Prof. Amal El-Beshlawy is president of the Egyptian Thalassemia Association (ETA) and head of the Pediatric Hematology Department of Cairo University. In the latter role she is involved in the management of more than 2500 thalassaemia patients. Besides organising training courses in paediatric haematology, especially thalassaemia, for Egyptian and Arab physician researchers, she is the main supervisor of more than 105 MD and MSc theses on paediatric haematology. She has presided over many national and international conferences, has been invited speaker in different international conferences and is scientific collaborator of the Thalassaemia International Federation (network partner 3). Prof. El-Beshlaway is also the principal investigator in a number of multi-centre international researches on oral iron chelators