Dr. EL ABD is an Egyptian British Child and Adolescent Consultant Psychiatrist. She has been practicing medicine in the UK since 1985 and in Dubai since 2015.
Dr El Abd practices at the Happiness Clinic in Dubai and at the Cromwell Hospital in London. She had the position of a Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist since 1998 in the UK, where she worked at St George’s Hospital Medical School in London and at the Maudsley Hospital (South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust). Dr El Abd has also worked at the University of Cairo and the University of Zurich at the Poliklinik fuer Kinder und Jugend Psychiatrie.
At the South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust, she had a particular responsibility for the management and the running of a community service for neurodevelopmental disorders, including children with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and Autism. She has a special interest in the interaction between developmental and behavioral disorders and in psychopharmacology.
Dr El Abd’s main emphasis is in maximizing the potential of children, adolescents and their parents – in particular those with special needs. She obtained the degrees of MSc (ped) and FRCPsych (London) and has completed her CCST (Certificate of Completion of Specialist Training) in London.
Dr El Abd has been leading in her role in developing psycho-education groups for parents and teachers and running parenting workshops (empowering parents through implementing positive behavior management strategies to get the best behavior from their children and to help treat their behavior problems). Dr EL Abd has a particular expertise in working with children and their families having disabilities including deafness, autism and learning difficulties and those who are coming from a culturally diverse background. Dr El Abd worked in the National Deaf Adult and Child and
Adolescent Psychiatry Department at St. George’s Hospital Medical school.
Dr El Abd has been invited by Dubai Health Authority in the UAE as a Visiting Consultant from the UK From the period of 2004 till 2014 to help set up a service and run clinics and workshops for parents and teachers at Al Wasl Hospital in Dubai ( Current Latifa Hospital) and helped set up a neuropsychiatric clinic at the hospital with the practicing neurology colleagues..
Dr El Abd combines her clinical / academic skills with day-to-day clinical work. She lectures both Nationally and Internationally at conferences and has published widely. Dr El Abd has published widely in the area of neuropsychiatry. Dr Samaa El Abd has been involved in the teaching and examination of medical students (Undergraduates and post graduates), at King’s College London and St George’s Hospital Medical Schools (University of London). Dr El Abd has a passion for teaching and training professionals from multiple disciplines.
Dr El Abd is a Director in Child and Family Training (C&FT) which is a not-for-profit organisation that aims to guide professionals help children and families by: promoting children’s and young people’s health and development, building on children, young people and families’ strengths helping
children, young people and families overcome difficulties and using evidence-based approaches.
Training Guides were developed by C&FT to help practitioners who work with children and families, to support and enhance the quality of their direct work with children and their families where there has been maltreatment. The guides have now been translated into many languages including the
Arabic language. Training courses are provided across the UK and abroad for professionals in health, children’s social care, child and adolescent mental health, education and independent organisations in different languages including Arabic. Training has been recently undertaken in Oman, Egypt and UAE.
Dr El Abd is a Fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists in the UK. Fellowship is awarded by the Royal College of Psychiatrists in the UK as a mark of distinction and recognition of contributions to Psychiatry.