Dowites spread throughout the Globe have contributed to the communities and institutions they work and live in medicine and other fields as well.
Meet Pakistan’s US-trained female neurosurgeon Sep 15, 2016 Dr. Aneela Darbar is a 1996 graduate of Dow Medical College. She quotes The Beatles, loves the opera, looks like a supermodel, and has mastered God’s most intricate and creative machinery – the human brain.Aneela Darbar is currently the only US-trained female neurosurgeon in Pakistan. She specializesRead More
Dr. Shahid Yousuf is a DMC graduate of 1976. He is a retired Psychiatrist in Florida. In August 2015 Association of Pakistani-Descent Physicians of North America (APPNA) awarded Dr. Yousuf a Gold Medal for his services to the cause of the Association and to the alumni in general. DOWITE SHAHID YOUSUF DMC 1976 BEING AWARDEDRead More
M. Shahid Yousuf Awarded Lifetime Achievement Award At the recent annual meeting of the Michigan Chapter of APPNA, Dr. M. Shahid Yousuf was given a lifetime achievement award for services to APPNA. The citation reads:- “APPNA- MI Chapter Presents The Lifetime Achievement Award to Dr. Shahid Yousuf in Recognition of Your Lifetime Service and DedicationRead More
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This article is related to the recognition of Dr. Sultan Ahmed (Dow 1963) for his life long services to Dow and CHK. He was given the Lifetime Achievement Award in 2006 July 2006 S. Sultan Ahmed, MD, SQA, Dr. Sultan Ahmed entered Dow Medical College in 1958 after obtaining B.Sc. from D.J. Science College, Karachi.Read More
Prof. Fazal Elahi was Prof of Surgery and Head of Department Of Surgery at Dow & CHK. We honoured his memory, with a plenary lecture dedicated to him in Surgicon 2013 conference, organized by the Society of Surgeons Pakistan, Karachi Chapter, in December 2013. Dr. Rizwan Azami, Vice President, College of Physician Surgeon Pakistan, wrote andRead More
NASREEN JAMAL KAHAN was a Dow graduate of 1983. She died two days ago in a bomb blast in Kabul, AFGHANISTAN. She was brilliant doctor met her in in 1994 when she was working at family planning clinic at Britto road Karachi.She was very hard working doctor and was always concern about women healthRead More
“After passing my Boards in Ophthalmology and doing research and teaching at the Harvard Medical School I decided to return home and joined the teaching faculty at the DOW. in 1969. Prof Mahmood Ali Shah had just retired as Principal and was the Professor of Ophthalmology at the Civil Hospital and really embraced me inRead More
Dr. Abdul Bari Khan recieved the Eisenhower Fellowship in 2004 in recognition of his contribution to medicine in Pakistan. He is the Founder of the Indus Hospital, a highly successful, free of cost hospital in Karachi and the first paperless hospital in Pakistan. Here is an excerpt from the Fellowship website published in 2004. DR.Read More
Shahbudin H. Rahimtoola, M.B., F.R.C.P.,M.A.C.P,,M.A.C.C., D.Sc. (Hon) Dr. Shahbudin Rahimtoola was born in Bombay, India and graduated M.B.B.S from Dow Medical College in 1954. He received the MRCP from the Royal College of Physician of Edinburgh in 1963 and he was awarded the Fellowship in 1972. He came to the United States in 1963 andRead More
