Dr Junaid A. Razzak, [MBBS, ’94] has been awarded the Presidential Lifetime Achievement Award by the 2020 Society of Academic Emergency Medicine’s (SAEM) Global Emergency Medicine Academy (GEMA). This is GEMA’s highest honor, given to an “individual whose work serves as a beacon for future emergency physicians and who has put the needs of patients over self.” He was presented the award at the virtual SAEM Annual Meeting on Friday, May 15, 2020.
Dr Razzak is a tenured Professor of Emergency Medicine and International Health at Johns Hopkins University. He currently serves as the Director of the Center for Global Emergency Medicine at JHU and as the Director of the Center of Excellence for Trauma and Emergencies at the Aga Khan University.
A graduate of Aga Khan University, class of 1994, he did his residency in Emergency Medicine from Yale-New Haven Hospital and a Ph.D. in Public Health from the Karolinska Institute in Sweden. He has over 130 peer-reviewed publications and has mentored a generation of Emergency physicians and public health professionals and researchers in both the United States and in Pakistan.
Dr. Razzak continues to help advance emergency care in the U.S. and across the globe. He played a critical role in the establishment of Emergency Medicine as a specialty in Pakistan. He served as the founding Chair of the Department of Emergency Medicine and the founding Director of the World Health Organization Collaborating Center at Aga Khan University in Karachi, Pakistan. He was also the founding CEO of Aman Healthcare Services, a nonprofit organization in Karachi. He helped develop the first advanced life support service in Karachi, launching the largest health call center in Pakistan. He was the founding convener (Dean) of Emergency Medicine at the College of Physicians and Surgeons in Pakistan. In the US, he has chaired the Fogarty/N.I.H.’s group on Emergency care research in low and middle-income countries. As Director of COE for Trauma and Emergencies, Dr. Razzak launched the Pakistan Lifesavers Program, a partnership of public and private institutions in Pakistan to train over 10 million Pakistanis in life-saving skills.
His current research focus is on implementing and measuring health system innovations for enhancing access to emergency health care for vulnerable populations, especially in low- and middle-income countries. As Director of telemedicine in the Emergency Medicine Department at J.H.U., Dr. Razzak is leading innovative clinical and research programs on the use of technology in improving access to emergency care.
Sources:
John Hopkins > Department of Emergency Medicine
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