Essentials of Clinical Nephrology (Shorouk Press, Cairo, 2000, ISBN ...

The Author
Dr. Mohamed A Sobh, MD, FACP
Professor and Head of Nephrology
Department, Urology and Nephrology
Center, University of Mansoura, Egypt.
Professor Sobh was graduated in 1973. He obtained his MSc in 1977 and the
MD in 1982. Both are in Internal Medicine from Mansoura Faculty of
Medicine.
In 1978, he passed the ECFMG exam and was affiliated to the residency
training program in the Nephrology Department in Sherbrooke University,
Quebec, Canada. Since his return in 1982, he has hold the responsibility of
organizing the Nephrology activity in Mansoura University Hospital.
In 1982 he was promoted as lecturer of Internal Medicine and was then
assigned as the head of the Nephrology Department in the Urology and
Nephrology Center, Mansoura University. In 1993, he obtained the title of a
full Professor in Medicine; and the title of Professor of Nephrology.
So far, Professor Sobh has 20 MDs and PhDs candidates in addition to 38
Masters; both in Nephrology and Internal Medicine. He also published more
than 75 papers in the different International journals of Nephrology.
Prof. Sobh was elected as a member in The American College of Physicians
in 1996; then as a fellow in the following year. He is also a member of the
Egyptian, African, Arab, European and The International Societies of
Nephrology.
Prof. Sobh was honoured several times. He was awarded the National
Encouragement Prize for medical sciences in 1987; Mohamed Fakhry prize
for the most distinguished research in Internal Medicine, (awarded by the
Egyptian Academy of Research and Technology) in 1987; the Jordan Prize of
Abd El-Hamid Shoman for the Arab Scientists in The Clinical Medical
Sciences in 1988; and The Arab Prize for the most distinguished Medical
Research, (awarded by the President of the Algerian Republic) in 1993.