Professor Fatma Amer

Fatma Amer (MBBCh, MSc, PhD), is the past head of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, Zagazig Faculty of Medicine, Egypt. Currently she is emeritus professor, president of Viral Infection Working Group/International Society of Chemotherapy and Infection and a board member of the International Society for Infectious Diseases. She is a consultant of IPC (1989- 2021) at national, Arabic and international levels. She was the first to introduce the concept of “antibiotic stewardship” in Egypt in 1992 through the Cost Recovery for Health Project”. She designed and implemented stewardship programs in MOH and university hospitals. She formulated the Arab Alliance for the Prudent Use of Antimicrobials (ArAPUA) as a non- governmental organization in Cairo, Egypt in 2003 and chaired it for 10 years; its life time.  The activities of ArAPUA were: holding 10 Arab Conferences, 6 “Antimicrobial Symposia”, establishing an educational web site (2003- 2013) and issuing an indexed, peer- reviewed journal; the International Arab Journal for Antimicrobial Agents (IAJA) and acted as the co-editor till the present time. She is a member of the WAAAR. She published numerous manuscripts on antimicrobial resistance. Of particular interest is Identifying for the first time (in Egypt and worldwide) the mutants responsible for resistance to DAAs among Egyptian HCV genotype 4a patients and detection for the first time in Egypt of bla OXA 129 and the ereA gene carried on class I integron among gram negative organisms isolated from Zagazig University Hospitals. She is the editorial board member of many national and international journals. She supervised and evaluated several MSc and PhD theses both national and international, and is a reviewer of manuscripts submitted for journals, conferences and international awards. She introduced an MSc degree in IPC at her faculty, and developed two volumes of IPC books. She participated in conferences all over the world as organizer, chairperson and speaker.