Director, International Hemophilia Training Centre (IHTC)
Shabrawishi Hospital
Cairo, Egypt
Dr Magdy El Ekiaby served as a member of Egypt’s National Board of Blood Transfusion, Ministry of Health & Population since 1986 as well as a member of Executive Team, responsible for Arab Transfusion Medicine Forum. He was a member of the organizing Committee of ISBT Working Party on Transfusion Transmitted Diseases 2012 – 2020 and has chaired the Scientific Committee of the XIXth ISBT Cairo Regional Congress, Europe and East Mediterranean, 2009. He was a Board of Directors member of the World Federation of Hemophilia 2010 - 2020.
Dr El Ekiaby has served the haemophilia community in Egypt since 1985, both through his profession as a haematologist and blood transfusion specialist, and as a member of the board and Vice President of the Egyptian Society of Hemophilia. Dr El Ekiaby is currently the Head of Blood Transfusion & Hemophilia Centre, Shabrawishi Hospital, a position held since 1983.
Dr Magdy received World Federation of Hemophilia Inga-Marie Nielson Award for Scientific Research achievements in Melbourn 2014. He was also awarded Life Time Achievement Award from Arab Transfusion Medicine Forum in Cairo 2015. He also received WFH International Health Care Volunteer Award in Montreal, 2022.