A native of Egypt, Dr. Hamoda completed a psychiatry residency at the Harvard South Shore program followed by a fellowship in child and adolescent psychiatry at Children’s Hospital Boston/ Harvard Medical School. He also has a Masters in Public Health from the Harvard School of Public Health. He is currently an attending psychiatrist at Children’s Hospital Boston and an Instructor at the Harvard Medical School. He has over 30 publications and poster presentations and his academic accomplishments have been recognized through awards from Children’s Hospital Boston, Harvard Medical School and several national and international organizations including the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, the American Psychiatric Association, the International Association of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Allied Professions, the American Association of Directors of Psychiatry Residency Training, and the Group for Advancement of Psychiatry. He has also consulted to the Eastern Mediterranean Office of the World Health Organization on Mental Health services in the region.
Dr. Hamoda has also been actively involved with non-govermental organizations and community work. He was elected as the project director of the International Federation of Medical Students Associations (IFMSA) and served as a Co-Chairperson of the 2010 Harvard Arab Weekend Medicine and Public Health Conference. He also serves as Secretary of the NGO American Board Certified Doctors for Egypt (ABCDE) and as a founding member of Egypt NEGMA.