Mustafa A. Salih

Short CV Professor Mustafa Abdalla M. Salih Biography links: 1) http://faculty.ksu.edu.sa/66414/default.aspx 2) http://biography.marquiswhoswho.com/pediatric-neurologist/mustafa-abdalla-mohamed-salih/5059399 3)https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Mustafa_Salih/?ev=hdr_xprf •Pediatric neurologist Mustafa Abdalla M. Salih was born in Kosti, White Nile Province, Sudan. •Professor Salih earned an MBBS degree in 1974, an MPCH degree in 1980 (renamed MD in Clinical Pediatrics), a Doctor of Medicine with Distinction in 1982, all from the University of Khartoum. •He also earned a Doctor of Medical Sciences in 1990 from Uppsala University in Sweden. •In 2005, he was elected Fellow to The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (FRCPCH, UK). •Currently, Prof. Salih serves as Professor of Pediatrics and Consultant Pediatric Neurologist at the College of Medicine, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. •He previously served as Lecturer, Associate Professor and Professor of Pediatrics with the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Khartoum in Sudan from 1980 to 1992. •He has published (as of 15 April 2014) 177 scientific articles in peer-reviewed medical journals, two supplements in the Scandinavian Journal of Infectious Diseases and the Saudi Medical Journal. He also authored two chapters in the textbook, Genetic Disorders Among Arab Populations (two editions: 1997 and 2010), one chapter in the textbook, Diseases of DNA Repair (2010) and seven chapters on pediatric neurology in the Textbook of Clinical Pediatrics (2012). •He is a former editor of the Sudanese Journal of Pediatrics (1985-91), a former member of the editorial board of the Sudan Medical Journal (1983-86) and Guest Editor to a Saudi Medical Journal Supplement (March 2006). Currently, he is the International Editor of Sudanese Journal of Paediatrics and Sudan Medical Journal. He is also a member of the editorial boards of The Journal of Pediatric Neurology, The Open Pediatric Medicine Journal and The Open Neurology Journal. •He holds a United States patent on a diagnostic method for congenital muscular dystrophy, and has evaluated new techniques for the rapid diagnosis of bacterial meningitis.