Dr Hassan is an Egyptian psychiatrist with a special interest in addiction psychiatry. He has graduated, trained and completed a psychiatry residency at Ain Shams University in Cairo. following that, he participated in the Hubert Humphrey Fellowship in the field of substance use education, prevention and treatment at Virginia Commonwealth University the USA. Currently, he works as a consultant/lecturer of psychiatry at Ain Shams University in Cairo in addition to being a psychiatrist in Oman.