Professor Hassan Nooman Sallam

 MD, FRCOG, PhD (London)

Professor and former chairman of obstetrics and Gynaecology Department , Alexandria University in Egypt and Clinical Director of the Alexandria Fertility and Assisted Reproduction Centre. He was a founding member of the IVF unit at King’s College Hospital (London, UK) in 1981 and St-Luke’s Roosevelt Hospital Centre of Columbia University in New York City in 1984. He is former vice-dean and director of research at the Alexandria University Faculty of Medicine.

He is also the Director of the Alexandria Regional Centre for Women's Health and

Development, a training and research Centre active in all areas of women's health.

He has published over 100 papers in national and international refereed journals in three languages as well as three books. He is the co-author of “Infertility and Assisted Reproduction”, the reference textbook published in 2008 by Cambridge University Press.

Professor Sallam serves or has served on the editorial boards of many journals including Human Reproduction (2000-2004), Reproductive Biomedicine Online(2002-2008), the Middle East Fertility Society Journal and Facts, Views and Visions in OB/GYN since their inception. He is a founding board member of the Middle East Fertility Society, the founding chairman and past president of the Mediterranean Society for Reproductive Medicine and a board member of the International Society of IVF.

His current research interests include biochemical approaches for embryo selection,

optimizing embryo transfer, prediction of OHSS, endometriosis-associated infertility and repeated implantation failure. He is also active in the fields of infertility for developing countries and combating violence against women.