User:Gamal Abdul Hamid

Associate Prof. Dr Gamal Abdul Hamid Al-Alawi

Head, Hematology/Oncology Department, Al-Gamhouria University Hospital, University of Aden, Aden, Yemen

General Secretary, Yemen Cancer Society

Address: Khor-Maksar P.O.Box 6332, Aden, Republic of Yemen.

Mobile: 00967- 711323798 Email: drgamal2000@yahoo.com

Professional Experience

Associate Professor in Hematology/ Oncology, University of Aden     2005 - Present

Coordinator and trainer, Postgraduate Hematological Studies        2003 – Present Head of Hematology/Oncology Dept, University Hospital              2002 - Present

Head of Aden Cancer Center, Aden Yemen                              1997 – 1999

Assistant Professor in Hematology, University of Aden              1993-  2005 Medical Specialist and Hematology/Oncology consultant               1993 - Present

Residency in Internal Medicine and Hematology-Oncology,             1987-1993 Medical Academy Dresden, Dresden, Germany

Instructor, Faculty of Medicine, University of Aden                 1984-1987

Teaching 	Taught clinical hematology and clinical laboratory for medical students in faculty of medicine, University of Aden. This  course teaches topics in clinical hematology and immunology.

	Supervised Master Degree student of Pediatric and Clinical Hematology.

	Taught Hematology/Oncology to postgraduate programs of Internal Medicine ( Arabic board, Master Studies and Diploma Studies)

Educational backround 	Postgraduate studies. "PhD" Doctoral thesis in Hematology-Oncology: Dissertation Title: Immune Status of Patients with Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma: A Study of Peripheral Blood Monocytes Functions in Patients with Malignant Lymphomas (1991-1993)

	German Board for Internal medicine (1987-1990 )

	Bachelor of Medicine - Faculty of Medicine, University of Aden (1978-1984)

Training Courses /Workshops and Certified Exams 	Pain control, Ankara, Turkey, April 2009

	Bone Marrow Transplantation, Dresden, Germany , April-August 2008

	Lymphoma /leukemia ( One month training course in MD Anderson Cancer Centre, Houston Texas, USA, July 2000

	Cancer Susceptibility screening (one week training course ) King Faisal Hospital and Research Centre, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, May 1998

	Student Assessment and Institutional Education : 10 days workshop organized by WHO (Aden, Yemen, Nov. 1998

	Community oriented education /Problem Based Learning: One week workshop organized by WHO ( Aden, Yemen , May 1997

	Cancer Registry ( one week training course ) Aden, Yemen December 1996, organized by WHO and UICC

	Curriculum review: two weeks workshop on curriculum review held in collaboration with WHO and ABERDEEN University, Dec 1996

	Bone marrow transplantation ( Training course for one month ) Medical Academy Dresden, July 1995

	Diagnosis of Lymphoma (One week training funded by Berlin Cancer Society, Berlin Germany (September 1991)

	Cytology, ( One week training course) Bremen Central Hospital, Bremen Germany, April 1992

	Canadian Evaluation exam September 2001

	Credited hours CME, Medscape, Oncologist and ASCO CME: 2006-2007

Conferences Attended 1.	Middle east oncology Conference, Dubai, UAE, August 2009

2.	9th Panarab oncology conference Cairo Egypt (May 2009) 3.	Annual Turkish Hematology conference Ankara, Turkey, April 2009

4.	2nd Hematology-oncology conference Aden, Yemen March 2009

5.	4th Gulf oncology conference Sana'a March 2009

6.	1st Alamal oncology hospital conference Doha Qatar (February 2009)

7.	33 European Society of Medical Oncology "ESMO" Conference Stokholm, Sweden  (September 2008)

8.	14 European Hematology Association conference, Copenhagen, Denmark, (12-15 June 2008) 9.	6th Middle East Oncology Conference, Muscat, Oman (26-27 February  2008)

10.	43rd ASCO conference, Chicago , USA, (June 1-5, 2007 )

11.	5th Middle East Oncology Conference, Singapore (14-15March 2007)

12.	31st European Society of Medical Oncology "ESMO" Conference Istanbul, Turkey (October 2006)

13.	5th Yemeni-German Medical Conference Sana'a, Yemen, (6-8 March 2006)

14.	4th Middle East Oncology Conference, Kula Lambur, Malaysia (9-11 March 2006)

15.	3rd Middle East Oncology Conference, Amman, Jordan (10th-11th February 2005)

16.	1st Yemeni –North America Oncology Conference Aden, Yemen, (September 2005)

17.	INCTR's Annual meeting Cairo, (Egypt 2-5 October 2004)

18.	The 4th Jordan Oncology Society Conference (15th-17 April 2004)

19.	2nd Middle East Oncology Conference, Dubai, UAE (14th-15th January 2004)

20.	1st National Oncology Conference Aden, 2003

21.	Science Conference 1999 (Aden, Yemen, 1999)

22.	1st National Conference on Pesticides and other chemicals (Yemen, 1999

23.	The Third Bahrain Cancer Society Conference   (Manama, Bahrain Nov. 1997)

24.	Recent Advances in Laboratory and Pathology (Doha, Qatar, April 1997)

25.	3rd Medical Arab Association Congress ( Sana'a, Yemen July 1997)

26.	Environment and Blood (Safaga, Egypt, Nov. 1996)

27.	Current Concepts in Thyroid diseases (Doha, Qatar, April 1996)

28.	The founding Congress of the Yemeni section of the International College of Surgeon (Aden, Yemen, March 1996)

29.	International Hematology Congress (Berlin, Germany, October 1992)

30.	Leukemias congress prognostic Factors and Treatment Strategies III (Muenster, Germany February 1992.

Publications (Scientific Papers)

1.	Abdul Hamid G, Saeed N.M: Head and Neck cancer in Yemen. The Gulf Journal of Oncology, Issue 7 , December 2009- http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20164005

2.	Abdul Hamid G: Magnitude of cancer in Al-amal oncology Unit, Aden, Yemen. J Pediatr Hematol Oncol. Volume 31, Number 8 August 2009.

3.	Abdul Hamid G, Saeed N.M, Amin R., Shukry S.: Breast cancer in limited resource centre. J Pediatr Hematol Oncol. Volume 31, Number 8 August 2009

4.	Abdul Hamid, G, Hanbalah N: Comparison of Bone Marrow Aspiration and Bone Marrow Biopsy in Neoplastic Diseases: The Gulf Journal of Oncology, Issue 6 , July 2009- http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20194084

5.	Abdul Hamid, G, Gobah G. Clinical and Hematological evaluation of visceral leishmania. Turkish Hematology Journal, Volume 26, No. 1, March 2009: http://www.tjh.com.tr/jvi.asp?pdir=tjh&plng=eng&volume=26&issue=1

6.	Abdul Hamid G, Kahiry W, Shukry S: Severe hemolytic anemia associated with Mycoplasma Pneumoniae pneumonia. JEMTAC V8 N 1. March 2008 http://www.hmc.org.qa/mejem/march2008/Edited/case1.htm 7.	Abdul Hamid G, Saeed N: Primary gastrointestinal cancers in south  Eastern of Yemen: Journal of Natural & Applied Science Vol. No ; 2008

8.	Abdul Hamid, G, Shukry S: Pattern of Pancytopenia in Yemen: Turkish Hematology Journal, Volume 25, No. 1, June 2008:www.journalagent.com/z4/download_fulltext.asp?pdir=tjh&plng=tur&un=TJH-58077

9.	Abdul Hamid, G, Abdulla Al-Hilali And W. Al-Kahiry: Severity and Management Of Anemia In Cancer Patients And Its Relation To Chemotherapy: Journal Of Natural & Applied Science Vol. 10 No 3; 2007 http://www.uajnas.gov.ye/Volumes/Vol11No2Aug07.pdf

10.	 Abdul Hamid G. and W. Al-Kahiry, Treatment of Hodgkin's lymphoma: ABVD experience of Al-Gamhoria teaching hospital, Aden, Yemen: Journal of Natural & Applied Science Vol. 10 No 2; 2007  http://www.uajnas.gov.ye/Volumes/Vol11No1Apr07.pdf

11.	NafisaA. Mansour, Gyurus Peter and G. Abul-Hamid: The role of immunohistochemistry in the diagnosis of precursor T-lymphoblastic lymphoma, Journal of Natural & Applied Science Vol. 10 No 1; 2006; 137-145 12.	Abdul-Hamid G. W. Al-kairy : Prognostic value of C-Reactive Protein and Some Haematological Parameters in Acute Myocardial Infarction Journal of Natural & Applied Science Vol. 10 No 1; 2006; 137-145

13.	Mahmood M. Mohsen, G. Abul-Hamid  and Anisa Abood; The results of electophoretic screening for hemoglobin analysis in a sample of 4217 individuals taken at random from Aden and Lahej Governorates ; Journal of Natural & Applied Science Vol. 9 No 2; 2005; 389-95

14.	Abul-Hamid G : Immunophenotype differentiation between hairy cell leukemia, hairy cell leukemia variant and chronic lymphocytic leukemia. YJMHR 2004

15.	Abdul-Hamid G.  :Effects of Blood storage on ESR by using EDTA and Citrate anticoagulants; Journal of Natural & Applied Science Vol. 3 No 3; 2004; 565-9

16.	 Abdul-Hamid G, M.S. Tayeb and Bawazir A.A: Breast Cancer in south   Eastern of Yemen: Eastern Mediterranean Health Journal "WHO" Vol 7, No 6, 2001 http://www.emro.who.int/Publications/EMHJ/0706/breast.htm

17.	Abdul-Hamid G, Abood A.M and Omer H. Clinico-Epidemiological Study of Sickle Cell Anemia. Yemeni Journal of        Medical and Health Research; Volume 1 (No. 1) May 2002; 7-14

18.	Amine Bawazir and G. Abdul-Hamid: Pattern of Cancer in Aden City 1997, Yemen. Yemeni Journal of Medical and Health Research; Volume 1 (No. 1) May 2002; 47-58

19.	 Abdul-Hamid G, Albrecht A. and Wolf H.: Defective Function of peripheral blood monocytes in patients with Non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma; Turkish Hematology Journal, Volume 18, No. 3, December 2001: 173-178 http://www.tjh.com.tr/jvi.asp?pdir=tjh&plng=eng&volume=18&issue=3

20.	 Mohsen M.M, G. Abdul-Hamid and Omer H. H: Hemophilia Problem in Yemen: A study of Hemophilia in an extended family in         Yemen Republic at Lahj Province: Journal of Natural & Applied Science Vol. 4 No 2; September 2000

21.	 Abdul-Hamid G, M.S. Tayeb and Bawazir A.A: Malignant lymphoma in southeastern of Yemen; Journal of Natural & Applied Science Vol. 4 No 1; 2000; 203-211

22.	Abdul-Hamid G, Abood A.M.and Nabil A.A: Clinical Aspects and Treatment of Malaria in Patients admitted to Al-Gamhoria Teaching Hospital: Journal of Natural & Applied Science Vol. 4 No 1; 2000; 177-183

23.	Mohsen M.M, G. Abdul-Hamid and Abood A.M:  Prevalence of ABO blood groups in Aden populations; Journal of Natural & Applied Science Vol. 3 No 2; 1999

24.	Abdul-Hamid G, Bawazir A.A and M.S. Tayeb: Frequency of Thyroid Carcinoma in southeastern of Yemen; Journal of Natural & Applied Science Vol.2 No 1; 1998 http://www.uajnas.gov.ye/index_files/Indices.pdf

25.	Bawazir A.A, G. Abdul-Hamid, and M.S. Tayeb: Available data on cancer in southeastern of Yemen: Eastern Mediterranean Health Journal (WHO), vol. 4. No. 1, 1998: 129-135 http://www.emro.who.int/publications/EMHJ/0401/17.htm

26.	Abdul-Hamid G, Kroschinisky F, Luther L. Fleisher J, Nowak R, Wolf H. and Fisher H: The rapid deterioration of malignant mastocytosis in a case of myeloid leukemia: Qatar Medical Journal vol. 7/No. 1/April 1998.

27.	 Oelschlegel U, Nowak R.and G. Abdul-Hamid: S. Phase detection of the immunophenotyped lymphocytes of bone marrow Flow Cytometry. Annals of Hematology 65. 1992

Master Degree Supervisor: 1.	Acute lymphoblastic leukemia in children: Mohamed Ali Hamoud

2.	C-Reactive Protein in Patients with first Onset of Transmural Acute Myocardial Infarction :. Waiel Kahiry

3.	Examination of bone marrow biopsy in cancer patients: Nohad Hanbala

4.	Bone marrow examination in pancytopenic patients:. Safa Shukry

5.	Hematological evaluation in Yemeni children with leishmaniasis:. Ghada Awad Gobah

6.	Hematological profile of patients with lymphadenopathy: Adela Abdula

Membership

1.	Yemen Cancer Society, Yemen

2.	Yemen Medical Syndicate, Yemen

3.	Arab Cancer Registry and Control, Cairo

4.	Association of International Physician and Surgeon of Ontario, Canada

5.	Panarab oncology

6.	Panarab of Emergency medicine, Qatar

7.	ESMO: European Society of Medical Oncology, Switzerland

8.	ASCO: American Society of Clinical Oncology, USA

9.	SEMCO South east Medical College of Oncology, Cairo

10.	INCTR: International Network for Cancer Treatment and Research