Dr. Javairiah Fatima has been nominated as one of the area’s best physicians by Washingtonian 2023. She is the only female surgeon in the US who runs her own FDA clinical trial for creating and implanting fenestrated devices for complex aortic aneurysms.
View More Dr. Javairiah Fatima nominated as top doctor in Washingtonian, 2023
Three distinguished AKU Alumni, Dr. Sohail Khan [MBBS ’03], Dr. Abdul Hakeem [MBBS ’03] and Dr. Sabha Bhatti [MBBS ’03] have recently returned to Pakistan to join NICVD, Karachi.
View More Three AKU Alumni return to homeland to join NICVD, KHI
Dr Faisal Fecto [MBBS, ’05] has been recently elected to the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society. Dr Fecto is currently faculty at Stanford University School of Medicine, and his research focuses on the basic pathogenic mechanisms that contribute to human neuromuscular diseases.
View More Dr Faisal Fecto inducted to the Alpha Omega Alpha Honor Medical Society
Dr Sana Syed [MBBS, ’07], inspired by the Black Lives Matter Movement has partnered with Charlottesville City Schools to provide students in grades K-4 with at-home science, technology, engineering and math boxes.
View More Dr. Sana Syed recognized for efforts to raise funds for students to receive at-home STEM boxes
Dr Ali Jawaid [MBBS, ’07], in an interview with Psychology Today, describes the risk and resilience factors he and his team discovered in their recent research.
View More Dr Ali Jawaid talks about the mental health consequences of COVID-19
Dr Anita Zaidi currently director, Vaccine Development & Surveillance (VD&S) and Enteric & Diarrheal Diseases (EDD) has been named by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation as the first president of Gender Equality.
View More Dr Anita Zaidi named as first president of Gender Equality by Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Dr Junaid A. Razzak 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.”
View More Dr Junaid A. Razzak awarded Presidential Lifetime Achievement Award