Management of Steroid Sensitive Nephrotic Syndrome

Egyptian Pediatric Clinical Practice Guidelines Committee (EPG)

Guideline Development/ Adaptation Group (Clinicians subgroup)

Name

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

Contribution

Bahia Moustafa

Department of Pediatrics, Pediatric Nephrology Division, Faculty of Medicine, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt

Mahmoud M. El‑Kersh

Department of Pediatrics, Pediatric Nephrology Division, Faculty of Medicine, Alexandria University, Alexandria, Egypt

Sherin Shalaby

Department of Pediatrics, Pediatric Nephrology Division, Faculty of Medicine, Suez Canal University, Ismailia, Egypt

Nancy Abdel Salam

Department of Pediatrics, Pediatric Nephrology Division, Faculty of Medicine, Alexandria University, Alexandria, Egypt

Sawsan Moselhy

Department of Pediatrics, Pediatric Nephrology Division, Faculty of Medicine, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt

Gamal Taha Soliman

Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine, Port Said University, Port Fuad, Egypt

Abeer Selim

Department of Pediatrics, Medical Research and Clinical Studies Institute, National Research Centre, Cairo, Egyp

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. Ranin Soliman

-   Assistant Professor of Evidence-based Practice, School of Life and Medical Sciences, University of Hertfordshire, Egypt.

-   Consultant at WHO/EMRO for the Clinical and Public Heath Guideline Adaptation Project in the EMR.

-   Head of Heath Economics and Value Unit, Children’s Cancer Hospital Egypt.

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

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

Prof. Amr Sarhan

Prof of Pediatrics and Pediatrics Nephrology, Faculty of Medicine Mansoura University

Prof. Neven Suliman

Prof of Pediatrics and Pediatrics Nephrology, Faculty of Medicine Cairo University

Prof. Ihab Al Hakim

Prof of Pediatrics and Pediatrics Nephrology, Faculty of Medicine Ain Shams University

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)