Dr Alaa Nafea
Specialist Paediatrician
Specialty: Neonatology, Paediatrics
Specialty: Neonatology, Paediatrics
Dr Alaa Nafea completed her MBBS in 2008, from the Faculty of Medicine Zagazig University, Egypt. She completed her master’s degree in 2014, then proceeded to MD and finished it in 2019. She got her MRCPCH in 2021 and became a board-certified lactation consultant in late 2015.
Dr Alaa worked in a University Hospital in Egypt where she dealt in the field of General Paediatrics and other Paediatric Subspecialties, owing to the tertiary nature of the hospital. As a part of her position as an Associate Professor at Zagzig University, she had the chance and the experience to teach both under and postgraduate medical students besides doing medical research with them as a part of thesis supervision.
She is a member of the European Society of Paediatric Intensive Care and a former instructor for the European Resuscitation Council. She also completed her certification in BLS (Basic Life Support), PALS (Paediatric Advanced Life Support) by the American Heart Association.
She is also well experienced in the field of breastfeeding medicine and lactation, where she was able to help many mothers with breastfeeding problems, such as nipple fissures and low milk supply and able to restore full breastfeeding of the mothers.
Dr Alaa has many articles published in reputable scientific international journals in different fields of Paediatric Intensive and Neonatal Care, Haematology, Breastfeeding Medicine, and public health scopes.
Dr Alaa Speaks Arabic and English.