Ahmed Samy Khalifa

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Ahmed Samy Khalifa (14 November 1933 – 14 August 2015)^[1] was an Egyptian pediatric hematologist and oncologist. He established the specialty of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology at Ain Shams University. He treated thousands of children with thalassemia, leukemia and other hematologic and ontological diseases all over Egypt.

He received a Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery in (1957) from Cairo University, followed by a Diploma in Pediatrics (1959), a diploma in Internal Medicine (1960), an MD in Pediatrics (1961), and a Diploma in Physiology and Biochemistry (1964), all from Cairo University. He was certified by the American Board of Pediatrics in 1974.^{[citation needed][2]}

• doctor privilege from 01/03/1957 to 28/02/1958 - Cairo University Hospitals.
• resident doctor from 10/04/1958 to 04/09/1960 - Children's Hospital and the paralysis Institute of Cairo University.
• A. Lecturer of pediatrics from 18/08/1960 to 07/19/1964 - Department of Pediatrics - Faculty of Medicine - Ain Shams University.
• Lecturer of pediatrics from 19/07/1964 until 10/21/1969 Department of Pediatrics - Faculty of Medicine - Ain Shams University.
• Associate professor of pediatrics from 10/21/1969 until 10/25/1974 Department of Pediatrics - Faculty of Medicine - Ain Shams University.
• Professor of pediatrics from 10/25/1974.
• Head of the Department of Pediatrics from 01/08/1991 until 31/07/1994.
• Professor Emeritus of Pediatrics from 08/01/1994 until 14/08/2015.

• Created the pediatric Clinic Hematology and Oncology, Department of Pediatrics - Faculty of Medicine - Ain Shams University in December 1974, after his return from the United States as a therapeutic progress of the Egyptian society and friendly countries and education for physicians in diagnosis and treatment.
• Visiting professor at the University of Wayne, Michigan - United States of America.
• External examiner at the Faculty of Medicine Dubai, United Arab Emirates and the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Jordan.

• Holder on Nishan Republic in Science and the State Incentive Award in 1982.
• Recipient of the State Award in Medical Sciences in 1998.

• He was a member of the Standing Committee of Pediatrics in different periods.
• was a member of the arbitration committee for the State Incentive Awards and discretion.

• 85 Master in pediatric hematology and oncology in children has vacationed.
• 62 M.D. thesis in pediatric hematology and oncology in children has vacationed.

• Published 219 research in local and international journals.
• Authored chapter on "Anemia in Mothers and Children in Developing Countries" in '' Maternal Child health around the World'' (1981) H.M Wallace and G.L. Ebrahim (editors) MacMillen Press London.
• Authored chapter "Exchange Transfusion: Metabolic aspects biochemical changes" in '' Paediatrics and Blood Transfusion'' (1992) Smit sibinga, P.C.Das and J.O.Forfar (editors) Matinus Nijhoff. Publisher the Hague / Boston / London
• Wrote Protocols of therapy for oncological diseases in Pediatrics (2012)

• Egyptian Society of Pediatrics.
• Egyptian Medical Association.
• Egyptian Society of Hematology.^[3]
• Clinical Society of Ain Shams.
• Egyptian Oncology Group in children.^[4]
• The Egyptian Cancer Society.
• Ain Shams Society of Medicine and the care of children.
• International Society of Hematology ISH.^[5]
• International Society of Pediatric Oncology
• American Society of Hematology (ASH).^[6]
• European Haematology Association (EHA).^[7]

• Editor-in-Chief of the Egyptian children.^{[clarification needed]}

• Ain Shams Pediatrics department Official website
• ar:قسم طب الأطفال- كلية الطب- جامعة عين شمس