Dr. Rania Mamdouh has a PhD degree in Psychiatry from Cairo University, Egypt. She received an ISAM Diploma in Addiction Medicine in 2004. She received intense training by Prof. Rakhawy on group therapy. Her MD thesis was on the impact of different type of group therapy on substance use patients. She received Addiction Research internship course in UCLA and ISAP, California, 2014. She received UTC Training, ICUDDR and ISSUP, 2019- 2020. Dr. Rania is currently associate Professor of Psychiatry, Addiction Unit, Psychiatry department, Cairo University.
Dr. Rania participated in the development and implementation of the Egyptian National Program for Prevention of Drug Use in Schools and Youth Centers from 2004 to 2011 . She also worked for one year with the WHO-EMRO in development of the Middle East Life Skills Program for Adolescents. She developed “Serenity Girls Program” psychiatric and Addiction Program for Women in Cairo in 2007 and currently serves as the Program Manager.
Dr. Rania Mamdouh participates in many research projects in the domain of Women and addiction, adolescents drug use and prevention program implementation, mindfulness techniques among opiate use patients, and the impact of group therapies among substance use patients. Her research on synthetic drugs has been published internationally and nationally. She began the family intervention program in the Addiction Unit at Cairo University in 2015 and still currently runs the program.
Dr. Rania Mamdouh participated with the ministry of health in the National biannual Surveys on drug use 2009 till 2018. She is a consultant of Addiction Psychiatry in Al Amal Hospital, Sultanate Oman, since 2017. She co-developed the Egyptian National Program for Pregnant Addict Women which won the best practice in Africa in 2021 by the African Union.
Dr. Rania Mamdouh is currently sharing in training of the multidisciplinary team of the National MAT Program (Medications Assisted Therapy). She leads the training of the Team of Egyptian National Women Substance Use Program. In 2021, she joined the technical committee of the Egyptian National Observatory of Drugs and Drug Use. She has a 22 years of practice, teaching, and lots of training in Addiction Psychiatry and prevention.
She joined ICUDDR Africa and organized the UTC training for 42 psychiatrist and psychologist in Egypt. Since 2021 she has served as a board member for the African Global Health Association (for expanding the Health Harm Reduction Programs).
