In 1967, Ahmed Said Omar left Egypt as part of an official medical doctors exchange program between the Egyptian government and the German Democratic Republic. He completed his specialist degree in Sports Medicine (Facharzt) at the Deutsche Hochschule für Kultur (DHfK) in Leipzig in 1971.

He later pursued rheumatology in the United Kingdom and worked at several NHS teaching hospitals, including Redding Hospital (Oxford-affiliated), the Royal Free Hospital in London, and Leeds University Hospital. In 1974 he moved to West Germany and held senior rheumatology roles, later establishing his private clinic in Hessen in 1982. He returned briefly to Egypt in 1997 to help set up a rheumatology department and has worked as a locum consultant in the UK since 2002.

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