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CURRECULUM VITAE

 

Yasser Mohamed El-Wazir, MBChB, PhD
(September 2008)
 
PERSONAL DETAILS
Date & place of birth               30 January 1958, Cairo
Nationality                                Egyptian
Marital status                            Married and have two children
 
CONTACT INFORMATION
Mailing Address:                                            :
Suez Canal University              
            College of Medicine                             
            Department of physiology
           Ismailia, Egypt
           
Tel.      Mobile             +2-0123709469                     
Home              +2-064-3324024  
             
Fax                             +2-064-3209448
 
E-mail                         ywazir@hotmail.com
 
 
Current Appointments
June 2007- present                   Professor and Chair of Physiology Department in Suez Canal College of Medicine, Ismailia, Egypt.
January 2008 – present             Peer reviewer in the national committee of quality assurance of Egyptian universities
March 2008 – present              Consultant in The National Agency of Quality Assurance and Accreditation in Education
January 2008 – present             Block planner in the Diploma of Health Profession Education in the Department of Medical Education in the Suez Canal Faculty of Medicine
 
EXPERIENCE IN QUALITY ASSURANCE IN HIGHER EDUCATION
Sept 2008        Basic workshop for peer reviewers in higher education, Cairo university
Dec, Jan, March           Three advanced workshops for peer reviewers in higher education
Feb 2008           Peer reviewer in the site visit to Benha College of Medicine, Egypt
April 2008         Peer reviewer in the site visit to Zagazig College of Medicine, Egypt
QUALIFICATIONS
·   Ph.D. in Medical Physiology, Suez Canal University, Egypt 1989. (Thesis: Effect of prolonged physical training on left ventricular structure and functions, an echocardiographic study)
·   M.Sc. in Medical Physiology, Suez Canal University, Egypt 1986. (Thesis: Observation on some physiological variations in left ventricular functions)
·   M.Sc. in Clinical Cardiology, Cairo University, Egypt 1985. (Thesis: Pathophysiological mechanisms of tachyarrhythmias).
·   MBBChCollege of Medicine, Ain Shams University, Egypt 1980, "Very good with honor".
 
PREVIOUS ACADEMIC Appointments
2000 – 2007                            Professor of Physiology in King Khalid University College of Medicine, Abha, Saudi Arabia
April 2000 – Dec 2000            Professor of Physiology in Suez Canal Faculty of Medicine
1997 - ِ2000                            Associate Professor of Physiology in Suez Canal College of Medicine
1996 – 1997    Visiting Associate Professor of Physiology in the University of Kentucky
College of Medicine, Lexington, KY, USA (One academic year)
1994 - 1996    Associate Professor of Physiology in Suez Canal Faculty of Medicine
1990 - 1994     Assistant Prof. of Physiology in Suez Canal Faculty of Medicine
1987 - 1990     Assistant lecturer of Physiology in Suez Canal Faculty of Medicine
1983 – 1987    Instructor of Physiology in the Suez Canal Faculty of Medicine
 
PREVIOUS PROFESSIONAL Appointments
1992 - 2000     Consultant of echocardiography in the Cardiology Department at Suez Canal University Hospital
1987 - 1992     Specialist of echocardiography in Suez Canal Medical Center
1982 - 1985     Part-time attending fellow in the Cardiology Department, Al-Kasr Al-Eini                                  Hospitals, Cairo
1982 – 1983    Medical resident in the Teachers’ Hospital, Cairo
1981 – 1982    Rotatory intern in Ain Shams University & El-Sahel Hospitals in Cairo
 
PREVIOUS ADMINISTRATIVE Appointments
1997- 2000      Deputy Vice-Dean for Education at Suez Canal Faculty of Medicine
1999- 2000      Director of the Center for Research and Development in Medical Education and Health Services (CRD) at the Faculty of Medicine, Suez Canal University
1987- 1995      Director of the non-invasive cardiac lab in Suez Canal Medical Center
 
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2007 – present Teaching Physiology courses in the Suez Canal Faculty of Medicine to:
·        postgraduate Physiology students (Egyptian and foreign students).  
·        postgraduate students in clinical sciences
·        medical, pharmacy, and dental students
2000 - 2007     Teaching Physiology to medical students in discipline-based curriculum in King Khalid College of Medicine
2002 – 2006    Teaching Cardiology (lectures & bedside) to fourth & fifth year medical students in Asseer Central Hospital as part of the Internal Medicine courses in King Khalid College of Medicine
1984 - 2000     Teaching Physiology to medical students in integrated problem-based curriculum in Suez Canal Faculty of Medicine
1990 - 2000     Teaching Clinical Physiology to interns of Cardiology & Internal Medicine in Suez Canal Faculty of Medicine
1990 - present Teaching Medical Physiology to students of the colleges of Pharmacy, Dentistry, Nursing, Medical laboratory sciences.
 
HONORS
2003-2004       Elected by the students as the ideal Professor of the academic year in King Khalid College of Medicine, and awarded the yearly memorial plaque
1996                Certificate of appreciation and the memorial plaque for "efforts deployed for the honoring of medical education and duty performance" by the Egyptian Medical Syndicate.
1995-1996       Certificate of the ideal teacher of the academic year in Suez Canal Faculty of Medicine, Ismailia, Egypt
 
INVITED SPEAKER IN SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS
2007 November           First Neuroimmunology IBRO course, Ismailia, Egypt “Effect of stress in autonomic control of the immune response”
2007 May                    Third conference of Arab Deans, Damascus, Syria “Introducing innovative teaching methods in a conventional medical curriculum”
2005 March-April        Series of 4 Workshop of Curriculum reform in King Khalid College of Medicine, Abha, Saudi Arabia,: "Guidelines of reform of Medical curriculum".
2004 December           First National Meeting of the Saudi Society of Medical Education,                                             Abha, Saudi Arabia: "Assessment of Knowledge"
2003 February             30th International Meeting of the Egyptian Society of Cardiology, Cairo, Egypt: "Brugada Syndrome".
2001 November           CME Seminar on “Arrhythmia recognition and management”, Assir Central Hospital, Abha, Saudi Arabia "Cardiac Electrophysiology"
2001 October              Clinical Utilization of the skill Lab.in King Khalid College of Medicine, "Suez Canal Experience in clinical skill lab training".
1999 September           Keynote speaker in the monthly seminar on "Developments in                                                Medical Education" organized by the Center of Excellence in                                        Medical Education of the College of Medicine, University of                                         Kentucky, USA 
1997September           Community-Based Education conference in Durban; South                                                        Africa: "Partnership between Community & University,                                                    Experience of Suez Canal University"
 
ATTENDING TRAINING COURSES AND WORKSHPS
2002 (3 days)               Educational planning and evaluation. Abha, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA)
2002 (3 days)               Teaching skills. Abha, KSA
1994 (5 weeks)            Planning and directing management information systems, at MSH (Management Sciences for Health), Boston, USA. 
1987 (2 months)           Health profession education at the Department of Medical Education University of Illinois at Chicago, USA.
1984 (2 weeks)            Role of the clinical skills lab in a problem-based and community-based medical curriculum. University of Limburg, Maastricht, Netherlands
1984 (1 week)             3rd International workshop on "Problem-based learning incorporating community-based education". Ismailia, Egypt
 
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIP
2000 - present              American Physiological Society
2007 – present             Egyptian Physiological Society
2007 – present             Neuroscience Group of Egypt
1997 – present             Egyptian Society of Hypertension
1994 – present             Egyptian Society of Cardiology
1980 – present             Egyptian Medical Syndicate
 
 
SUPERVISION OF RESEARCH OF GRADUATE MEDICAL STUDENTS
8 Ph.D. students and 13 M.Sc. students


LIST OF PUBLICATIONS
Books
  1. Co-author in: ECG Interpretation, Barnes & Hayes Publishing, Randall & El-Wazir, 2005. ISBN: 1-59377-180-0
  2. Contributor in: Cardiopulmonary Physiology, Second Edition Richardson et al., Barnes & Hayes Publishing, 2005. ISBN:1-59377-184-3
  3. Contributor in: Cardiopulmonary System, Richardson et al., Fence Creek Publishing, 1998, reprinted 2003. ISBN:1-889325-30-9
Journals
  1. El-Wazir YM, Li SG, Smith R, Silcox DL, Brown DR, Randall DC: Parasympathetic response to acute stress is attenuated in young Zucker obese rats. Auton Neurosci. 2008 Aug 21. [Epub ahead of print]
  2. El-Wazir Y, Li S, Williams D, Sprinkle A, Brown D, and Randall D: Differential acquisition of specific components of a classically conditioned arterial blood pressure response in rat. Am J Physiol, 289: R784-R788, 2005
  3. Sallam H, Serwah A, El-Barbary M, El-Wazir Y: Patterns of esophageal motility in response to change in swallowed water temperature. Bulletin of Egypt. Soc. Physiol. Sci. 19(1):87-99,  January1999
  4. El-Baz A, Awadalla M, El-Wazir Y, El-Barbary M: Criteria of dermatomal somatosensory evoked potential in normal subjects and in radiculopathy patients. Bulletin of Egypt. Soc. Physiol. Sci. 19(1):100-118, January1999
  5. Makary S, Selim H, El-Wazir Y, and Mahmoud A: Physiological assessment of cardioautonomic reflexes in diabetics. Suez Canal Medical Journal 2(1):61, 1999
  6. Hagras M, Hwyda A, and El-Wazir Y: Comparative study of the effects of ACE inhibitor (captopril) and angiotensin receptor antagonist (valsartan)   in prophylaxis and treatment of isoprenaline-induced myocardial infarction in rats. Journal of the Egyptian Society of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics 18(2):309, 1999
  7. Farouk E, El-Wazir Y, Saleh M, El-Gawly H: Comparative study of the effects of potassium channel openers, calcium channel blockers and beta-2 adrenoceptor agonists on experimentally induced bronchial ashma. Journal of the Egyptian Society of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics 18(2):475, 1999
  8. Mohamed S, El-Kassaby A, Saad A, El-Barbary M, and El-Wazir Y: Effect of acupuncture analgesia on nonspecific and humoral immunity and role of related hormones in migraine patients. Egyptian Journal of Anesthesia. 11(1):60, 1995
  9. Moustafa K, El-Sheeshy S, and El-Wazir Y: Study of the effects of occupational exposure to Gypsum dust on lung ventilation function. Annual congress of European Respiratory Society, Nice, Oct., 1994
  10. El-Kassaby A, El-Taher E, El-Wazir Y, and Nasseif A: Effect of increasing inhaled halothane concentration on ventricular arrhythmia due to coronary occlusion. Bulletin of Egypt. Soc. Physiol. Sci. 13(2):173, 1993
  11. Maklady F, El-Hawary A, El-Wazir Y, El-Sherif A, and Kamal H: Observation on physiological regurge across the cardiac valves. Bulletin of Egypt. Soc. Physiol. Sci. 13(2):185, 1993
  12. El-Wazir Y, El-Barbary M, and Farrag M: The role of opioid receptors in the response of pituitary adrenal axis to stress in rats. Bulletin of Egypt. Soc. Physiol. Sci., 13(1): 51, 1993
  13. El-Hawary A, El-Wazir Y, and El-Shahaly: Evaluation of left ventricular function in patients with ankylosing spondylitis. The New Egyp. J. of Medicine, 8(4): 989, 1993
  14. Abu-Seif A, El-Wazir Y, Khedr M, and Moharram M: Echo-cardiographic study of left ventricular function in patients with chronic renal failure. The New Egyp. J. of Medicine, 10(4): 1001, 1993
  15. El-Barbary M, El-Sharkasy M, El-Kassaby A, and El-Wazir: Relation of B-endorphin levels in CSF to post-lumbar puncture headache. Bulletin of Egypt. Soc. Physiol. Sci. September 1993
  16. El-Bagoury I, Helmi S, Yassin H, El-Wazir Y, El-Barbary M, and El-Gawly H: A study on the effect of morphine addiction on glucose homeostasis. The Journal of the Egyptian Society of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics. 1993
  17. El-Manshawi A, El-Barbary M, El-Wazir Y, and Abdel-Hamid K: A comparative study of the effect of exercise on some immunologic parameters in athletes and non-athletes. Bulletin of Egypt. Soc. Physiol. Sci., 12(2): 149, 1992
  18. El-Shahaly H, El-Wazir Y, El-Hawary A, and El-Sherif A: Echocardiographic detection of pre-clinical cardiac abnormalities in Egyptian patients with rheumatoid arthritis. Bulletin of Egypt. Soc. Physiol. Sci., 11(1): 181, 1991
  19. El-Bagoury I, El-Rawady H, Maklady F, El-WazirY, and Helmi S: Effect of prolonged physical training on left ventricular structure and function. Bulletin of Egypt. Soc. Physiol. Sci., 10(1): 113, 1989
  20. El-Khabbaz M, El-Rawady H, Maklady F, El-Deeb A, and El-Wazir Y: Evaluation of left ventricular function in diabetes mellitus. A comparative study. Bulletin of Egypt. Soc. Physiol. Sci., 8(1): 81, 1988
  21. El-Bagoury I, Ezzat E, Maklady F, Helmi S, and El-Wazir Y: Observations on some physiological variations in left ventricular function. Bulletin of Egypt. Soc. Physiol. Sci., 7(2): 53, 1987
 
Abstracts
  1. Ismaeil MS, El-Wazir Y, Khamis F, El-Kasaby A, Mohamed M: Alteration of left ventricular function by ketamine and probofol during acute myocardial ischemia. The FASEB journal 15(5):A1140, 2001
  2. El-Wazir Y, Li S-G, Randall DC, and Brown DR: Hemodynamic response to behavioral stress in obese versus lean rats. The FASEB journal 13(4):A374.11, 1999
  3. El-Wazir Y, Ezzat E: "Building partnership with the community" in 11th International Meeting of the Network of Community-oriented Medical Schools, (Current name is "The Network: Towards Unity for Health) Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA, October 1998
  4. Kassab S, El-Wazir, El-Barbary, Farouk M, El-Hawary A, Maklady F, Granger J: Role of endothelin in hypertensive renal injury. The third scientific meeting of the Egyptian hypertension Society, Dec. 1998
  5. Randall D, Hitchener L, Sprinckle A, Li S-G, El-Wazir Y, and Brown D: Acquisition of first (C1) and second (C2) components of blood pressure response to acute stress in rats. The FASEB journal 11(3):A489, 1997
6.        Kassab S, Mahmoud A, El-Wazir Y, El-Bagoury E, and Granger J: An evidence           that renal sympathetic nerves play a major role in the pathogenesis of obesity- induced hypertension. The first scientific meeting of the Egyptian hypertension       league, Dec. 1994