The following is a summary of my professional background including affiliations, contirbutions and memberships:

• Professor of Anesthesiology and Pain Management at Al-Azhar University Hospitals, Cairo, Egypt.
• Founder  and president of the African Association for the Study of Pain AASP
• Founder and director of Avicenna Pain Relief Unit.
• Member and co-founder of the Egyptian Society for the Management of Pain.
• Member of the International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP)
• Past President of the IASP Middle-east Chapter.
• Founder and current secretary general of the First Pan-African Pain Congress.
• Secretary general of the Egyptian Society for the Management of Pain ( ESMP).
• Co-founder and examiner of the M.Sc. degree in Pain Management at the National Cancer Institute in Cairo, Egypt.
• Member of the International Pain Advisory Board and Control of Narcotics and Drug Prescription.
• Executive officer for the dissemination of the WHO program for the management of Cancer Pain.
• Founder of the of the M. Sc. degree in Pain Management at Al-Azhar University, Egypt.
• Member in the taskforce of the IASP for pain education in developing countries
• Co designer of the pain questionnaire and pain survey done by the IASP