International Post Graduate Course of HepatologyKasr Al-Aini
Tropical Medicine Department & Hepatology Center
Cairo University
10-12 October 2009

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Story of Success

Dear visitor of our website:

    Now we have completed our 1^st Post Graduate Course of  Hepatology  we would like to share our story of success with you.

    The story started years ago when the Endemic Medicine Department was founded, the study of liver disease was among its main interests & was always our example of collaboration, scientific update, good intentions & persistence to achieve. This is how our professors started & how we are continuing.

    Preparation for this course started 2008 when Prof s Ayman Yousry and Gamal Esmat recruited senior & junior staff members to participate forming a scientific committee & an administrative one with the involvement of conference organizing bureau.

     The scientific committee was responsible for contacting foreign professors, receiving their approval for the different topics allocated to each of them, adapting the flow of session to their interests & time schedule.

    The scientific committee was also responsible for contacting the moderators of each session for preparing case presentation, revising them & receiving suggestions of the Panelists. Making sure of coverage of most hot topics in an updated & simplified manner

The course was held on  10-12^th October 2009, at the Kasr Al AINI hospital, Faculty of Medicine, Cairo University, Conference Hall, 12 foreign professors  actively participated,  they were from Italy, USA, UK, Belgium, in collaboration with the EASL & AASLD, presented the most updated lectures .

     The Course was supported by Academy of Scientific Research and Technology during the Egyptian-Italian year of Science & Technology in collaboration with the Italian Embassy.

   The course offered the Credit hours (14hrs) through the American Academy of Continuing Medical Education (AACME).

     The course included 12 sessions, each session had 2 lectures followed by an interactive sessions of at least 2 cases presentations including discussion of difficult cases through implementation of international guidelines for treatment & diagnosis in the different liver diseases.

     The lectures were in the main domain of  Hepatology eg  Portal hypertension, ascites & HCC then HCV & HBV microbiology & main protocols of management, up to cholestasis, drug induced & autoimmune liver disease.

     Because we are an endemic area of parasitic diseases, there was a peculiar session of "immunopathogenesis of Schistosomiasis" presented by one of the eminent professors; prof Ahmed elGarem. 

     The course presented the updated data about endoscopic procedures, new protocols & results in liver transplantation in different countries even from the surgical point of view.

    A course of Radiology & it's implementation in hepatology & gastroenterology was given by one of the eminent Egyptian Radiologist Prof Mamdouh Mahfouz.

    The pediatric department presented the common, difficult & rarest cases & their protocol of management with a comparison with US protocol.

    We reached an attendance of 1000 scholars/day with a minimum 500 /day they evaluated lectures as good, v good & excellent with the session of "portal Hypertension presented by "Mark Thursz" & Roberto De Franchis" received the highest score of attendance, session discussion  & excellent appreciation followed by the session of "management of HCV" presented by Mario Mondelli & Alfredo Alberti.

     We received a thankful letters from the foreign professors for our achievement after returning back home.

For example:

"I am so grateful for your hospitality and warm reception. Wish you all success  my special thanks got mrs Hoda the department secretary and see you soon inshaallah" 
H Hesham A-Kader Hassan,MD

Professor of clinical pediatrics

Chief, Pediatric Hepatology Gastroenterology and Nutrition

The university of Arizona 

"The pleasure was all mine.  I am indeed honored to participate in the Postgraduate Course in Hepatology."
Thanks, again for inviting me!
Samir Zhakhary  (NIH/NIAAA)

"Many thanks.  It was a  pleasure to be in Cairo again".

 Prof. Dr. F. Nevens
Professor of Medicine
Chairman Department and Lab of Hepatology
University Hospitals Leuven

"Dear Prof. Gamal Esmat,
I would like to thank you very much for your kind invitation to the Postgraduate Course of Hepatology, Cairo University. It has been a pleasure and a honour to give a lecture in your University and to meet you and your colleagues personally. Thank you also for your excellent hospitality. Looking forward to meet you again
Best regards"
Claudio De Angelis

"and I am glad my lectures were appreciated.

You have permission to post the lectures on your website.

Kind regards"

Roberto de Franchis

"Dear Prof. Gamal Esmat,

Back in Milan, I wish to congratulate you for the success of the Postgraduate Course in Cairo.

Also, I wish to warmly thank you, also on behalf of my wife, for the lavish hospitality that we received while in Cairo. We thoroughly enjoyed your company and that of your lovely wife and of your son.  We both look forward to the opportunity to see you again in the future."

Kindest regards

Roberto de Franchis

 
"thank you for the kind invitation and for being such outstanding guests !!"
Stefano Fagiuoli
Direttore
U.S.C. Gastroenterologia
Ospedali Riuniti

"Thank you very much, I really enjoyed

Best regards"

 Mark Ghobrial, M.D., Ph.D.

Director, Liver Center

We hope that you continue with us the success of the program by sharing with your updated lectures & case report.

                                                                                     Thank you

                                                                                  Committee of Kasr Al Aini

          International Post Graduate Course

                                                                                 of Hepatology