PERSONAL DATA: Name: Khalifa El Sayed Khalifa Mohamed Date and Place of birth: 5/10/1959, Cairo, Egypt. EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND: M.B, B.Ch. December, 1983, Faculty of Medicine, Ain Shams University, very good with honor M.Sc. Medical Parasitology, November, 1988, Faculty of Medicine, Ain Shams University, very good with a thesis titled “ Role of BCG as an immunostimulant against infection of mice with Toxoplasma gondii” M.D. Medical Parasitology, November, 1994, Faculty of Medicine, Ain Shams University, with a thesis titled “Detection of circulating antigen by ELISA and parasite DNA by PCR for the diagnosis of toxoplasmosis” PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS: House officer: Ain Shams University Hospitals, from 1/3/1984 to 29/2/1985 School Health Officer: in a School Health Unit, Cairo from 1/3/1985 to 30/4/1986 Demonstrator of Medical Parasitology: Faculty of Medicine, Ain Shams University from 4/5/1986 to 4/3/1989. Assistant Lecturer of Medical Parasitology: Faculty of Medicine, Ain Shams University, from 5/3/1989 to 28/2/1995. Guest Investigator: USA Naval Medical Research Unit, NAMRU#3, Cairo, Egypt, from 25/8/91 to 25/1/1992. Research Fellow: Clinical Parasitology Department, Robert Koch Institute, Berlin Germany, from 1/4/1992 to 31/3/1994. Lecturer of Medical Parasitology: Faculty of Medicine, Ain Shams University from 29/2/1995 to 30/7/2000. Assistant Professor of Medical Parasitology: Faculty of Medicine, Ain Shams University, from 31/7/2000 till 21/8/2005 Professor of Medical Parasitology: Faculty of Medicine, Ain Shams University, from 22/8/2005 till now. Head of the Laboratory Department: Faculty of Health Sciences, Al Alhsaa, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, from 1999 till 2006. Head of the Parasitology Diagnostic Unit: Faculty of Medicine Ain Shams University from 13/12/2007-12/12/2011 Head of the information and communication technology project (ICTP), Faculty of Medicine Ain Shams University from September, 2013