Dr Javed Rizvi Conferred Sitara-e-Imtiaz

Dr Javed Haider Rizvi, Professor and Chair at the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, AKU, was honoured with the Sitara-e-Imtiaz by the Government of Pakistan in March 2004.

The award was conferred upon Dr Rizvi for his contributions to work and research in assisted reproduction as well as undergraduate and postgraduate medical education. Dr Rizvi's forte lies in gynaecology, medical education and curriculum designing, and he has performed ground-breaking work in infertility. In the area of assisted reproductive technology, he has rendered invaluable service to the community by establishing the Concept Infertility Centre in Karachi.

Dr Rizvi is the second Pakistani, after Nobel laureate Professor Abdus Salam, to be conferred a Teaching Fellowship by the Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine in London. He earlier worked with the British Overseas Development Association in designing the medical curriculum for universities in Bangladesh and has been on the examining boards of medical institutions in Pakistan, Malaysia and the UK. With 36 scientific papers in international journals to his credit, as well as six chapters in books on Maternal Health and Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Dr Rizvi is a pioneer in his fields of expertise.

Dr Rizvi completed his postgraduate training from Oxford, Cambridge and London universities in the UK and was the first Pakistani consultant gynaecologist in that country. He is vice president of the Assisted Reproductive Technology (ART) Society of Pakistan and a member of Rotunda Fertility Services' International Advisory Committee. He is also a member of the Asia Pacific Continence Advisory Board and Urogynaecology Committee of the Asian Federation of Obstetrics and Gynaecology.