About
Dr. Heba Haddara
“Over thirty-five years of medicine, I have seen that many people already hold tests, diagnoses, opinions and advice. What is often missing is a physician who brings it together, sets a clear direction, and stays with them.”
35+ years of practice
Physician · Functional Medicine
Dr. Heba Haddara · Physician · Functional Medicine
Connecting the whole picture. Leading your treatment. Staying with you as it evolves.
My path in medicine
More than thirty-five years, one physician
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Where it began
My path in medicine began at Ain Shams University, and then in Clinical Genetics. Genetics taught me why illness, and the response to treatment, differ from one person to another. Working with children and families affected by inherited conditions showed me the person behind each diagnosis, the family around them, and particularly the wellbeing of mothers.
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Across countries and cultures
Clinical and laboratory work in hospitals and centres in Egypt, Kuwait and Italy, and years of living and working across different countries and cultures. It taught me how differently people experience and describe their health.
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Widening the lens
Further study in Clinical Nutrition and Functional Medicine gave me more than one way of looking at the same story, while medicine stayed at the centre of my work.
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Sharing knowledge
Speaking at medical conferences in Egypt and abroad, including women’s health conferences; teaching other practitioners; and awareness seminars and workshops for patients and community groups in Egypt, Kuwait, Libya and Qatar, adapted to each audience. Along the way I also studied classical homeopathy, which I later taught, and trained Arabic-speaking practitioners in biofeedback.
My work sits alongside your other doctors, never instead of them. My concern is not with the diagnosis itself, and I'm not trying to dismiss or challenge a legitimate medical diagnosis.
Medical foundation
Qualifications
- Medicine
- M.B., B.Ch., Faculty of Medicine, Ain Shams University, 1988
- Clinical Genetics
- M.Sc. in Clinical Human Genetics, Ain Shams University, 1997
- Clinical Nutrition
- Professional Diploma, National Nutrition Institute, Egypt, 2011
- Functional Medicine
- Completed all seven core modules of the Institute for Functional Medicine (IFM), and listed in IFM’s Find a Practitioner directory in Egypt · Institute for Functional Medicine
Registered with the Egyptian Medical Syndicate in Clinical Nutrition (Therapeutic Nutrition).
Languages
In your own language
Consultations in Arabic or English. Many of the people I see are more comfortable in Arabic, so I explain everything in the language you are most comfortable with, and I understand how health is spoken about in Arab families and cultures.
Arabic (native) · English (fluent) · Italian · French
Speaking
Beyond Hormones
Speaker at an international medical conference in Budapest, 20–24 October 2026. Talk: "Beyond Hormones", on midlife health seen as a whole.
Where I see people
In Cairo, and online
In Cairo, in person, and online for people in Egypt, the Gulf and further afield. Many of the people I see are women in midlife; I also see men, and adults of other ages, where my way of working fits what they need.
When you are ready
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