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Professor Sulafa Ali

Academic Position:

  • Professor at the University of Khartoum :2012 up to 2023

  • Currently Professor at the College of Medicine, University of Sharjah- United Arab Emirates

Education and Training:

  • MBBS in Medicine from University of Khartoum in 1989

  • MRCP- Pediatrics- Royal College of Physicians- London- 1995

  • Fellowship in Pediatric Cardiology- King Abdelaziz Cardiac Center- Kingdom of Saudi Arabia-2004

  • Accreditation in Pediatric Echocardiography- British Society of Echocardiography- 2002

Prizes and Awards:

  • Distinction and Prize in Pediatrics: University of Khartoum, 1989

  • World Health Organization: EMRO, Kuwait State Prize for Control of Cardiovascular Disease, 2020

  • Cardiovascular Disease Advocacy Award: from the World Heart Federation , May 2022

Research Profile:

  • AD Scientific Ranking (2024): h index 17, total citations 1149

  • Over 108 publications (56 as first author) books and book chapters, over 30 conference presentations in 14

Books:

  • A practical guide to pediatric heart disease (2006)

  • Acute rheumatic fever and rheumatic heart disease: Sudan’s guidelines for diagnosis, -management and control.(Editor and coauthor)

  • A book chapter: Ali, Sulafa, Engel, Mark, Zühlke, Liesl, Jack, Susan. Primary Prevention of Acute Rheumatic Fever and Rheumatic Heart Disease. DO - 10.1016/B978-0-323-63982-8.00010-6