About KDIC

About KDIC

  • KasrAlainy Drug Information Center “KDIC” is the first center providing a drug information service to a university hospital in Egypt.
  • The KDIC was established in October 2009, and first started its services and received enquiries in March 2010.

The KDIC is a pharmacy based service and is a part of the department of pharmacy in Cairo university hospitals and works incollaboration of the Clinical Pharmacology department faculty of Medicine Cairo university to provide a useful service about drugs and drug related problems to assist the center’s users in optimizing health outcomes.

Who provides the service?

>> The center is staffed by pharmacists with particular skills in locating, assessing and interpreting information about drugs, and an advisory board of clinical pharmacology department

Advisory Board and scientific directors

Dr. Omayma Khorshid

"Professor of Pharmacology, Faculty of medicine Cairo University".

Dr.Soha Elmorsi

Professor of Pharmacology, Faculty of medicine Cairo University".

Director of the KDIC

Pharmacist Rania Ramzi.

B.Sc. Pharmaceutical Sciences M.Sc. Pharmaceutics, Cairo university.

Drug information Pharmacists


Pharmacist Basma Abdel-Rashid, Drug information pharmacist, Cairo university hospitals.

Pharmacist Ahmed Tahseen Mohamed,Drug information pharmacist, Cairo university hospitals.

pharmacist Mona el Sabaa ,Drug information pharmacist, Cairo university hospitals.