Ragaa Mansour, MD, PhD
Dr. Ragaa Mansour graduated from the Faculty of Medicine, Cairo
University, in 1973, with honors. This was followed up by completing a
three-year
residency in Obstetrics and Gynecology at Cairo University (1975 - 1978)
during which she earned her master's degree in Ob/Gyn. She then completed
her Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates (ECFMG)
Certification, in Kansas City (USA), in 1980. She completed a postdoctoral
fellowship "in vitro fertilization and embryo transfer at Ohio State
University, USA, 1982.
In 1985, she returned back to her home country, and started the first
in-vitro fertilization program in Egypt, in March 1986. She has held the
position of director of The Egyptian IVF-ET Center since 1986 until the
present.
In February 2003, she earned her Doctoral Degree from the Department of
Ob/Gyn (Ph.D.) at Maastricht University in Holland. The title of the thesis
was "Optimizing IVF Results."
In addition, she established the first IVF registry in Egypt in the year
1999. She held the first conference for the establishment of the Middle East
IVF Registry in October 2002.
She was the president of the Middle East Fertility Society (2004 - 2006).
She held the position of deputy editor of the Middle East Fertility Society
Journal (till 2007), and a corresponding editor for the American Journal of
Obstetrics and Gynecology. She is one of eight international members of the
international committee for monitoring assisted reproduction (ICMART/WHO)
affiliate.
She is a member of many reproductive medicine societies in Egypt, Europe
and the United States. She is currently the author of 141 scientific
publications in the medical literature, the author of 8 chapters in medical
books as well as a book about fertility for non-medical readers. In 2005 she
was honored by receiving the National Excellency Award in Reproductive
Technology in Egypt, and the winner of "Scopus prize" for scientific
publication in 2009. She is a mother of three sons, and interested in
painting, and reading.
