Professor Waked is Professor of Medicine and Hepatology, and past Dean of the National Liver Institute (NLI) in Egypt.
Dr Waked graduated Cairo University School of Medicine, obtained a Doctorate degree from Ain Shams University in Cairo, and trained in the liver unit of the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. He is a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians (FRCP) in London and a Fellow of the American Association of the Study of Liver Disease (FAASLD).
Dr. Waked has more than 100 peer-reviewed publications in international journals. He supervised more than 60 Masters and 40 Doctorate theses in hepatology and medicine, and he currently heads the clinical trial unit in the NLI.
He is a board member of the Egyptian National Committee for Control of Viral Hepatitis which oversees the National hepatitis C treatment, screening and elimination programs and a member of the technical advisory board of the Coalition for Global Hepatitis Elimination.
