A. Local:-

1977-date     Member of Sudanese Doctors Union.

1994-date     Academic Secretary and then secretary general of the Sudanese Association of Psychiatrists                 .

1995-2003    Member of Sudan Psychiatric Council.,Federal Ministry of Health

1995-2004    Member of the Board of Directors, Khartoum Teaching Hospital.

1998-date   Member of the Psychiatry Division in the Sudan Medical Council

1999 –date   Member and a Founder of the Sudanese Society for Music and

Art Therapy ( SAMT ).Currently Director of Administraton

2000 Date   Member of the national organization for Awareness Agaist Tobbaco Use

1999- 2001 Member of the Psychiatry Council in the Sudanese Medical specializaion Board

2004-Date   Member and co-ordinator of training of psychiatry in postgraduate board Unversity of Khartoum

2005-Date     Member of the excutive committee of Suddan doctors Union

2005- Date Founder and president of the Sudanese Child and Adolescent Psychological Health Organization ( SCAPHO)

2006-         Representative of the Sudan Medical Council in the Medical Specialisation Board

B. International:

1)         1997–date Member of the Association of Child Psychiatrist and Psychologists (United Kingdom)

2)               1999–date Member of the African Federation for Psychotherapy.(Nigeria)

3)               2000- date Member of East Mediterranean Association for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Allied Professions         (EMACAPAP ) currently Vice President (Egypt)

4)         2000-date   Member of the Psychiatry Discipline in the Arab Board for Medical Specialization’s –  (Syria)

5)     2000- date Member of the International Society for Addiction Medicine ( Canada)

6)     2002-date   Member of the excutive committee of the African Association of Psychiatrists (Kenya)

7)     2004-date   Member of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatrists (USA)

8)   2006 –Date   Member of African Child and Adolescent Psychiatrists, Cape Town, South Africa

OTHER ASSIGNMENTS

1994-1999   Head of Psychiatric clinic, Khartoum University Medical Services, Sudan.

This involves:

–        Psychiatric services to the students, staff (& their families) of the University.

–        The unit has also a registrar, medical officer and a number of psychologists and social workers.

1995-1998   Coordinator MD prgram in Clinical Psychiatry, Sudan –later became the convenor.

1995-2003   External Examiner to final year Medical Student, University of Gazeera ,Sudan                 .

1995-1999    Part-time lecturer to Psychology & Counseling Students, Ahfad   University For   Women, Sudan.

1995-date   Part-time lecturer at High Nursing College University of Khartoum

1997-2002 Part-time Consultant Psychiatrist, Kober Asylum for Mentally Abnormal Offenders.

1997-2002 Part time Postgraduate Lecturer in the Clinical Psychology Diploma Course- Faculty of Arts- University of Khartoum.

1998-date   Advisor to the University of Western Kordofan- Sudan, to establish a new medical college- now established.

1998    -1999 Examiner to the final year Medical Students, University of Shendi, Sudan.

1998 Nov.-   Consultant Expertee to El Thora General Hospital, Sanaa, Yemen, to evaluate and set plans for the development of the

Hospital Psychiatric Department, specially on postgraduate training.

1999    -2000 Part time lecturer to College of Nursing- Upper Nile University.

1999 -2002   Part time postgraduate lecturer and trainer in the Masters of Clinical Psychology Course ,University of Khartoum

2000-2003 Visiting Consultant Psychiatrist to Gadarif State Hospital ( every 1-3 month )

2003-Date External examiner in psychiatry for the Faculty of Medicine El –Fashir University North Darfur ( yearly)

203- Date Consultant child and adolescent psychiatrist – Military Hospital – Omdurman

2004- Date Head deprtment and lecturer in the faculty of Medicine Elneilain University ( joint appointment)

Training Courses

Attended and participated in the following courses:-

1)     The first (U of K) course for promotion of the academic staff performance , Faculty of Education ,University of khartoum, for six weeks full time,March 1993.

2)     Course on Presentation Skills at Education Devolopment Centre ( EDC) University of Khartoum, March 2003

3)     Course on Teaching Methods at EDC ,Unversity of Khartoum, December 2003

4)     Course on Medical Ethics at EDC , University of Khartoum, December 2003

5)     Course on Epidemiological Methods,at EDC ,University of Khartoum,May 2004

6)     Course on Hinari Publishers Sites at EDC ,University of Khartoum,June 2004

7)     Course on Rrsearch on Childhood Depression at Sharm Elsheikh ,Egypt., Februay 2004

8)     Course on Autism at Berlin, Germany, August 200)

9)     Course on Evidence Based Medicine at EDC , University of Khartoum August 2005

10)  Seminar on Anxiety Disorders, Lundbeck institute,Copenhagen,denmark,July 2007