Farid Ahmad Khan

Prof.Dr Farid Ahmad Khan is a Pakistani physician and plastic surgeon. He served as chairman, dean and principal at Sheikh Zayed Medical Institute Lahore from 2015 to 2018.[1][2]He is a former Head of Plastic Surgery department at Services Institute of Medical Sciences, Lahore. He is currently a Member Higher Educucation Commission (HEC) of Pakistan.[3]

Farid Ahmad Khan
Born (1963-02-12) 12 February 1963
Lahore, Pakistan
NationalityPakistani
EducationMBBS, Punjab

FCPS, Punjab

FRCS, Edinburgh
Alma materGovernment Central Model High school, Lahore

Government College University, Lahore King Edward Medical University (KEMU), Lahore College of Physicians and Surgeons, Punjab

Royal College of Surgeons of Edinburgh
Occupation(s)Plastic Surgeon, Doctor

[4]He is also a former registrar at King Edward Medical University.[1]Khan is the founding president of the Pakistan Burn Association, from 2016 to 2018. He established the largest burn center in Punjab for poor patients in Mayo Hospital Lahore. He is also the first Pakistani surgeon to start Microvascular free flap Surgery, at Mayo hospital in 2000.[5] During his tenure as Chairman of Shaikh Zayed hospital, Shaikh Zayed Hospital was the only public sector hospital in the province which had successfully completed more than 100 liver transplants and more than 800 kidney transplants.[6]

Early life and education

Khan was born in 1963 at Lahore. His father, Dr. Rasheed Ahmad Khan served in the Pakistan army. Khan completed his matriculation from Government Central Model high School in 1978. He received the Quaid-e-Azam Gold medal for standing first in Lahore board.[7] He also obtained first position across all Boards of Pakistan and broke all records, obtaining an unprecedented 802/850 marks in his Secondary School Certificate.[8] In 1983 he received another gold medal for being the Centenary best student (from 1883 to 1983) at Central Model High School.

Khan completed his MBBS from King Edward Medical University in 1987. He received distinctions in his first, second, third and final professionals.

Farid Ahmad Khan received a total of 6 gold medals and numerous distinctions during his undergraduate years.

Khan completed his FCPS in plastic surgery from the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Pakistan in 1998. He then completed his FRCS from the Royal College of Surgeons, Edinburgh in 1999.

Career

Khan's first appointment was as a House Officer at Mayo Hospital, Lahore in 1987. Khan moved to the UK in 1995 and served as a senior House Officer at The Queen Victoria Hospital of Plastic Surgery, East Grinstead. From 1996 to 2000, Khan worked as Regsitrar Plastic Surgery at Leicester Hospital, Stevenage and St. John's hospital, Edinburgh.

Khan returned to Pakistan in 2000 and worked as an Associate and assistant professor of Plastic Surgery at KEMU and Mayo Hospital until 2008. He then became a Professor and Dean of the Plastic Surgery department at both KEMU and Mayo Hospital until 2015.[9]

Khan also served as the Registrar of King Edward Medical University in 2011.[9]

Khan worked as Professor and head of department at the Federal Postgraduate Medical Institute and Shaikh Zayed Hospital, Lahore from 2015 and 2018. During this time period, he served as the Chairman of Shaikh Zayed Medical Complex.[10] He was also appointed as the Principal and Dean of Shaikh Khalifa Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan Medical and Dental College from 2015 to 2018.[11] In 2022, he worked as the principal of Services Institute of Medical Sciences.

Khan retired as a professor and Head of Plastic Surgery department at Services Institute of Medical Sciences, Lahore [12] in 2023.

In August 2023, Khan was appointed as a Member Higher Education comission (HEC) by the Government of Pakistan.[3]

References
  1. Staff Reporter (11 April 2015). "Shaikh Zayed Hospital gets Chairman after 10 Months". Dawn. pp. First page. Retrieved 18 June 2022. The Punjab government has appointed King Edward Medical University (KEMU) Registrar Prof Dr Farid Ahmad Khan as chairman and dean of the Shaikh Zayed Postgraduate Medical Institute/Shaikh Zayed Hospital.
  2. Chaudhry, Asif (14 April 2022). "36 Apply for Coveted KEMU VC slot". Dawn. pp. First. Retrieved 18 June 2022. Former Shaikh Zayed Hospital, Lahore, chairman Prof Farid Ahmad Khan
  3. Reporter, The Newspaper's Staff (2023-08-07). "Shehbaz appoints 10 new HEC members". DAWN.COM. Retrieved 2023-09-08.
  4. "Prof.Dr. Farid Ahmad Khan". Alrazi Hospital. 2018. Retrieved 18 June 2022.
  5. "An Account of First Five Case of Microvascular Free Tissue Transfer at Mayo Hospital, Lahore". Annals of King Edward Medical University. 8 (2). 9 July 2017.
  6. "Chinese Delegation visits Shaikh Zayed Hospital Lahore". Pakistan Today. 2017. pp. First page. Dr Farid added that the Shaikh Zayed Hospital was the only public sector hospital in the province which had successfully completed more than 100 liver transplants and more than 800 kidney transplants
  7. Staff Reporter (25 July 1978). "لاہور تعلیمی بورڈ نے میٹرک کے نتیجے کا الان کردیا". روزنامہ نواۓ وقت. p. 7. طالب ے علم فرد احمد خان کو قائد ے آزم گولڑ میڑل دیا جا رہا ہے (picture)
  8. Staff Reporter (25 July 1978). "Farid Aspires to Join the Army". Pakistan Times. p. 9. Mr. Farid Ahmad Khan, roll no. 25801 topped the list of successful candidates of the Secondary School Examination (spring) of 1978 by securing 802 marks out of 850. The result was declared on monday night.
  9. Staff Reporter (11 April 2015). "Shaikh Zayed Hospital gets Chairman after 10 Months". Dawn. p. 1. Retrieved 30 June 2022. Prof Khan is set to assume charge of his new position on Saturday (today). Chairman of Plastic Surgery and Burns Unit at the KEMU, Prof Khan had been the registrar of the same institute for four years.
  10. Chaudhry, Asif (21 December 2021). "KEMU ex-VC posted as PHOTA DG". Dawn. pp. First page. Retrieved 30 June 2022. Former chairman of the Shaikh Zayed Hospital Prof Farid Ahmad Khan
  11. Staff Report (2018). "Workshop on rhinoplasty held at Shaikh Zayed Hospital". Daily Times. pp. First page. Retrieved 30 June 2022. The workshop was attended by renowned plastic and ENT surgeons from all over the world, including Prof Dr Farid Ahmad Khan Professor of Plastic Surgery and Chairman and Dean Shaikh Zayed Medical Complex Lahore
  12. "Prof. Dr Farid Ahmad Khan". Sims.edu.pk. Retrieved 30 June 2022.
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