Khaled Abdel-Hamid, MD, PhD will be joining the Department of Medicine, Washington University in August 2022 as an Assistant Professor in the Division of Allergy and Immunology. Dr. Abdel-Hamid (or Dr. Hamid for brevity) was born and grew up in Cairo, Egypt and completed medical training in Cairo University Medical School. After practicing General Medicine for a couple of years, he joined the Department of Physiology in Ismailia University (Egypt) as an instructor while completing MSc in Physiology with a research thesis on the response of immune parameters to physical exercise stress in athletes. In 1989, he moved to Canada to study the role of intracellular calcium buffers in excitotoxicity-induced neuronal death in hippocampal cells using dissociated neuronal cultures as well as cultured organotypic hippocampal slices. In 1995, and after completing his PhD in the University of British Columbia (Vancouver, BC Canada), he continued his research in the University of Toronto (Ontario, Canada) until 1997. He completed a residency in Internal Medicine from 1997-2000 at Hurley Medical Center in Flint, MI and then a fellowship in Allergy and Immunology at Washington University in St. Louis from 2000-2002.
Since 2002, he has exclusively been in a private clinical practice environment. In 2006 he established his solo Allergy, Asthma and Immunology clinic in St. Charles, Missouri. With his interest in exercise physiology, he obtained additional board certification in Obesity Medicine and he has been practicing as a part time Medical Bariatrics consultant since 2014 at DePaul Hospital (St. Louis, MO). Dr. Abdel-Hamid’s clinical interests include bronchial asthma, allergic rhinosinusitis, atopic and contact dermatitis, urticaria, as well as food and drug allergies. He also is interested in asthma in the obese patient and the impact of weight change on asthma control, an area of potential clinical research in the future. Dr. Abdel-Hamid’s clinical interests include bronchial asthma, allergic rhinosinusitis, atopic and contact dermatitis, urticaria, as well as food and drug allergies. He also is interested in asthma in the obese patient and the impact of weight change on asthma control, an area of potential clinical research in the future.