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Ayman A Elbadry
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ORCIDhttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-9673-2622
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BiographyAyman A. El-Badry, M.D, is a Professor & lab consultant of Medical Parasitology at the College of Medicine & King Fahad Hospital of the University, Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University (Previously Dammam University), Dammam, Saudi Arabia. Prior to this, he worked as university staff member of medical parasitology for more than 20 years at the Faculty of Medicine, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt and was the head of the diagnostic and research unit of parasitic diseases (DRUP) for over 5 years. He initiated a training program in molecular medical parasitology research. He was the founder of the Lab of Molecular Medical Parasitology (LMMP) in 2014 and head of the LMMP for the first 3years.
He has been a visiting scholar in the USA (at University of Nevada, Reno, Fall 2018), Denmark (at Statens serum institute, Summer 2018), UK (at Norwich Medical School, University of East Anglia, Summer 2014), Spain (at Carlos III Institute of Health, Summer 2012, 2014), Germany (at Institute for Microbiology and Hygiene, Medical School of Charite`-Campus Mitte, Humboldt University, Summer 2009). He obtained his M.B.B.Ch in 1990, M.Sc of Basic Medical Sciences (Medical Parasitology – Bacteriology) in 1996 and M.D in Medical Parasitology in 2000, Kasr Al-Ainy Faculty of Medicine, Cairo University, Egypt.
Prof. Ayman has over 100 scientific papers (published or presented) and research projects.
He has worked in different international labs in Europe, USA and Middle East with renowned specialists in the field of molecular parasitology and has created an extensive network in between his labs and international labs.
For more than 25 years, he has been teaching medical parasitology for undergraduate & postgraduate medical students. He has supervised many post-graduate student theses.
He is a member of multiple scientific committees, societies and conference committees.
He is the associate editor of national and international journals.
His research interests are human parasitic diseases, particularly, neglected parasitic diseases. His research is primarily focused on molecular diagnostics and genotypic variance analysis of human parasites that have great impact on human health. He also has ingoing interest in microbiomes, novel therapeutics of Parasitic Diseases and vector & vector borne diseases.
His academic interests are in medical education, developing effective teaching pedagogy, curriculum & course design and methods of evaluation.