About us

A family of doctors, and a charity run in the open.

Three generations of the Elsayed family have practised medicine. The Foundation carries their work on, for doctors and patients wherever care is scarce.

Our story

Why a family of doctors started a foundation

Medicine has run through the Elsayed family for three generations: a respiratory physician, two psychiatrists, an emergency physician and a spinal surgeon. Each of them learned from the doctors before them, and each went on to teach the doctors after them.

Mr Sherief Elsayed started the Foundation to carry that work on: to help doctors train where training is hardest to get, to fund operations that teach a whole team, and to help the public look after their health.

We believe the most lasting thing a charity can give a hospital is a better-trained team. So nearly everything we fund leaves skills behind, and we publish every grant we make so anyone can see where the money went.

The Elsayed doctors

Three generations, five doctors

Our awards carry the names of the doctors we have lost. The living are honoured in the work.

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Dr Mahmoud Elsayed

[Dates] · Respiratory physician

[Short biography: where he trained, where he practised, and what his patients and colleagues remember him for.]

The annual Dr Mahmoud Elsayed Lecture carries his name.

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Dr Sayed Elsayed

1947–2015 · Psychiatrist

[Short biography: where he trained, where he practised, and what his patients and colleagues remember him for.]

The Dr Sayed Elsayed Award, for psychiatry training, carries his name.

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Dr Mohamed Elsayed

[Dates] · Psychiatrist

[Short biography: where he trained, where he practised, and what his patients and colleagues remember him for.]

The Dr Mohamed Elsayed Award, for public mental health, carries his name.

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Dr Tarek Elsayed

1985– · Emergency physician

[Short biography: where he trained, where he works, and why emergency care matters to him.]

The Golden Hour Award, for trauma care training, is dedicated to him.

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Mr Sherief Elsayed

1977– · Consultant spinal surgeon

A UK-trained consultant spinal surgeon (FRCS Trauma and Orthopaedics) who specialises in complex and revision spinal surgery and deformity. He has operated on humanitarian surgical missions on three continents, and for twenty years has taught surgeons as a co-founder of international postgraduate education programmes and International Editor of Miller's Review of Orthopaedics.

Founder of the Foundation and chair of its trustees.

Our crest

What grows from three generations

Three gold roundels: The three generations of Elsayed doctors.
The sapling: What grows from them: the doctors we help to train.
The lotus: The Nile's ancient symbol of renewal. It closes each night and opens again each morning, as health can be restored.
Oxblood and gold: The work of medicine, and what lasts after it.

How we are run

Trustees, rules and open books

The Foundation is being registered as a charitable company in England and Wales. Its trustees are legally responsible for it, and they decide together.

Chair of trustees

Mr Sherief Elsayed

Consultant spinal surgeon and founder

Trustee

[Trustee name]

[Lawyer, UK]

Trustee and treasurer

[Trustee name]

[Doctor, UK]

Adviser

[Adviser name]

Legal adviser

Our rules

No trustee is paid

Trustees give their time freely and claim only reasonable expenses.

Conflicts are declared

No grant goes to a trustee, a trustee's relative or a business connected to a trustee.

Money goes straight to the purpose

We pay course providers, hosts and hospitals directly, never cash to individuals.

Every grant is published

Who received what, and what it achieved.

Documents

ConstitutionOn registration
Grant-making policyOn registration
Conflicts of interest policyOn registration
Safeguarding policyOn registration
Complaints procedureOn registration
Annual report and accountsAfter our first year

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