Ibrahim El Moghraby was educated at Gordon's Memorial College in Khartoum and the Kitchener School of Medicine, where he graduated with distinction in 1935 after winning prizes in both medicine and surgery. He subsequently joined the Sudan medical service and after appointments at Khartoum Civil Hospital he was posted in rotation to several districts in the Sudan. In 1939 he was chosen to be the first Sudanese surgical registrar to work with Mr T S Mayne in Khartoum. From 1946 to 1949 he attended courses at the Kasr El Aini Medical School in Cairo, part of the King Fouad University, and obtained diplomas in general surgery and orthopaedics. He then came to England and attended the FRCS course at Guy's Hospital, and held clinical attachments at St Mark's, the Royal National Orthopaedic and Royal Marsden Hospitals. In 1952 he became the first Sudanese graduate to obtain the English Fellowship in surgery. He returned to the Sudan and was posted to Wad Medani as consultant surgeon to the Blue Nile province. He rapidly developed the hospital facilities at Wad Medani and made it the leading surgical centre in the Sudan, so gaining recognition by the Royal Colleges for training posts for the FRCS diploma. He pioneered modern orthopaedic surgery there, but also wrote extensively on pyloro-duodenal fibrosis (Shaigi syndrome), bilharzia and portal hypertension. He carried out research into mycetoma (Madura foot) with an MRC grant in collaboration with the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. In 1965 he was transferred to Khartoum where he became senior surgeon to the Ministry of Health until his retirement in 1969. He devoted much time to teaching and he examined in surgery at the University of Khartoum. He was President of the Sudan Association of Surgeons and the Sudan Medical Council from 1974 to 1978, and was awarded an honorary PhD from Gezira University in 1989. He also held several appointments outside the medical field and was a member of the board of directors of some of the leading Sudanese companies. Nothing is known of his personal life except that he died on 18 June 1993 in Omdurman aged 80 from natural causes.