MEDICAL SCHOOL

Cairo University Medical School


QUALIFICATIONS

EGYPT

M B B Ch (2nd Class Honours) Cairo – June 1966

D S (Distinction) Diploma of General Surgery Cairo – April 1969

D S (Orth) Diploma of Orthopaedic Surgery Cairo – April 1970  


QUALIFICATIONS

UNITED KINGDOM

F R C S (England) London – January 1972

M Ch (Orth)

(M Ch Thesis entitled A O Technique in Fracture Treatment) Liverpool – 1975

M R C S , L R C P (England) London – July 1976

Accreditation for Higher Surgical

Training in Orthopaedic Surgery

(Royal College of Surgeons of England) London – June 1980

F R C S E (Orth) Edinburgh – January 1984

AWARDS

A O Fellowship Switzerland – 1974

B O A United Kingdom & Europe Travelling Scholarship – 1979


POSITIONS

UNITED KINGDOM, SWITZERLAND & EGYPT

Registrar 

Mount Gould Orthopaedic Hospital, Plymouth January 1972 – December 1973

(2Years)

Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital, Portland Street, London

SHO (Registrar Grade) January 1974 – June 1974

(6 Months)

AO Scholarship with Professor Martin Allgower, Basle University Hospital (Kantonsspital), Basle, Switzerland July 1974 – December 1974

(6 Months)

Walton Hospital, Alderhay Children’s Hospital & Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Liverpool University, Liverpool for M Ch (Orth)

January – December 1975

(1 Year)

Princess Elizabeth Orthopaedic Hospital and Royal Devon & Exeter Hospital, Exeter January 1976 – March 1977

(1 Year & 2 Months)

Senior Registrar

Princess Elizabeth Orthopaedic Hospital & Royal Devon & Exeter Hospital, Exeter (including 1 year at Truro City Hospital, Truro) March 1977 – June 1981

(4 Years & 4 Months)

Consultant

Plymouth Hospitals NHS Trust since July 1981_31 dec 2008

Honourary lecturer, Peninsula Medical school, UK 2003-2008

EMERITUS consultant orthopaedic surgeon Plymouth Hospitals NHS trust (teaching)

2008 Senior consultant orthopaedic surgeon, El-salam international hospital, Maadi, Cairo 


Examiner for M.D. (orth) in the following universities

• Cairo University

• Tanta University

• Mansoura University

• Alexandria University

• Assuit University 


Visiting Professor to the following Universities

• Cairo universitiy

• Assuit University & Mansoura University

Publications


A O technique in fracture treatment.

M Ch (Orth) Thesis  Liverpool 1975


Shear strength of trabecular bone from the femur and factors affecting cement bone junction

M Halawa, A J C Lee, Mr R S M Ling and S S Vangala

(Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery (Br) - 61B, 118 1979)

(Archives of Orthopaedic and Traumatic Surgery - 92, 19-30, 1978)


Golden osteotomy for treatment of adolescent hallux valgus

(long term follow-up)

M Halawa and R H C Robins

(Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery (Br) - 61B, 520, 1979)


Total hip replacement using the Exeter hip system 

(long term follow-up)

M Halawa, A J C Lee and R S M Ling

(Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery (Br) - 63B, 284, 1981).


Chondrosarcoma in fibrous dysplasia of the pelvis

M Halawa and A A Aziz

(Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery - 66B, 760-765, 1984)


Mechanical and radiological study of OA femoral head cancellous bone

M Halawa, A Baker and G Barlow

(Material properties and stress analysis in Biomechanics in the proceedings of the Instituteof Physics, material and testing group and stress analysis group in collaboration with the Biological Engineering Society), London in 1985.


Evaluation of results of lumbar discectomy through interlaminar fenestration 

(medium term results)

M Halawa and Y.EL_Hawary(Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery(Br) 71,334-335, 1989)


Scapula and clavicular osteotomies for malunion

R A Wilkes and M Halawa

(Journal of Trauma, March 1993)


Florid reactive mesenchymal proliferation in the hand

N J Eyon-Lewis, C B A Lyons, M Halawa and D J Hanley

(Journal of Hand Surgery British and European Volume 1994 19B, 292-294)


Bone tumours or osteomyelitis?  Two case reports

A Omari, P Hickling and M Halawa

(Journal of Orthopaedic Rheumatology 8, 167-168 1995)


The invitro measurement of bone cement interfact pressures and shear strength in the femur   A comparison of 2 cementation methods

A J Ward, E J Smith, J W Barlow, M Halawa, A Powell and I D Learmonth

(Hip International, Vol 5, 1995)


Intravascular synovial sarcoma

M Smith, M Halawa and N Robertson

(Journal of Clinical Pathology 1998)


Evaluation of results infected total knee joint replacement (instruction lecture) 

M Halawa

Societe Internationale d Chirurgie Orthopedique et de Traumatologie(SICOT), 

 (Cairo October 2003)       


Total hip joint replacement in neglected acetabular fractures 

M Halawa and F Sadek

Proceedings of British Hip Society March 2006

JBJS br. 90B, 2008 


Failure of ceramic cup implant in uncemented hip replacements.  A report of two cases by 

M McCarthy and M Halawa

The Journal of Arthoplasty,  November ,2008

 


Vastus medialis necrosis secondary to the combination of the subvastus and medial parapatellar approaches for implantation of a total knee replacement

R  faroug, Y shah,  M J H McCarthy, M Halawa

European Journal of Orthopaedic Surgery and traumatology,  Nov  2008

SspringerLink(ISSN:16338065)


Two stage one component revision in infected total hip replacements - two case   reports and literature review

RADWANE FAROUG1, YOUsAF sHAH2, MiCHAEl J. H. MCCARTHY1, MAHER HALAWA1

1 Trauma and Orthopaedic department, Derriford Hospital, Plymouth - UK 2 Milton Keynes General Hospital, Milton Keynes – UK

Hip International / Vol. 19 no. 3, 2009 / pp. 292-298