Nagwa Khamis, MD

    Chief Executive Officer Consultant &
    Director of Infection Prevention and Control Department

Chief Executive Officer Consultant
Director of Infection Prevention and Control Department

Education:

  • MD. Clinical Pathology (Microbiology), Faculty of Medicine, Ain Shams University, Cairo.
  • MSc. Clinical Pathology (Microbiology), Faculty of Medicine, Ain Shams University, Cairo.
  • BSc. Medicine and Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, Ain Shams University, Cairo.
  • Professional certificate in Infection Control from University of Paris-6/ Pitie- Salpetriere Hospital, France, 1991.

Courses and Diplomas:

  • Hospital management intensive course, AUC, 1987
  • Hospital management course, ASU, 2004
  • Medical Statistics Diploma, 1989
  • Internal Auditing ISO, 2000- 2004- 2007
  • Free-lance Consultant Infodemic Management of WHO, 2020
  • External Consultant IPC WHO/ EMRO 2021

Memberships:

  • Egyptian Society of Laboratory Medicine, since 1989.
  • The French Medical Society of Egypt, 1994.
  • Egyptian Society of Infection Control, since 1997.
  • International Federation of Infection Control, since 2001.
  • Association NOSOMED, 2002.
  • President SPIC-EGYPT, 2008 to date.
  • French Society of Hospital Hygiene, (SPIC-EGYPT partner), 2010.
  • Secretary of IFIC, EMRO coordinator, from March 2014 to December 2017.
  • Vice – President, Club France- Egypt, 2015 to December 2017.
  • Board Member of IFIC for EMRO region, from Jan 2012 to December 2021.

Selected Publications:

  • Survey of the potential sources of hospital acquired infection, MS Thesis, 1990.
  • Rapid diagnosis of the human CMV, MD Thesis, 1995.
  • Clostridium difficile associated diarrhea in hospitalized tube fed patients, 2001.
  • Molecular typing of Stenotrophomonas maltophilia in an intensive care nursery, 2002.
  • B-lactamase and mex-R gene mutation in a nosocomial outbreak of carbapenem resistant Pseudomonas, 2004.
  • Diagnosis-Based Isolation Measures in the ICU, 2005.
  • Developing a Rational Approach of Surgical Site Infection Prevention in a Tertiary Care Hospital in Cairo, 2008.
  • A Microbial Survey of Food Served to Oncohematology Patients at a University Hospital, 2011.
  • One Health Concept. 2018.
  • Success of Antimicrobial Stewardship Program: Is it Awareness or Behavior Change? 2019.