Dr. Mahmoud Hafez

Personal Details:

Nationality: Egyptian

Email: mhafez@msn.com

Phone: +2 02 239 18 993

Mobile: +2 010 6007 9998 

Languages: Arabic, English

• Director, Medical and Pharmaceutical Innovations Department, International Federation of Inventors’ Associations (IFIA)

• Honorary Visiting Professor, School of Engineering, Cardiff University, United Kingdom

• Member, International Council of the World Orthopaedic Organization (SICOT); Plenary Speaker, 2019

• Examiner, SICOT Diploma, Belgium

• Executive Committee Member, Computer Assisted Orthopaedic Surgery Society (CAOS), Germany

• Founder, Egyptian Community Arthroplasty Register; Associate Member, International Society of Arthroplasty Registries (ISAR), Sweden

• Chairman, International Arthroplasty Conference, Orthopaedic Review & Skills Courses, Egypt

• Member, Expert Committee of Shanghai Additive Manufacturing Association (SAMA), China

• Founder, Egyptian Musculoskeletal Research Association (EMRA), Egypt

• Founder, Al Mohsen Medical Charity, Cairo, Egypt

• Former Member, Judging Panel, UK Alumni Awards, British Council, Cairo, Egypt

• Former Board Member and Vice President, American Fracture Association, Illinois, USA

• Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery, October 6 University, Egypt

• Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon, Egypt and the United Kingdom

Teaching and Training Roles

• Instructor, Advanced Trauma Life Support (ATLS) Course, American College of Surgeons, USA

• Trainer, AO-Recon Courses for Orthopaedic Surgeons and AO Trauma Courses for Nurses, Davos, Switzerland

• MB BCh, Cairo University
• MSc in Orthopaedics, Cairo University
• Diploma of SICOT, Belgium
• FRCS (Edinburgh), United Kingdom
• MD (Orthopaedics), University of Leeds, United Kingdom

Clinical Training and Career Experience

• More than 20 years of training and clinical work in the United Kingdom, including:
 – Senior House Officer (SHO)
 – Higher Surgical Training (SpR)
 – Locum Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon

• 2.5 years of specialized hip and knee fellowships completed at:
 – Wrightington Hospital, United Kingdom
 – West Penn Hospital, United States
 – University of Toronto, Canada

Leadership and Advanced Professional Development

• Harvard Surgical Leadership Program, April 2025 – April 2026
 A one-year executive certificate program in surgical leadership, quality, innovation, and healthcare management

• Publications: more than 100
• i10-index: 34
• h-index: 19

• Citations: more than 2,489 (as of 28-11-2025)
• Citations from papers & patents (combined): approximately 5,000

• Book Chapters and Editorials: 24 chapters and editorials, including the highly cited and most popular chapter in the textbook “Surgery of the Knee” (Insall-Scott, Elsevier)
 – 2006 edition: pages 1655–1674
 – 2012 edition: pages 1240–1254

• Guinness World Record: listed as one of the authors on the paper recognized for “The most authors on a single peer-reviewed academic paper” with 15,025 contributors.

• Scientific Contributions:
 – Participation in a globally coordinated publication in Lancet Digital Health, July 2024; Volume 6, e507–e519.
 – Contribution to the global VTE guidelines, referenced in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) Guideline Watch 2022

1. Patient specific instruments and related methods for joint replacement (US Patent Application No. 61/641.851)
2. A Device and A Technique of PSI for TKA with A Universal and an Open Platform (International Patent Application No. PCT/EG2013/000014)
3. 15-in-1 Femoral Cutting Block and Guide for Knee Replacement (Egyptian Patent Application No. 1906/2016)
4. A tool for custom made instruments and implants for artificial knee joint of dog (International Patent Application No. PCT/EG2015/000004)
5. A method for connected custom made guides to conventional instruments for joint replacement (International Patent Application No. PCT/EG2015/000013)
6. An Apparatus and system for acquiring data from bone and joints, plan surgery and manufacture instruments and implants (International Patent Application No. PCT/EG2016/000015)
7. A patient specific template and method for partial knee replacement (International Patent Application No. PCT/EG2017/000030)
8. A Method and Device for patient Specific Instruments for One Stage and Two Stages of Revision Knee Arthroplasty Using Constraint and Hinged Knee Implant (International Patent Application No. PCT/EG2018/000005)
9. A patient-specific electronic template for usage in corrective osteotomies for treating bone and joint deformities (International Patent Application No. PCT/EG2018/000013)
10. Patient-specific templates for pedical screw insertion in corrective scoliosis surgeries (International Patent Application No. PCT/EG2018/000014)
11. A patient specific spacer (International Patent Application No. PCT/EG2018/000021)
12. Method and patient specific template for fixation of benign tumor fractures (International Patent Application No. PCT/EG2018/000022)
13. Method and device for patient specific shoulder replacement (International Patent Application No. PCT/EG2018/000023)
14. 3-in1 custom made block for ankle replacement (International Patent Application No. PCT/EG2018/000028)
15. Patient specific guides for acetabulum defects in hip replacement based on bone quality (International Patent Application No. PCT/EG2018/000029)
16. Custom made guides for knee replacement based on reference cuts and 2D data of knee implants (Egyptian Patent Application No. 1118/2018)
17. Patient specific surgical guide for percutaneous fixation of fractures (International Patent Application No. PCT/EG2020/000020)
18. A method and tool for measuring and correcting deformities for osteotomies and fractures (International Patent Application No. PCT/EG2021/0000)
19. Ice cube tray (Egyptian Patent Application No. 817/2019)
20. Custom made mega spacer for massive bone loss in infection and tumours (EG 1539/2021)
21. Patient-Matched and Surgeon-Specific Single Use Surgical Instruments System (International Patent Application No. PCT/EG2022/000033)
22. Fracture specific device, GB2516779.2, UK, 8 October 2025, University of Cardiff

•  Gold Medal with appreciation of the jury for the patent “Hospital-based apparatus for PSI”, Geneva Inventions, Switzerland, 2016
• Certificate of Recognition in Science, Academy of Scientific Research and Technology, Ministry of Higher Education, Cairo, Egypt, 2015
• Silver Medal for the patent on canine (dog) artificial knee joint, Geneva Inventions, Switzerland, 2015
• IFIA Laurel of the 4th World Cup of Computer-Implemented Inventions, International Federation of Inventors’ Associations (IFIA), Hungary, 2014
• Gold Medal with appreciation of the jury for the patent “Open platform device for PSI”, Geneva Inventions, Switzerland, 2014
• Lifetime Membership, International Society for Technology in Arthroplasty (ISTA), USA, 2013
• Hap Paul Award, International Society for Technology in Arthroplasty (ISTA), USA, 2010
• Certificate of Recognition in Teaching, Arab Medical Union, 2010
• Exemplary Surgeon Award, Ministry of Health, Egypt, 2009
• Certificate of Recognition, The Medical School, October 6 University, Egypt, 2008
• Listed in:
   – “Who is Who in Medicine”, 2006
   – “Who is Who in Engineering”, USA, 2007
• Japanese SICOT Award, Japan, 2005
• British Orthopaedic Association Travelling Fellowship Award, 2004
• Pfizer Academic Award, UK, 2004
• Meyerding Essay Award, American Fracture Association, USA, 1999