Ahmed Mohamed El Hassan | |
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أحمد محمد الحسن | |
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| Minister of Higher Education and Scientific Research | |
| In office 1971–1972 | |
| President | Gaafar Nimeiry |
| Vice President | Abel Alier |
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| Born | 10 April 1930 Berber, Sudan |
| Died | 10 November 2022 (aged 92) Al Riyad, Khartoum, Sudan |
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Ahmed Mohamed El Hassan FRCP FTWAS (Arabic: أحمد محمد الحسن; 10 April 1930 – 10 November 2022) was a Sudanese professor of pathology.
El Hassan was born and reared in Sudan. He received most of his medical training at the University of Khartoum before completing a PhD at the University of Edinburgh in 1965. Upon his return to Sudan, he led the Department of Pathology (1966–1969) and the Faculty of Medicine (1969–1971) before briefly heading the Ministry of Higher Education and Scientific Research (1971–1972). He became the president of the Medical Research Council (1972–1977), while helping establish the Department of Pathology at King Faisal University, Saudi Arabia and the Institute of Medical Laboratory Technology, Sudan. In addition, El Hassan was the Founding Director of the Institute of Endemic Diseases (1993–2000), the Sudanese National Academy of Sciences (SNAS) (2005–2011) and the Sudanese Cancer Society (2008–2009).
El Hassan focused on epidemiology and the immunopathology of tropical and infectious diseases. As a result, Sudan bestowed upon him the highest orders of merit, and the Sudanese state of Al Qadarif's tropical medicine centre was named after him. In addition, he received WHO's 1987 Shousha Prize, RSTMH's 1996 Donald Mackay Medal, and the 2017–2018 Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed Al Maktoum award.
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