• What is your role at your work?

I have both an administrative and an academic role. I teach physiology to under and post-graduate students. I had been Deputy Dean at the Faculty of Medicine, IUA, where I took part in curriculum review and reform, development and training workshops for staff, was director of the students’ academic and social affairs committee plus director of the students’ transfer committee to medical school and others. Recently promoted to Dean of the Faculty of Nursing Sciences.

I provide financial resources to the activities of SSH. I run scientific medical research in the area of hypertension, RAAS and renal function with Master and PhD students. Recently we started digging into the genetics of hypertension.

•      How did you get interested in your career path?

  My late father, Dr Mamoun Beheiry, a famous international Sudanese economist and a graduate of Oxford University (UK) was hypertensive for over forty years. I was proud of his way of life since becoming a medical student. After graduation in the year 2000 I started out by researching renal function in Sudanese patients with essential hypertension, and since then my path has been in the area of hypertension research.

  Hind Beheiry’s parents

• What are you most proud of in your career or otherwise?

I am proud of my work in the areas of hypertension, renal function and pre-eclampsia for the last 17 years. I have also developed initiatives in the awareness and prevention of breast cancer and HIV/AIDS for sustainable development in Sudan.

•  What important career challenges have you faced and how did you overcome them?

My family obligations and the administrative burden to some extent, as well as some financial challenges, but nevertheless I managed to overcome them.