Professor Omar Salah Awwad has been Professor of Cardiology at Ain Shams University, Egypt, since 1981 and has been MD Cardiology since 1991. He is a member and past vice president of the Egyptian Society of Cardiology as well as a member of the European Society of Cardiology.
He is especially interested in interventional cardiology and general cardiology, and he has several publications in these fields. He is also a member of a number of writing groups including the Egyptian Hypertension Society, and the Egyptian Education for Heart Failure and Ischemic Heart program. Prof. Awwad is also the Chairman of Egyptian Public Awareness Educational Program.
Professor Awwad is a member of advisory boards for several pharmaceutical companies including the multi-national companies Boehringer Ingelheim and Merck Serono as well as the Egyptian company Apex Pharma.
Disclosure of faculty relationships
Omar Salah Awwad declared receipt of honoraria or consultation fees, to be member of Boehringer-Ingelheim advisory board and participation in a sponsored speaker’s bureau.
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