Mohamed Ghoneim | |
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| Born | 17 March 1939 Mansoura, Egypt |
| Nationality | Egyptian |
| Alma mater | University of Cairo |
| Known for | Founder of the Ghoneim Urology and Nephrology Center |
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| Fields | Urology |
| Institutions | Mansoura University |
Mohamed Ahmed Ghoneim is an Egyptian urologist.
Ghoneim is a graduate of the University of Cairo. He is one of the founders of the Ghoneim Urology and Nephrology Center for Management of Renal and Urological Disorders (a World Health Organization collaborating centre [1] located in Mansoura, Egypt). He is a member of the International Society of Urology, and a member of both the British and the American Urology Associations. [2] He is a colleague of Professor Nils Kock, the inventor of the Kock pouch. [3] [4]
Ghoniem provided medical services to war casualties in Gaza during the Gaza War. [5]
Ghoneim served as annual president of the Endourology Society in 1987. [6] Ghoneim is the recipient of the Egyptian National Scientific Award, 2001, [7] and was a nominee for the European Urology Society annual award in 2004. [8] He was the winner of the SIU-Félix Guyon Medal (2006). [9] Ghoneim was awarded Hamdan Award for honoring distinguished personalities from the Arab World by Hamdan Medical Award in 2014. [10]
Urology, also known as genitourinary surgery, is the branch of medicine that focuses on surgical and medical diseases of the urinary-tract system and the reproductive organs. Organs under the domain of urology include the kidneys, adrenal glands, ureters, urinary bladder, urethra, and the male reproductive organs.
Mansoura is a city in Egypt, with a population of 621,953. It is the capital of the Dakahlia Governorate.
Lall Ramnath Sawh CMT, FRCS (Edin), FACS is a Trinidadian urologist in the Caribbean and Latin America. Based in Trinidad and Tobago, Sawh was a pioneer of kidney transplantation in the Caribbean in 1988 and is a recognized leader in the field of urology.
Alexander Gershman is a Russian American surgeon He is considered one of the first surgeons in the world to apply the method of laparoscopic surgery and robotic-assisted surgery to urological surgery and is considered one of the world’s leading experts on minimally invasive surgery. After many years teaching, researching and conducting clinical studies on laparoscopic surgery throughout the world, Gershman is in private practice in Beverly Hills, California. His client list includes numerous Hollywood celebrities and professional athletes.
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John P. Donohue was an American physician. He was the Chairman of the Urology Department and Distinguished Professor Emeritus at Indiana University School of Medicine. He pioneered treatments for testicular cancer, including the nerve-sparing technique. His work with Dr. Lawrence Einhorn led to an increase in cure rate of testicular cancer from 5% to 90%. He studied under Wyland F. Leadbetter. He began his career as a United States Navy officer while serving as the ship's surgeon aboard the aircraft carrier USS Wasp.
Professor A. Ranganadha Rao M.B.B.S., M.S., M.Ch., D.Sc. was an Indian urologist. He is the first Urologist from Andhra Pradesh and the first person to perform a kidney transplantation in Andhra Pradesh.
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John Ewart Alfred Wickham was a British urologist and surgeon, who was a pioneer of keyhole surgery and the autonomous transurethral resection of the prostate (TURP) robot, foreseeing the subsequent revolution in robotic surgery.
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Culley Clyde Carson III is an American retired urologist who specializes in Peyronie's disease, penile implants and erectile dysfunction. After serving two years as a flight surgeon with the United States Air Force, he took on a urology residency at the Mayo Clinic and then taught at the Duke University Medical Center as an assistant professor, subsequently gaining full professorship.
Leslie Norman Pyrah, was a British urologist in Leeds, who played a leading role in setting up urology as a specialty in the UK. In 1959 he was awarded the St Peter's Medal of the British Association of Urological Surgeons. He became president of the section of urology at the Royal Society of Medicine.
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