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Infant and Young Child Feeding in Egypt
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- Acknowledgements
▪️ The GDG/ GAG acknowledge EPG for its help in completing this project.
▪️ We acknowledge World Health organization infant and Young Child guidelines (2003) (the source original guidelines) for their cooperation in providing the permission for adapting our guidelines.
▪️The authors appreciate the authors to WHO guideline” Guiding Principles For Complementary Feeding of the Breastfed Child” and the authors of the ES PGAN position paper “Complementary Feeding: A Position Paper by the European Society for Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition (ESPGHAN) Committee on Nutrition” from which this guideline is adapted.
▪️Finally, we wish the best for all our patients and their families who inspired us. It is for them this work is being finalized.
Funding
▪️This work is not related to any pharmaceutical or industrial company. The members of the GDG/ GAG and their institutes and universities volunteered their participation and contributions.
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Egyptian Pediatric Clinical Practice Guidelines Committee (EPG) <Guideline Development/ Adaptation Group (Clinicians subgroup) |
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Affiliation, Area of expertise / Country / Primary location [work] |
Contribution |
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Prof. Sanaa Youssef Shaaban |
Professor of Pediatrics, Ain shams University |
Supervisor, Clinical expert |
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Prof. Mourad Alfy Ramzy Tadros |
Professor of Pediatrics, Armed forced faculty of medicine. |
Supervisor, Clinical expert |
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Prof. Hanna Aboulghar |
Professor of Pediatrics, Cairo University |
Clinical expert |
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Prof. Ehab Khairy El khashab |
Professor of Pediatrics, Ain Shams University |
Clinical expert |
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Prof. Mahmoud Rashad |
Professor of Pediatrics, Al-Azhar University |
Clinical expert |
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Prof. Somaya Mohamed Abd El -Ghany |
Professor of Pediatrics, Al-Azhar University Faculty of Medicine for Girls |
Clinical expert |
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Prof. Tayseer Mohamed El Zayat |
Professor of Pediatrics, Al-Azhar University Faculty of Medicine for Girls |
Clinical expert |
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Prof. Osama M Al-Asheer |
Professor of Pediatrics, Assuit University |
Clinical expert |
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Prof. Enas Raafat |
Professor of child health, National Research Center |
Clinical expert |
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Prof. Afaf Abdel Fattah Tawfik |
Previous dean of National Nutrition Institute |
Clinical expert |
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Prof. Yasmin Gamal El Gendy |
Professor of Pediatrics and Clinical Nutrition, AinShams University, AFCM |
Coordinator, editor, Clinical expert |
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Dr. Shrouk MoatazAbdallah |
Lecturer of Pediatrics Cairo University |
Clinical expert |
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Dr. Asmaa Sadek A. Sadek |
Pediatric & neonatology consultant |
Clinical expert |
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Dr. Ayah Shabana |
Lecturer of Pediatrics, Suez University |
Clinical expert |
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Dr. Nahed Mohamed hamdy |
Pediatric & neonatology consultant |
Clinical expert |
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Egyptian Pediatric Clinical Practice Guidelines Committee (EPG) Guideline Development/ Adaptation Group (Guideline Methodologists subgroup) |
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Name |
Affiliation, Area of expertise / Country / Primary location [work] |
Contribution |
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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 |
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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 |
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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. |
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External Reviewers Group (ERG) |
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External Reviewer(s) for Clinical Content |
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Dr. Abla AL Alfy |
Regional Advisor for Middle East and Africa- Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH) Head of Egyptian Members Assoc- RCPCH Co-Chair –Scientific Council-Military Paediatric Board IBCLC |
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Dr. Ahmed El Saeed Younis |
Head of Egyptian Paediatric Society |
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Dr. Aliaa Hafiz |
Head of nutrition unit, world food program IBCLC |
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Dr. Mona Hafez El Naka |
Ministry of Health IBCLC |
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Dr. Nahla Roshdy |
Ministry of Health IBCLC |
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External Reviewer(s) for methodology |
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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 |
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Prof. Airton Tetelbom Stein
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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) |
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