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AKU Faculty and Staff Circle the
Globe in 2003
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At the
Seventh Annual Meeting of the International Association of
Medical Science Educators held in July at Georgetown University
School of Medicine, Washington D.C., USA, Dr. Jamsheer
Talati, Associate Dean, Education, and Zerxes
Spencer, Associate Editor, Journal of Democracy, were facilitators
for a session on 'Medical Faculty's Responsibility to Society
and Social Order'.
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Professor
Riaz Qureshi,
Chair, Department of Family Medicine, delivered two lectures
on 'Low Back Pain in Clinical Practice' and 'Stress and its
Management in Doctors and Patients' at a Family Medicine Conference
organised by the Ministry of Health, Sharjah, UAE, in September. |
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In
September, Dr. Rozina Karmaliani
(BScN, '91), Assistant Professor and
Director of BScN Degree Programme, AKU-SON, spoke on 'Capacity Building
Initiatives for Nurses in Afghanistan and Possible Partnership
Avenues with AKHS in Pakistan and in the Region', at the Third
Health Development Forum held in Istanbul, Turkey. |
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Professor
Laetitia J. King, Regional Director,
ANS Programme East Africa, delivered a keynote presentation
on 'The Challenges of Inter-country and Inter-Continental Collaboration
in Education and Research in Health Related Fields' at the Collaborative
Conversations Conference hosted by the Institute of Health &
Community Studies, Bournemouth University, United Kingdom in
September. |
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Dr.
Shahnaz Ibrahim,
Associate Professor, Department of Paediatrics, spoke on 'Childhood
Psychomotor Retardation and Developmental Regression' at the
Second Scientific Conference of the Paediatric Association of
SAARC countries and Seventh Annual Scientific Conference of
the Sri Lanka College of Paediatricians held in Colombo, Sri
Lanka, in September. |
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In
July, Dr. Razia Fakir Mohammad, Senior
Instructor, AKU-IED, gave a talk on 'A Co-Learning Partnership
in Mathematics in Lower Secondary Classroom: Theory into Practice',
at the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics
Education Conference in Hawaii, USA. |
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Azra Naseem, Instructor, AKU-IED, conducted a week-long
workshop on 'Integrating Technology into the Curriculum' in
August in Dhaka, Bangladesh, organised by the International Academic
Partnership of Aga Khan Education Service, Phillips Academy, the Schule Schloss Salem and AKU-IED.
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At
the Lifelong Citizenship Learning, Participatory Democracy and
Social Change - 2003 Conference in Toronto, Canada, in October, Al-Karim Datoo, Instructor, AKU-IED,
gave a presentation on 'Null and Implicit Curricula and Citizenship
Education in Pakistan'. |
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