Ihab Kadry Merhom is a professor in surgery at Misr university for Science & Technology and Consultant Surgeon at Italian Hospital, Hyatt hospital and Golf International hospital.

Beside general, endocrine and laparoscopic gastrointestinal surgery, he performs the full spectrum of obesity surgery and has been doing it for the last 20 years. He performed hundreds of procedures with excellent results and witnessed the development of this specialty. Currently the practices is limited to laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy, Roux-en-y gastric bypass.

Dr Ihab has developed an interest in Hernia and abdominal wall reconstructive surgery and worked as a practicing surgeon at one of the best hernia centers in the world, Shouldice Hernia institute, Toronto, Canada in 2013-14 where he performed 673 inguinal hernia operations most of them under local Anesthesia with zero recurrence until today.

He is national and international lecturer and speaker in the surgical arena. He is an active member of Canadian obesity network, international federation for obesity and metabolic disease, Association of upper gastrointestinal surgeons of England and Ireland and Egyptian society of surgical oncology