Currently; Senior Consultant Cardiac Surgeon at the following hospitals in Egypt: (2015 - till present)
⦁ Dar Alfoad Hospital, Cairo/Alexandria
⦁ Saudi German Hospital, SGH-Cairo/Alexandria
⦁ Air Forces Specialist Hospital - cairo
⦁ Al Shefa Hospital - Alexandria
⦁ Elite Hospital, Alexandria
⦁ Medal of innovation: For The first Middle East TAVI program at PSCC, from the late Crown Prince, Pr. Sultan Bin Abdul-Aziz 2010.
⦁ Achievement Award: MSD, PSCC for TAVI program, 2009.
⦁ Richmond Community Service Award: Richmond Virginia, 1999.
⦁ Prize of Honor: 1st Graduate in Master of Surgery, Alexandria University, College of Medicine Alexandria Medical Syndicate, Egypt, 1990.
⦁ Prize of Honor: 1986, MBChB, Alexandria University, College of Medicine Alexandria Medical Syndicate, Egypt.
⦁ GMC –UK “Full registration and license to practice” GMC Reference Number; 8073577
⦁ Member of American Society of Thoracic Surgeons “AATS, STS”.
⦁ Member of European Association of cardiothoracic surgery “EACTS”
⦁ Member of International Society of Minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgery “ISMICS”
⦁ Member of Scientific council of American Heart Association (AHA)
⦁ Member of International Society of Cardiovascular Surgery
⦁ Member of Cardiothoracic Surgery Network "CTS Net". http:// www.ctsnet.org/home/aelwatidy,
⦁ Professional Registration in Saudi Council for Health Specialties “Registration NO; 200-C-063-1992, Consultant Cardiovascular Surgeon”
⦁ Member of Gulf Heart Association
⦁ Member of Saudi Heart Association
⦁ Member of Egyptian Society of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Cardiology, Surgery
⦁ Member of Egyptian & Alexandria Medical Syndicates
⦁ Post-Doctorate Cardiovascular Fellow: Medical College of Virginia, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, USA. (June 1998-June 1999, Prof. A.Wechseler, Prof.A. Abd-Elfattah).
⦁ Clinical Visitor at Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Ohio, USA: (May-June 1999, Dr. P. McCarthy, D. Cosgrove)
⦁ Clinical visitor at New England Deaconess Hospital, and Brigham & women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston-USA. (August- September 1995)(Prof. Sidney Levitesky).
⦁ Clinical Visitor at Munich Heart Center in Germany (2Weeks,16-30 September 199, Prof. Hans Meisner)
⦁ Clinical visitor at Lenox Hill Hospital, New York, USA for Minimal invasive and Robotic surgery (June 2002, Dr. Valavanur Subramanian).
⦁ Clinical visitor at Dresden University, Germany for “MW ablation of AF "Dr. Michael Knout"
⦁ Clinical visitor at Guven Hospital, Ankara Turkey for "AWAKE and OPCAB", Dr. Haldun Karagoze"2002
⦁ Clinical visitor George’s Bombedo’s Hospital, Paris, France for “MV Repair Courses” Dec 2003, and Dec 2004. (Prof A. Carpentier & Prof Fabiani).
⦁ Clinical visitor at St Michael Hospital, Toronto, Canada (Dr. David Latter).
⦁ Clinical visitor at St Donato Hospital, Milan Italy, For SVR program and course (Prof. Lorenzo Menicanti, Sep-October 2006 ‘2 visits”
⦁ Clinical visitor at Bad Oeynhausen University Hospital, Germany for Heart Failure surgery, LVAD, ECMO, and transplant programs (Prof .Ali Banayosi, Prof. Koerfer)
⦁ Clinical visitor at Leipzig Heart Center, Germany for Mini Mitral program (Prof. Fredrich Mohr)
⦁ Clinical visitor at Bad Neustdt, Germany for Valve Masters Club (Prof. Patrick Pierre) 15-17 October 2007
⦁ Clinical visitor at Rouen, France for Transcatheter-Transapical Aortic Valve Course “TAVI” (Prof Alain Crepier) Dec 2008.
⦁ Clinical visitor, Switzerland, year 2009, for Transcatheter Medtronic Core Valve Implantation.