Dr Nagwa Khamis

Nagwa is an Egyptian medical doctor, wife, and mother of three children in Cairo. She speaks Arabic, French and English languages.
She has worked as a professional in the field of health care infection prevention and control since 1989. Since 1997, she has been a consultant in infection control for six hospitals in Cairo. She has also been a consultant in clinical pathology (microbiology) and infection control at Ain Shams University Specialized hospital since 2008.
Nagwa received her training in five French hospitals, Pitie-Salpetriere, Saint-Louis, Bicetre, Georges Pompidou and Amien (from 1990 to 2008). She joined IFIC in 2001 and has been the chair of the Hand Hygiene SIG since 2007.
Her first publication was in 1999 (24 articles so far), mostly in Egyptian journals, and in the International Journal of Infection Control. She has prepared infection control manuals for 8 Egyptian hospitals and participated in the publication of two hand books: Hospital Guide for Disinfectants and Antiseptics (2010) and Antibiotic Usage in Hospitals (2011). Nagwa is the author of the chapter on Audits for Infection Control in IFIC Basic Concepts (2011) and Infection Control and Hand Hygiene modules of PSFH toolkit for EMRO (under publication).
Nagwa is a member of several Egyptian and international medical and infection control societies, and has been president of the SPIC-EGYPT (member society of IFIC) since 2008.