Dr. May El Tawashy

About Dr. May El Tawashy

Dr. ElTawashy received her Bachelor degree of Medicine and General Surgery from Alexandria University, Faculty of Medicine, Egypt, in 2001. She further chose to specialize in diagnostic radiology field and obtained her Master’s degree in radiology from the same university in 2008. Dr. May further sub-specialized in fetal imaging and attained two degrees from Barcelona University, Spain; “Expert in imaging in Maternal fetal medicine Diploma” and a “Postgraduate degree in Fetal Cardiology”. Dr. May is certified by Fetal medicine foundation to perform 11-13 weeks NT scan.
Dr. May has more than 16 years of experience and has previously worked in Alex Scan Radiology Centre, Egypt, Royale Hayat Hospital and Al Salam International Hospital, Kuwait.
In RAK hospital, she has been in charge of fetal and maternal Obstetric ultrasound unit since 2016. During her job in RAK hospital, Dr. May has performed more than 50,000 Obstetric scans and played a key role in antenatal and postnatal decision making as well as diagnosing complex fetal malformations and gynecological pathologies. She is competent in all aspects of prenatal scanning, diagnosis of fetal abnormalities and complex fetal growth restriction cases. She works closely with our team of Obstetricians and other relevant specialists to facilitate good perinatal outcomes in normal and high risk pregnancies.
Dr. May is also a tremendously experienced breast radiologist, performing all breast imaging modalities including ultrasound scans, reporting screening, diagnostic digital mammograms and tomosynthesis. She is a member of European society of breast imaging, EGSBI and SBI, attended various workshops and webinars.

Dr. May main competencies includes:

• Expert in performing Obstetric ultrasound scans in all stages of pregnancy.
• Second opinion regarding any fetal or female pelvic pathology suspected by fellow colleagues within or outside RAK hospital.
• Singleton as well as multiple pregnancy scans.
• First trimester scans, Nuchal translucency and first trimester early anatomical scans.
• Morphology scan / mid-trimester anomaly scan.
• Growth, Doppler and interpretation of complex growth restriction cases.
• Dedicated Fetal echocardiography study.
• 3D / 4D scans.
• Cervical assessment.
• Prenatal diagnosis and invasive procedures like chorionic villous sampling (CVS) and amniocentesis.
• Breast imaging all modalities.