Management of Kawasaki Disease and its Cardiac Sequelae

Egyptian Pediatric Clinical Practice Guidelines Committee (EPG)

Guideline Development/ Adaptation Group (Clinicians subgroup)

Name

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

Contribution

Prof. Alyaa Amal Kotby

Professor of Pediatrics and Pediatric Cardiology

Ain Shams University

Conceptualization, engaging stakeholders and development of the outline and scope of Guidelines.

Participating in multiple steps of the CPG adaptation process, Participated in Guidelines selection and appraisal as well as data collection and revision of evidence.

Supervising and writing different sections, overseeing the overall structure, style and format.

Prof. Hala Mounir Agha

Professor of Pediatrics and Pediatric Cardiology

Cairo University

Participating in multiple steps of the guideline adaptation process, and CPG appraisal

Prof Hanan Ibrahim

Professor of pediatric

Head of pediatric department

Ain Shams University

Revision of the guidelines ensuring its alignment with best practices. Ensured the involvement and collaboration of all relevant stakeholders, both internal and external with the allocation of proper resources for guidelines implementation.

Prof Duaa Raafat

Professor of Pediatrics and Pediatric Cardiology

Assiut University

Participating in multiple steps of the guideline adaptation process and in CPG selection and appraisal. Shared in writing the background, implementation tools and Arabic instructions to nurses and parents.

Prof Rasha Hassan El-Owaidy

Assistant Professor of Pediatrics and Pediatric Immunology

Ain Shams University

Participating in multiple steps of the CPG adaptation process, Participated in data collection and revision of evidence as well as in editing and revision of the document

Assistant Prof. Nanies Soliman

Assistant Professor of Pediatrics and Pediatric Cardiology

Ain Shams University

Participated in multiple steps of the CPG adaptation process, Participated in data collection and revision of evidence as well as in editing and revision of the document.

Helped in drafting and revision of the guidelines ensuring consistency in language, tone, and style throughout the document.

Dr. Mahmoud Mohammad Nadder

Lecturer of Pediatrics ,

Alexandria University

Participating in multiple steps of the CPG adaptation process, Participated in data collection and revision of evidence as well as in editing and revision of the document. Shared also in implantation tools creation.

Dr. Mona Saber Mohamed Kamel

Lecturer of Pediatrics

MTI University

Participating in multiple steps of the guideline adaptation process, Participated in data collection and revision of evidence as well as in editing and revision of the document

Dr. Mohamed Hassan Kamel Garamoon

Senior Clinical Pharmacist, Children Hospital, Ain Shams University

Participating in revision of data related to pharmacological agents adopted in the recommendations.

Mrs. Wafaa Fathallah

Nursing director

Children’s Hospital, Ain Shams University

Provided insights on direct patient care experience ensuring that guidelines are realistic and applicable. Also Acted as a facilitator in the implementation the guidelines within the clinical setting.

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. Nanies Soliman

Associate Professor of Pediatrics

Ain Shams University, Egypt

Participating in multiple steps of the guideline adaptation process, Participating in Guideline search and retrieval as well as guideline appraisal.

Dr. Mona Saber

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.

Reviewers  for Clinical Content

Reviewers

Professor Nagib Dahdah

Consultant, Pediatric Cardiology, CHU Ste-Justine.

Professor of Pediatrics, Universite de Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

 Professor Sanaa A Mahmoud,

Clinical Professor of Pediatrics, Allergy& Immunology

Pikeville university, Pikeville, KY

Adjunct Faculty, Lincoln Debusk Memorial University, Harrogate, TN

Professor Mohamed Magdy  AbouElkheir

Professor of Pediatrics &Pediatric Cardiology, Mansoura University

Head of Pediatric Department, Horus University, Egypt

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

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