Dr Abdulla Yousif Elhassan
Dr Abdulla Yousif Elhassan
Dr Abdulla Yousif El Hassan, a well respected much loved radiologist, sadly passed away in May 2017. He was born in Khartoum to an army officer and was the fifth of eight children.
He had a passion for electronics, innovation and classical/old school music especially Sudanese ‘Hakeeba’ music and poetry.
A pioneer Radiologist in his country, he founded the first blood bank in Sudan and inaugurated the first cardiovascular and neuroradiology laboratory.
In his last year of high school, he worked towards the population count In Omdurman city with the department of statistics in the Ministry of Finance and in 1952 joined Khartoum University Medical school graduating in1958.
In 1962, after completing his internship training in Khartoum, he started the foundation of Sudan's first blood bank.
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9th March 1935 to 27th May 2017
Dr El Hassan then moved to the United Kingdom and joined the Royal Free Hospital in London, completing a three-year Fellowship in medical radiodiagnosis and a Fellowship in the National Heart Hospital for specialist training in invasive cardiac radiology. In 1970 he joined Guy’s and St Thomas’ Hospital for further training in cardiovascular and neuroradiology.
The first to specialise in interventional radiology in his country, he returned to Khartoum and started establishing the Cardio-Neuro Radiology Center in Al Shaab hospital and working part time as a faculty member at the University of Khartoum. During this time he also initiated a training program for radiologists and radiographers.
From 1983 to 2014, Dr El Hassan worked and developed the radiology department in King Fahad teaching Hospital, Saudi Arabia, as well as teaching in King Faisal University, participating in founding the radiologist Fellowship program.
He spent over 35 years in training radiologists and was a father figure and mentor to all his students and colleagues. During this period he published over 30 papers and was involved in numerous clinical research projects.
In 2014 he retired and spent his time with his daughters Iman and Randa in Sudan and Saudi Arabia. Post retirement he continued studying and joined many courses and prepared invaluable teaching material for future radiologists in Sudan.
