Ayman A. El-Badry, M.B.B.Ch., M.Sc., M.D, is a Professor and consultant of Clinical Microbiology - Medical Parasitology, Department of Clinical Microbiology at the College of Medicine & King Fahad Hospital of the University, Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University, Dammam, Saudi Arabia and Professor and consultant of Medical Parasitology Kasr Al-Ainy Faculty of Medicine, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt. He has worked in parallel as university staff member of medical parasitology for over 25 years in 5 different universities.
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. 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 has worked in different international labs (Europe & USA) with renowned specialists in the field of molecular parasitology and has created an extensive network in between his labs and international labs, at the same time collaborated with tropical endemic countries.
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.
His research interests are Clinical & Diagnostic (Microscopy, Immuno-molecular) Human Parasitology, 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.
Prof. Ayman has ~100 scientific papers and research projects (funded) either published or presented.
He is working in diagnosis of human parasites over 25 years. He was the head of the diagnostic and research unit of parasitic diseases (DRUP) for over 5 years.
Over 25 years, he has been teaching undergraduate & postgraduate medical students, nationally and internationally (Medical Parasitology, Clinical & Diagnostic Parasitology, Immuno-parasitology & Molecular Parasitology, Parasite [Protozoa & Helminth] Ultrastructure, Microscopy & Medical Terminology Subjects & courses) and supervised many (30) post-graduates students' theses.
His academic interests are in medical education, developing effective teaching pedagogy, curriculum & course design and methods of evaluation.
Member of Scientific committee, Scientific Societies, Scientific Conferences.
Associate Editor in national and international journals.
