Editor Name: Aly Mohamed Tohamy

Designation: Assistant Professor

University: Assiut University

Country: Egypt

Biography:

A.M.A.Tohamy was born on September 28, 1984 in Asyut, Egypt. After having been awarded his high school diploma by Dar Heraa School, he started studying medicine at Asyut University-Asyut-Egypt from which he graduated, cum laude, in 2006, and was awarded the prize for the best undergraduate achievement in internal medicine. He received his cardiology training in the same University and completed it in 2012; he had his master degree in Cardiology in the same year including a master thesis entitled “Prognostic importance of Hgb A1c in cases of acute ST elevation myocardial infarction ”. Since then he has been working as an assistant lecturer of Cardiology at Asyut University Hospital, where he was fully involved in the clinical duties of the department with its various units, as well as teaching medical students of the Faculty of medicine- Asyut University. In 2013 he was granted a scholarship for Ph.D. studies from the Egyptian Ministry of Higher Education. Since April 2014 and till April 2016, he joined Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC) in the Netherlands for clinical and research training in interventional cardiology under the supervision of Professors J. Wouter Jukema and M.J. Schalij.