Professor of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, Zagazg Faculty of Medicine, Egypt
Fatma Amer; MBBCh, MSc, PhD Medical Microbiology and Immunology, Faculty of Medicine, Zagazig, Egypt and was the past head of the Department. Currently, she is an emeritus professor at the same university, EC member of the ISAC and the president of the ISAC/Viral Infection Working Group. She is a member of the Publication Committee of the ISID. Coupled with other activities, she contributed to the development of ISID Routledge Handbook of ID; Taylor & Francis. Working in a country with limited resources, she is able to tackle various health problems. She carried out extensive research in in HCV, and published many articles. The most important was that which identified for the first time the mutants responsible for failure of DAAs therapy among Egyptian HCV genotype 4a patients. To participate in combating AMR , she formulated the ArAPUA which is an affiliated ISAC society, joined “WAAAR” and is working as WHO consultant in the AG CIA. To help fighting HAI, she is a consultant of IPC (1990- 2024) both national, regional, international, has introduced an MSc degree in IPC at her faculty, and developed two volumes of IPC books. Identifying the importance of One Health for a better future, she is working as OH consultant and opened channels with AAS and AFROHUN. She is an affiliate of ILRI, Kemri, AHEAD, and American Public Health Association- One Health Section. She conducted distinguished research in zoonosis. She supervised and evaluated many MSc and PhD candidates, and is a reviewer of manuscripts submitted for journals, conferences and awards. She published books and numerous articles in peer-reviewed journals, and is a frequent winner of prizes for international publication. She participated in conferences all over the world as organizer, chairperson and speaker.