Adel Khattab, MD, FCCP

Professor Adel Mahmoud Mohamed Khattab is Chairman of the Department of Pulmonary Medicine at Ain Shams University in Cairo, Egypt.

Besides being Professor for Pulmonary Medicine, he supports the Egyptian Ministry of Health for Chest Diseases and Epidemic Flu and has been Chairman of the Board of the Egyptian Fellowship of Chest Diseases since 2008.

Professor Khattab serves on various medical committees and is a member of numerous professional societies, including the Egyptian Scientific Society of Bronchology, where he is Deputy Chairman, the European Society of Respiratory Diseases and the Egyptian Society of Chest and Tuberculosis. He is Fellow of the American College of Chest Physicians.

As a member of several boards, he has issued the Egyptian Guidelines on Tuberculosis, Bronchial Asthma, COPD and Lower Respiratory Tract Infections.

He has published a number of articles in local and international medical journals.