Osama Ibrahim M.D. is an emeritus Professor and former President of Alexandria University. His experience in Refractive Surgery started in the early 1980s with thousands of cases of radial and astigmatic keratotomy, including his Master and Ph.D. thesis on astigmatism. 

Dr. Ibrahim's experience with corneal Topography and Excimer Laser started in 1988 as a Research Fellow at Emory University. He participated in Excimer animal trials in 1989 , PRK on human eyes in 1991, and Lamellar refractive surgery (ALK) and LASIK since 1992. He was also an early investigator of Femtosecond Lasik and started Smile in the Middle East in 2008. 

Dr. Ibrahim has promoted Refractive Surgery all over the Middle East by lecturing, teaching, training and performing thousands of RS cases. He helped to establish many centers and supported his colleagues. He has been a principal investigator and research Consultant for many Refractive Surgery companies, and helped to refine many of their products.  

A member of most Ophthalmology societies, Dr. Ibrahim regularly attends all regional and international conferences and has presented over 300 presentations since 1993, being an invited speaker all over the world. He has received many awards including:

• MEACO Distinction Award, 2012. 
• The Life Time  Achievement Award in 2012,  AAO. 
• Casebeer innovation Award in   2013, ISRS. 

Financial disclosure: Dr. Ibrahim has/had no affiliation (financial or otherwise) with a commercial organization.