Council & Executive Board

The Society is directed by an elected Executive Board of consultant hand and microsurgeons drawn from university and tertiary centres across Egypt.

President

Professor Ahmed Fathy Mohammed Sadek, MD

President, Egyptian Society for Surgery of the Hand and Microsurgery

Professor Ahmed Fathy Sadek is Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery and Traumatology at the Faculty of Medicine, Minia University, and has headed the Faculty’s Hand and Microsurgery Unit since March 2012. He was elected President of ESSHM in May 2026, having served on the Society’s Executive Board since 2018.

He trained as a visiting fellow in reconstructive microsurgery at Hospital Universiti Sains Malaysia from 2008 to 2009, and was appointed to his professorship at Minia University in 2022.

Professional Memberships

  • Egyptian Orthopaedic Association (EOA)
  • Egyptian Group of Arthroscopy and Sports Injuries (EGGA)
  • Egyptian Society for Surgery of the Hand and Microsurgery (ESSHM)
  • World Society for the Surgery of the Hand and Microsurgery
  • International Member, American Society for Surgery of the Hand (ASSH)

Editorial and Peer Review

Editor, International Journal of Sports Science and Medicine.

Peer reviewer for BMC, the International Journal of Sports Science and Medicine, the Journal of Hand and Microsurgery, and the Journal of Orthopaedic Surgery and Research.

Publications

Author of 44 national and international peer-reviewed publications since 2013, and co-author of a chapter in Current Practice in Hand Surgery, edited by Jin Bo Tang.

Executive Board

The Executive Board comprises the President, General Secretary, Treasurer and elected board members, serving fixed terms under the Society’s constitution.

Honorary PresidentNash Naam, MD
PresidentAhmed Fathy Sadek, MD
General SecretaryMuhammad Reda Ahmad, MD
TreasurerAmr Ali, MD

Board Members

Amr A. Fouaad, MD
Ashraf Nehad Moharram, MD
Maged El-shennawy, MD
Ramy El-Nakeeb, MD
Waleed R. Saleh, MD

Past Presidents

The Society records the service of those who have led it since its establishment in 2007.

  • Professor Ahmed Fathy Sadek — current
  • Professor Maged Alshinnawy
  • Professor Ramy Alnakeeb
  • Professor Abdel-Hakim A. Massoud
  • Professor Yasser Safoury
  • Professor Mohamad ElMahy
  • Professor Tarek Elgammal
  • Professor Essam ElKaref
  • Professor Magdy Nabil Morsy
  • Professor Ashraf Moharam
  • Professor Amr ElSayed
  • Professor Mostafa Mahmoud