CURRICULUM VITAE

Name:                    Kamal Abd El-Sattar Ata.

Gender:                  Male.

Date and

Place of Birth:        25 th of September, 1964

                              Mallawy, El-Minya, Egypt.

Nationality:            Egyptian.

Marital Status:       Married and have 3 children.

Address:                 Chest Department, Sohag Faculty of Medicine, Sohag University, Sohag, Egypt.

                              Telephone: 02-093-2114057 (home)

                                      02-093-2344647 (work)

                                      01090410500 (mobile)

Fax: 02-093-4602963  or  02-093-4604610                

                              E-Mail: kamalaas@hotmail.com

Current Job:          Professor and Head of Department of Chest Diseases, Sohag Faculty of Medicine, Sohag University.

Qualifications:         MBBCh; Faculty of Medicine, Assiut University, Assiut, Egypt (Sep. 1988) with grade of very good with honour.

                                Master Degree in Chest Diseases; Faculty of Medicine, Assiut University, Assiut, Egypt (April, 1994) with grade of very good .

                                M.D. Degree in Chest Diseases; Faculty of Medicine, South Valley University, Sohag, Egypt (Oct., 1999).

Awards:                   - Financial award during all the years of the study at Assiut Faculty of Medicine.

• Joint-supervision mission from Sohag Faculty of Medicine due to the distinguished performance.

Professional Experience:

3/1989-2/1990:        House officer at Assiut University Hospital working in the following departments: general surgery, internal medicine, pediatrics, obstetrics and gynaecology, emergencies and anaesthesia, and chest diseases (2 months in each department).

3/1990-2/1992:        Resident doctor at Chest Department, Assiut University Hospital.

3/1992-6/1993:        Resident doctor at Chest Department, Assiut University Hospital.

6/1993-7/1994:        Registrar at Chest Department, Sohag Faculty of Medicine, South Valley University.

7/1994-7/1996:        Assistant lecturer at Chest department, Sohag Faculty of Medicine, South Valley University.

8/1996-8/1998:        Research Fellow at Department of Respiratory Medicine, Gartnavel General Hospital, Glasgow University, United Kingdom.

8/1998-12/1999:      Assistant lecturer at Chest Department, Sohag Faculty of Medicine, South Valley University.

1/2000-2/2005:        lecturer of Chest Diseases, Sohag Faculty of Medicine, South Valley University.

3/2005-12/2011:      Assistant Professor of Chest Diseases, Sohag Faculty of Medicine, Sohag University.

1/2012-4/2/2015:     Professor of Chest Diseases, Sohag Faculty of Medicine, Sohag University.

7/2007-12/2014:      Consultant Pulmonologist and Medical Director at Chest Diseases Hospital, Taif, KSA.

5/2/2015-present date: Professor and Head of Department of Chest Diseases, Sohag Faculty of Medicine, Sohag University.

Managerial

 Experience:            Experience gained in this field in the university hospitals through preparing and organizing rotas, training tutorials, lectures, and exams for junior chest specialists, undergraduate and postgraduate students.

Teaching and Academic

 Experience:            - Professor and Head of Department of Chest Diseases, Sohag Faculty of medicine, Sohag University.

                                - Preparing and organizing exams. for both undergraduate and postgraduate students.

                                - Supervision of MD and MSc. Theses for postgraduate students.   

                                - Sharing in the education programme in the university hospitals through teaching the chest diseases as well as the different diagnostic procedures (as fibreoptic bronchoscopy, pulmonary function testing, blood gases analysis and respiratory ICU procedures) for undergraduate and postgraduate students.

Scientific

 Activities:                - Organizing and participating in the scientific conferences, workshops, meetings and seminars at the Chest Departement and Sohag University Hospital for undergraduate and postgraduate students and chest physicians.

  - Participating and attending most of the local, national and   international conferences of pulmonary and internal medicine (ATS, ERS, ESCT, ESSB, and others).                                                                            

Research

 Experience:            - The M.Sc. Thesis involved working with the problem of rifampicin resistance among tuberculous patients.

                                - The M.D. Thesis involved working with the role of fibreoptic bronchoscpy and induced sputum in the diagnosis of lung cancer.

                                - Research Fellow at Department of Respiratory Medicine, Gartnavel General Hospital, Glasgow University, United Kingdom.

• Conducting several research works in various chest diseases as COPD, bronchial asthma, interstitial lung diseases, pulmonary infections, pulmonary vascular diseases, lung cancer, sleep and mechanical ventilation.

Research Titles:

• FACTORS AFFECTING ADHERENCE OF PATIENTS WITH COPD AND BRONCHIAL ASTHMA TO INHALATION THERAPY
• ACUTE EXACERBATION OF COPD: CAUSES AND PREDICTORS OF OUTCOME
• SEVERITY OF ASTHMA DURING PREGNANCY AND INFANT AND MATERNAL OUTCOMES
• MANAGEMENT OF GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX INDUCED BRONCHIAL ASTHMA
• HAEMODYNAMIC AND RESPIRATORY CONSEQUENCES OF NONINVASIVE POSITIVE PRESSURE VENTILATION IN PATIENTS WITH HEART FAILURE
• EFFECTS OF NONINVASIVE POSITIVE PRESSURE VENTILATION ON PULMONARY HYPERTENSION IN PATIENTS WITH OBSTRUCTIVE SLEEP APNEA
• POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION VERSUS CONVENTIONAL METHODS IN THE DIAGNOSIS OF PULMONARY TUBERCULOSIS
• THE DIAGNOSTIC VALUE OF SPUTUM INDUCTION AND FIBEROPTIC BRONCHOSCOPY IN PULMONARY TUBERCULOSIS
• THE DIAGNOSTIC ROLE OF MAGNETIC RESONANCE ANGIOGRAPHY IN PULMONARY ARTERIAL HYPERTENSION AND PULMONARY EMBOLISM
• MUSCLE CHANGES IN PATIENTS WITH COPD
• DIAGNOSIS OF TUBERCULOUS PLEURAL EFFUSION: COMPARISON BETWEEN PLEURAL FLUID EXAMINATION, NEEDLE BIOPSY AND THORACOSCOPY
• FACTORS AFFECTING WEANING OF MECHANICALLY VENTILATED PATIENTS IN RESPIRATORY INTENSIVE CARE UNIT
• FIBEROPTIC BRONCHOSCOPIC CRYOTHERAPY IN THE MANAGEMENT OF MALIGNANT TRACHEOBRONCHIAL LESIONS
• IMPACT OF A TWO YEARS ANTI-SMOKING EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM ON MALE STUDENTS IN SOHAG HIGH INSTITUTE FOR SOCIAL SERVICES: A SELF-SUPPORT GROUPS MODULE
• LATENT TUBERCULOSIS INFECTION AMONG HOUSEHOLD CONTACTS OF PATIENTS WITH PULMONARY TUBERCULOSIS
• OTORHINOLARYNGOLOGIC MANIFESTATIONS OF PULMONARY TUBERCULOSIS
• PULMONARY EMBOLISM IN PATIENTS WITH ACUTE EXACERBATION OF CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE PULMONARY DISEASE
• RADIAL PROBE ENDOBRONCHIAL ULTRASOUND FOR THE DIAGNOSIS OF LUNG LESIONS
• THE DIAGNOSTIC ROLE OF INDUCED SPUTUM IN PLEURAL TUBERCULOSIS
• THE DIAGNOSTIC VALUE OF SKIN PRICK TESTS, BLOOD EOSINOPHILIA AND SERUM IGE LEVEL IN ATOPIC BRONCHIAL ASTHMA
• UTILITY OF ENDOBRONCHIAL ULTRASOUND-GUIDED TRANSBRONCHIAL NEEDLE ASPIRATION IN THE DIAGNOSIS OF LUNG DISEASES