004)
The International Society of Thrombosis and Hemostasis (ISTH) Conference - Cairo - Egypt (12 - 14 March 2005)
The 6th International Conference of Thalassaemia (8 - 9 May 2005)
The 2nd International Congress of the Egyptian Society of Pediatric Hematology/ Oncology (ESPHOS) (31 March - 1 April 2005)
The XVI Annual Conference of the Egyptian Society of Laboratory Medicine in collaboration with the Egyptian Society of Applied Endocrinology (23 - 24 March 2005)
The International Strategies in Higher and Further Education in the Middle East and UK (25 - 27 September 2005)
The International Society of Hematology (ISH) Meeting – Istanbul - Turkey (28 September - 2 October 2005)
The 53rd Scientific Meeting of the International Congress of the Egyptian Society of Clinical Chemistry (ESCC) in collaboration with WHO and IFCC and AFCB (10 - 11 December 2005)
The 27th Annual Congress of the Egyptian Society of Hematology in collaboration with the Egyptian Association of Transfusion Medicine (14 - 15 December 2005)
The 2nd International Conference of the Egyptian Society of Haematology and Research (ESHR) (7 - 9 February 2006)
The 2nd Conference of the PAN-ARAB Congress of Evidence Based Medicine (PACEBM) (11 - 12 April 2006)
The XVII Annual Conference of the Egyptian Society of Laboratory Medicine (ESLM) (22 - 23 March 2006)
The 3rd International Congress of the Egyptian Society of Pediatric Hematology/ Oncology (ESPHO) (31 March - 1 April 2006)
The 7th International Conference of Thalassaemia (8 - 9 May 2006)
The 4th Annual Conference of Clinical Pathology Department - Alazhar University - Cairo (July 26th 2006)
Quality Assurance and Accreditation Project (QAAP) Meeting - Menofia University (31th October 2006)
The 28th Annual Meeting of the Egyptian Society of Hematology (13 - 14 December 2006)
The 54th Scientific Meeting of the International Congress of the Egyptian Society of Clinical Chemistry (ESCC) (13 - 14 January 2007)
The 18th Annual Conference of the Egyptian Society of Laboratory Medicine (ESLM) (21 - 22 March 2007)
The 5th International Congress of the Egyptian Society of Pediatric Hematology Oncology (ESPHO) (29 - 30 March 2007)
The 3rd International Conference of the Egyptian Society of Hematology and Research (ESHR) (11 - 12 April 2007)
The 8th International Conference of Thalassaemia (8 - 10 May 2007)
The XXI Congress of the International Society on Thrombosis and Hemostasis (ISTH), Geneva (6 - 12 July 2007)
The 4th International Conference of the Egyptian Society of Hematology and Research (ESHR) (19 - 22 February 2008)
THE XXX International Congress of International Society of Blood Transfusion (ISBT) - Macao - China (7 - 12 June 2008)
The International Society of Haematology (ISH) Congress, speaker: genotype phenotype of Gaucher disease in Egypt – Budapest - Hungry (29th August - 2nd September 2007)
The 9 th International Conference of Thalassaemia Day (8 - 10 May 2008)
The XXII Congress of the International Society of Thrombosis and Haemostasis (ISTH) - Boston - USA ( 6 - 12 July 2009)
The International Society of Haematology (ISH) Meeting - Cairo - Egypt (9 - 13 October 2009)
The 31st Meeting of the European Society of Hematology (ESH) - Cairo - Egypt (25 - 26 January 2010)
The XXXII International Congress of International Society of Blood Transfusion (ISBT) - Berlin - Germany (25 - 30 June 2010)
The 8th Arab Transfusion Medicine Congress (ATMC) - Cairo - Egypt (December 2010)
The XXXIV International Congress of International Society of Blood Transfusion (ISBT) - Lisbon - Portugal (22 - 27 June 2011)
International Meeting of the Sickle Cell Disease Association of America (SCDAA) - Chicago - USA (21 - 23 May 2014)
The 54th Meeting of the American Society of Hematology (ASH) - San Francisco - USA (2 - 6 December 2014)
Egyptian Society of Hematology and Research (ESHR) Conference - Cairo - Egypt (October 2015)
International Gaucher Registry - Dubai (15 - 17 November 2015)
Pan Arab Thalassemia Congress - Abu Dabi (19 - 21 November 2015)
The 12th Arab Transfusion Medicine Congress (ATMC) - Cairo - Egypt (22 - 23 November 2015)
Total Quality Management in Clinical Laboratories - Children Cancer Hospital (57357) in collaboration with BIO-RAD (24 November 2015)
The 4th Anatolian Blood Days Congress - Antalya - Turkey (10 - 14 December 2015) Hematology Association
The 5th Pan Arab Meeting (11 - 13 February 2016)
International Gaucher Meeting - Dubai (21 - 22 April 2016)
International Conference of Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology Research Institute - Sharm Elsheikh - Egypt (26 - 29 April 2016)
The first North Africa and Middle East Rare Diseases (NAMRD) Congress - Dubai (13-16 April 2016)
The 17th International Conference of thalassemia (11 - 12 May 2016)
The 62nd Annual Meeting of The International Society of Thrombosis and Hemostasis (ISTH) - Montpelier - France (23 - 28 May 2016)
The second North Africa Middle East Rare Diseases (NAMRD) Congress, Dubai (13 - 16 October 2016)
Highlights of Past EHA (Hope) Conference - Dubai (24 - 27 November 2016)
Gaucher Expertees Meeting - Cairo - Egypt (28 December 2016)
Highlights of Past EHA (Hope) Conference - Cairo - Egypt (14 - 15 September 2017)
The 13th Arab Transfusion Medicine Forum )ATMF( - Tunisia (12 - 14 April 2018)
Annual Meeting of Fayoum Clinical Pathology with Egyptian Society of Hematology and Research (ESHR), Fayoum - Egypt (19 - 20 January 2017)
Highlights of Past EHA (Hope) Conference - Cairo - Egypt (14 - 15 September 2017)
The 23rd Congress of the European Hematology Association (EHA) – Stockholm - Sweden (14 - 17 June 2018)
The 24th Congress of the European Hematology Association (EHA) - Amsterdam - Netharlands (13 -16 June 2019)
The 25th Congress of the European Hematology Association (EHA) (11 - 18 June 2020)
The 26th Congress of the European Hematology Association (EHA) (11 - 18 June 2021)
The 26th Meeting of The Egyptian Network of Research Ethics Committees (ENREC) (29 July 2021)
The European Hematology Association (EHA) Congress, Vienna - Austria (9 - 13 June 2022)
Gaucher Forum - Boston - USA (14 - 17 June 2022)
Workshops and Training
Training Course on Serodiagnosis of Schisotsomiasis conducted by the German Agency for Technical Co-Operation (Carl Duisberg Gesellschaft - Cairo (1979)
Visitor and observer in the Department of Clinical Pathology, Hematology and Immunology - University of Rochester and Strong Memorial Hospital - Massachusetts General Hospital - Boston MA - USA and the Johns Hopkins Hospital - Baltimore MD - USA (1981 - 1982)
Training Course in Radioisotope Application and Radiation Protection from the Middle Eastern Regional Radioisotope Center for the Arab Countries - Cairo (1988)
Training Course on Blood Transfusion - Showa University School of Medicine - Tokyo - Japan (July 24th - August 18th 1997)
The 1st International Thalassaemia Workshop on Laboratory Aspects ( prenatal diagnosis ) - Nicosia - Cyprus (17 - 22 July 1998)
The 2 nd Workshop on Pre-natal Diagnosis of Thalasemia from the Egyptian Thalassemia Association (2000)
Training Course of the Thalassaemia International Association under the supervision of WHO - Nicosia - Cypress (26 - 29 September 2002)
The International Workshop on Stem Cell Therapy (15th January 2007)
The Training of Trainers (TOT) Workshop by Faculty and Leadership Development Project (FLDP) (27 - 30 January 2007)
The Training of Trainers (TOT) Workshop by National Center For Faculty and Leadership Development (NCFLD) - Cairo - Egypt (9 - 17 January 2010)
International Committee on Harmonization of Good Clinical Practice (ICH-GCP) Workshop for Investigators - Faculty of Medicine - Fayoum University (11-12 February 2015)
Publication List
Effect of chelation therapy on liver functions in Egyptian children with β-thalassaemia. The Annual Scientific Meeting of the Egyptian Society of Hematology (1989)
Plasma Fibronectin in relation to surgical trauma. The New Egyptain Journal of Medicine (1989); Vol. 3, No. 4
Viral Etiology of obscure splenomegaly in Egyptian children. The Journal of the Egyptian Public Health Association (1990); Vol. LXV, No. 1
Prostatic specific antigen: Its role in clinical practice .The Egyptian Journal of Surgery (1990); Vol. 9, No. 2
Thyroid function in children with β-thalassemia major. Journal of Arab Child (JAC) (1991); Vol. 2 , No. 1
Estimation of serum ferritin before and after desferrioxamine in Egyptian thalassemics. Egyptian journal of Laboratory Medicine (1991); Vol. 3, No. 2
Serum lactate dehydrogenase (LDH) and its isonzyme patterns in some haematological disorders in Egyptian children. JAC (1991); Vol. 2
Haematological changes in critically ill children in ICU. JAC (1991); Vol. 2, No. 3
B 2 microglobulin in nephrotic syndrome in children. JAC (1991); Vol. 2., No. 4
Red cell ultrastucture in some congenital hemolytic diseases among Egyptian children. The New Egyptian Journal of Medicine (1993); Vol. 8, No. 1
Significance of the clinical and cytochemical pattern of Gaucher’s fibrinopeptide A and α 2 anti-plasmin in children with insulin dependent diabetes mellitus. The 5th Annual Conference of Egyptian Society of Laboratory Medicine (1994)
Electron microscopy studies in splenomegaly of infants and children in Egypt. JAC (1994); Vol. 5, No. 2.
Immunological status of septic neonates. JAC (1995); Vo1. No. 1
Some chromosomal studies in pediatric malignancies. Egypt. J. Lab. Med. (1996); Vol. (8) No. (2)
Study of von Willebrand factor in childhood collagen-vascular diseases and vasculitis .JAC (1996); Vol. 7, No. 1
Assessment of platelet count and function in some collagen vascular diseases. JAC (1996); Vol. 7, No 1
Umbilical cord plasma erythropoietin (EP) level and cord blood normoblast count as indices of preinatal asphyxia. The Gaz. Egypt Paed. (1996); Vol. 44, No. 3
Evaluation of cardiopulmonary involvement in Gaucher’s disease. In XXVI Congres Medical Maghrebin-Tunis (1997)
Cytochmical and ultrastructural study of macrophage in some monocyte-histiocyte proliferative disorders. J.A.C (1997); Vol. 8, No.4
Study of the Philadelphia chromosome (BCR - ABL) in adult acute lymphoblastic leukemia. Egypt. J. Lab. Med. (1997); 9 (2): 541 - 544
Correlation of circulating erythroid progenitors to some interleukins levels in sera of multi-transfused patients with β - thalassemia major. Egyptian Journal of Hematology (1997); Vol. 22, No.4
Conservative splenic surgery in abdominal trauma patients. Medical Journal of Cairo University (1998); Vol. 66 No. 4
Assessment of superoxide dismutase and glutathione peroxides in red blood cells in Egyptian children with acute leukemias. Medical Journal of Cairo University (1998); Vol. 66, No. 3 (Suppl.)
Serum interleukin-13 level in juvenile rheumatoid arthritis :correlation between its level and disease activity .The Egyptian Rheumatologist (1998); Vol. 20, No. 3
Evaluation of cardiopulmonary involvement in Gaucher disease. La Medicale (1999); Vol. 77, No.1
Molecular basis of beta thalassaemia in Egyptian children. The 22nd Annual Meeting of the Egyptian Society of Hematology (1999)
Involvement of interleukin 13 (IL-13) in spontaneous Ig-E production in idiopathic nephrotic syndrome in children. JAC (2000); Vol. 11, No.1
Selectivity index and urinary retinol binding protein as predictor of steroid responsiveness in pediatric nephrotic syndrome .Egyptian Society for Pediatric Nephrology and Transplantation (2001); 2: 1 - 10
High performance liquid chromatography in comparison to Hb electrophoresis for diagnosis of thalassemia syndromes in Egyptian children. Al Azhar Journal Pediatrics (2002); Vol .5, No. 1
Evaluation of qualitative and quantitative platelet defects using flowcytometry. XVI meeting of the International Society of Hematology (2002) .The Medical Journal of Cairo University (2003); Vol. 71, No.1
Iron deficiency anaemia with H. Pylori infection in relation to subnormal growth of children. Med. J. Cairo Univ. (2004); 72 (3): 83 - 92
The impact of C677T MTHFR genotype on homocysteine level in sickle cell anemia. The Gaz. Egypt. Paed. (2006); Vol. 54, No.4
Epilepsy, hyperhomocysteinemia and mutant methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase gene. Egypt J. Neurol. Psychiat. Neurosurg. (2006);Vol. 43 (2): 495 - 505
Study of β-thalassemia mutations using the polymerase chain reaction-amplification refractory mutation system and direct DNA sequencing techniques in a group of Egyptian thalassemia patients. Hemoglobin (2007); 31(1): 63 - 69. DOI:10.1080/03630260601057104
Genotype phenotype relationship in Gaucher disease in Egypt. The Journal of Egyptian Society of Hematology and Research (2006); 2 (2): 145 - 153
Viral hepatitis infections among pediatric dialysis patients. Alazhar Journal (2006); Vol. 75
Prame gene expression in ALL. The Journal of Egyptian Society of Haematology and Research (2007); 3 (1): 23 - 34
Serum CTACK in psoriasis before and after methotrexate and PUVA therapy. J Egyptian Women Dermatology Society (2007); Vol. 4, No.1
Prenatal diagnosis of thalassemia using DNA sequencing technique in Egypt. Pediatric Hematology Oncology (2008); Vol. 22
Prenatal diagnosis of beta-thalassemia in Egypt: Implementing accurate high- tech methods did not reflect much on the outcome. Pediatric Hematology and Oncology (2008); 25 (6): 541 - 548. DOI:10.1080/08880010802313509
Stress hormone response in neurosurgical patients given a single dose prednisone sedation dose of Dexmedetomidine. Kaser Elainy Medical Journal (2008); Vol. 14, No.10
Evaluation of anti platelet response of Clopidorel drug in coronary heart disease. The journal of the Egyptian Society of Hematology and Research (ESHR) (2009); Vol.3, No. 2
The use of intron 22 mutation detection of hemophilia A carrier in patients siblings. Journal of Children Institute Ain Shams (2012); Vol. 20, No. 15
Prenatal diagnosis of Gaucher disease in Egypt. The Egyptian journal of Medical Human Genetics. (2013); 14 (4): 361 - 365. DOI: 10.1016/j.ejmhg.2013.06.002
Study of cytotoxic T lymphocyte antigen 4 gene polymorphism A49G in Egyptian children with idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura. Life Science Journal (2013); 10 (4): 3242 - 3246.
The role of 16s r RNA ene sequencing in confirmation of suspecting neonatal sepsis. Journal of Tropical Pediatrics (2015); 62 (1): 75 - 80. DOI:10.1093/tropej/fmv066
Evaluation of serum vitamin D, LL37 and interferon gamma levels in Saudi children with respiratory tract infection. International Journal of Pharmaceutical Research and Allied Science. (2016); 5 (1):180 - 190
Cystathionine beta synthase (CBS) gene 844 ins 68 polymorphism in sickle cell disease patients: Frequency of vaso-occusive crisis. The Journal of the Egyptian Society of Hematology and Research (2017); 13 (2): 43 - 48
XmnI polymorphism in Egyptian β-thalassemia patients and its correlation to Hb F level. Gene Reports (2018); 11: 69 - 73. DOI: 10.1016/j.genrep.2018.02.005
Serum level of anti-thrombin III (ATIII) could serve as a prognostic marker in neonatal sepsis. Fetal and Pediatric Pathology Journal (2019); 38 (4):290 - 298. DOI:10.1080/15513815.2019.1587118
Vitamin D status and vitamin D receptor gene polymorphism in Saudi children with acute respiratory infection. Molecular Biology Reports (2019); 46 (5). DOI: 10.1007/s11033-019-04849-w
Association between serum sclerotin level and carotid artery atherosclerosis in hemodialysis patients. Global Scientific Journal (2019); 7 (11):334 - 352
Phenotypic and genotypic detection of Metallo-B-lactamases (MBL) producing Pseudomonas aeruginosa. A Study done in two university hospitals. The Egyptian Journal of Laboratory Medicine (2020); 32 (2): 50 - 55. DOI:10.4103/ejolm.ejolm_6_21
A1 and A2 subtypes of blood group A: a reflection of their prevalence in Fayoum University Hospital Blood Bank. Egyptian Journal of Haematology (2021); 46 (1): 7 - 10. DOI:10.4103/ejh.ejh_51_20
Value of serum pro-adrenomedulin in diagnosis of neonatal sepsis. Fayoum University Medical Journal (2022); 10 (2): 41 - 46 DOI:10.21608/fumj.2022.252732