Who is Dr. Mahfouz El Shahawy?

Dr. El Shahawy is a civic-minded physician and family man with an exceptional academic and administrative background. He has proven to be an uncompromising campaigner for medical excellence in Sarasota County for the last 34 years and currently serves as Clinical Professor of Medicine at the University of Florida and University of South Florida.

Education

• M.D. “SUMMA CUM LAUDE”, University of Vienna, Austria, 1962.
• Diplomate of the American Board of Internal Medicine and Cardiovascular Diseases.
• Master of Science, Medicine and Cardiology, Mayo Clinic, University of Minnesota.
• Diplomas, Medicine and Cardiology - Vienna

Post Graduate Training And Experience

During his entire professional life, Dr. Shahawy has worked with the leading edge of advancement of medical procedures, techniques and systems in private practice, in academic research at the University of Vienna, the Mayo Clinic, the Medical College of Georgia and as a faculty member of the School of Medicine at the University of Florida.

To mention just a few, after graduating “Summa Cum Laude” from the University of Vienna in 1962, Dr. Shahawy accepted a Scholarship for Residency Training in Medicine and Cardiology at the world renowned Vienna University Hospitals, where he spent 5 years. In 1967, Dr. Shahawy moved to the U.S.A. and after one year at a New York Medical Center, he accepted Fellowship training at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota for 3 years.

In 1971, Dr. Shahawy moved to the Medical College of Georgia, in Augusta, where he served for another 2 years as Senior Fellow and Instructor in Cardiology at Talmadge Teaching Hospital. In 1973, Dr. Shahawy was invited to join the faculty of the Shands Teaching Hospital at the Professorial Level as a full time Senior Faculty Member and Consulting Cardiologist where he spent 3 years teaching medical students and young doctors to take care of medical and Cardiac problems.

In December 1975, Dr. Shahawy moved to Sarasota and has been in private practice since and currently holds a Clinical appointment as full Clinical Professor of Medicine at the University of Florida and University of South Florida. Dr. Shahawy is currently affiliated with both Sarasota Memorial Hospital and Doctors Hospital.

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• Dr. Mahfouz El Shahawy with his wife Sylvia, his son Magdi, his daughter Malaka, his son in law Ryan Hilton and grandchildren Alexandria and Carter.

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