Farouk Hassan
Neuro-Intervention
Head of Department
Biography
Professor Dr. Farouk Hassan is the head of the INR team at Cairo University Hospital and the Founder and Head of the Egyptian Board of Neuro-intervention. He serves as Secretary General of the Middle-East and North Africa Stroke and Interventional Neuro-therapy Organization (MENA-SINO) and has served as president of its yearly conference over several years.
He received fellowship training in France (2007–2009), a Diploma of Neuro-intervention from Paris-Descartes University (2009), AFSA specialty training from Lille University (2009), and completed the European Course in Minimally Invasive Neuro-interventional Therapy (ECMINT) from Oxford, UK (2017).
He heads the National Program for Elimination of Neuro-intervention Wait-lists, trains fellows from across the region annually, and supervises master's and PhD theses from candidates across 14 different universities.