Dr. Hesham is currently an associate professor of Anesthesia, Critical Care and pain management at the faculty of medicine in Ain Shams University. He received his MD in November 2001 and since then has worked at several prestigious hospitals both in Egypt and Saudi Arabia. He has also gone on to supervise many postgraduate degree theses and discussions, in addition to publishing several books and many scientific papers in the field of Anesthesia and Critical Care. He currently resides in Cairo with his family