Dr Manal is a Microbiology Consultant at HMC, Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology, Qatar. She obtained her M.B.B. Ch after graduating from Faculty of Medicine, Ain Shams University 1990, Cairo, Egypt, then went on to obtain her MSc in Clinical Pathology 1995 from the same university, then her M.D in Clinical Pathology 2003, from Faculty of Medicine, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt. In 1991, she started her clinical career as a fellow then a specialist at Faculty of Medicine, Ain Shams University hospitals. She then joined the Clinical pathology department (clinical Microbiology unit), Faculty of medicine, Fayoum University hospital, Fayoum, Egypt as a lecturer then became an assistant professor of Microbiology from 2007-2011.
She also has a diploma in Global strategy of hospital hygiene, 2008, from WHO regional office, Egypt and Claude Bernard, Lyon, France, and a diploma in Total Quality Management (TQM), from American university, Cairo, Egypt, 2010.She has MRCpath from Royal College of Pathologists, UK ,2015.
In 2011, she Joined HGH as a specialist in Microbiology Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathology then moved to Al Wakrah Hospital, from 2012-2019 as a Microbiologist in charge where she was involved in launching of the Microbiology laboratory and successfully prepared the lab to have CAP accreditation.