He is currently the Director of the  Center for Diabetes Education in McDonough, GA USA since 2009, and is the editor of the Middle East Edition of the Annals of Internal Medicine, of the Department of Endocrinology and Diabetes at University Campus Bio-Medico in Rome. He is currently Consultative Board Member EMRO (East Mediterranean Office WHO), a faculty member of the Danish Diabetes Academy, Copenhagen, Denmark  and of the Michigan Center for Diabetes Translational Research MCDTR, Ann Arbor, Michigan USA

Dr. Mahmoud Ibrahim graduated at Ain Shams University Faculty of Medicine in Cairo, Egypt where he continued his postgraduate studies in Internal Medicine and Endocrinology in 1988.

He has received important honors and awards: the  Paul Ghaliongi memorial lecture in October 2000, the American Diabetes Association’s  2009 Harold Rifkin Award for Distinguished International Service in the Cause of Diabetes, the  East Mediterranean University Cyprus Annual Conference Award 2014 and the International Diabetes Federation Award in 2017.

His scientific activities include being editor of  important scientific journals such as Clinical Diabetes Journal (Middle East Edition) an official journal of the American Diabetes Association ADA (2002 – 2013),  Diabetes Care Journal (Middle East Edition) an official journal of the American Diabetes Association ADA (2002 – 2015), and currently he is editor of the International Journal of Diabetes & Endocrinology North Africa Region. He has been also an abstract reviewer of important scientific conference and congresses around the world. He is currently a reviewer of peer-reviewed journals: British Medical Journal, Diabetes Care, the Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology among others.