Canada - East

Dr. Layth Mula-Hussain 
Assistant Professor and Attending Physician in Radiation Oncology
Faculty of Medicine – Dalhousie University, Halifax NS, Canada
Cape Breton Cancer Centre – Nova Scotia Health, Sydney NS, Canada
Layth.Mula-Hussain@DAL.ca

Biographical information

Layth Mula-Hussain was born, raised and gained his medical degree from the University of Mosul, Ninevah – Iraq. He travelled to Jordan to do a residency in radiation oncology at the King Hussein Cancer Center, then to Germany to do an M.Sc. in advanced oncology at Ulm University. Then he completed four years of clinical fellowships in Canada. Besides many professional memberships, he is a lifetime ESTRO Fellow & IAHPC member, ESCO Graduate, Certified Clinical Investigator, Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh and ESO Ambassador by the European School of Oncology. 

During his 20+ years in oncology, Dr. Mula-Hussain served as a consultant physician in radiation oncology at the King Hussein Cancer Center in Jordan, Zhianawa Cancer Center in Iraq, and Sultan Qaboos Comprehensive Cancer Centre in Oman. He is currently an attending physician at the Cape Breton Cancer Centre, an assistant professor at Dalhousie University in Nova Scotia, Canada, and a visiting professor at Ninevah University in Iraq. 

Dr. Mula-Hussain was the founding director of Iraq's first radiation oncology certification board program (2013 – 2017). He acted as an Expert within imPACT IAEA teams for Pakistan (2013) & Syria (2022), a member of the ASCO International Affairs Steering Committee (2016 – 2019), and a reviewer in the IAEA curriculum for radiation oncology education and training (2024). He authored / co-authored 80+ manuscripts/ books/ books’ chapters, did 100+ scientific presentations, and his efforts were cited over a thousand times with an H-index of 17.