Ahmed Samy Khalifa

Ahmed Samy Khalifa (14 November 1933 – 14 August 2015)[1] was an Egyptian pediatric hematologist and oncologist.

He established the specialty of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology at Ain Shams University.

He treated thousands of children with thalassemia, leukemia and other hematologic and ontological diseases all over Egypt.

He received a Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery in (1957) from Cairo University, followed by a Diploma in Pediatrics (1959), a diploma in Internal Medicine (1960), an MD in Pediatrics (1961), and a Diploma in Physiology and Biochemistry (1964), all from Cairo University.

He was certified by the American Board of Pediatrics in 1974.

Professor Ahmed Sami Khalifa, Professor of Pediatrics, Ain Shams University