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I am a professor and a consultant of Clinical Microbiology specialized in Medical Parasitology at the Department of Clinical Microbiology, College of Medicine and the King Fahad Hospital of the University (KFHU), Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University (IAU), Dammam, Saudi Arabia, as well as a professor and consultant of Medical Parasitology at Kasr Al-Ainy Faculty of Medicine, Cairo University, Egypt. For the past 27 years, I have been teaching, diagnosing, consulting and leading research in human parasitic diseases in Colleges of Medicine at 5 different universities. I received my Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery (M.B.B.S), and M.Sc. degree in Microbiology-parasitology followed by an M.D (Medical Doctoral = PhD) in Medical Parasitology from Cairo University. I was a visiting scholar in the USA (Univ. of Nevada), Denmark (Statens serum institute), the UK (University of East Anglia), Spain (Carlos III Institute of Health), and Germany (Humboldt University). I founded the Lab of Molecular Medical Parasitology (LMMP), at Cairo University in 2014, and was the head of LMMP for 3years where I initiated a training program in molecular medical parasitology research. I have collaborated with renowned parasitologists in the field of human molecular parasitology at different international labs (Europe & USA). I have created an extensive network between my labs and other international labs, while also collaborating with tropical endemic countries (Africa & Asia). My research interests are human parasitic diseases and vector/vector-borne diseases (particularly, neglected parasitic diseases that have an interface with “one health”) to fill major gaps in real-life clinical and diagnostic challenges and questions that need to be answered. Primarily I focus on genotypic variance analysis & bioinformatics, with an ongoing interest in omics of parasites, microbiomes, novel therapeutics of parasitic diseases and vector/vector-borne diseases. I have ~100 scientific research projects and publications. I am a reviewer and an associate editor in multiple international journals. For over 25 years, I have been working on diagnosing human parasites. I served as the head of the Diagnostic and Research Unit of Parasitic Diseases (DRUP), Faculty of Medicine, Cairo University for 5 years. For the past 6 years, I have been the head of the parasitology section of the Microbiology lab, at KFHU, IAU. I am a member of national and international scientific societies and committees and have participated and served as chair/co-chair in numerous conferences. For the last 27 years, I have been teaching human parasitology to undergraduate & postgraduate medical and para-medical students and have supervised over 30 graduate students' theses (masters, doctoral, fellow). Trainer and mentor for undergraduate/graduate students, post-doctoral fellows/residents/laboratorians/physicians/scientists, and early career professionals.