Dr. Hany Ragy

Invasive cardiology: high volume principal operator at the National Heart Institute cath lab, the facility includes 5 cath labs with a volume of over 15000 cases /year, Dr. Ragy performs about 700 PCI cases per year as the primary operator. Dr. Ragy is also the director of the cath lab at the Hayat hospital in Cairo and a principal operator in the Cairo Catheter Center, International Medical center, and Dar Al Fouad Hospital. 27 years of experience in other aspects of cardiology with a keen interest in Echocardiography including recent training in contrast echo. Another area of interest is hypertension, Dr. Ragy operates the Cairo Hypertension clinic which is a center of excellence for the management of hypertension, and was the chairman of the annual meeting of the Egyptian society of hypertension in Cairo in April 2010. Since September 2010 Dr. Ragy has established the Egypt Branch of SHAPE (Society for heart attack prevention and eradication) website www.shapeegypt.com Anti-smoking activity: Pro bono clinic offering free counseling for all smokers with one-to-one support and group therapy also lectures in underprivileged government schools in cooperation with Rotary clubs to advise students against smoking