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Biography
Dr Elsheikh graduated from School of Medicine, Menoufyia University, Egypt in 1997 (MB BCh) (Hons). She started her Histopathology career in 2000 and completed a master degree in molecular pathology. Dr Elsheikh obtained her Doctoral of Philosophy (PhD) for studies investigating novel biomarkers in breast cancer from University of Nottingham under the supervisor of Professor Ian Ellis. She joined the Histopathology training programme in 2009 and completed her training in three tertiary University Hospitals in Edinburgh, Leeds and Nottingham. Dr Elsheikh appointed as a consultant Dermatopathologist in 2015 when she started working on translational research in melanoma to establish "Nottingham Melanoma Research group". Nottingham Melanoma Research group is a tissue-based, translational research group focusing on identifying risk stratifying and treatment response predictors for melanoma patients using melanoma tissue and histology imaging. Nottingham Melanoma Research group has one of the largest well-characterised annotated malignant melanoma tissue microarray (TMA) in the UK with detailed clinical, pathological, survival and treatment response database (Nottingham melanoma database).
Dr Elsheikh has established collaborations with a large number of melanoma interested research groups in the UK and abroad. She is PI and Co-PI for a number of melanoma and skin cancer related research projects.
Dr Elsheikh has been the principle supervisor of many University of Nottingham funded research projects for PhD, MD, MSc and BMedSci research students. She is currently the training programme director (TPD) for the Histopathology training of the East midland north region (Health Education England).
Expertise Summary
Dermatopathology
Molecular Pathology
Melanoma and skin cancer research
Digital Pathology
Postgraduate Dermatopathology teaching
Teaching Summary
Honorary associate professor- School of Medicine, University of Nottingham.
Guest lecturer - School of Medicine, University of Nottingham.
Visiting Lecturer- School of Medicine, Menoufyia University, Egypt
Postgraduate Medical Education
Training programme director (TPD) East Midland (North).
Educational supervisor, Nottingham University Hospital.
Postgraduate Dermatopathology teaching
Research Summary
Current students
- Shaimaa Lashin (MD). CD200 and LRIG1 expression in Basal cell carcinoma.
- Devisha Patel: HP1BP3 Expression as a Prognostic Marker in Primary Melanoma.
- Jyot Vira: Immunological cluster of Primary and Metastatic Malignant Melanoma and their relation to patient survival & response to immune-therapy.
- Muhammad Onn: The use of bioinformatics in identifying prognostic groups in malignant melanoma.
- Bledar Tafliku: OX40 expression in melanoma and its relation to other immune checkpoints
- Wenchao Xu; Detection of BRAF V600E Mutation in Melanoma- Comparison between Immunohistochemistry and Three Gene Mutation Detection Methods
- Nekmee Gunasekera; Bioinformatic Analysis of Histopathological Variables for Prognostic Stratification of Melanoma. (The best project of the year award, 2019).
Professor Poulam Patel (University of Nottingham)
Professor Mohammed Ilyas (University of Nottingham)
Professor Emad Rakha (University of Nottingham)
Professor Ian Ellis (University of Nottingham)
Dr Andrew Jackson (University of Nottingham)
Professor Nigel Mongan (University of Nottingham)
Professor Ioan Notingher (University of Nottingham)
Dr Gerald Saldanha (University of Leicester)
Professor Graham Ball (Nottingham Trent University)
Professor Mohamed El-Tanani (University of Bradford)
Professor Banafshe Larijani (University Of Bath)
Professor Gareth Thomas