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AKU Faculty
and Staff Circle the Globe
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Atiya
Hussain (far left) and Rana Hussain, Senior Instructors at
AKU-IED, presented papers titled ‘Turning Biases into Benefits:
A Case of an Early Childhood Public School Multi-Age Classroom
Setting in Karachi’ and ‘Multi-Grade Teaching and Action Research:
Improving Practices in Northern Areas of Pakistan’, respectively,
at the 2nd International Multi-Grade Teaching Conference in
Bangkok, Thailand, in September 2004. |
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Dr
M.A. Wajid, Assistant Professor and Consultant Orthopaedic
Surgeon, Section of Orthopaedic Surgery, was invited to the
Pan Arabic AO courses in Dubai, UAE, in September 2004. Dr
Wajid was on the faculty for courses on advances in operative
fracture management, principles of operative fracture treatment
and operating room procedures. |
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Dr
Irma Bustamante-Gavino, Associate Professor, AKU-SON, presented
a paper titled ‘The Filipino Woman in the Eyes of the Abused’
at ‘Qualitative Research Seminar 2004: Bridging Evidence
and Practice’, organised by University of Malaysia, Sarawak,
in cooperation with International Institute for Qualitative
Research, Canada, in Sarawak, Malaysia, in October 2004. |
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Arusa
Lakhani, Senior Instructor, AKU-SON, presented a paper on
‘A Journey Towards Achieving Organisational Excellence in
a Nursing Educational System in Karachi, Pakistan: An Organisational
Assessment’ at the 4th Annual International Healthy Workplaces
in Action Conference in Toronto, Canada, in November 2004. |
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Dr
Muhammad Shahid, Instructor, Section of Emergency Medicine,
presented a paper on ‘Anxiety and Depression Among Young Adults
Presenting With Chest Pain’ at the 6th Annual Conference of
Society of Emergency Medicine in Mumbai, India, in November
2004. Dr Shahid was awarded an honourable mention for his
presentation. |
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Dr
Javaid A. Khan, Professor and Consultant Chest Physician,
Section of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, attended
a three-day ‘Smoking Cessation Training and Research Programme’
in London, UK, in December 2004. Dr Khan subsequently conducted
a similar workshop in Karachi and trained 50 health care professionals
in smoking cessation. |
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