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Dr. Manzoor Ahmad Biosketch cbec SIUT Centre of Biomedical Ethics and Culture Pakistan Sindh Institute of Urology and Transplantation Dr. Manzoor Ahmad Biosketch Dr. Manzoor Ahmad is currently Professor and Chairman Executive Board, Usmania Institute of Technology, Karachi. He is an internationally known scholar with a distinguished academic career. He earned his Ph.D. in the field of Philosophy of Science from London University. He has taught at American Universities and has been a recipient of the distinguished Brown Foundation Fellowship as well as Scholarships and Fellowships from Commonwealth, DAAD, Fulbright, the British Council and the Japan Council. Dr. Ahmad has represented Pakistan at Foreign Ministers’ Conference, Hijra Conference (Mecca), South West Asia Security Conference (Washington) and has been a Presidential nominee on many committees and councils. Dr. Manzoor has held highest academic and statutory positions at different universities and has been an advisor to Pakistan Broadcasting Corporation, Pakistan Television, the National Language Authority and Pakistan Telecommunication Authority. He was instrumental in planning Hamdard Public School and Hamdard University and was the founding Vice Chancellor of the latter. He was Rector of the International Islamic University in Islamabad from 2006 to 2009. Dr. Manzoor Ahmad has published three books, while two more are in the press and has contributed more than eighty articles in journals of international repute. He has been a keynote speaker at many national and international conferences. Centre of Biomedical Ethics and Culture 5th Floor, Dewan Farooq Medical Centre, SIUT, M.A. Jinnah Road, Karachi, Pakistan Phone # (92-21) 32726338 Fax: (92-21) 35206738 Email Address: [email protected] Website: www.siut.org/bioethics .
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