Dr. Hanaa is a Professor of Clinical Pathology and Immunology at the Faculty of Medicine, Ain Shams University. She graduated from the Faculty of Medicine, Ain Shams University in 1986 with honors, and completed her residency as a Clinical Pathology registrar in 1990, and obtained her MS degree in the year 1990. Her thesis was directed to Immunologic deficiencies.
Prof. Hanaa Amer then occupied the post of Assistant Lecturer in the Faculty of Medicine, Ain Shams where she worked on different research projects and obtained her Ph.D. for her work on flow-cytometry and cancer prostate. In 1995 she occupied the post of Lecturer of clinical pathology and immunology in the same university. Since then, she actively participated in various research work and published several peer-reviewed articles involving different disciplines of medicine with a special interest in the immunologic aspects of diseases.
She successively became an Assistant Professor in 2000 and a Professor of Clinical Pathology and Immunology in 2005. Since 2005 she became interested in hospital management. She completed a Hospital Management Diploma in 2009 at the American University in Cairo and is also a certified laboratory reviewer.
She occupied several managerial posts as the Director of the Ain Shams Medical Research Center and The Egyptian Minister of Health Assistant for Technical Support and Organizational Development. She is also a Co-founder of the Leadership Academy and is co-training in Harvard Executive Program for emerging Health Care Leaders in Egypt in collaboration with Harvard School of Public Health and the USAID.
Despite her interest in serving the public sector, she is much interested in the constantly growing private sector and is viewing it as an opportunity to provide a quality health service to a large sector of the Egyptian population. She has been heading the efforts of one of the largest private hospitals in Egypt managed by the Egyptian Air Forces to obtain accreditation from the JCI. Currently, Prof. Hanaa Amer is heading the Central Administration of Health Technology Assessment and Management in the Egyptian Unified Procurement Authority (UPA).