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QUALIFICATIONS:
Course Institution, City, Country. Period
MD Degree in Diagnostic Radiology. Al-Azhar University, Egypt 11/2006
Clinical Fellow in Diagnostic London Health Science Center, 08/2002
Radiology. University of Western Ontario,
London, Canada
Postdoctoral clinical Fellow in VA Medical Center, University of California, 10/1998
Diagnostic Radiology San Francisco, USA.
Master Degree in Radiodiagnosis Al-Azhar University, Egypt 11/1991
MCCEE Ottawa, Canada. 03/2002
ECFMG Certificate Philadelphia, USA. 07/1999
USMLE CSA Philadelphia, USA. 05/1999
USMLE Step 2 Philadelphia, USA. 03/1998
USMLE Step 1 Philadelphia, USA. 06/1997
Internship Al-Azhar University, Egypt 02/1989
MB B Ch Al-Azhar University, Egypt 12/1987
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Radiology . using X-ray, US, CT, angiography, MRI, And Nuclear
Medicine
London Health Science
MRI techniques for quantification of metabolite levels
Center, University of
in normal human brain and in brains of patients with
Western Ontario,
epilepsy, stroke and brain tumor by application of
London, Canada
short echo-time proton spectroscopy
-ap MRI perfusion techniques for quantification of tissue
perfusion during stroke; employed a new LASER
sequence. -developed a new technique (Interleaved)
for quantification of 19 metabolites in the brain;
carried out macromolecule subtraction using Fitman
software program
9/1998 – Victory Memorial Preparation for Clinical skills assessment (CSA)
7/2000 Hospital,
Brooklyn, NY, USA
8/1995 – Postdoctoral Clinical-res -rotation in Radiology Department subspecialties;
8/1998 Fellow in Diagnostic
Radiology - writing reports according to ACR guidelines using X-
ray, US, CT, angiography, MRI,
VA Medical
NuclearCenter,
Medicine
University of - thesis on Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopic
California, San Imaging and Positron Emission Tomography of
Francisco Epilepsy and Alzheimer’s Disease
Modality Experience
MAGNETIC - EXPERIENCE IN CHOOSING THE APPROPRIATE PULSE SEQUENCES
RESONANCE IN DIAGNOSING CERTAIN DISEASES.
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IMAGING - MRI – (NEURO, BODY, VASCULAR, MUSCULOSKELETAL) ADULT
AND PEDIATRIC POPULATIONS.
- MR SPECTROSCOPY AND POSTPROCESSING OF SPECTROSCOPY
DATA BY USING SOFTWARE PROGRAMS.
- MR PERFUSION, DIFFUSION AND TRACTOLOGY (DTI).
- FUNCTIONAL MRI
- MR MAMMOGRAPHY
- MR ENTEROCLYSIS AND ENTROGRAPHY.
- MR NEUROGRAPHY.
- MR CARDIAC.
- MR ANGIOGRAPHY.
- MUSCOLSKELETAL MRI.
- MR ARTHROGRAPHY.
- FETAL MRI
General diagnostic PLAIN FILM READING (ADULT AND PEDIATRIC).
radiology BONE DENSITOMETRY
MUSCULOSKELETAL MEASUREMENTS FOR PEDIATRIC AND ADULT.
MEASUREMENT OF WHOLE SPINE SAGITTAL ALIGNMENT.
BONE LENGTH OROROENTGENOGRAM.
Mammography USING ACR-BIRADS 2013 recommendation for mammography repots.
MAMMOGRAPHY - SCREENING & DIAGNOSTIC
TOMOSYNTHESIS.
GALACTOGRAPHY OR DUCTOGRAPHY
FLOUROSCOPY FLUOROSCOPY GUIDED PROCEDURES IN ADULT AND PEDIATRIC
PATIENTS INCLUDES UPPER AND LOWER GI SERIES DIAGNOSTIC
AND THERAPEUTIC ENEMA, FISTULA OR SINUS INJECTION, HSG,
MCUG, IVP.
ULTRASONOGRAPHY - VASCULAR US (BRAIN, RENAL ARTERY, PENILE, CAROTID, LL, UL,
WITH DOPPLER AORTA).
- MUSCOLSKELETAL US.
- PERIPHERAL NERVES US.
- USG BREAST
- US 3D AND 4D FOR GYNAECOLOGY -OBSTETRIC SCANS,
TRANSVAGINAL , SMALL PARTS.
- FETAL DOPPLER STUDIES.
GENERAL US FOR ADULT AND PEDIATRIC POPULATIONS
COMPUTED - CT PERFUSION OF THE WHOLE BODY (BRAIN FOR STROKE AND
TOMOGRAPHY TUMORS, KIDNEY, AFTER RENAL TRANSPLANTATION).
- 4DCT FOR PARATHYROID GLAND.
- CT ANGIOGRAPHY.
- CT ARTHROGRAPHY.
- CT COLONOSCOPY AND BRONCHOSCOPY.
- CT UROGRAPHY.
- CT SCAN- (NEURO, BODY, MUSCULOSKELETAL) FOR ADULT AND
PEDIATRIC POPULATIONS
- CT SCANOGRAM FOR LEG LENGTH DISCREPANCY ASSESSMENT.
- CT MEASUREMENT OF FEMORAL ANTEVERSION ANGLE FOR DDH.
POSITRON EMISSION WHOLE BODY PET/MRI AND PET/CT FOR ADULT AND PEDIATRIC.
TOMOGRAPHY
BIOPSY - ULTRASOUND GUIDED BIOPSY AND FNA.
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- ASPIRATION OF BREAST CYSTS.
- CT GUIDED BIOPSY.
- MR GUIDED BIOPSY.
- STEREOTACTIC GUIDED BIOPSY.
LECTURES - GIVING LECTURES TO RESIDENCE IN RASHID HOSPITAL.
- GIVING LECTURES AS CME IN BURGEEL HOSPITAL.
- GIVING PRESENTATION IN ONCOLOGY CONFERENCES.
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10/2016 (Basic Ultrasound and fetal echocardiography) LIFEWAY SPECIALIZED TRAINING
CENTER IN SHARJAH, UAE.
10/2016 Cardiac MR for Physicians Course. PHILIPS HEALTHCARE IN DUBAI, UAE.
10/2016 Introduction to MSK Ultrasound Imaging in Sports Medicine - SMUG level I, Canary
Wharf, London, UK.
9/2016 26th World Congress on Ultrasound in Obstetrics and Gynecology with Basic
Training Simulation Workshop, Rome, Italy.
9/2016 (Basic Ultrasound and Doppler in Obstetrics and Gynecology) LIFEWAY
SPECIALIZED TRAINING CENTER IN SHARJAH, UAE.
9/2016 IntelliSpace Portal (ISP) CT Workshop. PHILIPS HEALTHCARE IN DUBAI, UAE.
3/2016 (MR Cardiac technologist development course) PHILIPS HEALTHCARE IN DUBAI,
UAE.
01/2016 16TH MIDDLE EAST IMAGING AND DIAGNOSTIC CONFERECE IN DUBAI, UAE.
10/2015 The European Board for Accreditation in Cardiology (EBAC)- Echo Dubai 2015.
09/2015 (3rd INTERNATIONAL ONCOLOGY CONFERENCE) IN ABU DHABIE, UAE.
01/2015 15TH MIDDLE EAST IMAGING AND DIAGNOSTIC CONFERECE IN DUBAI, UAE.
12/2014 (CARDIAC CTA IMAGING COURSE, PART B) DANNEMILLER, PHILIPS
HEALTHCARE IN DUBAI, UAE.
11/2014 (Interpretation of Ultrasound Imaging in 1st and 2nd Trimester of pregnancy, a
normal scan, Doppler scan and breast) LIFEWAY SPECIALIZED TRAINING CENTER
IN SHARJAH, UAE.
10/2014 (MULTIMODAL BREAST IMAGING COURSE) DANNEMILLER, PHILIPS HEALTHCARE
IN DUBAI, UAE.
10/2014 (MRI Cardiac technologist development course) PHILIPS HEALTHCARE IN DUBAI,
UAE.
09/2014 (Doppler studies in obstetrics and gynecology) LIFEWAY SPECIALIZED TRAINING
CENTER IN SHARJAH, UAE.
09/2014 (2ST INTERNATIONAL ONCOLOGY CONFERENCE) IN ABU DHABIE, UAE.
09/2014 (28th international Congress of Radiology-ICR) IN DUBAI, UAE.
08/2014 (MRI Breast technologist development course) PHILIPS HEALTHCARE IN DUBAI,
UAE.
04/2014 (Breast MRI for Radiologists) DANNEMILLER, PHILIPS HEALTHCARE IN DUBAI,
UAE.
01/2014 14TH MIDDLE EAST IMAGING AND DIAGNOSTIC CONFERECE IN DUBAI, UAE.
11/2013 (THE 23 MUSCULOSKELETAL ULTRASOUND SOCIETY (MUSoc) CONFERENCE) IN
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ABU DHABIE, UAE.
10/2013 (1ST INTERNATIONAL ONCOLOGY CONFERENCE) IN ABU DHABIE, UAE.
09/2013 (MR CARDIAC DEVELOPMENT COURSE) PHILIPS HEALTHCARE IN DUBAI, UAE.
05/2013 RASHID HOSPITAL CPD PARTICIPATION.
04/2013 (CARDIAC CTA IMAGING COURSE, PART B) DANNEMILLER, PHILIPS
HEALTHCARE IN DUBAI, UAE.
03/2013 (MUSCULOSKELETAL ULTRASOUND COURSE AND HANDS ON WORKSHOP)
DANNEMILLER, PHILIPS HEALTHCARE IN DUBAI, UAE.
01/2013 13TH MIDDLE EAST IMAGING AND DIAGNOSTIC CONFERECE IN DUBAI, UAE.
12/2012 (CARDIAC CTA IMAGING COURSE, PART A) DANNEMILLER, PHILIPS
HEALTHCARE IN DUBAI, UAE.
12/2012 (BREAST IMAGING AND INTERVENTIONAL COURSE) DANNEMILLER, PHILIPS
HEALTHCARE IN DUBAI, UAE.
09/2012 (MUSCULOSKELETAL IMAGING COURSE) ADVANCED HEALTH EDUCATION
CENTER IN DUBAI, UAE
01/2012 12TH MIDDLE EAST IMAGING AND DIAGNOSTIC CONFERECE IN DUBAI, UAE
05/2010 3rd ARAB RADIOLOGY CONFERENCE, AMAN, JORDEN
03/2010 6TH ANNUAL SCIENTIFIC CONFERENCE OF THE RADIOLOGICAL SOCEITY OF
SAUDI ARABIA, RIYAD, KSA
02/2007 MEDICAL UNIVERSITY TEACHING TRAINING, CAIRO, EGYPT
05/2002 10TH ANNUAL MEETING OF ISMRM, HAWAI’I, USA.
05/2002 ISMRM CERTIFICATE OF ATTENDANCE AND MEDICAL PHYSICS, HAWAI’I, USA.
PAPERS PUBLICATIONS:
M. N. Kassem, R. Bartha. “Quantitative Proton Short Echo-Time LASER Spectroscopy of Normal
Human White Matter and Hippocampus at 4 Tesla Incorporating Macromolecule Subtraction.”
ISMRM (Magn Reson Med. 2003 May; 49(5): 918-27)
Vermathen P, Laxer KD, El Din M, Matson GB, Weiner MW. 1H MRSI of the Hippocampus in
Epilepsy Patients and in Controls. In: Oudkerk M, Edelman RR (ed): High-Power Gradient MR
Imaging; Blackwell Science; Berlin, Vienna 1997; 249-252.
POSTERS PUBLICATIONS:
Mohamed NE Kassem, Robert Bartha. “Quantitative Proton Short Echo-Time LASER
Spectroscopy of Normal Human White Matter and Hippocampus at 4 Tesla Incorporating
Macromolecule Subtraction. Society of Magnetic Resonance, 6th Meeting and Exhibition,
Toronto: 1147. 2003.
M. El-Din, M. Hogan, S. Hughes, T-Y. Lee, M. Gillard, B.K. Rutt, R.S. Menon, R. Bartha. “T1-
Weighted Perfusion Mapping at 4T During Acute Focal Ischemia in Rabbits.” Society of
Magnetic Resonance, 5th Meeting and Exhibition, Hawaii: 1072, 2001.
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P. Vermathen, K.D. Laxer, M. El Din, G.B. Matson, M.W. Weiner. “1H MRSI of the Hippocampus
in Epilepsy Patients and in Controls.” Proceedings book of the 2nd International Magnetom
Vision. 1: 50-51, 1997.
P. Vermathen, K.D. Laxer, M. El Din, G.B. Matson, M.W. Weiner. “Hippocampal NAA loss in
Mesial Temporal Lobe Epilepsy is Not Accompanied by Changes in Other Brain Regions.”
Society of Magnetic Resonance, 5th Meeting and Exhibition 2: 1185, 1997.
P. Vermathen, K.D. Laxer, M. El Din, G.B. Matson, M.W. Weiner. “1H MRSI of the Hippocampus
Shows Strong Anterior-Posterior Differences in Epilepsy Patients and in Controls.” Society of
Magnetic Resonance, 5th Meeting and Exhibition 1: 36, 1997.
P. Vermathen, K.D. Laxer, M. El Din, G.B. Matson, M.W. Weiner. “1H MRSI Follow-up Studies on
Epilepsy Show Strong Altered Metabolite Concentration after Surgery.” Society of Magnetic
Resonance, 4th Meeting and Exhibition 2: 957, 1996.
P. Vermathen, K.D. Laxer, M. El Din, G.B. Matson, M.W. Weiner. “Hippocampal NAA is Not
Reduced in Neocortical Epilepsy: Contrast with Medial Temporal Lobe Epilepsy.” Society of
Magnetic Resonance, 4th Meeting and Exhibition 1: 138, 1996.
MEMBERSHIP/FELLOWSHIP
Member of the International Society of Magnetic Resonance in Medicine.
Member of the Canadian Medical Protective Association.
Member of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario
Member of the Egyptian Medical Union.
Member of the American Cultural Center.
Member of the British Council Center.
Member of Philips Netforum community.