- TFOS global ambassadors and international chapter affiliate
Egypt
Ihab Saad Othman
Ihab Saad Othman is a Clinical Professor of Ophthalmology at Cairo University, Consultant Ophthalmic Oncologist and Vitreoretinal Surgeon at The National Eye Center in Cairo, Egypt and the Director of Eye and Laser World Hospital in Giza, Egypt. Dr. Othman received his Bachelor’s degree from Cairo University, with an excellent grade with honors in 1991, and he was appointed as an Ophthalmic Resident at Cairo University (from 1993-1996) where he received his Masters degree in Ophthalmology. His post-doctorate fellowship was at the Université Claude-Bernard in Lyon, France
, in vitreoretinal surgery and ophthalmic oncology (1996-1997). Dr. Othman then completed a fellowship in Ophthalmic Oncology at the Ophthalmic Oncology Service, Wills Eye Hospital, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (1997-1999), followed by a vitreoretinal clinical fellowship at University of Virginia in Charlottesville, Virginia (1999-2000). In July 2000, Dr. Othman elected to return to Egypt
, where he continued to pursue his academic career. In 2005, he became the founder and owner of the Eye and Laser World Hospital LLC, a private hospital of excellence providing state of the art Ophthalmic Care to patients from all over the World, focusing on prime services to the Middle-East region and Africa.