Senior Consultant
National Cancer Institute, Cairo University- Ministry of National Guard Health Affairs-MNGHA-Eastern Province -KSA, Egypt
Wael M. S.Abdel Gawad, MD- Ph.D-FRCS( Eng)
Consultant Surgical Oncology-Colorectal &Peritoneal Surface Malignancy (PSM).
Department of Surgical Oncology
National Cancer Institute-NCI
Cairo University.
Egypt
Chairman of Surgical Oncology Service
National Guard Hospital - Medical Service
Eastern Province
KSA
Bio-Summary:
Dr. Gawad is a Surgical Oncology consultant at the surgical department –National Cancer Institute–NCI-Cairo University ¤tly chairman of the surgical oncology service –National Guard health Affairs-KSA. He received his FRCS from England where he trained in colorectal cancer surgery with particular interest in TME and concomitant nerve sparing alongside minimal invasive surgery at London & Birmingham. His expertise extend to complex and advanced surgical oncology procedures for recurrent /advanced abdominal and pelvic Malignancy, Cytoreductive Surgery (CRS) and Hyperthermic Intraperitoneal Chemotherapy (HIPEC) as well as pelvic exenteration.
He has established MDTs at different Cancer centres affiliated to the MOH and NHS in Egypt &Peritoneal Surface Malignancy at -NCI- in 2016 in collaboration with the Cancer Centre -University of Maryland –Baltimore –USA.
In 2017-2018 - 2019 &2021, he Co-chaired / chaired and was the program director of the International two days hands-on workshops of CRS & HIPEC -PIPEC at Cairo-Egypt that was endorsed by the EGSSO-NCI; Cairo University –ESSO – SSO &PSOGI .
He steered the first BEST of SSO in 2011 -2018-2019-2021 at Cairo .
In 2018, he was elected as a member of the SSO- Colorectal Task force committee for educational updates and surgical practice .
In 2019 , he was selected to present EGSSO in the Global Forum for Cancer Surgeon-GFCS at SSO for the coming term.
Dr. Gawad has many publications in outstanding well reputed Journals andpresented his work focusing basically on sphincter preservation in low rectal cancer as well as Peritoneal Surface Malignancy –PSM- at different regional and international societies as SSO & ESSO.