Professional Activities for IASP:
• Former International Council member in IASP, 2008-2014.
• Coordinator of the Pain School Project (IASP project) for post graduate degrees in pain, aesthesia, and physical medicine, 2011-2018.
• Founder of the Egyptian Society for the Management of Pain, 1982; President (ESMP, IASP Chapter), 2009-2015.
• Member in the Developing Countries Working Group, 2008-2012.
• Winner of IASP grant for pain education in developing countries twice:
i. Pain education in remote location for the G.P in Egypt, 2006.
ii. Opioids Legislations for the Pharmacists and Pharmacy Students in Egypt, 2009
• Representative of IASP in the following meetings, 2009-2015:
i. Official visiting professor representing IASP in, and congresses in pain in Bangladesh, 2015, , Albania, 2013, Nigeria, 2011.
ii. WHO-EMRO for management of cancer pain, in Fez, Morocco, 2009.
• Pushed the establishment of some IASP chapters (Libya, Ghana and Jordan), and national pain societies (Sudan, Saudi Arabia and Iraq) in Africa and Middle East, 2006-2011.
• Co-designer of the pain questionnaire and pain survey done by the Developing Countries Working Group, 2008.
• Member in the taskforce of the IASP for pain education in developing countries, 1999-2012.
• Regular attendant of the IASP World congress on Pain since 1984 – 2014 except, 1996 and 2016
• Member of the International Association for the Study of Pain (IASP), 1984 to date.