Educated at the University of Cairo and at St Bartholomew's Hospital, he practised as an ear nose and throat surgeon in Cairo. He was distinguished in his specialty, and well-known to his European colleagues through his membership of the International Collegium Otolaryngologicum. He had intended to take part in the Dublin meeting of the Collegium in the summer of 1958, but died suddenly near Cairo of a heart attack on 23 May 1958.