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Egyptian Pediatric Clinical Practice Guidelines Committee (EPG)

Guideline Development/ Adaptation Group (Clinicians subgroup)

Name

Affiliation, Area of expertise / Country / Primary location [work]

Contribution

Prof. Suzan Samir Gad

Pediatrics Department, Consultant, Suez Canal

Clinical Chair, GAG

Prof. Ahmed Foad

Alexandria

Clinical Expert

GAG Member

Prof. Ahmed Hamdy

Ain Shams

Clinical Expert

GAG Member

Prof. Amal Mahfouz

Alexandria

Clinical Expert

GAG Member

Prof. Ayman Emil Eskandr

Cairo

Clinical Expert

GAG Member

Prof. Gihan Bebars

Minia

Clinical Expert

GAG Member

Prof. Hala Hussien Mansour

Cairo

Clinical Expert

GAG Member

prof. Maha Abou Zekri

Cairo

Clinical expert

GAG Member

Prof. Mohamed Ezz

Mansoura

Clinical Expert

GAG Member

Prof. Naglaa Abu Faddan

Assuit

Clinical Expert

GAG Member

Prof. Hossam El Saadny

Clinical Expert

GAG Member

Egyptian Pediatric Clinical Practice Guidelines Committee (EPG)

Guideline Development/ Adaptation Group (Guideline Methodologists subgroup)

Name

Affiliation, Area of expertise / Country / Primary location [work]

Contribution

Prof. Ashraf Abdel Baky

Professor of Pediatrics

Ain Shams University, Egypt

Founder and Chair of EPG

Overseeing the adolopment process of the guidelines, training and education of new members, revision of the final draft, and organizing online meetings of GDG

Dr. Yasser Sami Amer

1.      Pediatrics Department and Clinical Practice Guidelines and Quality Research Unit, Quality Management Department, King Saud University Medical City, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia;

2.      Research Chair for Evidence-Based Health Care and Knowledge Translation, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia;

3.      Chair, Adaptation Working Group, Guidelines International Network (GIN), Perth, Scotland

4.     Department of Internal Medicine, Ribeirão Preto Medical School, University of São Paulo (FMRP-USP), Ribeirão Preto, São Paulo, Brazil.

Overseeing the adolopment process of the guidelines, training and education of new members, participating in writing up the methodology of adaptation process, guideline appraisal, and revision of the final draft

Dr. Nahla Gamaleldin

Lecturer of pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, Modern University for Technology and Information (MTI), Egypt

Participating in multiple steps of the guideline adaptation process, Writing the methodology of adaptation process and revised the whole document.

External Reviewers Group (ERG)

External Reviewer(s) for Clinical Content

International Peer Reviewers

External Reviewer(s) for methodology

Prof. Iván D. Flórez

Department of Pediatrics, University of Antioquia, Medellín, Colombia,

Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact, McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada,

Leader, AGREE Collaboration (Appraisal of Guidelines for Research & Evaluation)

Director, Cochrane Colombia

Prof. Airton Tetelbom Stein

Professor Titular de Saúde Coletiva, Fundação Universidade Federal de Ciências da Saúde de Porto Alegre (UFCSPA), Porto Alegre, Brazil

Professor Adjunto, Universidade Luterana do Brasil (Ulbra), Canoas, Brazil

Coordenador de Diretrizes Clínicas, Grupo Hospitalar Conceição, Porto Alegre, Brazil

4. Member, Board of Trustees, Guidelines International Network (G-I-N)