Dr. Rashad Alfkey, MD, PhD, FACS
Member - Scientific Committee
Consultant, Acute Care Surgery
Hamad Medical Corporation
Rashad Alfkey, MD, FACS, is an Assistant Professor of Surgery, Alazhar University Egypt. He is also a consultant of Surgery at Hamad Medical Corporation Qatar. Prior to joining his current position at HMC Dr. Rashad was a lecturer of General and Laparoscopic Surgery at Alazhar School of Medicine, Cairo, Egypt till 2006. Dr Rashad obtained his Medical Doctorate from Alazhar School of medicine, Cairo, Egypt in 2004 and joined HMC as a specialist of general and laparoscopic surgery and a consultant of general and laparoscopic surgery since March 2014. He is a member of the American Collage of Wound Care and Tissue Repair and an instructor of clinical surgery at Weill Cornell Medical Collage in Qatar since April 2012. Rashad supervises the wound care clinic at Hamad general Hospital which is a new promising facility dealing with all types of wounds including diabetic wound infection. Rashad has published two books, one in Arabic called the Medical and memorial aspects of fasting published in 2003 and a second called the Uses of Laser in Medicine and Surgery which was published in collaboration with Professor Ahmad Alnaghy, a professor of Physics. He has many articles in national and international journals, speaker in national and international conferences in addition to his participation in more than 40 national and international surgical conferences. He is interested in wound care and management. Currently, Rashad is the Director of Quality in the acute care surgery section at Hamad General Hospital. He serves as a member of many of numerous hospital committees including the program evaluation committee, perioperative quality group and best care always team. He was awarded The Egyptian Academy of Scientific Research and Technology Award for the simplified scientific writings for youth on four subjects: laser light, microbiology, genetic engineering and life in the 21st century. With the interest in wound healing and diabetic foot infection, he will be able to participate in the clinical evaluation of the newly designed dressing patch.
