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CAmPus hAPPeningsSociety to support a dialogue in theEast African region on how mediacan better inform citizens and workmore effectively with different sectorsof society; and other public serviceinitiatives that will share Africa-specificacademic material with regionalmedia institutions. The aim of thenew School is to enhance media quality,performance and practice in thecontinent and the developing world.ObituariesAKU ProfessorEmeritusProfessorSheikh ArshadSaeed passedaway onNovember 19,2009. ProfessorSaeed wasamong thefounding faculty members of theMedical College and played a significantrole in its growth and development.He joined AKU asAssociate Professor ofPharmacology in 1984 and becamea full professor in 1989. He retiredin 2004 but continued in theDepartment of Biological andBiomedical Sciences as part-timeProfessor of Pharmacology foranother four years. In 2008,Professor Saeed was conferred thetitle of Distinguished ProfessorEmeritus, the first from the basicsciences department. He had publishedmore than 260 papers in 320internationally recognised journalsand held nine patents from Europeand North America. He was the firstPakistani to be elected Fellow ofRoyal Institute of Biology. In 2001,Professor Saeed was awarded theHilal-e-Imtiaz, the first AKU facultymember to be presented thisaward by the President of Pakistan.Dr Syed Arif Ali Zaidi, formerAssociate Dean,Student Affairs,passed away onMarch 28, 2010.He joined AKUin June 1983 asAssistantProfessor ofPhysiology andwas promoted toAssociateProfessor in 1988. Dr Zaidi served asAssociate Dean of Student Affairsfrom October 1992 until his retirementin May 2007. After leavingAKU, he joined the GovernmentCollege University, Faisalabad beforemoving back to Karachi as Vice-Chancellor of Ziauddin University inDecember 2008.AWArds And honoursPioneering Global SafetyDr Adnan A. Hyder, MBBS ’00,was chosen to lead the JohnsHopkins Bloomberg School of PublicHealth’s effort on MichaelBloomberg’s US$125 million GlobalRoad Safety Program. Johns HopkinsUniversity’s International InjuryResearch Unit will join forces withfive partner organisations, includingthe World Health Organization.Together, they will develop and putin place activities, with local governmentsand NGOs, in 10 priority lowandmiddle-income countries to tackleinjuries and fatalities caused byroad traffic crashes. Dr Hyder said,“This is an excellent opportunity anda superb group of partners to developand implement strategies for reducingthe extraordinary number of preventabletraffic-related injuries andfatalities worldwide.”Fahim Siddiqui18
ClAss notesSchool of Nursing1985Currently working as AssistantManager, Nursing Development,Aga Khan Health Service, Pakistan,Mehmooda Khowaja is finishingher BScN and plans to join theMaster in Midwifery programme atAKU in the future. She is proud toshare that her daughter is currently aBScN student at AKU-SON.Samina Badruddin Khowaja isdoing her BScN online withUniversity of Phoenix while workingas a staff nurse in the postpartumunit at Gwinnett MedicalCenter, Georgia.1991Amynah Pradhan has completedher MsN in Family NursePractitioner and received an awardfor Excellence in Primary Care inNursing. She is also a proud motherof a baby girl born on March 4,2010. Pradhan appreciates AKU’sefforts to keep the alumni connected.1993Rozmin Badruddin Jiwani is a PhDstudent at University of Texas HealthScience Center at San Antonio.1995Munira Prasla, participated in theMosaic International SummerSchool programme held in the UKin 2009. The aim of the programmewas to develop the leadership potentialof participants selected fromvarious Muslim countries. Praslacurrently works at AKU-SON.1996Shirin Noorali Valliani has almostcompleted a MsN in Family NursePractitioner. She deeply misses andcherishes her golden days at AKU.2000Shirin Alwani was mentioned in anarticle in Hospital News, a Canadianhealth care newspaper. The articletalks about a project Alwani isinvolved in and how it is impactingthe quality of life of senior citizensliving in nursing homes and otherhealth care settings.2002Farida Khan Himat is enrolled atthe Stellenbosch University’s Masterof Philosophy in Health SciencesEducation in South Africa.2003Yasmin Noorani is doing her MsN,specialising in Education. Noorani iscurrently settled in Seattle whereshe is the proud mother of two kids,a 14-month old boy and a two and ahalf year old girl.2005Anila Naveed is a faculty memberat AKU-SON. She proudly recallsher student life and believes her richclinical experience of working withcritical cardiac patients will be beneficialin providing quality educationto other nursing students.Azmina Shahnool Khowaja hasrejoined the intensive care unit atAKUH, Karachi.Khairunnisa Shallwani is currentlyworking as a nurse educator at a privatehospital in Dubai. Under herleadership, the hospital was designatedwith training site status for theAmerican Heart Association BasicLife Support programmes.Munira Abhavani was blessed witha girl, Zahra Amin, on June 9, 2009.Saima Merchant, an instructor anda student at AKU-SON, defendedher MScN thesis on the Nature ofNurses Verbal Communication withthe ICU Incubated, Unconscious andSedated Patients. She also receivedthe Rho Delta Research Award for2009, and has been elected Chair,Publicity and NewsletterCommittee, Sigma Theta TauInternational Rho Delta Chapter.2006Muhammad Basharatullah completeda Graduate Certificate inNurse Education from University ofSouth Australia in 2009. Hereceived distinctions in all modules.Niaz Ahmed joined a multinationaloil and gas exploration companyas an occupational health nurse inKarak, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.2007Anita Aaandani Sadruddin is completinga Master in Epidemiology andBiostatistics from the Dow Universityof Health Sciences in Karachi.Kiran Khowaja is working in thecath lab at AKUH, Karachi.Mehtab Qutbuddin Jaffer is servingas a Clinical Nurse Instructor,Outpatient Services, Aga KhanUniversity Hospital, Karachi.Natasha Rehman is serving as aNursing Instructor at BaqaiMedical University, College ofNursing, Karachi.2008Rozeena Gillani, NursingInstructor, Baqai MedicalUniversity, College of Nursing, ispursuing a MBA in health and hospitalmanagement from Institute ofBusiness Management.Sarfaraz Masih, Senior Lecturer,Liaquat National College of Nursing,Karachi, is a member of the NationalTask Force for nursing school at theNational Institute of Health andSocial Sciences. In 2009, he spoke ata national seminar on ImageBuilding: Making Difference forNursing and Midwifery Professionalsin Pakistan and scientific nursing sessionat the 6th Liaquat NationalHospital Symposium.2009Shireen Pyarali Lalani is a SeniorNursing Instructor and Year19
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