Professor Khalid Mahmood
Served as Dean, Faculty of Medicine and Allied Sciences Dow University of Health Sciences, Karachi up to his retirement in 2016
Nominated by: Associate Professor, Department of Medicine, Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan
How does the nominee inspire you?
Professor Khalid has been my mentor and teacher for past 20 years. He was the reason why I had opted Internal Medicine as a career. I was highly impressed by his knowledge, skills and dedication towards patients and medical profession. He was an avid teacher and was highly efficient in dissemination of knowledge to his juniors. He also passionate for his poor and needy patients and motivated us to give best care to those underprivileged individuals of the society. He continuously strived for his professional development and propagated culture of reading and other scholarly activities in the department. In short he was a role model and a lifelong mentor for me and many other who has always been available to provide guidance.
Contribution to medical practice and impact on care
Throughout his career, Professor Mahmood has contributed immensely to medical practice, and education. He has spent 35 years of his professional life at a public institution serving underprivileged population. Despite the opportunities to work abroad, he remained in Pakistan for service, teaching and training with exemplary leadership. He started as an intern, became Professor of Medicine and Chair of the Department and ultimately became Dean Faculty of Medicine and Allied Sciences of world renowned, Dow University of Health Sciences Karachi. He has been an outstanding clinician with unmatchable clinical acumen who is equally admired by students, trainees, colleagues and patients. His contributions to curriculum development and improvement at Dow University have been enormous. He has been conducting free of cost, regular courses and mock assessment for FCPS Part II and MRCP candidates. He has also served as Chairman of Ethical Review Board, Curriculum Committee and Library and as an active member of Board of Advanced Studies & Research, PhD Advisory Committee and University Scientific Committee. He has been an undergraduate and postgraduate examiner for past twenty years. He has published more than sixty papers in national and international journals and has also written two books, ‘Medical Disorders in Pregnancy’ and ‘Atlas of Diagnostic Radiology’ later published internationally in India.
Serving the poor masses has been his ultimate motto. The charity medical services he has provided for poor patients throughout his professional life have been exemplary. Providing free of cost GI Endoscopy and Bronchoscopy, Diabetic Foot care services and free drug banks for Cirrhosis and TB patients are some of the examples. He has received the Best Teacher Award several times, and for his contribution in Medicine he was nominated thrice for the President of Pakistan Award- Tamgha-e-Imtiaz, by his university and the Chief Minister of Sindh.