Workshops

Dr.Shaimaa Nasr Amin

Contact:

email:         shaimaa_nasr@kasralainy.edu.eg 

                  shaimaa599@yahoo.com

Membership     

               International Society for Neurochemistry (ISN)

               European Society for Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience (Escan)

EDUCATION:

-M.B.B.ch in November 2003, Faculty of Medicine-Cairo University

-Master of Medical physiology, Faculty of medicine-Cairo University

-Medical Doctorate (MD.) of Medical Physiology, Faculty of medicine-Cairo University.

-Certified Professional in Health Care Quality (CPHQ)

-Master of Pediatrics , Faculty of Medicine, Ain Shams University

Honours and awards

-Rita Levi-Montalcini Prize as part of young investigator Training Program (Training at Department of Physiology and Pharmacology- Molecular Neurophysiology-Karolinska Institute-Stockholm-Sweden , 2011).

 -Alumnus Poster Prize (Assessment of cognitive functions and Some Markers of Synaptic Plasticity in Diabetic rats)-50TH IBRO world Congress-Florence- Italy (14th -18th July 2011).

 -Best MD thesis award 2012-Faculty of Medicine, Cairo University.

-International Publication Award-Cairo University- June 2014

Courses and Workshops 

1) Neuro-immunology Course-IBR0-FAIS (EGYPT, 2007)

2) Chronobiology and Sleep-IBRO, UNESCO, ISN (Morocco, 2008)

3) 2nd Teaching tools workshop-IBRO, SFN, NAS   (Egypt, 2009)

4) Professional skills workshop-SONA (Egypt, 2009)

5) 22nd IBRO-UNESCO African school of Neuroanatomy and Neurochemistry (Algeria, 2010)

6) Cognition and action school-IBRO, FENS (Croatia, 2010)

7) 3rd Teaching Tools workshop-IBRO, SFN, NAS (Nairobi, Kenya, 2010; participated as Faculty)

8) 25th IBRO/ISN Neuroscience School in Africa-“Onslaughts on the central dopaminergic system” (Durban, South Africa, 2010)

9) IBRO-UNESCO interregional workshop, Epigenetics and Behaviour (Kilifi. Kenya, from 8th to 15th December 2012)

10) Basic Neonatal Care

11) Neonatal Resuscitation

12) Effective Methods of Teaching

13) Skills of Presentation

14) Scientific Writing and International Publishing

15) Research Team Management

16) Research Methods and Statistics

17) Quality assurance

18) Communications skills

19) Code of Ethics

20) Use of Technology in Teaching

21) How to compete for a research Fund

22) Credit Hour System

CONFERENCES

-9th Society of Neuroscientists of Africa (IBRO, SONA), International conference,(8th-13th December 2009,EGYPT- Symposium organizer).

-1st East African Neuroscience conference-IBRO, SONA, WFN-(7-10 September, Nairobi-Kenya)

-50TH IBRO World Congress- Florence- Italy (14-18 July 2011)

-International symposium on PTSD Neuroscience and Biological Psychiatry-International Stress and Behavior Society (ISBS) - Yerevan-Armenia (20-21 September 2013).

-Third Jubilee International Conference of Neuroscience and Biological Psychiatry-Yerevan-Armenia (22nd-24th September 2013).

Publications

-Effect of Diabetes Mellitus on Rat Cognitive Functions and Related Hippocampal Synaptic Plasticity Markers. Shaimaa N. Amin, Sandra M. Younan, Mira F.Youssef, Laila Ahmed Rashed, Ibrahim Mohamady. Medical Journal of Cairo University, volume 79, No.2 , December 2011.

 - Assessment of cognitive functions and some markers of synaptic plasticity in diabetic rats.

Shaimaa N Amin, Sandra M Younan, Mira Farouk, Laila A Rashed, Ibrahim Mohamady. F1000Posters 2012, 3: 1530.

 -White matter anisotropy and neurocognitive outcome in childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia survivors treated with 3 different protocols. EUROPEAN HEMATOLOGY ASSOCIATION-17th Congress of EHA  14-17 June 2012 , Amsterdam, THE NETHERLANDS. DOI: 10.3252/pso.es.17eha.2012

 -  Amin SN, Younan SM, Youssef MF et al. (2013) A histological and functional study on hippocampal formation of normal and diabetic rats [v1; ref status: indexed, http://f1000r.es/y9] F1000Research 2013, 2:151 (doi: 10.12688/f1000research.2-151.v1)

 -Shaimaa N.Amin,Tarek M.Abdelaziz, Reham El Nemr, Sarah Mahmoud, Laila A.Rashed.

Cognitive effects of acute restraint stress in male albino rats and the impact of pretreatment with ghrelin versus quetiapine.Third Jubilee International conference of Neuroscience and Biological Psychiatry.September 22-24,2013.Yerevan ,Armenia.

 -Neurocognitive outcome and white matter anisotropy in childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia survivors treated with different protocols.Elalfy M1, Ragab I, Azab I, Amin S, Abdel-Maguid M. Pediatr Hematol Oncol. 2014 Mar;31(2):194-204.