Women In IR Committee

About

Women In IR Committee is part of Pan Arab Interventional Radiology Society (PAIRS). The committee intends to work with the members of the society in order to increase the numbers of female IR on regional scale. This is to happen through the provision of new paths to women, who thanks to these new paths will be able to develop their skills and improve their leadership qualities. A result of these endeavors will be a database, in which all female members will participate on regional scale that will provide the Pan Arab Interventional Radiology Society the tools how to reach them and communicate with them. Furthermore, the website created by PAIRS is to be a centralized space for information sharing for the committee and their members as well as a tool of biography checking and CV sharing. In addition, educational programs related slots are to be arranged. The website collaborating with the database is intended to deepen the areas of expertise of the female members of PAIRS.

History of Women In IR

Women in IR Committee were formed in Feb 2020. Women of different generations, backgrounds and countries were chosen. Two men volunteered and accepted as they are great addition from different perspective.

On April 27, a what’s App group is formed to facilitate the discussion of the committee’s objective and its plans.

Mission Statement

  • To work with the PAIRS board and members aiming increase the number of women IRs in the region by providing a pathway for these women to develop their skills as well as professional leadership qualities.
  • To provide a database with all women IRs of all ages within the region and reach them out to provide support under PAIRS umbrella.
  • To provide a PAIRS forum on the website for Arab women IRs to meet, interact and exchange knowledge and experience.
  • To warrant dedicated slots in any PAIRS educational programs.
  • To provide women’s IR a patient oriented platform on the website where patients can check their biography, CV and areas of expertise.
  • To guide the region in regards to women IR.
  • To dedicate courses and symposiums to be presented by women IR for the trainees as fellows and residents.

Meet The Members

Dr. Noha Guzaiz

Head of Women In IR Committee
King Abdullah Medical City
Makkah, Saudi Arabia

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Noha Husain Guzaiz is a Consultant Interventional Radiologist and the Chief of Vascular and Interventional Radiology at King Abdullah Medical City, Makkah, Saudi Arabia.
Dr. Noha Guzaiz had her radiology residency training at King Abdulaziz Medical City National Guard, Jeddah (KAMC-NGHA-J). Afterward, she has completed her clinical fellowship training in Endovascular and Interventional Radiology at King Abdulaziz Medical City National Guard (KAMC-NGHA-R) and King Faisal Speciality Hospital and Research Center (KFSH-RC), Riyadh.

Dr. Guzaiz is a member of multiple professional societies. She participated and presented in multiple local, national and international radiologic conferences and obtained some awards for her interventional radiology work.

Dr. Rana Tarek M.

Ain Shams University Hospital
Cairo, Egypt

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I am an assistant lecturer of Radiology/ last year Fellow Interventional Radiology at Ain Shams University Hospitals (Cairo, Egypt); holding the biggest IR unit in Egypt.
I am greatly impassioned to IR especially the embolization procedures; I do lots of UAEs, PAEs, Varicocele, pelvic varices, hemorrhoids, and bariatric embolization as well as other embolization procedures and interventional oncology with several published papers especially in the AJIR.

When I entered the IR field, the lack of females in the specialty in my country was the case. I always dreamt of playing a leadership role to inspire more ladies to join the specialty and worked on this issue with PAIRS; I published some work and surveys about the status of Women in IR in the Middle East in the JVIR and the AJIR.

PAIRS has been a unique adventure for me since I first attended as a resident with an accepted poster in 2016. I have been working for the society since then and I was part of the team that won the first PAIRS Junior games in Dubai in 2019.

Currently, I am the head of the RFS committee, the Regional Leader of #IAM_PAIRS program in Egypt, and an Editorial board member of the AJIR.

Education, training, and raising awareness have been my passion since I was a medical student and I am so happy I can fulfill this through PAIRS.

Dr. Karim Abd El Tawab

Ain Shams University
Cairo, Egypt

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Currently holding the position of Interventional Radiology Consultant; Interventional Radiology Unit, Ain Shams University Hospitals, Cairo, Egypt; which is one of largest Interventional Radiology Institutes in Egypt and the Arab world providing him with 11 years of experience in various Vascular and Non Vascular Interventional Radiology procedures especially Interventional Oncology and HCC management, GIT and Biliary interventions as well as Uterine Artery Embolization for fibroids.
I started the first team in Egypt and the Middle East to perform prostatic artery embolization in 2012, i am the first in Egypt and the Middle East to do Hemorrhoidal embolization in 2015 and also the first in Egypt to perform Bariatric embolization in 2016. It is worth mentioning that am also one of the pioneers in Egypt in emergency embolization procedures “ a 24/7 service in Ain Shams University Hospitals” namely GIT bleeding, Post-Partum Hemorrhage Bronchial Embolization for management of hemoptysis, Renal artery embolization for hematuria management etc.

I gave more than 90 talks and lectures in various local and international conferences.

I am a PAIRS board member since 2016 and am also the head of the Media and Marketing committee since 2014 as well founding and Board member of the Egyptian Society of Interventional Radiology.

Dr. Nadia Hammami

National Institute of Neurology
Tunis, Tunisia UAE

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Dr. Hammami was the President of the Pan-Arab Interventional Radiology Society (PAIRS) from 2016-2017. She is a neuroradiologist at the National Institute of Neurology of Tunis, Tunisia and is an Associate Professor at the Faculty of Medicine of Tunis. She had training courses in three different French Centers: GUI de Chauliac Hospital – Montpellier (Pr. A. Bonafé), Henri Mondor Hospital – Créteil (Pr. A. Gaston), and Fondation Adolphe de Rothshild – Paris (Pr. J. Moret).

Dr. Hammami initiated the Interventional Neuroradiology activity in Tunisia in the public sector in 2006. Her primary field of expertise focuses on Interventional Neuroradiology. She performs an average of 120 embolization per year including endovascular treatment of brain and spinal aneurysms, arteriovenous malformation, and Dural fistulae.

Dr. Ahmad Alomari

Boston Children’s Hospital
Massachusetts, USA

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He attended medical school at the Jordan University of Science and Technology. After the radiology residency at the Jordan University Hospital, he received his interventional radiology fellowship from Mount Sinai Medical Center. He then came to Boston Children’s Hospital for a fellowship in pediatric radiology followed by pediatric interventional radiology.
He then joined the IR division at Boston Children’s in 2004 and became of the co-directors of the Vascular Anomalies Center (VAC). The VAC team has been at the forefront of major developments in the field of vascular anomalies, particularly complex overgrowth syndromes including the description of syndromes such as CLOVES and Fibroadipose Vascular Anomaly (FAVA). He also introduced the use of novel therapeutic and diagnostic techniques such as “Intranodal Lymphangiography”. He is the incumbent of the P.E. Burrows Chair in Interventional Radiology and Vascular Anomalies.

As a fellowship program director, Ahmad and his group have been involved in the training of more fellows in the pediatric IR more than any other program. He also collaborates with many international institutions and helped establish several Vascular Anomalies programs overseas.

Clinical practice continues to be a major focus for Dr. Alomari and often serves as the major incentive for his clinical research. He provides clinical care and minimally-invasive interventions with particular emphasis on children with vascular anomalies and overgrowth syndromes.

Dr. Mona Mohsen

Dr Sulieman Fakeeh Hospital
Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

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Dr.Mona Mohsen is a consultant in Vascular and Interventional Radiology, Musculoskeletal Radiology at Dr.Soliman Fakeeh Hospital (DSFH). She specializes in diagnostic radiology, musculoskeletal radiology, and vascular and interventional radiology.
Dr.Mona graduated from Jeddah with her medical degree from King AbdulAziz University. She finished her residency in surgery in Saint Elizabeth Medical Center. She obtained another residency in diagnostic radiology from Tufts University. She is now fellow from the Cleveland clinic for musculoskeletal radiology and vascular & interventional radiology.

Dr.Mona is now a valuable member to our Radiology department at DSFH. Prior she worked in Al MashfaHopsital as chairman. Previously, she was at Cleveland clinic as a radiology fellow, and a resident at Lahey.

Dr. Hanan Alqahtani

King Abdulaziz Medical City
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

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Dr. Hanan Alqahtani is an Assistant professor at King Khalid University- collage of medicine. She is also a Consultant Diagnostic and Interventional Neuroradiologist at King Abdulaziz Medical City (KAMC) ,King Abdullah Specialist Children’s Hospital (KASCH) Ministry of National Guard for Health Affairs (MNG-HA),Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Dr. Hanan won 1st place radiologist in training research competition for the project “Acute thrombectomy in the aging population: A retrospective analysis of radiological and clinical outcomes in acute thrombectomies performed in patients more than 80 years with an intention to treat analysis. Presented at the 81st Annual Scientific Meeting of the Canadian Association of Radiologists April 26-29, 2018.
▪ 1 st place best fellow poster presentation for the project “In vitro testing of stent retrievers and carotid stent compatibility. Presented at Cheemun Lum research Day Award 2017-2018.
▪ Recognition letters from the Champlain Regional Stroke Network and the Ottawa Hospital Regional Stroke center, Canada. For the commitment to quality during several stroke cases where the patients received a successfully fast thrombectomy ranges between 6-15 minutes from puncture to perfusion time.

She is currently a Board member at Saudi Stroke Society.