Laila Sherief

Professor Laila Sherief has been a long-serving member of the Zagazig University community in Egypt. She first graduated with honours from the Zagazig University and then went on to do her internship and residency there before becoming a lecturer, an Associate Professor then a Professor in Paediatric in the Faculty of Medicine. Prof. Sherief has published extensively in national/international medical journals and at medical conferences. She has over 50 international publications and many national publications and acts as a Peer Reviewer for more than 38 international journals, including Pediatric Hematology and Oncology, Pediatrics International, Journal of Coagulation & fibrinolysis, Medicine, BMC Endocrinal Disorders, Transfusion Medicine and Cancer Chemotherapy & Pharmacology. She is editorial board member in 17 international journals as BMC Pediatric, Frontiers in Genetics, Hematology case reports, Archives of hematology case reports and reviews, and Annals of Medical case reports. She supervised 83 master and MD thesis in Pediatric, Pediatric Hematology & Oncology and Clinical pathology Prof. Sherief frequently attends national and international conferences and maintains memberships in many professional societies as International Society of Paediatric Oncology (SIOP), International Society of Haemostatis and Thrombosis (ISTH)., Egyptian Society of Pediatric Haematology & Oncology (ESPHO) and Egyptian Societies of thalassemia. She is the president of Sharkia thalassemia Association, Egypt, and member of the Egyptian national guidelines committee (NEGC) for evidence- based clinical practice. She was a member of the scientific committee for promotion of professors of pediatrics in the Supreme Council of Universities in Egypt from 2013 to 2016.