Ayman A. El-Badry, M.B.B.Ch., M.Sc., M.D, is a Professor and consultant of Clinical Microbiology - Medical Parasitology, Department of Clinical Microbiology at the College of Medicine & King Fahad Hospital of the University, Imam Abdulrahman Bin Faisal University, Dammam, Saudi Arabia and Professor and consultant of Medical Parasitology Kasr Al-Ainy Faculty of Medicine, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt.
I have worked in parallel as a university staff member of medical parasitology for over 25 years in 5 different universities. I was the head of the diagnostic and research unit of parasitic diseases (DRUP) for over 5 years. I initiated a training program in molecular medical parasitology research. He was the founder of the Lab of Molecular Medical Parasitology (LMMP) in 2014 and head of the LMMP for the first 3years. I have been a visiting scholar in the USA, Denmark, UK, Spain, Germany.
I obtained my M.B.B.Ch in 1990, M.Sc of Basic Medical Sciences (Medical Parasitology – Bacteriology) in 1996, and M.D in Medical Parasitology in 2000, Kasr Al-Ainy Faculty of Medicine, Cairo University, Egypt. I have over 100 scientific papers and research projects (published or presented). I have worked in different international labs with renowned specialists in the field of molecular parasitology and have created an extensive network between his labs and international labs.
For more than 25 years, I have been teaching medical parasitology for undergraduate & postgraduate medical and health students. Supervised many post-graduate student theses. Member of multiple scientific committees, scientific societies, and scientific conference committees. Editorial board of national and international journals. M research interests are human parasitic diseases, particularly, neglected parasitic diseases. His research is primarily focused on molecular diagnostics and genotypic variance analysis of human parasites that have a great impact on human health.
He also has an ongoing interest in microbiomes, novel therapeutics of Parasitic Diseases, and vector & vector-borne diseases. M academic interests are in medical education, developing effective teaching pedagogy, curriculum & course design, and methods of evaluation.