‏The American University in Cairo organizes an expanded symposium on innovations in health care

The American University in Cairo, at its headquarters in the Fifth Settlement, will organize  tomorrow, an expanded symposium to discuss the latest developments in the field of health care and care for the elderly. The symposium represents the first cooperation between three universities: Flinders University in Australia, King Abdulaziz University in Saudi Arabia, and the American University in Cairo within the activities of the Australian-Arab Relations Council at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Australia to support… Scientific cooperation programs between Australia and the Middle East and North Africa region.

‏The symposium is organized by Professor Dr. Ahmed Taher, Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of Journalism and Media at the university, and from Flinders University in Australia, Professor Dr. Angie Abdel Shafi, Dean of the Faculty of Administrative and Governmental Sciences and Law at the university. The symposium is held in the three universities at the same time, and the events are broadcast live. On the websites of the three universities online.

‏ Dr. Ahmed Taher stressed that the symposium aims to shed light on the role of technological development taking place in the fields of health care and the elderly and to exchange experiences globally in these important fields by hosting a diverse and distinguished group of speakers, professors and experts in many fields, including psychiatry, hospital management, care for the visually impaired, and architecture. Interior design, artificial intelligence, medical resource management, etc.

‏Taher pointed out that among the speakers in the symposium were Professor Dr. Osama Refaat, Professor of Psychiatry and Head of the Psychiatry Unit for the Elderly at Cairo University, Professor Dr. Basil Kamel, Professor of Architecture and Cultural Theory in the Department of Architecture at the American University in Cairo, and international expert Doaa Mabrouk, founder and executive director of the Baseera Foundation for the Care of People with Visual Impairments. Dr. Hisham Munib, Head of the Artificial Intelligence Department at the 57357 Foundation