Consultant Thoracic Surgery

Professor Dr. Ahmed Mostafa is a distinguished Consultant Thoracic Surgeon and Professor of Thoracic Surgery at Ain Shams University, Cairo, with more than two decades of experience in advanced cardiothoracic and airway reconstruction surgery. He received his training in France—at leading institutions such as Georges Pompidou, Tenon, and Henri Mondor Hospitals—and pursued further specialization in Japan at Kyoto University at Professor Hiroshi Date’s Department, mastering living-donor lung transplantation and complex thoracic oncology. He serves as the main consultant of thoracic surgery at Professor Magdy Yacoub’s Aswan Heart Centre. His international education and pioneering contributions have established him as one of the foremost experts in thoracic surgery across the Middle East.

As the former Head of the Lung Transplant Unit at Ain Shams University, Dr. Mostafa directed the development of Egypt’s first Living-Donor Lung Transplant Program, in collaboration with Kyoto University, marking a milestone for transplantation medicine in Africa. He has performed over 700 major tracheal and airway reconstructive surgeries—the largest single-surgeon series in the Arab world—and introduced innovative surgical modifications that have shaped regional practice. His expertise spans airway reconstruction, VATS and thoracoscopic procedures, ECMO-assisted interventions, thoracic oncology, and advanced chest-wall and mediastinal surgery.

Currently in Dubai, Professor Mostafa serves as a Consultant Thoracic Surgeon at Saudi German Hospital, continuing his dual academic and clinical leadership between the UAE and Egypt. He is a Fellow of the Royal College of Surgeons (London), a member of the European Society of Thoracic Surgeons, and an educator committed to training the next generation of surgeons. Through his academic work, global collaborations, and patient-centered innovations, Dr. Mostafa continues to bridge continents in pursuit of excellence in thoracic surgery.

Area of Interests

With over 25 years of experience in THORACIC Surgery, Dr. Mostafa is recognized for his expertise in:

• Complex Tracheal and airway reconstruction (including congenital and post-intubation stenosis) for adults and pediatric groups
• Carinal Surgery
• Thoracic Oncology
• Minimally invasive (VATS) procedures including VATS lobectomies, VATS Thymectomies
• ECMO-assisted surgeries

Qualification

• MD degree in Cardiothoracic Surgery, Faculty of medicine, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt.
• AFS (Attestation De Formation Spécialisée En Chirurgie Thoracique Et Cardiovascular): Université Paris VI, Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France.
• MRCS (Membership of the Royal College of Surgeons), London, United Kingdom.
• Living Donor Lung Transplantation and Thoracic Oncology , Kyoto, Japan.

Experience

• Major Airway surgeries:
• Tracheal resection and anastomosis
• Partial and Extended Cricotracheal resection (CTR)
• Laryngotracheal reconstruction (LTR)
• Carinal resection
• Sleeve lobectomies
• Sleeve pneumonectomies
• Thoracoscopies (VATS)
• VATS Lobectomies
• Wedge resections
• Nuss Operation for Pectus Excavatum
• Thymectomies for Myasthenia Gravis
• Bullectomies
• Pleurectomies
• Decortications
• Lung and pleural Biopsies
• Sympathectomies
• Pleural and lung biopsies
• Pulmonary resections for Lung cancer and other pathologies (lobectomies, pneumonectomies, wedge resections)
• Complex Pulmonary resections in Thoracic Oncology including sleeve and double sleeve lobectomies
• ECMO application in thoracic surgery specially in resection of complex airway pathology
• Decortications for empyema, pleural malignancies
• Repair of Chest wall deformities (Pectus Excavatum, Pectus Carinatum)
• Mediastinoscopies
• Thoracoplasties
• Rigid and fiberoptic bronchoscopy, and esophagoscopy for FB inhalation, or ingestion in children, and adults.
• Chest trauma intervention
• Full Surgical Responsibility of the Thoracic intensive care unit.

 Nationality: Egyptian

 Language Spoken: English, Arabic, French, German(B1)