Magda Nasif Iskander, M.D. will be the guest speaker for the UMW program on Monday October 3 at 7:30 p.m. Here is some information about her:
BIRTH DATE: February 26, 1950
NATIONALITY: Egyptian /American
(Born in Egypt, became a citizen of USA by naturalization in 1982)
LANGUAGES: * Fluent Arabic
* Fluent English
CONTACT: Care With Love Association
4 Halim Street (off Alfi St.)
Azbakiya, EGYPT
Phone/Fax: -(2-02) 593 9700, -(2-02) 593 9675
Cell Phone: -(2-012) 377 2307
Email: magda.iskander@gmail.com
CURRENT POSITION
* Community Health Consultant with Presbyterian Church USA since 1998
* Founder and Chair person of Care With Love ( Home Health Care in Egypt)
ACADEMIC BACKGROUND:
*Masters in Education and Social Counseling (Univ. of Dayton, Ohio - 1993)
*American Board of Radiology (E) - 1981
*Residency in Diagnostic Radiology (Cook County Hospital, Chicago, 1977-1981)
*Internship (Grant Hospital, Chicago 1976-1977)
*Internship (Cairo University, Egypt 1975-1976)
*MB, B.Ch. (Cairo University Medical School)
LICENSER /PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS:
* State Medical Board of Ohio
*Egyptian Medical Syndicate
* Member of the Radiological Society of North America
* Member of the American Medical Association
KEY QUALIFICATIONS:
The combination of my Professional Medical background with my studies in Social Counseling was, and is still an asset in developing a holistic approach towards achieving my career objective of Community Development through Community Health Care programs. My diverse background helped me in developing the ability to work with people from different cultural and economical backgrounds, and under different circumstances.
PROFEESIONAL EXPERIENCE AND ACHEIVMENTS:
1. Founder of the CARE WITH LOVE (CWL) program for training and employment of Home Health Care Providers in Egypt. It started in 1996 as a partnership between three organizations: an NGO (CEOSS), a private hospital (Asalam Hospital-Mohandessin), and the Center for Geriatric Services.
2. Founder of the CWL organization (registered under the Ministry of Social Affairs). CWL started to operate as a stand alone organization since January of 2004. CWL provides training and employment of Home Health Care Providers.
CWL provides home health care for all those in need of short or long term home health care. It also provides care for children with cancer from low income families at the National Cancer Institute in Cooperation with Friends of Children with Cancer.
3. Coordinated the Egyptian participation in the Global Videoconference to celebrate the International Year of the Older Persons (1999 – NGO Committee on Aging – UN)
4. Conducted the case study of the living conditions of older people in human settlements in Cairo, Egypt. Worldwide survey of the United Nations Center for Human Settlements (HABITAT) in cooperation with the Institute of Public Administration, NY 1999.
5. Practiced Medicine as a Radiologist in the USA and Egypt from: 1976-1992.
6. While practicing in Egypt as the Head of the Diagnostic Ultrasound Unit at Asalam Hospital in Cairo from:1983-1998) I was involved is establishing similar units in other hospitals with training of physicians, coordinating work schedules and organizing flow charts.
7. Research at the Naval American Medical Research Unit (NAMRU-3), Cairo, Egypt.
PUBLICATIONS:
1. UNCH (1999) – Living Conditions of Low Income Older Persons in Human Settlements.
2. CARE WITH LOVE:
· Arabic curriculum for training Home Health Care Providers (1996).
· Training Manual for training Home Health Care Providers.
· Operational Manual for employment of Home Health Care Providers.
3. Identification of Fasciola Hepatica in the GB & Biliary System by US – at the LANCET (British Medical Journal) – 1987.
4. Articles about CWL in different newspapers and magazines ( in Egypt, Lebanon, and the USA).
Awards:
1. Was selected as one of the first Ashoka Fellows in the Middle East. Ashoka acknowledges “Social Entrepreneurs” that created a program with a social impact that can be replicated, can become sustainable, and have a strong moral fiber.
2. Was acknowledged by the Ministry of Social Affair for my work with the older people.
CONFERNCES/WORKSHOPS:
* Teachers Training For Nurses Program - British Council-Cairo- May 1998
* Management by Results Workshop - March8-10, 1998
* International Health Management Course (July 10 - Sept. 15, 1995) - at Global
Health Action - Atlanta - Georgia USA
* Workshop on Medical Research Studies: Design, Analysis, and Interpretation (15-
17 of October 1994) at the Liver Institute/ Menoufeya University in partnership
with the Univ. of Arizona.
* YWCA Workshop on Development- Cairo 1993.
* Variable conferences and workshops related to my medical career.
* Represented the YWCA of Egypt at the International Conference of Population
and Development (5-13 of September, 1994).
HOBBIES/VOLUNTEER WORK:
* Reading, music, outdoor activities (tennis, hiking, gardening).
* Board Member of Friends of Children with Cancer (Founder of the Health & Hope
Oasis – Nutritional Center for Children with Cancer on a farm)
* Volunteer at the National Cancer Institute in Egypt (coordinating volunteers
activities in supplementing care for the children of low income families)
* Member of the Association for the Protection of the Environment(APE):
* Helping with income generation projects at the Southern village of Wadi El Natroun
* Volunteer community work with experience in Egypt, the West Bank(Israel),
Mexico and USA.
* Member of the YWCA (Started as a camper, then counselor then camp director till
I became the coordinator of the Summer Camps in Alexandria in 1974.
