Graduated in 1985 at Cairo University, where he got his training as an intern then as resident till 1990. He got his Master of Ophthalmology from Cairo University in 1989.

In 1990, he moved to the then newly inaugurated Research Institute of Ophthalmology, a state of the art sub-specialized eye hospital, and one of the largest Eye hospitals in the region.

In 1993, he moved to Japan for advanced clinical and research training, where he continued his clinical and research activities at Kyushu University; one of the 7 most prestigious universities in Japan, which used to be called Imperial Universities. During that period, he acquired the permission for advanced clinical training undersigned by the Japanese Minister of Health. He acquired his Doctoral Degree and PhD in Ophthalmology early in 1998.

On the way back to Cairo, he visited Doheny Eye Institute, Los Angeles (Prof Dr Narsing Rao), the Eye Section of the Children Eye Hospital of Los Angeles, University of Southern California Prof Dr Tim Stout), Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, Harvard, Boston. He then returned to Cairo RIO, where he is currently working as an Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology.

Dr Khalil has a wide range of scientific publications in Egyptian, Japanese, European and American journals and books. He has presented his works to tens of prestigious congresses worldwide. He is often invited as a guest speaker to many congresses worldwide. Dr. Khalil has lectured and taught physicians on nearly every continent, and is a much sought after speaker, both nationally and internationally, regarding cataract, glaucoma and refractive surgery.

He had the chance of getting first hand contact and training with some of the most imminent international figures in various universities and hospitals around the world.

Chairman of the opening session; The First International Convention for Patients with Silk Road (Behcet’s) Disease, Yokohama, Japan, 2000

Course Instructor, Pediatric Glaucoma Course; The Annual Meeting of the Egyptian Ophthalmological Society, March 2002.

Chairperson; Miscellaneous Session, The Annual Peripheral Meeting of the Egyptian Society of Cataract and Corneal Diseases, Sharm El-Sheikh, 3-6 October 2002.

Course Moderator and Instructor; Management of Infantile Glaucoma, The Second International Congress on Glaucoma Surgery “The New horizons”, Luxor, Egypt, 6-7 Feb 2003

Chairperson, Session of Refractive Surgery, Twelfth Annual Meeting of the Egyptian Society for Cataract and Corneal Diseases, Cairo, Egypt, 21 Feb 2003.

Course Instructor, Management of Refractory Glaucomas Course, The Annual Meeting of the Egyptian Ophthalmological Society, 12-14 March 2003.

Symposist; Childhood Glaucoma, the Winter peripheral Meeting of the Egyptian Society of the Glaucomas, Qena, Egypt, 27 March 2003.

Wet Lab Instructor; LASIK Wet Lab, The Annual Scientific Meeting of the Research Institute of Ophthalmology, 2 May 2003.

Lecturer; Trabeculotomy, Glaucoma Conference, The Joint Meeting of Mansoura University and the Egyptian Society for the Glaucomas, Mansoura, Egypt, 19 June 2003.

Panelist; Panel Discussion: LASIK; choice of Cases and Precautions, The Annual Peripheral Meeting of the Egyptian Society of Cataract and Corneal Diseases, Taba, 16-19 September 2003.

Chairperson; Refractive Surgery Session, The Annual Peripheral Meeting of the Egyptian Society of Cataract and Corneal Diseases, Taba, 16-19 September 2003.

Course Moderator and Instructor; Surgical Modalities in the Management of Infantile Glaucoma, The Third Annual Meeting of the Egyptian Society of the Glaucomas, Cairo, 9-10 Oct. 2003.

Panelist; Panel Discussion: Controversies in Medical Therapy of Glaucoma. The Third Annual Meeting of the Egyptian Society of the Glaucomas, Cairo, 9-10 Oct. 2003.

Lecturer; The Optic Disc in: Pediatric Glaucoma Essentials. The Third Annual Meeting of the Egyptian Society of the Glaucomas, Cairo, 9-10 Oct. 2003.

Demonstrator; Difficulties with Trabeculotomy, Educational Surgical Video Session, The Third Annual Meeting of the Egyptian Society of the Glaucomas, Cairo, 9-10 Oct. 2003.

Chairperson; Session 5: “Childhood Blindness, Refractive Errors and Low Vision”, WORLD SIGHT DAY and the 3^rd National Symposium for Prevention of Blindness, 11-14 October 2003

Panelist, Panel Discussion; How to Avoid LASIK Complications, Thirteenth Annual Meeting of the Egyptian Society of Cataract and Corneal Diseases, Cairo, Egypt, 26-27 Feb 2004

Panelist; Panel Discussion; Normal Tension Glaucoma; Joint Meeting of the Egyptian Society for the Glaucomas and the Department of Ophthalmology, Zagazig University, 13 May 2004.

Symposist; Symposium on Specific Glaucomas, Egyptian Ophthalmological Society Summer Meeting, Alexandria, Egypt, 2-3 Sep 2004

Symposist; Symposium on Management of Childhood Cataract; Third Scientific Meeting of the Department of Ophthalmology, Military Medical Academy, Armed Forces Hospital, Cairo, 24 Sep 2004.

Lecturer, Infantile Glaucoma, Novartis Round Table Discussion, Cairo, 17 Sep 2004

Joint European Research Meetings in Ophthalmology and vision, 14-18 October 1995, Montpellier, France.

 Annual Meeting for the Association for Research in Vision and Ophthalmology, 21-26 April 1996, Ft. Lauderdale, USA. 

XII International Congress of Eye Research, 29 September- 4 October 1996, Yokohama, Japan.

 Inaugural Scientific Meeting of Asia-Oceanic Glaucoma Society, 18-20 April 1997, Singapore

 The Annual Ophthalmological Congress of Central Japan, Kanazawa, Japan, 1995

 The Annual Clinical Ophthalmology Congress, Otsunomiya, Japan, 1995.

 The Annual Congress of the Japanese Ophthalmological Society, Kyoto, Japan, 1996. 

The Annual Congress of the Japanese Ophthalmological Society, Kyoto, Japan, 1997.

 The Annual Congress of the Japanese Ophthalmological Society, Fukuoka, Japan, 1998.

 Kyushu Glaucoma Society Congress, Miyazaki, Japan, 1998. 

The Annual Meetings of the Egyptian Ophthalmological   society, Cairo, Egypt, March 1999

 The Annual Peripheral Meeting of the Egyptian Society of Cataract and Corneal Diseases, Luxor, Egypt, November 1999.

Ninth Annual Meeting of the Egyptian Society for Cataract and Corneal Diseases, Cairo, Egypt, Feb 2000

 The First International Convention for Patients with Silk Road (Behcet’s) Disease, Yokohama, Japan, May, 2000.

·        Behçet’s Disease in Egypt. 

Allergan Meeting on the Research of combined beta-blocker-alpha agonist anti-glaucoma therapy, Limassol, Cyprus, 15-18 November, 2000.

 The Annual Peripheral Meeting of the Egyptian Society of Cataract and Corneal Diseases, Aswan, Egypt, 21-24 November 2000.

·        Effect of Incomplete Cutting of Corneal Flap on refraction on patient undergoing LASIK. 

Tenth Annual Meeting of the Egyptian Society for Cataract and Corneal Diseases, Cairo, Egypt, 22-23 Feb 2001;

·        Towards a Safe Start in LASIK.

 The Annual Meetings of the Egyptian Society for the Glaucomas, Cairo, Egypt, 11-12 October 2001;

·        Trabeculotmy for Pediatric Glaucoma

·        Management of Special Cases of Glaucoma

 Eleventh Annual Meeting of the Egyptian Society for Cataract and Corneal Diseases, Cairo, Egypt, Feb 2002.

The 29^th Meeting of the International Congress of Ophthalmology, Sydney, Australia, April, 2002.

·        Refractive Effect of Incomplete Cutting of Corneal Flaps During LASIK.

 The Annual Peripheral Meeting of the Egyptian Society of Cataract and Corneal Diseases, Sharm El-Sheikh, 3-6 October 2002.

·        Avooiding Microkeratome Complications During LASIK

·        Refractive Correction, A Story of human Quest for Perfection.

 The Second Annual Meeting of the Egyptian Society of the Glaucomas, Cairo, 10-11 October 2002

·     Subscleral Trabeculo-keratectomy, Anterior Vitrectomy with Preservation of the ACL as the Primary Management in Eyes with Anterior Pseudophakic Secondary Glaucoma.

The Second International Congress on Glaucoma Surgery “The New horizons”, Luxor, Egypt, 6-7 Feb 2003;

·        Trabeculotomy as a primary Management for Infantile Glaucoma as Compared with Trabeculectomy in Egyptians.

 Twelfth Annual Meeting of the Egyptian Society for Cataract and Corneal Diseases, Cairo, Egypt, 21 Feb 2003;

·        In Search for the Ideal Microkeratome.

 The Annual Meeting of the Egyptian Ophthalmological Society, Cairo, Egypt, March 2003;

• A comparative Study on Nerve Fiber Layer Measurements Using the Nerve Fiber Analyser GDx in Primary Open Angle Glaucoma and Normal Tension Glaucoma.

·        Subscleral Kerato-trabeculectomy, Anterior Vitrectomy with preservation of the ACL as the Primary Procedure in Eyes with Anterior Pseudophakic Secondary Glaucoma.

The Annual Scientific Meeting of the Research Institute of Ophthalmology, 2 May 2003;

·        Glaucoma and Myopia.

 The Annual Peripheral Meeting of the Egyptian Society of Cataract and Corneal Diseases, Taba, 16-19 September 2003;

·        The Errant Capsulorhexis Tear.

·        Monovision

 Allergan Meeting on the release of combined beta-blocker-alpha agonist anti-glaucoma therapy, Budapest, Hungary, September, 2003.

 WORLD SIGHT DAY and the 3^rd National Symposium for Prevention of Blindness, 11-14 October 2003

·        Glaucoma in Egypt, Towards a Better Control of a Bliniding Disease.

 Thirteenth Annual Meeting of the Egyptian Society of Cataract and Corneal Diseases, Cairo, Egypt, 26-27 Feb 2004;

·        Cataract Surgery in a Buphthalmic Eye Following Several Glaucoma Surgeries

International Symposium of Pediatric Ophthalmology, Taba, Egypt, 28 Apr-1 May 2004

·        Trabeculotomy in the Management of Recurrent Congenital-Infantile Glaucoma 

Egyptian Ophthalmological Society Summer Meeting, Alexandria, Egypt, 2-3 Sep 2004

·        A comparative Study on Nerve Fiber Layer measurements using the Nerve Fiber Analyser GDX in primary Open Angle Glaucoma and Exfoliation Glaucoma

·        Trabeculotomy Using handle-less Trabeculotomy Probes in the Management of Primary Open Angle Glaucoma (POAG) in Adults.

Many other local meetings in Egypt and Japan.

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