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Dr. Nagah Abdel Aziz Selim – (MD.Dr. PH) Medical Doctorate. MSc.

Current positions:

  • A/Professor of Public Health and preventive medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Cairo University, Egypt
  • A/director of Community Medicine Residency Training Program-  

            Arab Board specialty in Community Medicine

  • Arab Board examiner

                                                    

 

Current Address

: faculty of medicine – Cairo university

Cell phone

: 00974-66083921    

Email

: nselim@phcc.gov.qaqa  / nagah.horeesh@gmail.com     

            

GRADUATE & POST GRADUATE EDUCATION

 

Institution & Location

 Degree

Year

Field of study

Faculty of Medicine, Cairo university   

M.B.B.Ch    

1993

Baccalaureate of Medicine & Surgery                                                                                

Faculty of Medicine, Cairo university   

M.Sc     

2000

Public health & Preventive Medicine

Faculty of Medicine, Cairo university   

MD-PhD

2006

Public health & Preventive Medicine

 

 

Professional experience

 

A/Director of Community Medicine Residency Training Program-  

Arab Board specialty in Community Medicine – State of Qatar

Consultant Trainer – public health and preventive medicine

2016 – current 

Director of Community Medicine Residency Training Program-  

Arab Board specialty in Community Medicine – State of Qatar

Consultant Trainer – public health and preventive medicine

2011- 2016

A/professor of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Cairo University

2012 – current

Specialist Trainer of Community Medicine

Family & Community Medicine, PHCC, Qatar

2007-2010

Lecturer of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Cairo University.

2006 -2012

Consultant and team coordinator - Human Resource team at Integrated Development Consultant office at Cairo (IDC)

for consultation for basic                      

Promotive and Preventive Package

2006 – 2008

Researcher at Egyptian Smoking Prevention Institute (ESPRI)

2004-2007

Assistant lecturer of Public Health and Preventive medicine

2001-2006       

Demonstrator of Public Health & Preventive medicine

1997-2001           

Resident of Internal Medicine at Kasr Al-Ainy Teaching Hospitals

1995-1996   

House officer at Kasr  Al-Ainy Teaching Hospitals

1994-1995          

 

 

            

   

Membership:

 

  • Chair of PHCC  IEC /RC
  • International epidemiology association
  • Member in the Primary Health Care Conference 2017 scientific committee
  • Chair of PHCC research day scientific committee -2015
  • Co- chair of PHCC research day scientific committee -2016
  • Arab Board exam committee -  Arab Board council of medical specialties
  • Graduate Medical Education Committee -
    GMEC -

    Qatar

  • Research subcommittee –Academic Health system – Hamad Medical Corporation -Qatar
  • Program Evaluation Committee - PEC – CMTP  
  • Clinical Competency Committee –CCC  - CMTP
  • Reviewer – universal journal of public health
  • Reviewer -The Journal of Local and Global Health Perspectives
  • Member of Egyptian Smoking Prevention Association -
    ESPRA

    .

  • Egyptian Medical Syndicate
  • Member of the Curriculum development team, Faculty of Medicine, Cairo University
  • Member in the scientific committee of the first “Qatar international medical exhibition and congress 2009 /pediatrics track

 

 

Awards AND HONORS  

 

  • Award of merit in recognition of achieving excellence In research – HMC Stars of excellence November 2016 from the minister of public health 
  • Best poster presentation at international conference in emergency   medicine and public health – Qatar 2016 (ICEP-Q2016) ” Risk Perception of Veterinarian and Slaughter house workers about MERS-CoV Transmission and Infection, Qatar 2015”
  • First prize award “Osteoporosis knowledge and preventive practices among women of reproductive age in Qatar: cross sectional survey  
  • Awarded For Dedication And Contribution Towards PHCC Achieving Accreditation By Accreditation Canada International 2012-2014
  • Best Graduate Medical Education Teacher -2013 – Hamad Medical Corporation ,Qatar
  • Best Graduate Medical Education Teacher -2012 – Hamad Medical Corporation ,Qatar
  • Best Graduate Medical Education Teacher - 2010 -Hamad Medical Corporation ,Qatar
  • Egyptian Medical Syndicate .1993

 

Major Management AND ADMINISTRATIVE RESPONSIBILITY 

  • Oversee and ensure the quality of didactics, field rotation and education in all sites including in house activities.
  • Monitor and evaluate program faculty and approve the continued participation of program faculty in educational activities – faculty monthly activities `report
  • Monitor resident supervision through weekly progress report sent from resident mentors and communication with site directors
  • Prepare and submit all information required and requested by medical education, participating sites, official letters to all participating sites 
  • Respond to any official letter received from any other external departments and organizations e.g  MoPH  and  ensure that the information submitted is accurate and complete;
  • Provide each resident with documented semiannual evaluation of performance with feedback; implement policies and procedures consistent with the institutional and program requirements for resident duty hours and the working environment , distribute these policies and procedures to the residents and faculty.
  • Monitor resident duty hours, according to institutional and program  policies, with a frequency sufficient to ensure compliance with ACGME-I requirements; daily monitoring of residents attendance sheet and faculty attendance monthly reviewing of the residents attendance before submission to HMC  
  • Review and approve educational  schedules,
  • Interview and approve residents selection using standard criteria 
  • Address and response to all adverse actions or concerns of residents or faculty
  • Monitor the duty hours of admin staff, review and monitor the secretary activities  
  • Review and approve of any departmental requirements e.g. Equipments, articles , store
  • Organize and approve the faculty and residents leaves
  • Organize and moderate the monthly staff meeting
  • Ensure documentation of all program requirements and activities
  • Approve the selection of program faculty /  coordinator  as appropriate
  • Communication and collaboration with the different national  organization and teaching facilities

 

Major Teaching Responsibility:

 

  • Provide appropriate, intellectually stimulating instruction by taking into consideration the unique abilities of each resident.
  • Interact with residents and staff regarding the progress of residents
  • Monitor the behavior of residents and giving the constructive feedback
  • Coordinating and conducting of different public health courses; Principles of epidemiology and epidemiological methods, Biostatistics, research methods,

    Organization and Management of Health Care, and applied epidemiology; Surveillance, epidemiology of Communicable Diseases, Maternal & Child Health care for postgraduate students

  • Preparing and   Conducting different assessment; summative, formative, and end of training assessments of residents 
  • Preparing and conducting, Biannual, annual and departmental exams 
  • Supervision and assessment of field rotation.
  •  Mentoring residents` research projects
  • Primary advisor and Co – Advisor of Arab Board dissertations /thesis
  •  Teaching of Community Medicine block course for family medicine residents
  • Reviewing and Developing Community Medicine curriculum according to Accreditation Council Graduate Medical Education – international (ACGME –I) accreditation
  • Orientation & supervision of medical students for field visits to different clinical attachment settings

 

 

 

 

Teaching of family medicine and assessment

 

  • Community medicine block course – one month every year
  • Journal club sessions -  critical appraisal of therapeutic, diagnostic, and prognostic studies
  • Complementary and debate session between family and community medicine residents – once / year

 

 

PHCC interprofessional activities  and CPD program at MoPH-CME

•         “Know before you go “  interprofessional CPD activity Wellness & preventive 

           medicine- 21-25 February – 2017   four hours

•         The role of phcc physician in communicable disease control  2014   4 hours

•         Smoking cessation training workshop – 29- 2010

•             CPD program for public health department at MoPH

 

Research Projects and PhD Dissertation Supervision 

 

Risk Perception about MERS-CoV Transmission and Infection among Labors and Owners in the Camel Industry, Qatar, 2015

Lead PI

Partnerships

CDC and Health Protection, Public Health Department; Ministry of Public health

 

Assessment of patient self-management and participatory decision making among type 2 diabetic patients in Qatar. 2015

 

Prevalence of Depression and its associated risk factors among Qatari adolescents, secondary schools 2014

Maternal hypothyroidism and its associated factors among pregnant women attending the primary health care centers in Qatar 2015

Anemia, iron deficiency and iron deficiency anemia in infants (6-12month) attending the well baby clinic at PHCC , Qatar 2015

Cardiovascular risk assessment in type 2 diabetes mellitus :comparison of the general Framingham risk Profile Versus the World health organization /international Society of hypertension risk prediction charts in Qataris -2015

Epidemiology and Sero-susceptibility of measles among workers who are applying for work permit at Medical commission in Qatar -2015

Iron Deficiency  Anaemia: Prevalence and Determinants among Pregnant Women attending PHCC In Qatar,2010

Prevalence and Determinants of  Unintentional Injuries among Preschool Children attending  PHCCs in Doha 2010

Knowledge ,Health Beliefs and Preventive Practices related to Osteoporosis among     Women attending PHCCS in Qatar 2010

Prevalence and Determinants of Overweight and Obesity among Qatari Pre-school Children in Doha 2010

Mirror, Mirror on the Wall: Body Image Disturbance among Qatari Female College Students ,

2009

Making Deaths Matter: Quality of Death Notification Form and Physicians` Knowledge and Practice In QATAR

Breastfeeding practice among Arabic speaking mothers attending Primary Health Care Centers in Qatar, 2009

Folic acid intakes and knowledge of childbearing aged teachers ,State of Qatar ,2009

Measles Surveillance: Physicians' Knowledge and Practice- A Cross Sectional Study: Qatar 2008

Primary Health Care Physician Training on Tobacco Cessation Intervention at Qatar.   2008

Health Facilities Smoking Control Polices: Implementation, Barriers, and  Challenges, The Canadian tobacco control research initiative

Rubella Sero- susceptibility among Egyptian females in late childhood and early child bearing period, 2006 a collaboration of Egyptian Ministry of Health and Population and Public  Health  Department and WHO

Internal Medicine Residency Training on Tobacco Cessation in Teaching Hospitals, 2006

 

Smoking Prevention among Egyptian School Children, ESPRI

 

 

Publications In The Last 6 years :

 

 

 Ameera Mohamedhayder J B Alkhuzaei, Rasha ElSayed Salama,  Izz Eldin Eljak , Dr.Mohamed Abdel Halim Chehab ,  Nagah Abdel Aziz Selim. The Knowledge, Practice, and Attitude Regarding Antibiotic Use Among Attendants of Primary Health care Centers: A Cross-sectional study in Qatar. Journal of infection control and public health, In process

Selim NAA, Mutawaa KA, Said H and Salem MF. Mirror, Mirror on the Wall: Body Image Disturbance among Qatari Female College Students. SM J Fam Med. 2017; 1(1): 1002.

Hissa Al-Muraikhi, , Mohamad A. Chehab, Hana Said, PhD c and Nagah Selim, Assessing health beliefs about osteoporosis among women attending primary health care centres in Qatar, Journal of Taibah University Medical Sciences (2017), http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jtumed.2016.11.003

Hissa Al-Muraikhi1, Hana Said, Nagah Selim, Mohamad Abdel Halim Chehab.The knowledge of osteoporosis risk factors and preventive practices among women of reproductive age in the state of Qatar: a cross-sectional survey. International Journal of Community Medicine and Public Health. 2017 Feb;4(2):522-527

Selim NAA, Al-Mass M, Al-Kuwari M and Ismail MS. Assessment of Anemia, IDA and ID among Pregnants in Qatar: Cross Sectional Survey. SM J Public Health Epidemiol. 2016; 2(3): 1035

Al-Romaihi, HE; Qotba,H; Salama, R;  Salem M;

Selim, N

. Health Risk Behaviors among Adolescents in Qatar.Middle East Journal of Family Medicine. Mar2016, Vol. 14 Issue 2, p21-30. 10p -

Impact factor: 10.1275

(calculated on 10/07/2013)

Aboulsoud, S; chehab, M; Almujalli, H; chandra, P; Selim, N . Assessing patients’ understanding, provider’s participatory decision-making, and communication among type 2 diabetic patients and their impact on diabetes self-management in Qatar’s primary healthcare centers. 2016 SM Journal of Public Health & Epidemiology  .

Risk Perception of Veterinarian and Slaughter house workers about MERS-CoV Transmissions and Infections, Qatar 2015: Best poster presentation at international conference in emergency   medicine and public health – Qatar 2016 (ICEP-Q2016)  

Selim N; Aabdien MH , AM;  Omar S,   Farag  EA;  AlKubaisi N, Al-Hajri M; Al-Romaihi HE,   Al-Thani M, Al-Marri S,  Makhlouf M.

Camel workers practices and risk perception regarding MERS-COV using the Health Belief Model, Qatar, 2015: Oral Presentation ,the * international conference of high institute of public health -Egypt 2016

Omar S, Aabdien MH , AM; Farag  EA;  AlKubaisi N, Al-Hajri M; Al-Romaihi HE,   Al-Thani M, Al-Marri S,  Makhlouf M. Selim N

Al-Mannai L,

Selim N

, Al-Kuwari M, and  Ismail M. Unintentional Injuries Among Preschool Children in Qatar: Cross Sectional Study . World family Medicine journal. 2014. 12(36-45)

N.J.E. Al-Kubaisi , H. Said , N.A. Aziz Horeesh. Death Certification Practice in Qatar. Public health journal (2013). Available from : http//dx.doi.org/10.1016/.j.puhe.2012.12.01

Ghada Nasr Radwan1, Christopher A Loffredo2, ‘RASHA Aziz,

Nagah Abdel-Aziz

and Nargis Labib . Implementation, barriers and challenges of smoke-free policies in hospitals in Egypt. BMC Research Notes 2012, 5:568 . Available from : http://www.biomedcentral.com/1756-0500/5/568  BMC Research Notes

Al-Kohji  S, Said H,

Selim N

. Breastfeeding practice and determinants among Arab mothers in Qatar. Saudi Med J 2012;33(4):436-443.

Labib N , Nasr G R,  Aziz R A Salama, 

Horeesh N A

. Evaluation of Knowledge change of internal medicine residents following  a training program on smoking cessation. Pak J Med Res2012; 51(2).

Alkuwari M,

Horeesh N

, Nazzal’ N, Al-Nuaimi S.  Pandemic influenza A/ H1N1 vaccination uptake among Health Care Workers in Qatar :Motivators and Barriers .Vaccine 2011; 29: 2206–2211.

Hashem M, Hussein M,

Horeesh N

.et al . Rubella  : Sero-susceptibility among Egyptian Females in Late child hood and child bearing period .Vaccine 2010; 28:7202-7206

Nazzal’, Z, Said, H,

Horeesh N

. Measles Surveillance : Quality of Surveillance and timeliness of notification – Qatar 2008. EMHJ.2010;17 (11):813-817 .

Nazzal’, Z, Said H,

Horeesh N

.Measles Surveillance : Physician`s knowledge and practice and provided support functions . EMHJ 2011;17 ( 11 ):818-824

 

Attended Conferences /  COURSES  & WORKSHOPS

  • Second annual Research conference, Qatar university, 2017
  • Specialty milestones of preventive medicine, ACGME-I – Medical Education department 2017
  • PHCC scientific research day- 14 December 2016   - 6.5 credit units
  • Faculty development programme RCSI institute of leadership - 21-22 December 2016
  • Continuing professional development program held in medical education in collaboration with national health care group in Singapore   for faculty of  residency programs at HMC  - November 2015 -  22 CME points
  • Quality improvement training at PHCC, December 1&2 , 2015  - 12.5 credit
  • Innovations in Global Medical And Health Education (IGMHE) Forum- Weill Cornell Medical College, Qatar – CME 4.75
  • Emerging & re-emerging infections: National Prevention Symposium – supreme council of health and Hamad medical corporation – 5 CME
  • 2nd Qatar Patient Safety Week 2015– MoPH  , Doha
  • The 6th International Conference On Patient And Family Centered Care Partnerships For Quality And Safety – 2014 , Vancouver , British Columbia
  • First Qatar Patient Safety Week - Doha ,2014, Qatar
  • 2nd Qatar Petroleum Occupational Health Conference -2013- QPOH “Innovation For A Health Worker “ From 19 November – 21 November  -12 CME
  • 25thAnnual National Forum In Quality Improvement In Health Care  - Institute For Healthcare Improvement “IHI” -Orlando , Florida On 12/8/2013 – 12/11/2013
    •    The Medical symposium on TB control, Kaser El-Aini, 1998.
    •   The first international Congress of Egyptian society of child psychiatry .2003
    •    International Educational program on child Neurology in collaboration
  • First Middle East Forum On Quality Improvement In Health Care  Held On 17-19 May 2013 At Qatar National Convention Center ,Qatar – 14 CME
  • 1st Qatar Medical Education Conference – Improving Quality of Care through Medical Education held on 21-22 Jan 2012 Doha –Qatar 
  •  “International Conference of Education, Research and Innovation” held in Madrid-Spain, 2011
  • International forum on Quality and safety in health care , Nice ,France 2010
  • Qatar Health, 2010. International Healthcare Congress and Exhibition. PHC track
  • Western Asia Ministerial Meetings on Non Communicable Diseases

    and Injuries

    ,

    Qatar

    ,

    2009

  • Qatar Primary Health Care 2008 "The foundation of Health and Wellbeing.2008
  • T.B. Symposium, Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha, Qatar, 2008
  • Annual Conferences of Faculty of Medicine, Cairo University.
  • Annual Conferences of Preventive Medicine Association.

    with International child Neurology Association (ICNA), 2003.

 

 

 

Computer skills

 

Windows Vista                      Excellent

                            Excellent                                        SPSS 22

Microsoft Office                          Excellent

Internet Skills                              Excellent

Med Hub - Medical Education Management through Intelligent Workflow- Excellent

 

 

Languages

:

 

                                Speaking                   Reading                          WritingArabic                                Excellent                       Excellent                         Excellent

English 

                            Very Good                     Excellent                         Excellent

 

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