Dr Ali Khan Khuwaja, Assistant Professor, Family Medicine and Community Health Sciences, conducted a multi-centre, clinic-based research study to estimate the proportion of long term complications and its associated factors among people with type 2 diabetes and to assess the quality of care provided to them in different clinical settings in Karachi.

He was awarded the ‘Young Investigator Award for the years 2004 – 2005’ for his work entitled ‘Metabolic syndrome and its association with ischemic heart disease in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus in Karachi’. This award is made by the ASEAN countries’ Federation of Endocrine Societies (AFES). This year, 145 research papers were submitted from all over the world including United States, Europe, Asia Pacific region and South Asia. He is the first Pakistani to have received this award.