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Dr. Raafat Ibrahim                                                                         

MB. BCH, DCH ,MRCPCH, FRCPCH-UK

Consultant Pediatrician & Adjunctive  Senior Lecturer UL.

Experience & Education:

Dr Raafat Ibrahim, Consultant Paediatrician with a special in interest in Diabetes and endocrinology.

Currently working at Portiuncula hospital, Ballinasloe, Co. Galway.

He is adjunctive senior lecturer and clinical examiner in paediatric in Graduate Entry Medical School, Limerick University.

Tutor (online) with Royal College of Physicians.

Peer reviewer in some of the medical Journals.

Bachelor of Medicine &surgery Tanta Univ, Egypt (MBBCH) 1983.

Diploma in Paediatric medicine (DCM) Ain Shams Univ, Egypyt 1988.

Diploma in child health (DCH) University College Dublin,1995.

Membership of Royal College of Paediatric (MRCPCH)-UK 2000.

Completed my paediatric training (CCST) in 2010.

Fellowship of Royal College of paediatric (FRCPCH)-UK 2011.

Main paediatric training was in Ireland and south of England.

Research topics:

1- “Infantile colic, comparative research between different types of medications for infantile colic, Coomb university hospital, Dublin 1999.

2-Re-infantile vomiting “Diagnosis of Infantile Hypertrophic Pyloric Stenosis, Predictive value of electrolyte and blood gas results at admission”, Limerick university hospital 2010.

3-Re-vitamin deficiency “Relations between “Pitryasis Alba” and vitamins deficiency in primary school pupils in Egypt”1994.

Developed interest in Diabetes and Endocrine,

Post graduate diploma (PGD)in Diabetes ,2015, York University-UK.

Post graduate diploma (PGD) in endocrine, in progress, South Wales University-UK.

Last publication was last year (August 2021) in Journal of Diabetes Care for Children & Young People-UK.

Catering for the following conditions in general paediatrics:

e.g., Asthma, ongoing tummy pain, heart murmur, growth failure, delayed development (milestones), nutritional deficiency, different syndromic and genetic conditions… etc.

Catering for the following in general Endocrine and diabetes.

e.g., short stature, puberty problems (delayed or early), thyroid problems (under/overactive), overweight and diabetes.