Dr. Islam El Helou — Dermatology and Aesthetic Medicine
Under our open methodology this clinic scores 78.3/100 on structural verification: physician certification, licences, facility and legal-entity traceability, identifier disclosure and advertising honesty.
Rank #4 of 25 ranked clinics · last checked 20 September 2026
- Specialist-led
Summary
Dermatology clinic on Tareek El Geish in Alexandria combining medical dermatology with aesthetic medicine: acne and hair-loss assessment, pigmentation and melasma care, psoriasis and eczema follow-up, dermoscopy of moles and lesions, aesthetic injectables and resurfacing. The clinic states that it publishes no before-and-after or patient-identifying images. The physician is carried in the Egyptian Medical Syndicate dermatology register at consultant grade and the Tareek El Geish clinic is registered to his name.
Axis by axis
rubric value 1–5 · ? could not verify (no points, not a negative finding) · — not applicable: this country has no register of that class · OFF official register · SEC secondary source
| Axis | Finding (rubric anchor) | Value | Source class | Weight | Checked |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| M1 | Specialist certification of the responsible physician Found by name or number; specialty matches what is advertised; status current. Egyptian Medical Syndicate specialist register: اسلام محمد نبيل عبد الحميد الحلو (register ID 159740), جلدية وتناسلية (dermatology and venereology), grade إستشاري (consultant) — the register specialty the map assigns to an injectables and laser practice. [ems-doctor] |
OFF | 26 | 2026-09-20 | |
| M2 | Identifiability of the responsible physician Physician(s) named with role and tied to this address. The physician is named on every page with his specialty, grade and city, and the clinic location and WhatsApp booking number are published on the contact page. [site-about] |
SEC | 16 | 2026-09-20 | |
| M3 | Basic medical licence Matched by name. Matched by name in the syndicate doctor register; the register publishes no licence number and no status field. [ems-doctor] |
OFF | 8 | 2026-09-20 | |
| M4 | Facility registration Record found: name, address and status match. Syndicate facility register, عيادة خاصة: اسلام محمد نبيل عبدالحميد الحلو at 375 طريق الجيش - الدور الثاني علوي - الوحدة 33-جليم - الرمل, which is the Tareek El Geish location the clinic publishes. [ems-facility] |
OFF | 10 | 2026-09-20 | |
| M5 | Legal-entity traceability Brand only. Brand only: no company name, commercial-register number or tax number appears on the pages loaded (home, about, services, contact, four condition pages). The Egyptian commercial register is reachable only through the login-gated GAFI investor portal, whose host did not answer, and the registry map records no secondary route for Egypt. [site] |
SEC | 8 | 2026-09-20 | |
| M6 | Self-disclosure of identifiers No identifiers at all. No registration, licence or certificate number is published on the pages loaded. [site] |
SEC | 10 | 2026-09-20 | |
| M7 | Advertising honesty No pattern from the lexicon found. Lexicon scan of the Arabic pages (home, about, services, contact, acne, hair loss, pigmentation and psoriasis pages) found no pattern from the lexicon: no outcome or safety guarantee, no percentage claim and no superlative about the clinic or the physician. The quoted note states that the clinic publishes no before-and-after images. [site-about] ملاحظة: لا نعرض صور قبل/بعد أو أي معلومات تعريفية للمرضى حفاظًا على الخصوصية |
SEC | 12 | 2026-09-20 | |
| M8 | Cross-locale consistency All load-bearing fields agree. Mechanical comparison of 2 language fronts (en, ar) on 2026-09-20: every matched physician name, phone number and published number appears on every front. [fronts] |
SEC | 5 | 2026-09-20 | |
| M9 | Patient documents One. One of the five classes is published on the pages loaded: what the treatment can and cannot achieve, explained before the plan is agreed (quoted). No consent document, no risk or contraindication page, no revision policy and no complaint route were found. [site-services] بعض الأمراض الوراثية أو المزمنة قد تحتاج خطة طويلة المدى وتحسن تدريجي. سيتم شرح ما يمكن وما لا يمكن تحقيقه بوضوح أثناء زيارتك |
SEC | 5 | 2026-09-20 |
Score ceilings
No ceiling applies. We never apply one on 'not found' alone.
Holds
No hold on this profile.
Inclusion policy
Four mechanical conditions. The first three decide whether a clinic is listed at all; the fourth decides whether it can be scored.
| Identifiable: live public surface + working in-country contact | verified yes [site] [site-about] |
|---|---|
| Provides the service itself (not an aggregator, booking site or tour packager) | verified yes [site] [site-about] |
| In scope: the intervention is performed by a physician | verified yes [site] [site-about] |
| Names a responsible physician | verified yes [site] [site-about] |
Who is responsible
Named physicians and the legal entity, as published and as matched in the registers. A missing number is a statement about disclosure, not about licensing.
| Physician | Role | Register ID |
|---|---|---|
| Dr. Islam Mohamed Nabil Abdel Hamid El Helou [site-about] [ems-doctor] | Consultant dermatologist and aesthetic physician, hospital and private practice | Egyptian Medical Syndicate register ID 159740 |
Legal entity: could not verify
Scope and procedure segments
Clinic focus: specialist (no focus adjustment) [site]
- Rhinoplasty: verified no
- Breast surgery: verified no
- Liposuction & body contouring: verified no
- Hair transplant: verified no
- Injectables: verified yes →
- Medical weight loss: verified no
- Sanctions / discipline register (GAHAR (General Authority for Healthcare Accreditation and Regulation) — expired & cancelled facility registrations): could not verify
What we could not verify
Every applicable axis holds a sourced value.
Contact details
| Website | https://drislamelhelou.com/ |
|---|---|
| Phone | +20 101 600 6000 |
| Address | Tareek El Geish, Glym, Alexandria |
| City | Alexandria |
For identification only; details change — verify with the clinic directly.
Sources
| ID | Source | Class | What it supports | Accessed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| site | https://drislamelhelou.com/ | clinic's own site | identifiability, physician specialty and city, practice policy on patient images | 20 September 2026 |
| site-about | https://drislamelhelou.com/ar/about | clinic's own site | physician biography, specialty, grade | 20 September 2026 |
| site-services | https://drislamelhelou.com/ar/services | clinic's own site | treatment menu, expectations set before treatment | 20 September 2026 |
| site-contact | https://drislamelhelou.com/ar/contact | clinic's own site | clinic location and booking channel | 20 September 2026 |
| ems-doctor | https://www.ems.org.eg/api/inquiry/doctor?name=%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AD%D… | official register | GET https://www.ems.org.eg/api/inquiry/doctor?name=الحلو (plus the 30 word-final-letter partitions of the same surname, merged offline) — specialist certification and syndicate enrolment | 20 September 2026 |
| ems-facility | https://www.ems.org.eg/api/inquiry/clinic?name=%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%AD%D… | official register | GET https://www.ems.org.eg/api/inquiry/clinic?name=الحلو&clinicType=عيادة خاصة&governorate=الاسكندرية — facility registration under Law 153/2004 | 20 September 2026 |
| fronts | https://drislamelhelou.com/ | clinic's own site | language fronts compared mechanically for M8 — en: https://www.drislamelhelou.com/en | ar: https://www.drislamelhelou.com/ar | 20 September 2026 |
Change history
| Date | Change |
|---|---|
| 20 September 2026 | axes.M8: null → 5 (Mechanical cross-locale comparison (methodology v1.1, item 9).) |
| 20 September 2026 | Initial collection (quality pass 2). |
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