Mohamed Nasser Kotby

Professor Kotby was elected president of the major professional and scientific societies in the fields of Otolaryngology and communicative disorders (The Collegium Medicorum Theatri [CoMet] in 1992, The Collegium Oto-Rhino-Laryngologicum Amicitiae Sacrum [CORLAS] for 2 years from 1992 to 1994, the Pan African Federation of Oto-Rhino-Laryngological Societies [PAFOS] for 2 years from 1992 to 1994, The International Association for Logopedics and Phoniatrics [IALP], for 3 years from 1995 to 1998,The International Federation of Oto-Rhino-Laryngological Societies [IFOS] for 3 years from 2002 to 2005, The Egyptian Society for the History of Medicine, from 2003 up till the present time). He was also elected Vice President of the International Society for the History of Medicine [ISHM], in the period from 2009 to 2012. In 1999, Professor Kotby received ad hominem membership of The Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh.

Kotby was knighted by King Carl XVI Gustaf as a knight of the Royal North Start Order, First Class, 1990.

Mohamed Nasser Kotby (Arabic: د/محمد ناصر قطبي; born 1 December 1937), is an Egyptian Professor Emeritus of Otorhinolarygology and Phoniatrics at Faculty of Medicine, Ain Sham University. He is considered the founder of the Phoniatrics and Logopedics in Egypt and the Middle East. Kotby published many papers in scholarly journals and textbooks. His works investigated different topics e.g. vocology, dysarthria, dysphasia and child language. He is a member of many professional societies, national, regional and international. He was elected as president of Collegium Medicorum Theatri [CoMeT], Pan African Federation of Oto-Rhino-Laryngological Societies [PAFOS], Collegium Oto-Rhino-Laryngologicum Amicitiae Sacrum [CORLAS], International Association of Logopedics and Phoniatrics (IALP), International Federation of Oto-Rhino-Laryngological Societies (IFOS).  He is now President of the Egyptian Society of Phoniatrics and Logopedics (ESPL). In addition to his scientific work, Kotby is a certified guide in Egyptology. He wrote a series of books exploring history of Egypt.

Kotby was born on the 1st of December in 1937 in Cairo, Egypt. He spent his childhood in Helmieyt el Zeitoun, Cairo district. He graduated in Faculty of Medicine, Ain Shams University in 1960. He did diplomas in surgery and otorhinolaryngology in 1963 and 1964, respectively. He did his PhD thesis on electromyography of laryngeal muscles in 1967 in Egypt. Later he moved to Norway, where he did a specialization degree in clinical neurophysiology at Oslo University in 1970. He then moved to Sweden and got another specialization degree in Phoniatrics from University of Gothenburg in 1973. He went back to Egypt in 1974 where he established the first Phoniatrics and Logopedics Unit in Egypt and the Middle East, he led the unit for more than 20 years. In 1998, he became a Professor Emeritus at the Department of Otolaryngology, Faculty of Medicine, Ain Shams University. He was a visiting professor in many universities in Japan, Norway, Saudi Arabia.