Hossam Badrawi
Egyptian physician and politician
Hossam Badrawi (Arabic: حسام بدراوى) is an Egyptian physician and politician who served as the last secretary-general of the National Democratic Party. Badrawi owns the Nile Badrawi Hospital in Cairo’s Maadi district. He is also the founder of the Union Party.
Educational background
Hossam Badrawi graduated from Cairo University Kasr ElAini, faculty of medicine with an honours degree in 1974. He went to Wayne State University-Detroit-Michigan between 1979 and 1983, where he obtained his graduate studies in the use of scanning electron microscopy. Badrawi then completed his post graduate studies at Northwestern University, and fulfilled graduate studies in Curricula and study programs’ methodologies and development in Boston University. In 2007, Prof. Badrawi obtained his PhD in science from Sunderland University in the United Kingdom, for outstanding work in higher education reform in the Middle East region and an honorary fellowship from Cardiff Metropolitan University Wales, UK in 2014.
Career
Academics
Badrawi published 120 research papers in his field obstetrics and gynecology, and participated in eight text books that are related to his field. His latest book about reforming education was published in November 2011.
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