The Punjab government has appointed Prof Javed Akram as Vice Chancellor of the University of Health Sciences (UHS) Lahore. According to a notification issued by the Specialized Healthcare and Medical Education Department, Prof Javed Akram, who is founding vice chancellor of Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences/Shaheed Zulfikar Ali Bhutto Medical University (SZABMU), Islamabad, and ex-principal of Allama Iqbal Medical College Lahore, will be the vice chancellor of UHS for a tenure of four years with effect from July 26.
Prof Javed Akram is renowned general physician and Prof of Medicine with more than 40 years teaching and research experience in four countries. He specializes in infectious diseases, blood pressure, heart diseases, diabetes and hypertension management. He holds MRCP (UK), FRCP (LONDON), FRCP (Edinburgh), FACC (USA), FACP (USA) and FASIM (USA) qualifications. He is also the medical advisor to the Royal College of Physicians, London.
Prof Akram has served in several clinical, academic and administrative positions and has six books, over 400 research papers, and the PM's Gold Medal for research in the field of Parkinson's disease (1999).