Prof. Salah Zaher

Professor of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine,
Alexandria University, Egypt.
Board Chairman of the Alexandria Pediatric Center (S.A.E.)
Vice-President of the Alexandria Medical Syndicate

• Dr. Salah R. Zaher is a professor emeritus of Pediatrics at the Alexandria
  University, Egypt, since 2016.
• He acquired the Doctorate degree of Pediatrics (1990) and the Master degree
  in Cardiology (1995).
• He is a former consultant at the WHO in rheumatic fever and rheumatic
  heart disease and a former board member of the Pan African Society of Cardiology.
• He was a founding member of the Eyptian Society of Pediatric Cardiologists
  in 1996.
• He is the board chairman of the Society of Friends of Cardiac Children
  (philanthropic society) and of the Alexandria Pediatric Center
  ( private pediatric practice center).
• He is a member of the National Committee for prevention of rheumatic
  fever.
• His research field is in rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease and has
  several international publications in epidemiology and prophylaxis of
  rheumatic fever.
• His clinical work encompasses a vast experience in management of children
  with congenital heart disease and rheumatic heart disease, and has
  established and supervised several rheumatic fever clinics in Alexandria and
  initiated several national surveys of both diseases. He initiated as well
  several programs for the social care of children with heart disease in
  Alexandria.