Dr. Waked is a Professor of Medicine and Hepatology, previous chairman of the Hepatology, and past Dean of the National Liver Institute (NLI) in Egypt. He graduated from Cairo University School of Medicine, obtained a Doctorate degree from Ain Shams University, and trained in the liver unit of the University of Southern California (USC) in Los Angeles. He is a Fellow of the American Association of the Study of Liver Disease, and a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in London. He is a Board member of the Egyptian National Committee for Control of Viral Hepatitis, which sets national strategies and guidelines, and oversees the National hepatitis C treatment and screening program in Egypt.