Ahmed Said Omar

Dr. Ahmed Said Omar (Arabic: أحمد سعيد عمر, born 15 February 1936) is an Egyptian Rheumatologist. 
==Biography==
Ahmed Said Omar was born on February 15, 1936, in El Baliana, Egypt, to pharmacist Mohamed Zaki Omar and obstetric Matron Aisha Gomaa. He is the eldest of four children, with two sisters, Soheir and Sanaa, and one brother, Omar. He obtained his secondary school diploma in 1954 from Banbakaden secondary school in Cairo. Subsequently, he received his Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery (M.B.Ch.b) from Qasr Al Eyni Faculty of Medicine, Cairo University in 1961.
== Medical Career ==
In 1967, Ahmed Said Omar left Egypt as part of an official medical doctors exchange program between the Egyptian government and the German Democratic Republic. He completed his specialist degree in Sports Medicine (Facharzt) at the Deutsche Hochschule für Kultur (DHfK) in Leipzig in 1971.Liesenhoff, C.; Hoffmann, K.; Elsammen, A. (1985). "Expert in the Field of Rheumatology: Dr. Ahmed Said Omar, Wiesbaden". Egyptians in the Federal Republic of Germany (in German). Gräfelfing. p. 110. ISBN 978-3-89164-009-8.
Following this, he moved to the United Kingdom to pursue a career in rheumatology. He started his career by working at NHS University teaching hospitals, initially at Redding Hospital affiliated with Oxford University. He later held a position at Royal Free Hospital in London as a senior Registrar. In 1972, he worked at Leeds University Hospital as a registrar to Professor Verna Wright, the first to describe psoriatic arthritis and pioneer in sero-negative arthritis.
In April 1974, Ahmed Said Omar relocated to West Germany, where he worked as an assistant to Prof. H. Mathis at Red Cross Hospital in Bad Abbach. He then moved to Wiesbaden, where he served as a Senior Doctor and the head of the rheumatology department at Aukammtal Hospital from 1974 to 1981. During this period, he also contributed as a medical advisor to the German League against Rheumatism in the state of Hessen. In the mid-1970s, he was invited to the Department of Rheumatology at New York University by Gerald Weissman, as well as to the rehabilitation center established by Prof. Harald Rusk.
In November 1980, being the only Egyptian attending an International Rheumatology seminar in Herzliya, Omar was greeted with applause and invited to speak at the President's House.
In 1982, Ahmed Said Omar established his own private clinic for rheumatology, noted as the first private clinic of its kind in the state of Hessen. The clinic was equipped with X-Ray facilities, physiotherapy services, arthrosonography equipment, and a rheumatology laboratory. He implemented his British rheumatology education in Germany.
In 1995, he participated as a member of the United Nations "TAKTEN" Program, where he shared his experience with Egyptian hospitals. His work at the clinic continued until 1997.
Briefly returning to Egypt in 1997, he established a rheumatology department at the Suez Canal Authority Hospital in Ismailia. This made it the first hospital in Egypt to administer the newly discovered biological therapy, infliximab infusions.
Since 2002, Ahmed Said Omar has been working in the UK as a Locum Consultant in rheumatology across various NHS-affiliated university teaching hospitals, primarily in London and its surroundings. Notable institutions he has worked at include Kings College, St Mary's Hospital, London|St. Mary's Hospital in London, and the Royal National Hospital for Rheumatic Diseases in the outskirts of Bath.
He continues to actively participate in and occasionally instruct at rheumatology congresses worldwide, particularly the annual NYU courses in rheumatology and paediatric rheumatology, as well as the EULAR Congress.
==Bibliography==
* Omar, A.S.; Wright, V. (1982). "Double-Blind Controlled Trial of Diclofenac Sodium and Placebo in Treatment of Nonspecific Low Back Pain". Progress in Rheumatology: Second International Seminar on Treatment of Rheumatic Diseases (2nd ed.). John Wright. p. 103. ISBN 0723670072.
Category:1936 births
Category:Rheumatologists
Category:Egyptian people
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