Prof. Nagia Aly Fahmy Yasseen Ahmed

Current Position: Professor of Neurology and Director, Neuromuscular Center, Neuropsychiatry Department, Faculty of Medicine, Ain Shams University. Main interests are neuromuscular disorders, neurogenetic disorders, and rare diseases. - Prof. Nagia Fahmy, in 1996, traveled to the National Center of Neurology and Psychiatry (NCNP), Tokyo, Japan, through an individual grant from the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA). She received training for her doctorate thesis in neurology and shared in the establishment of the Neuromuscular Unit, Faculty of Medicine, Ain Shams University. - The Neuromuscular Unit is considered the only specialized and comprehensive unit for neuromuscular disorders in Egypt. It was established in 1996 with the collaboration of the NCNP in Tokyo, Japan, and contains two laboratories of histochemistry, immunohistochemistry of muscle biopsies, and molecular diagnosis of some neuromuscular disorders. It also contains a biobank of muscle biopsies and the DNA of patients with neuromuscular disorders. - She is running two special myology clinics in Ain Shams University Hospitals with 60–80 patients with neuromuscular disorders weekly in both clinics. She was also the director of the three neurology units in Ain Shams University Specialized Hospital (ASUSH), the Neurocritical Care Unit for one year (2006), the Neurology Unit for two years (2007–2008), and the Stroke Unit for one year (2010–2011). She is the founder of the “Egyptian School of Neuromuscular Disorders" (2019), a yearly postgraduate school teaching neuromuscular disorders to postgraduate students of different universities and research centers. In the first school year of 2019, there were six international professors from France, Finland, and Germany who shared the teaching with the Egyptian professors. Seventy-five trainees attended the first school, which lasted for 3 days, followed by an Egyptian International Conference of Neuromuscular Disorders, 2019, for 2 days. She shared in the establishment of the “School of Motor Neuron Disorders” at the German University of Cairo (GUC, 2019), a regional and international school. - She is the general secretary of the yearly conference of the Neurology Department, Faculty of Medicine, Ain Shams University. - She started international collaboration with many universities and centers abroad. • NCNP, Tokyo, Japan. Egypt-Japan Workshop, every other year with Prof. Ikuya Nonaka • Neuromuscular and Neurogenetic Disorders of Childhood Section, NINDs, Bethesda, USA (arranged workshop with Prof. Carsten Bonnemanne, 2013) • Neuromuscular Center, Tampere University, Finland. Finland-Egypt workshop (2015–2019, with Prof. Bjarne Udd) • John Walton Muscular Dystrophy Research Centre, Newcastle University, UK. • Neurology Department, University of Versailles-Saint-Quentin, France • Summer School of Myology, Paris, France • Neurology Department, Ulm University, Germany. She started a national research collaboration with the American University in Cairo in 2017 and the German University in Cairo in 2019. She is the Director of the Neuromucular Chapter of the Egyptian Society of Neurology, Neurosurgery, and Psychiatry (ESNPN). She is a member of many national and international organizations, including: Member of the World Muscle Society, Member of the Mediterranean Society of Myology, Member of Treat-NMD, an International Registry Organization, and Member of the Pan Arab Union of Neurology. - She is also a reviewer of the Ethical Committee, Faculty of Medicine, Ain Shams University; a reviewer of the Egyptian Journal of Neurology, Psychiatry, and Neurosurgery (EJNPN); a reviewer of the Journal of Neurosciences, the official journal of the Pan-Arab Union of Neurological Sciences; and a reviewer of the European Neurology Journal. - She is supervising many projects and master and doctorate degree theses in the field of neuromuscular and neurogenetic disorders. - She has many national and international publications, mainly in the field of neuromuscular and neurogenetic disorders. - She was awarded the title of ideal doctor by the Egyptian Medical Syndicate in 2016 for establishing and directing the Ain Shams Neuromuscular Center, a multidsicplinary center for the diagnosis and management of neuromuscular disorders, in 2024.