Professional certifications

• Honorary member of the Australasian Gynaecological Endoscopy and Surgery Society

• Academic Representative of the West Midlands Trainees Committee (2001-2003).

• DRCOG subcommittee, RCOG (2004 - 2007)

• Member of the Strat-OG.net Editorial Board, RCOG (2005 - 2008 & invited for another term)

• Member of the Student Project Committee, Keele Medical School (2004 till present)

• Member of the Perineal care Multi-Disciplinary Team, UHNS. (2003 till present)

• Member of Keele University Research Ethics Committee (2006 - 2009)

• Member of the Consent group, RCOG (2008 - 2010)

• MRCOG Examiner, RCOG (2008 till present)

• Obstetrics Lead, UHNS (2008 - 2011)

• Local CSG lead for Reproductive Health and Childbirth group at CLRN (WMN) (2009 - 2011)

• Editor in Chief for StratOG 2011- till 2017

• Member of RCOG Curriculum committee (2011 till 2017)

• CRSL and CRL for West Midlands CRN (2014 till 2016)

• hunt. Director of eLearning, RCOG (2013 till 2017)

• Member of RCOG Education Board (2013 till 2017)

• Member of RCOG Education Quality Assurance Committee (2014 till 2017)

• Chair of the Perineal Trauma PEERS group (2014 till present).

Membership of organizations

PEERS
Prevention, Education, Evaluation and Repair Study International Group

UGS
Czech Urogynecological Society

SNGP
The Association of Hospital Gynecologists and Obstetricians

ČGPS
Czech Gynecological and Obstetrical Society

RCOG
Fellow of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (before 2017)

BSUG
British Society of Urogynaecologists (before 2017)

Awards

ISOQOL 2015
Best Student Poster Award (A.Mahmud – PhD student)
2015

Shine Award
The Health Foundation
2012

Bronze Clinical Excellence Award
ACCEA
2011

UHNS Innovation Award
PEARLS.net distant learning package
2010

UHNS Clinical Excellence Award
2 points awarded for clinical excellence
2010

The International Forum (IF) product award, Hanover.
The Safeceps™
2010

Shine award
The Health Foundation
2010

1st prize in Cardiff Design Festival
The Safeceps™, and regulated Obstetric Forceps
2009

Research Councils UK Business plan competition (Runners-up)
The Safeceps™
2008

UHNS Clinical Excellence Award
2 points awarded for clinical excellence
2008

Stoke and North Staffordshire Citizens of the Year Award
Innovation in Medical Technology and Development
2007

UHNS Clinical Excellence Award
2 points awarded for clinical excellence
2006

UHNS Staff Awards
R&D award (member of PC-MDT)
2004

University College London
Dean's Award for teaching 2001/2002
2003

Ethicon Travel Award
To visit Hôpital E. Herriot, Lyon, France
2002

British Maternal & Fetal Medicine Society Prize
Best poster in fetal medicine session, BMFMS,Warwick University
2001

The Lyndsay Park Memorial Medal
Birmingham & Midland Obstetrics and Gynaecology Society (BMOGS)
2000

The Egyptian Medical Syndicate Prize
Award for high achievers in MBBCh
1995
Professor Y Abdel Ghaffar
Prize For highest overall scores in final year medical school
1991

Ain Shams University Medical School Prize
For highest mark in Histology
1987

Ain Shams Medical School Prize
For highest overall scores in first year medical school
1986