Yehia Salah

Professor Yehia Salah ElDin Mostafa, MD, MSc, PhD, is a Professor of Ophthalmology at Kasr Al-Ainy Faculty of Medicine, Cairo University. He is the Chairman and Founder of eyeCare Center in Maadi (2009?2020), and a consultant and co-founder of Al Ayoon Al Dawly and Dar Aloyoun Eye Hospitals.

He completed his MBBC at Kasr Al-Ainy Faculty of Medicine in 1986, MSc in Ophthalmology in 1991, and PhD in Ophthalmology in 1994. He undertook multiple international fellowships, including oculoplastic fellowships at Moorfields Eye Hospital (London) and New York Eye and Ear Infirmary, and a phacoemulsification clinical fellowship at Klinik Dardenne in Bonn, Germany. He was among the first surgeons to introduce modern phacoemulsification in Egypt and the Middle East in 1993.

He has held academic roles at Cairo University since 1991, progressing from Assistant Lecturer to full Professor in 2005. He is a past president of the Egyptian Society of Keratoconus and Corneal Transplant (ESKCT), and a past board member of several national ophthalmic societies.

Prof. Yehia is the author of Phacoemulsification: A Step-by-Step Guide (2007, second edition 2020), the first book on the topic published by an Egyptian or Arab ophthalmologist. He has delivered hundreds of lectures and courses nationally and internationally, with special expertise in cataract surgery (children and adults), corneal surgery, and refractive surgery.