Dr. Yasser Assaghir

Brief Biography:

Board certification:
AO Spine International, 2007
Egyptian Orthopedic Association EOA, 1989
SICOT Active member, 2011
Education:
Undergraduate: Assiut medical school, Assiut, Egypt. M.B.B.Ch 1987
Graduate: Assiut medical school, Assiut, Egypt. M.Sc. Orth 1992.
Medical: Sohag University, Sohag, Egypt M.D. 2006
Residency: Assiut medical school, Assiut, Egypt. Resident 1989-1992
Hospital/academic affiliations:
Hospital: Sohag University Hospita, Sohag, Egypt
Surgical Center: Sohag Spine Center, Sohag, Egypt
Academic: Sohag Faculty of Medicine, Sohag, Egypt

Academic positions:

1. Professor of orthopedics, Sohag facukty of Medicine, Sohag, Egypt.
2. Senior consultant, orthopedics, Egyptian Ministry of Health, Egypt.
3. Spine Surgeon, Sohag faculty of Medicine, Sohag, Egypt.

Research interests:

Pediatri Orthopedics.
Spine.
Trauma.
Shoulder
Deformities

Any other information:

Society memberships
1. Specialty Society Memberships
2. American Orthopaedic Association
Additional Society Memberships:
1. International Orthopedic Association "SICOT".
2. AO Spine International
3. Pan-Arab Orthopedic Association
4. Egyptian Orthopedic Association "EOA"
5. Egyptian Spine Group (EOA sponsored).
Achievements:
1. Included in Marquis Who's Who in the World 2011 (28th Edition).
2. Introduction of Interlocking nail surgeries in Upper Egypt; 1991.
3. Best Orthopedic Consultant, Teaching Hospitals Organization, Egypt; 1998.
4. Best Poem; Assiut University Arts Competition, 1985.
Community activities:
1. A member of Students' Friends Charity organization, Sohag University, Egypt.
2. Organizer of Orphans day, 1984, Assiut University, Egypt.
3. Free-Surgery day committee founder, Sohag teaching hospital 1995.

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