Dr. Hani Mahmoud-Elsayed is a highly accomplished Consultant Cardiologist and the Director of the Echocardiography Lab at the Aswan Heart Centre, Magdi Yacoub Foundation in Aswan, Egypt. 

He holds an MBBCh (Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery), an MSc degree in Cardiology, and an MD degree in Cardiology from Al-Azhar University in Cairo, Egypt (2019). He is Board certified by the National Board of Echocardiography (NBE) in the USA (July 2012) and has achieved EACVI CMR Level III accreditation. 

Dr. Mahmoud-Elsayed is a Fellow of the American Society of Echocardiography (FASE) and a Fellow of the European Society of Cardiology (FESC) (2019). He previously served as an Ambassador for the European Association of Cardio-Vascular Imaging (EACVI/HIT) in Saudi Arabia (2014-2016) and has been a committee member of the EACVI/HIT and EACVI/Education Committee for several terms. 

He has extensive training in advanced echocardiography techniques, including Three-Dimensional Echocardiography, which he pursued with Prof. Dr. Navin Nanda at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA (2013). He also completed fellowship training at the Echocardiography Lab, Royal Brompton Hospital, London, and at the Cardiac Imaging department (Echo & CMR) at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham, UK. 

His main interests lie in advanced echocardiography, 3D-TTE, 3D-TOE, and Interventional TOE during structural cardiac interventions. He is actively engaged in research, publication, and peer-review activities, contributing to esteemed journals and congresses in the field of cardiovascular imaging. He is also an Associate Editor for The Egyptian Heart Journal and a reviewer for numerous international journals. 

Dr. Mahmoud-Elsayed is also the Medical Director of the Cardiac Investigation Center (CIC) in Cairo, Egypt, which offers online and onsite courses in advanced echocardiography. He is recognized as a leading expert in 3D Echocardiography and interventional TEE in the Middle East and North Africa region and is involved in various educational projects and expert advisory roles.