Dr. Hany Sleem is the chairman of Institutional Review Boards (IRB) and the head of the Dermatology and Andrology Department in the National Hepatology and Tropical Medicine Research Institute (NHTMRI), Cairo, Egypt. He is also the chairman of the Egyptian Society of Healthcare Development (ESHD). Dr. Seleem is Certified Trainer in Research ethics from Medical School in Maryland University, USA. Sleem has been a member of a variety of Research Ethics Boards for about 10 years. He is a member of the Ministry of Health National Research Ethics Committee in addition to many local IRBs. In 2015, He served as coordinator of the Egyptian Network of National Ethics Committees (ENREC). He has been involved for many years in the field of ethics of research involving humans and situation of IRBs in Egypt and MENA region.