Ahmed Mohamed EL Hassan is currently an Emeritus Professor of pathology at the Institute of Endemic Diseases, University of Khartoum, which he initiated in 1993. He graduated from the Kitchener School of Medicine (now the Faculty of Medicine, University of Khartoum). He holds fellowships from the Royal Society of Medicine, London, The Royal Society of Pathology, London, a PhD from the University of Edinburgh and honorary DSc from Ahfad University, Omdurman. He was previously Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, University of Khartoum, and worked in the department of pathology at King Faisal University, Dammam, Saudi Arabia. He has published extensively in peer-reviewed journals, mainly on endemic diseases and cancer.