Ahmed Shafik (surgeon)

Ahmed Shafik (1933 to 2007) was an Egyptian surgeon and medical researcher whose work centred on colorectal and pelvic floor surgery, with additional studies in human physiology and sexual health. He was born in Menoufia, graduated with honours from the Faculty of Medicine at Cairo University in 1957, took his MD in 1962 and rose to Professor and Chairman of the Department of Surgery and Experimental Research in 1990. In 1964 he introduced the cutaneous uretero-ureterostomy urinary diversion known as Shafik I, and in 1967 he performed a bladder transplant. He later developed the perineal ileo-urethral neo-bladder, called Shafik II, and in 1991 he described pudendal canal syndrome, proposing surgical decompression as treatment. He published more than a thousand papers, and his study of trousers made of different fabrics and the sexual activity of rats was awarded an Ig Nobel Prize.