Our Eminent Speakers
Prof. Dr. Tamer M.Essam
Chairman of the Egyptian Drug Authority
Prof. Dr. Tamer Essam, Chairman of Egyptian Drug Authority since January 2020.
He acted as the Deputy minister of pharmaceutical affairs – Ministry of Health
and Population during the period of 2018- Early 2020, and before that he was
the head of Central Administration for Pharmaceutical Affairs (CAPA) during
the period of 2015-2016.
He is also a professor of Microbiology and Immunology, additionally he acted
as a Lead Assessor and a member of the Supreme committee of the Egyptian
Accreditation Council - Ministry of trade and industry, member of the Arabic
Accreditation Council (ARAC), Member of the technical committee for the
Egyptian Standards for Cosmetics -Egyptian Organization for Standardization
(EOS) and a Reviewer in many scientific journals.
He has been graduated from Faculty of Pharmacy, Cairo University at the year
2002, and got his PhD from Lund University, Sweden in the field of
Biotechnology at the year 2006.
He was the director of the Biotechnology Centre, Faculty of Pharmacy, Cairo
University and the founder of the Biotechnology and life sciences department,
Faculty of Postgraduate studies for advanced sciences, Beni-Suef University.
Prof. Dr. Aiman S. El-Khatib
HE is currently the Vice President of the Egyptian Drug Authority. He is a Professor of Pharmacology and Toxicology in the Faculty of Pharmacy, Cairo University since May 2002. He held several leadership positions in Cairo University including Vice President for Graduate Studies and Research Affairs, Dean of Faculty of Pharmacy, Vice Dean for Education and Students Affairs as well as for Community Service and Environment Development. Additionally, he held the post of Assistant Minister of Health and Population for Pharmaceutical Affairs. His primary research area of interest is investigation of pharmacological actions of natural products. He published numerous articles in international journals. His awards include Cairo University Scientific Research Fosterage in field of Theoretical and Applied Biological Sciences in 2004, Silver and Gold Medal of Merit from Egyptian Syndicate of Pharmacists in 2004 and 2005.
Rasha Ziada
Certificates: Professional master of health economics - Cairo university
Clinical pharmacy diploma - Ain Shams University
Bsc Pharmacy - Cairo university
Previous Positions:
Head of central administration for pharmaceutical affairs – Ministry of Health and population
General Manager for planning and pharmaceutical policy
Head of pricing department
Summary:
Working as EDA Chairman's assistant for technical development and capability building affairs with 20+ years of diversified experience of working within Egyption health authorities in regulatory functions and pharmaceutical policies. Leads cross-functional/cross-divisional project for evaluating the performance of regulators, while supervising many projects in various EDA central administrations, in addition to Supervising Continuous Professional Development Center and working to raise the efficiency of clients and the Egyptian Drug Authority employees.
Dr. Radwa Elmoneer
Radwa Elmoneer is theHead of the Central Administration of PharmaceuticalPolicies and Market Access , which is responsible for ensuring accessibility, reliableavailability, and continued supply of medicinal products; as well as, promoting theinternational competitiveness of the national products. Besides, she is, currently,supervising the Central Administration of Chairman Office ; including technicaloffices, governance and decision support units, public relations and internationalcooperation.Dr. Elmoneer isa senior professional with more than 10 years of experience inPharmaceutical Regulatory Affairs and Public Policy; in addition to having strongacademic background in pharmaceutical sciences, business analytics andmanagement, pharmaceutical policies as well as regulatory affairs.Academically, Dr. Elmoneer holds aB achelor of Pharmaceutical Sciences from theUniversity of Ain Shams (2007) and a Master's in Business Administration from theUniversity of Akron, Ohio, USA (2013), where she studied Business Administration andManagement. She earned a professional D iploma in Research Methods and theirApplications in Guiding and Evaluating Policies and Programs from the AmericanUniversity in Cairo (2018). She also completed a further Master’s in Public Policy witha concentration on Social and Environmental Policies from the American University inCairo (2019).During her professional journey, Radwa participated in several strategic initiativesserving the pharmaceutical sector and our community as well. Besides, she held keypositions in the Ministry of Health and Populations; She was a senior PricingSpecialist , a technical team leader in the Technical Office of the Assistant Ministerfor the Pharmaceutical Affairs, and lately the Head of the Technical Bureau ofDeputy Minister of Health for Pharmaceuticals. She
Dr Medhat Al-Ghobashy,
Professor of Analytical Chemistry, Faculty of Pharmacy, Cairo University is the leader of the Bioanalysis Research Group. He has a solid background in the field of biosimilarity assessment, biomolecular characterization, analysis of biotherapeutics and pharmaceuticals in biological fluids. Dr Al-Ghobashy is currently the director of Drug Control Laboratories at the Egyptian Drug Authority (EDA). He has been the Chemistry discipline lead at School of Pharmacy, Newgiza University. Dr Al-Ghobashy served as a “Titular Member” at the Analytical Chemistry Division of the International Union of Pure & Applied Chemistry (IUPAC) after being the “National Representative” for two years in the same division.
Prof. Dr. Hanan Amin Rizk
Professor of Pharmacology and Toxicology.
Head of Central Administration of Pharmaceutical Products – Egyptian Drug Authority
Head of Technical Committee for drug control – Egyptian drug Authority
Former head of general directorate of registration – Ministry of Health.
Former head of registration department – National Organization of Drug Control and Research (NODCAR).
Former member in assessment committee of Egyptian guidelines for registration of herbal medicines
Former member in Assessment committee of antivirus C quality module.
Former member in variation committee for pharmaceutical products.
Yasin M Ragaey Afify
Current Post: Head of Central Administration of Operations
Previous Posts:
Supervisor for the Pharmaceutical Care Sector in Egyptian Drug Authority.
Assistant Head of Central Administration of Pharmaceutical Affairs for Follow up and Investment Support
Vice Chief Executive Officer for Business Development and Regulatory Sector in one of the Pharmaceutical Companies.
Lead for the Taskforce of the Biological and Oncology Products localization.
Head of Pharmaceutical Supply Chain unit
Head of Pharmaceutical Track and Trace Unit
Head of Technical Office for the Assistant Minister of
Health for Pharmaceutical Affairs and Head of Central Administration of Pharmaceutical Affairs.
:Qualifications
Bsc Pharmacy, Ain Shams University
MBA, University of Portland, USA 2012
MPP, American University in Cairo, 2016
Post Graduate Certificate in Pharmaceutical
Policy Analysis, Utrecht 2017
:Researches
Pharmaceutical Supply of Brand and Generic Medicines in Urban and Rural areas of Egypt. Master Thesis
Shereen Abdelgawad
is the head of the Central Administration for the Pharmaceutical Care (Cap. Care) . She held multiple positions at Central Administration of Pharmaceutical Affairs (CAPA) , exploring diverse experiences in pharmaceutical regulatory affairs. Additionally, She was certified in Drug Regulation through School of Pharmacy, Temple University - USA. She is pursuing her master of public policy at the American University of Cairo.
Miriam Boles Kostandy
Is the head of central administration of medical devices, Egyptian drug authority
In this role she develop and implement strategic plan of medical device and IVD premarket regulation upgrading to advance EDA mission and vision of providing safe , and effective medical devices
Miriam worked for nearly 2 decades in various capacities in medical device regulatory governmental sector
First as medical device registration reviewer, then senior reviewer , director of medical device unit , then Miriam from November 2020 worked as head of central administration of medical devices
Miriam holds a bachelor degree of pharmacy from Ainshams university
And a master degree in of business administration from AASTMT , where she studied supply chain
She believes in team work , power of positivity , motivation by task , and interested in medical device and IVD regulation all over the world , data analysis , Problem solving
Is the head of central administration of medical devices, Egyptian drug authority
In this role she develop and implement strategic plan of medical device and IVD premarket regulation upgrading to advance EDA mission and vision of providing safe , and effective medical devices
Miriam worked for nearly 2 decades in various capacities in medical device regulatory governmental sector
First as medical device registration reviewer, then senior reviewer , director of medical device unit , then Miriam from November 2020 worked as head of central administration of medical devices
Miriam holds a bachelor degree of pharmacy from Ainshams university
And a master degree in of business administration from AASTMT , where she studied supply chain
She believes in team work , power of positivity , motivation by task , and interested in medical device and IVD regulation all over the world , data analysis , Problem solving
Asmaa Fouad Ismail
B.Sc of pharmacy , Cairo university , class2002
Currently working as general director of biological products general directorate and emergency committee member , former head of Biologicals Registration at NORCB . Worked in Registration of biological products since 2003 till 2021. Participated in establishment of the latest version of the Biosimilar Registration guideline ,emergency use approvals guideline and team member in registration group of the National project for the production of plasma for fractionation .A member in WHO global review team for Covid -19 vaccines. Represented the Egyptian health authority as a speaker during the Middle East regulatory conference .