Pediatric OtolaryngologySpecialist in treating diseases in children with special ear, nose and throat problems including birth defects in the head and neck and developmental delays.

Dr. El-Hakim graduated from Ain Shams University in Cairo (MB, ChB 1986), Egypt.  His higher surgical training was completed in the United Kingdom (CCST in Otolaryngology 2001). He is a fellow of The Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh (FRCSEd 1994) and obtained also the Intercollegiate Board Examination in Otolaryngology (FRCS-ORL 1999).

Dr. El-Hakim’s Fellowship training in Pediatric Otolaryngology was at The Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto from July 1999 -June 2001. He has been in his current post since June 2002.

He is an Associate Clinical Professor in the Departments of Surgery at the University of Alberta.  He is also the Pediatric Otolaryngology Fellowship Program Director, the Research Director for the Division of Otolaryngology at the University of Alberta, and the Associate Editor for Pediatric and General Otolaryngology at the Canadian Journal of Otolaryngology Head & Neck
Surgery.

He has over 40 peer-reviewed publications to date. His research interests span pediatric and neonatal laryngeal paralysis, sleep disordered breathing, impairment of saliva control, and sensorineural hearing loss.

Research & Publications

• El-Hakim H, Papsin BC, Panesar J, Levasseur J, Mount RJ and Harrison RV. The variation in vocabulary acquisition rate after paediatric cochlear implantation and the influence of age at implantation. International Journal of Pediatric Otolaryngology, 2001 Jul (2);59 (3)187-94.
• Harrison RV, Panesar J, Abdollel M, El-Hakim H, Mount RJ, and Papsin BC. The effect of age at implantation on speech outcomes in profoundly deaf children. Scandinavian Audiology, Suppl. 2001;(53): 73-8.
• El-Hakim H, Crysdale WS, Abdollel M and Farkas LG. A study of anthropometric measures before and after external septoplasty in children. Archives of Otolaryngology - Head & Neck Surgery, 2001 Nov; (127): 1362-6
• El-Hakim H, Abdollel M, Mount RJ, Papsin BC, and Harrison RV. Influence of age at implant and of residual hearing on speech outcome measures post-cochlear implant: binary partitioning analysis. Annals of Rhinology, Otology and Laryngology, Suppl., 2002 May; 189:102-8
• El-Hakim H, Wadell A & Crysdale WS. Observations on the early response to treatment of recurrent respiratory papillomatosis using cidofovir. Journal of Otolaryngology- 2002 December; 31(6): 333-335).
• Tsui BCH, Wagner A, Cave D, Elliott C, El-Hakim H, Malherbe S. The incidence of laryngospasm with a no touch extubation technique after tonsillectomy and adenoidectomy. Anesthesia & Analgesia 2004;98:327-329
• El-Hakim H, Malik AC, Aronyk K, Ledi E, Bhargava R. The Prevalence of Intracranial Complications in Pediatric Frontal Sinusitis; a Previously Underestimated Problem. Int J Pediatr Otorhinolaryngol, 2006 Aug; 70(8):1383-1387
• El-Hawrani A, Noga M, Rejean Gareau, Joan Robinson, Patricia Massicotte, El-Hakim H. Acute potentially thrombogenic craniocervical infections: a consecutive series of Lemierre and Lemierre like syndrome cases. International Journal of  Pediatric  Otorhinolaryngology Extra 2006, 1, 289-296 doi:10.1016/j.pedex.2006.09.001
• Guillemaud J, El-Hakim H, Richards S, Chauhan N. Airway pathology encountered during the management of symptomatic children with congenital cardiac or vascular disease. Arch Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg. 2007 Jul;133(7):672-6.
• Clement WA, El-Hakim H, Phillipos EZ, Coté JJ. Unilateral vocal cord paralysis following PDA ligation in Extremely Low Birth-weight infants. A benign complication? Arch Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg. 2008 Jan;134(1):28-33.
• Thevasagayam M and El-Hakim H. Diagnosing Choanal Atresia – A simple approach. Acta Paediatr. 2007 Aug;96(8):1238-9.
• El-Hakim H, Richards S, Thevasagayam M. Major salivary duct clipping for control problems in developmentally challenged children. Arch Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg. 2008 May;134(5):470-4.
• El-Hakim H. Injection of botulinum toxin into external laryngeal muscles in pediatric laryngeal paralysis. Ann Otol Rhinol Laryngol. 2008 Aug;117(8):614-20.
• Kuruvilla G, Perry S, Wilson B, El-Hakim H. The natural history of vincristine-induced laryngeal paralysis in children. Arch Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg. 2009 Jan;135(1):101-5.
• Gan K, Tomlinson C, El-Hakim H. Post-operative bleeding is less after partial intracapsular tonsillectomy than bipolar total procedure. Int J Pediatr Otorhinolaryngol. 2009 May;73(5):667-70.
• Fung E, Cave D, Witmans M, Gan K, El-Hakim H. Postoperative respiratory complications and recovery in obese children following adenotonsillectomy for sleep-disordered breathing: a case-control study. Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg. 2010 Jun;142(6):898-905
• Campisi P, Hawkes M, Simpson K; Canadian Juvenile Onset Recurrent Respiratory Papillomatosis Working Group. The epidemiology of juvenile onset recurrent respiratory papillomatosis derived from a population level national database. Laryngoscope. 2010 Jun;120(6):1233-4
• Thevasagayam M, Rodger K, Cave D, Witmans M, El-Hakim H. Prevalence of laryngomalacia in children presenting with sleep-disordered breathing. Laryngoscope. 2010 Aug;120(8):1662-6
• Popel J, El-Hakim H, El-Matary W. Esophageal foreign body extraction in children: flexible versus rigid endoscopy. Surg Endosc. 2010 Aug 24.

Text book chapters

• Friedberg J and El-Hakim H. Hoarseness. In Pediatric Otolaryngology, 4th edition, Saunders, 2003, Vol. 2; Section V; Chapter 79: 1413-1420.
• Tsui B and El-Hakim H. In Principles of Airway Management, 4th Edition, Chapter 10 (Pediatric Airway Management): 417 - 506

Miscellaneous Academic activities:

• Pediatric Otolaryngology Fellowship Program Director 2004 – present
• Director of Research in the Division of Otolaryngology 2006 - present
• Associate Editor for the Canadian Journal of Otolaryngology - Head & Neck Surgery

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(University of Alberta Hospital),
8440 - 112 Street, Edmonton, Alberta
Phone: 780.407.8629