Emergency Management (Diagnosis and Treatment) of Seizures in Children beyond the Neonatal Period

Egyptian Pediatric Clinical Practice Guidelines Committee (EPG)

Guideline Development/ Adaptation Group (Clinicians subgroup)

Name

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

Contribution

Abdelsatr Abdallah Elsayeh

Assistant professor of Pediatrics and Pediatric Neurology

Faculty of Medicine for Males

Al-Azhar University

Clinical expert

Ashraf Azmy Al Refaei

Professor of Child Health and Pediatric Neurology

National Research Center

Clinical expert

Azza Mohamed Elamin Oraby (late professor)

Professor of Pediatrics and Pediatric Neurology

Faculty of Medicine

Cairo University

Clinical expert

Ebtesam Hussein El Melegy

Consultant Pediatric Neurologist

Former Dean of the Neuromotor Institute

Ministry of Health

Clinical expert

Hammouda Eid El Gazzar

Fellow and Lecturer in Pediatrics

General Organization of Teaching Hospitals

Under-secretary of El Beheira Health Directorate

Clinical expert

Hayam Refaat Tantawi

Professor of Pediatric Nursing

Vice Dean of Community and Environmental Development

Faculty of Nursing

Ain Shams University

Clinical expert

Lobna Abdel Gawad Mansour

Professor of Pediatrics and Pediatric Neurology

Faculty of Medicine

Cairo University

Clinical expert

Marwa Saeed Abd Elmaksod

Assistant professor of Pediatrics and Pediatric Neurology

Faculty of Medicine

Alexandria University

Clinical expert

Moustafa Zakaryia Mohamed

Professor of Pediatrics and Pediatric Neurology

Faculty of Medicine

Cairo University

Clinical expert

Omnia Fathy El Rashidy

Professor of Pediatrics and Pediatric Neurology and Neuro-disability

Faculty of Medicine

Ain Shams University

Clinical expert

 Sahar Mohamed Ahmed Hassanein

Professor of Pediatrics and Pediatric Neurology

Faculty of Medicine

Ain Shams University

Clinical expert

Tarek El-Sayed Ismail Omar

Professor of Pediatrics and Pediatric Neurology

Faculty of Medicine

Alexandria University

Supervisor, Clinical expert

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. Lamis Mohsen Elsholkamy

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

Professor Hadeer Mahmoud Gamal Eldin Abdelghaffar

Professor and Head of Pediatrics Department – Consultant Pediatric Neurologist – Faculty of Medicine - Fayoum University

Professor Hoda Yehia Tomoum 

Professor of Pediatrics and Pediatric Neurology – Faculty of Medicine – Ein Ain Shams University

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)