Mona El Rakhawy

PERSONAL INFORMATION

Name:                        Mona Yehia El Rakhawy

Nationality:                

Egyptian

Email:                        

mona@diwandaycenter.net

Languages:

                 Fluent in Arabic, English & French – written and spoken

Current position:

       Professor of Psychiatry, Faculty of Medicine, Cairo University.

 

EDUCATION

           

1967-1980                   Primary & Secondary Schools

                                    (Sacré-Coeur French Language Schools)                

1981- 1987                 Study of medical science faculty of Medicine,

                                    (Cairo University)

1989-1990                   Full course in Basic Science in preparation for primary part of M.Sc (Cairo University)

1990                            Visitor in Consultation Liaison Psychiatry (8 months) under the supervision of the Psychiatry Department at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).

1990                            Course in Couples therapy conducted by Prof. Walter Brackelmanns, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) .

1990                            Course in Dynamic Therapy conducted by  Prof Walter Brackelmanns, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) .

1990                            Training in the application of the Structural Clinical Interview for DSM-III-R Axis I and Axis II Disorders (SCID-I & II) under supervision of Prof. Nuchterlein, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).

1991-1992                   Full course in Psychiatry & Neurology for wwthe degree of M.Sc 

(Cairo University).

1992-1994                   Training in Individual Psychotherapy under supervision of Prof. Yehia Rakhawy, Cairo University

1994                            Full course with authorization of training candidates in application of the Schedule of Clinical Assessment of Neuropsychiatry Disorders (SCAN) under supervision of Dr. Anne Farmer, University of Wales.

1996- 1999                  Full course in Psychiatry for the Doctoral Degree (M.D.), (Cairo University)

1998                            Training course in Teaching Abilities for University Staff, Cairo University

1999                            Workshop in Dangerousness in Psychiatry under supervision of Prof. Yehia El Rakhawy, Cairo University.

2000                            Workshop in Family Therapy under supervision of Prof. Peter Loader, King's College, University of London.

2000                            Workshop in Old Age Psychiatry and training with authorization of training candidates in the application of Geriatric Mental State Examination (GMS) under supervision of Prof. Ken Wilson, Liverpool University and Prof. A Ashour, Ain Shams University.

2001                            Workshop in Female Mental health, under supervision of Prof. Zeinab El Beshry, Ain Shams University

2002                            Workshop in Geriatric Psychiatry under supervision of Prof. Yosry Abdel-Mohsen, Cairo University.       

2003                           

Training course in Integrated Psychiatric Treatments under supervision of Prof. Brian Leonard, CINP President Elect  and Prof. Magdy Arafa, Cairo University.

Scientific Activities:

2004                            Attendance of the second Regional Mediterranean conference of International Association of Group Psychotherapy. Athens 1-5 September, and presentation of the following paper:

Changes in Group Psychotherapy: Egyptian Therapists’ View.

 

2004                            Preparation of the yearly Symposium of Integrative Psychiatric Treatments Unit, Psychiatry Department, Cairo University: "Update issues in Psychiatric Treatments, and presentation of “An Egyptian Experience in Family Therapy”, March 23

2005                            Member of the organizing committee of the XIII WPA World Congress of Psychiatry 5000 years of Science and Care: Building the Future of Psychiatry", and presentation of the following paper:  "An Integrated Psychotherapeutic Approach to Family Therapy: An Egyptian Experience", September 10-15, Cairo, Egypt

2005                            Preparation of the yearly Symposium of Integrative Psychiatric Treatments Unit, Psychiatry Department, Cairo University: ‘Update issues in Psychiatric Treatments’, and conducting the workshop: 

‘Transference andcounter transference phenomena in Psychiatric Treatment", 4-5 April, Cairo, Egypt’.

2006                Preparing the yearly Symposium of Integrative Psychiatric Treatments Unit, Psychiatry Department, Cairo University: ‘Update issues in Psychiatric Treatments’, and presenting the paper:  

"Day Hospital as aPsychotherapeutic System."

April, 17-18, Cairo, Egypt

.

2007               

Participation in the yearly Congress of the Egyptian Psychiatry Association: "

OptimizingQuality of life in Psychiatric Patients.

"October 25, Cairo, Egypt.

2007                Participation in the International Congress of the

International Society of Addiction Medicine, October, 22-25, Cairo, Egypt.

2008    First Kasr El-Ainy International Psychiatry conference toward Better Mental Health for Egypt. February 27-28, 2008, and the participation with the following presentation:

"The Attitude and Use of Faith Healing by People with Mental Disorder: A Community Survey”,

and conducting the workshop:’

Management of Borderline Personality Patients’

2008                Participation in the Congress of the Arab Federation of Psychiatrists and the Egyptian Psychiatric Association. ‘Fighting Stigma and Discrimination because of Mental Disorders’ and conducting the workshop

‘Cognitive Therapy’

, 18-20 June, Cairo, Egypt.

2008               

Participation in 8^th Annual Jeddah Psychiatry Symposium: ‘Mental Health of the Family: Multiple Approaches, One Goal’ and conduction of the workshop ‘Family as Preventive and Therapeutic Milieu,’ March 12-13, Jeddah, UAK.

2008                Attendance of the training course: ‘

Psychosis: Culture, Psychotropics and Social Integration

’, October, 11-12, Madrid, Spain.  

2009                Participation in ‘The

Second Kasr El-Ainy International Psychiatry Conference. Psychiatry across the Life Cycle, and conducting the workshop

‘Stress Management’

February 17-19, Cairo, Egypt.

2009               

Preparation of the symposium of the Integrative Psychiatric Treatments ‘Updates issues in Psychiatric Treatments’ and conducting the workshop

‘Integrated Management of Acute Psychosis’, March, 17-18, Cairo, Egypt.

2009               

Participation in the A.P.P.A.C. Association of Psychology and Psychiatry for Adults and Children congress, and presenting the paper:

‘Theater Playing in the Management of Psychiatric Disorders’.

2009               

Participation of the workshop

: Learning to Use the Historical/Clinical/Risk Management,

June, 17 – 18, Cairo, Egypt.

2009               

Participation in the Annual Congress of Egyptian Psychiatric Association: ‘Mental Health vs Mental Disorders, June, 3-5, Cairo, Egypt.

2010               

Participation in the International Psychiatry congress

: ‘Challenges Facing Psychiatric Practice in Egypt and the World’

February, 24-25, Cairo, Egypt.

2006-2011      

Preparation and conduction of the following workshop, conducted in Diwan Psychotherapy Center, Cairo Egypt:

-          Anger Management

-          Enhancement of self Esteem

-          Relaxation Techniques

-          Communication Skills

-          Stress Management

2006-2011       Supervision of different psychotherapeutic activities at Diwan Psychotherapy Center

2012                 Participation in the Gornada  and participation

(orient and occident two worlds and two cultures and groups)

Researsh

1-       Personality of mothers of substance dependent patients.

2-       Therapeutic factors in group psychotherapy: A study of Egyptian drug addicts.

3-       The Attitude and use of faith healing by people with mental disorders in Egypt: A community survey.

4-       Coping with depression and anxiety in patients with psoriasis.

5-       Psychosocial correlates and locus of control in depressed geriatric inpatients.

6-       The impact of obsessive compulsive disorder on patients’ life: A transcultural perspective.

7-       Perception of Physician Assisted Suicide among Egyptian psychiatrists.

8-       Pattern and adequacy of psychiatric emergency assessment in the general hospital.

9-       Executive functions in Egyptian children with conduct disorder.

 

QUALIFICATIONS

1987                            M.B.BCH (Very Good), Faculty of Medicine

                                    Cairo University.

1992                            Master Degree in Psychiatry & Neurology, Cairo University

1999                            Doctoral Degree (M.D.) in Psychiatry

        Cairo University.

 

PUBLICATIONS

“Psychotherapy of Schizophrenia"

M.Sc. Thesis.

“Gender Differences in Schizophrenia”

M.D. Thesis

 

1. Personality of mothers of substance dependent patients.
2. Group Psychotherapy for substance dependence patients: therapeutic factors and outcome.
3. The attitude and use of faith healing by people with mental disorders  in Egypt: A community survey.
   1. Executive functions in Egyptian children with conduct disorder.
   2. Psychosocial correlates and locus of control in depressed geriatric inpatients.
   3. The impact of obsessive compulsive disorders on patient's life: A trans-cultural perspective.
   4. Coping with depression and anxiety in patients with psoriasis.
   5. Pattern and adequacy of Psychiatric emergency assessment in the general hospital.
   6. Perception of Physician Assisted suicide among Egyptian Psychiatrists.
   7. Why fear the slippery slope of assisted suicide? A need to consider erderly patients with early diagnosis of dementia (Letter published in BMJ: http://www.bmj.com/cgi/ eletters/339/jul16_1/b2883#218189) (6 August 2009).
   8. Euthanasia and physician assisted suicide: Historical, cultural and religious perspectives from the Middle East (Submitted in the International Journal of social psychiatry, UK).
   9. Quantitative EEG and executive functions in children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (accepted in the 6^th International congress on Psychiatry. The 1^st International congress on Neuroscience, Institute of Psychiatry, Ain Shams University, Cairo, 4-8 May).\
   10. National Mental Health Survey of Egypt: One-year prevalence of mental disorder in Upper Egypt, WHO EMRO.
   11. Complexity in cultural issues and congnitive assessment  of elderly British minority ethnic group (BME).(The Annual Meeting of the faculty of Old Age Psychiatrists,UK)
   12. Perception of Physicians assisted suicide among Egyptian Psychiatrists : elderly care perspective  (The Annual Meeting of the faculty of Old Age Psychiatrists,UK)
   13. Survival analysis following multipl suicidal attempts : another call to consider younger adults and older people differently (The Annual  Meeting of the faculty of Old Age Psychiatrists,UK).
   14. Theatre playing in the management of psychiatric disorders (APPA , Greece)

 

 “Obstetrical complications in bipolar disorders: A retrospective study in a sample of Egyptian bipolar patients”  25, 9-18 (2002).

 

"Cognitive impairment among a sample of Egyptian elderly living in community versus those living in nursing homes". 25, 125-140 (2002).

 

"GMS Arabic Translation,  Ain Shams University".

 

POSTS HELD

1988-1989                   House Officer at Cairo University Hospital, Kasr El Aini.

1989-1992                   Resident in Psychiatry Department

   Cairo University with 2 months rotation in Neurology department.

This period was interrupted by 8 months spent in the USA, as a visitor in the Consultation Liaison Department, University of California Los Angeles (UCLA).

1992-2000                   Assistant Lecturer in Psychiatry Department,

Cairo University.

1995-1997                   Specialist of Psychiatry, "Saudia Airlines main medical services,                                             Jeddah, Saudi Arabia.

2000- 2005                  Lecturer at the Department of Psychiatry, Cairo University

2005-2010                   Associate Professor of Psychiatry, Cairo University

2010 up to date                        Professor of Psychiatry, Cairo University

1999 up to date            Consultant Psychiatrist, Dar El Mokattam for Mental Health Hospital, Cairo, Egypt

2006 -2010                  Manager of Diwan Psychotherapy Center, Cairo, Egypt.

2011                          President of the Egyptian Association for Group Therapies and Processes (EAGT)

2012                              Member in the Board of the Intenational association of group therapy and process

Teaching & Training Activities

• Clinical demonstrator for undergraduates, postgraduates, house officers and residents.
• Clinical demonstrator for the nursing school, Cairo University
• Preparation of case conference in Psychiatry department, Cairo University.
• Participation and preparation of Journal Club meetings in Psychiatry, Cairo University.
• Psychiatry supervision seminars, Cairo University and Dar El Mokattam hospital for Mental Health.
• Teaching Psychiatry for undergraduates, Cairo University.
• Teaching Psychology for undergraduates, Fayoum University.
• Teaching Psychiatry for nursing school students at the Oncology Institute, Cairo University.
• Nominated as a Secretary of the Fellowship and Young Psychiatrists Committee in the XIII World Congress of Psychiatry (2006).

Participation in the training program of the young psychiatrists for application of the Arabic version

 

 

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REFERENCES

 

EGYPT

                              

(1) Prof. Mahmoud Sami Abdel-Gawad

Psychiatry, Cairo University.

(2) Prof. Ahmed Okasha

President of World Psychiatric Association.

(3) Prof. Yehia El Rakhawy

Psychiatry, Cairo University

(4) Prof. Yosry Abdel-Mohsen

Psychiatry, Cairo University

(5) Prof. Refaat Mahfouz

Psychiatry, Menia University

(6) Prof. Abdel-Menaem Ashour

Psychiatry, Ein-Shams University

U.S.A.                          (1) Prof. Fawzi Ibrahim Fawzi, M.D.

University of California, Los Angeles .

 

(Last updated: Wed, 2015-08-26 10:46)