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Category: 2013

  • Dr. Abdul Bari Khan: Dowite 1986 Founder of Indus Hospital Karachi.

    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.…

  • Dow Medical College Faculty List Late 1970’s Early 1980’s

    This is the list of Dow Medical College Faculty in the late 1970 early 1980’s. Courtesy of Class of 1980 as published on their website. Courtesy of Dr. Abdul Rahman, Class of 1980 who has created the website for his class. Prof. Mohammed Manazirul Hasan, Chairman Academic Council; Prof. Abdul Waheed (Dean Faculty of Medicine)…

  • Dow Medical College Class of 1980 Alternate Alumni List.

    This is another list of Class of 1980, graduating in 1981 arranged by first name and from their own website: http://dowalumni1980.tripod.com/id21.html Courtesy of Dr. Abdul Rahman, Class of 1980. CLASS 1980-81 GRADUATES Dr. Abdul Razzak Dr. Ahmed Nadeem Baqai Dr. Abdul Ali Rafiq Ghulam Hussain Dr. Altaf Hussain Dr. Anwar Aqil Dr. Asif Ziaul Haque Malik Dr.…

  • “Where Everybody Knows Your Name”

    Borrowed the line from the famous TV series Cheers’s theme song. In 1980s, it was a big hit and I am sure many of us remember it well. It does resonate with the theme of this blog. Hoping people come to this place … Making your way in the world today Takes everything you’ve got…

  • Dow Medical College Elections 1979

    Elections 1979. Winners with Late Professor M.M. Hassan (Ophthalmology)Principal Abdul Wahid (Anatomy) and Late Professor Razia Latif Ansari.Photo courtesy of Dr. Naseem Shekhani, an Pain Medicine specialist in St. Louis, Missouri andand an activist for humanitarian efforts in Pakistan. Tagged by Amin H. Karim. Please help with therest of the names of standing students.Uploaded by…

  • Student Activism and Politics in a Third-World Medical School

    Student Activism and Politics in a Third-World Medical School: A Truncated Recollection of Events Between 1975 and 1985 Naveed Kamal Shams, MD. Dow Graduate, Class of 1982. Currently, Senior Vice President Research & Development & Chief Medical Officer, OPKO Health, Inc. Miami, Florida Since the creation of Pakistan, student unions have played a pivotal role…

  • Share them and see what magic they perform.

    Any thing about Dow Any item, piece of information, historical accounts, original articles, art work related to Dow will be a great idea to chronicle here on this blog. You may have saved political pamphlets or the election badge you may have kept as a souvenir. May be the class list, the grade book, the…

  • DowLite International 1979

    This precious magazine published by the Dow Medical Student’s Union 1979 under the Presidentship of Rana Mehmood Akthar was gifted to Dr. Syed Hamid Zaki by the Magazine Secretary  Dr. Humayun Zafar on October 10, 1979.  Dr. Zaki in turn gave it to me in 2010. Thanks to both of them. Enjoy the life in…

  • Happy Birthday to Dow – Today is the 68th Birthday

    From December 10th, 1945 to December 10th, 2013   Not marble, nor the gilded monuments Of princes, shall outlive this powerful rhyme; But you shall shine more bright in these contents Than unswept stone besmear’d with sluttish time. When wasteful war shall statues overturn, And broils root out the work of masonry, Nor Mars his…

  • Dowite 1990 Healthcare Efforts.

    Dr. Arshad Umer, a Dowite 1990 has founded a project under the name of Hamara Clinic, a non-profit organization whose mission is to establish free medical clinics in the slums and rural areas of Pakistan and all over the world. He recently visited Pakistan to get a first hand idea of the meager health facilities…