[4] Ghalioungui was born in Mansoura, Egypt to a Greek Orthodox family of Syro-Lebanese descent.

Mohammad Kamel Hussein (MKH), known in Egypt as the Father of Orthopedics, was an exemplary teacher and philosopher.

[5] Paul Ghalioungi was president of the XXIXth International Congress of the History of Medicine, Egypt-Cairo December 26, 1984 – January 1, 1985.

Throughout his illustrious career, he spent prolonged periods in Austria, England, France, Kuwait, Switzerland and the United States and lived by the following phrase: "Life is short.

[9][10] Perhaps his interest in the history of medicine started from publishing his paper "Sur deux formes d'obésité représentées dans l'Égypte ancienne"[11] on obesity and its types in Ancient Egypt, which represented a connection between his work as an endocrinologist and the history of medicine.