Dr. Fathy Loza, born in Egypt in 1929, studied medicine at Ain Shams university, Cairo, where he graduated in 1953. He joined Behman Hospital as a junior resident after training for sometime at Holloway Sanatotium in Surrey, England. A few years later he took over the directorship of the hospital, having obtained on honorary F.R.C.Psych from England.

During the first years of his directorship, the hospital like all Egypt was going through important changes, social, cultural as well as political. Major transformations took place. In the end he delivered a very successful hospital of 200 beds .

He was appointed director of the WHO centre for information on psychotropic drugs in 1973.

Dr. Loza endeavoured to keep up with the newest trends in therapy, and introduced many to the hospital. He also created the first department for rehabilitation of children with special needs in Egypt.