Consultant pediatric transplant nephrologist
Pediatric Nephrology
Chairman of Farah Association for Child with kidney disease in Syria
Bassam Saeed ,
M.D.(Damascus), F.R.C.P. (Edinburgh). DIS (Paris) DIU (Lyon)
Consultant Pediatric Nephrologist at Farah Association for Child with kidney disease in Syria
President and Founder of Farah Association for Child with Kidney Disease in Syria since 2013
Deputy chair of the Middle East Regional board of ISN 2023 - 2025
Past president of the Middle East Society for Organ Transplantation MESOT from 2018-2020.
Founder of Pediatric nephrology fellowship program in Syria in Nov. 2003
Founder of Pediatric Nephrology Department & Pediatric Dialysis Unit & pediatric Kidney transplant program at Surgical Kidney Hospital / Damascus since February 2002
I have served on MESOT since 2004, as Councilor and Region representative, treasurer, secretary and president.
Representative the Middle East Region on the ISN Continuing Medical Education Committee 2022- 2024
Representative of Syria on the ISN Middle East regional board since 2013 to date.
Member of the Declaration of Istanbul Custodian Group (DICG)
Member of the Honorary Committee of the Advanced International Training Course in Transplant Procurement Management. TPM-DTI Foundation. Barcelona – Spain
Founding member of the World Academy of Medical, Biomedical, and Ethical Sciences
Country Liaison representing Syria in The Transplantation Society (TTS).
Regional Representative of the Middle East/Africa region in the KDIGO
Associate Editor of Experimental and Clinical Transplantation (ECT) Journal.
Founder of the MESOT Fellowship Program
Editorial Board member and reviewer in many journals
I have received numerous AWARDS from several institutions and Societies. including one from the Transplantation Society TTS as emerging economy countries award in Buenos Aires Argentina during TTS Congress 2022 for my research entitled "Rabies acquired through kidney Transplantation in a Child.
Publications: 56 published papers in peer reviewed journals most of them are accessible through the following link to profile on research gate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Bassam_Saeed3