Dr. Siham Mahgoub
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Dr. Siham Mahgoub
Dr. Mahgoub completed her training in New York City residency at Beth Israel Medical Center Previously affiliated with Albert Einstein School of Medicine (now Mount Sinai Beth Israel) followed by an Infectious Diseases fellowship at New York Medical College, New York. She is board certified by ABIM in Internal Medicine and infectious diseases.
Dr. Mahgoub previously worked at The Brooklyn Hospital Center in Brooklyn, NY (then Affiliate of Cornell Medical College) as a teaching Attending and Associate program director in the department of Medicine Infectious Diseases Division.
Dr. Mahgoub joined the largest and early founders of Infectious Diseases Private Practice in the DC metro area Kane and Davis Associates.
Dr. Mahgoub has a lot of interest in health care disparities and ways to close the gap and treating the population most affected by HIV in wards 7 & 8. Dr. Mahgoub was selected to be the Medical site Director for a Federally Qualified health center (FQHC) east of the river where she managed HIV and Hepatitis C patients with highly complex medical problems.
Dr. Mahgoub interest and areas of expertise are broad to mention a few: HIV, Hepatitis B & C, General Infectious Diseases. She was able to start an antimicrobial stewardship program and improve Infection Control policies and procedures in two hospitals overseas
She is currently the Medical Director for the Center for Infectious Disease Management and Research (CIDMAR) ; she is the principal investigator on several grants: Ryan White part A, Rutgers ( SPNs /Sexually transmitted Infections) grant, she was also the Howard Principal investigator for the convalescent plasma previously an expanded access through Mayo Clinic, Coinvestigator for the NIH – Howard University Genetic Study and now the Principal Investigator for an upcoming vaccine trial.
Dr. Mahgoub has played and continues to play an instrumental role during COVID 19 Pandemic: she has been the lead physician for the COVID 19 treatment working group and contributed to the Howard University treatment guidelines which was very challenging with rapidly evolving data on COVID 19. She was able to dedicate a lot of her time to collaborate with her colleagues in different departments at HUH so guidelines were updated once any national guidelines were released
Dr. Mahgoub believes that the best care can be provided to patients in a multidisciplinary approach. Dr. Mahgoub has a great passion for teaching the future generation of doctors and includes evidence-based medicine in her teaching.