Prof. Somaya Hosny is a board member of National Authority of Quality Assurance and Accreditation in Education (NAQAAE) in Egypt. She is a Prof. of Histology and cell biology at Faculty of Medicine, Suez Canal University (FOM/SCU) in which she served as the Dean from 2010 to 2014. She has established the quality assurance unit and led the development of an internal quality system that enabled FOM/SCU to be the first national accredited school in May 2010 and to be re-accredited in 2015 and 2021. She got a master’s degree in health Professions Education Leadership from The University of Illinois, Chicago, USA in 1987. She has publications in leading medical education journals. She is an EMRO/WHO consultant in Medical Education, and Editor in Chief of the international journal "Health Profession Education” and an editor for the regional Journal of Microscopy and Ultrastructure. She has long experience in quality assurance and accreditation where she shared, as a chair and as a member in many institutional and program accreditations reviews inside and outside Egypt. She has also worked as consultant for higher education quality assurance projects, and she is currently the chairperson of the of the committee of reform and support of undergraduate Medical educational in Egypt. Regionally, she is a board member of the Association of Medical Education in the Eastern Mediterranean region (AMEEMR). Internationally, she is a board member of the International Social Accountability and Accreditation steering committee (ISAASC) and coordinator of the standard setting group of the ISAASC. In her specialty, she has many international publications, and she is a member of the national histology promotion committee. Among her major areas of interest are quality assurance and accreditation, leadership and management, student assessment, problem-based learning, community-based education, interprofessional education and social accountability.

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