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Award for “Most Helpful Resident” goes to Year IV’s Prinka Kumari. We promise she doesn’t look like this which is why
@AdilHaiderMD
is grinning. Dr Salman was hastily called to the stage to pretend to be Prinka Kumari on
#AcademicAppreciation
night
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“I was told this is an 8kg cake—JUST LIKE OUR HEALTHIEST NEWBORNS!” quips Dr Salman Kirmani as Prof Shahnaz Ismail’s first patient Ayesha officially opens WCH first floor clinics at
@AKUGlobal
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🎬Remember the children of
#Larkana
who got HIV? They have to take meds for life.
@FatimaMirPedsID
of
@AKUGlobal
talks about a simple innovation that makes that process easier for parents.
She is known as the "HIV lady" for her work in this area. She also told us about some
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Exhibit A: A mummy and a daddy at
@AKUGlobal
marking November 20, 2023, World Children's Day at the Paediatric ward. These humans are also known as "Chair" and "vice chair" at
@AKUPaediatrics
. When not tending to tiny wounded babies, they can be found hunting for bacteria and
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Dr Khadija had her family, did her academics and forged a way in endocrinology. Today we celebrate her becoming Professor at
@AKUGlobal
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Meanwhile, in Istanbul
@imran_nisar
and his team went to talk
#GSED
(global scales for early development by
@WHO
) to measure growth in kids. We’ve got a big study rolling out soon…
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A mummy we know got a prize! The chair of
@AKUPaediatrics
@FyezahJehan
was named a Paul Harris Fellow today by
@Rotary
for her contribution to science and child health. She has joined a group of international smartoos such as polio vaccine developer Jonas Salk. We are so proudy
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Our fantastic PROFESSOR Khadija Humayun, the second belle of the evening. We are celebrating her promotion at
@AKUPaediatrics
tonight
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Dr Zahrah Hoodbhoy is now an Associate Professor! Promotions just came through. Congratulations to our lean mean machine-learning machine.
@HoodbhoyZahra
🎂
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Groan, this is what happens when Endocrinology and Neurology share a faculty pod at
@AKUGlobal
Peels of laughter suddenly erupted at WCH as Prof. Khadija Nuzhat Humayun and Prof. Shahnaz Ibrahim realised they were twinning.
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"If you were putting Xynosine drops in my nose, even I'd be screaming."
The secret to managing parents dealing with screaming congested kids.
Snippet from
@FatimaMirPedsID
's talk at
@TheKidneyCenter
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Dr Ali Shabbir Hussain and Dr Naveed-ur-Rahman Siddiqui just received the Amir Shariff Award for Excellence in Clinical Teaching at
#AKUConvocation
2024
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Here is to celebrating another incredible year for
@AKUPaediatrics
#2023TheYearThatWas
and to a
#HappyNewYear2024
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The infection-hunting brigade:
@FarahQamar11
,
@FyezahJehan
and
@FatimaMirPedsID
at a dinner
@AKUPaediatrics
Dr Fyezah organised as chair (a first at
@AKUGlobal
and recommended by
@AdilHaiderMD
) to mark Dr Farah’s elevation to promotion. Dean Haider narrowly missed the party by a
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When you need extra help to hear the rhonchi in your brain.
The MS4 started their 8-week rotation at
@AKUPaediatrics
. God help us all.
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In true paediatrician-style,
@FyezahJehan
showed up for her
#WorldChildrenDay
video shoot in blue, a colour proven to aid children with neurodevelopmental conditions.
📅Nov 20 🚶♀️ at AKU sports centre and 🖌️ for children
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A new
#ultrasound
device plugs into your cell phone. Imagine if pregnant women across Pakistan had such portable tech.
@HoodbhoyZahra
is using it to turbo-boost ultrasounds with AI at
@AKUGlobal
in collab w
@gatesfoundation
🔗
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Dr Sohail Salat of
@AKUPaediatrics
stands next to the freshly published 'National Guidelines for Small and Sick Newborn Care at Primary and Secondary Healthcare Facilities in Pakistan' which launched this summer.
Next training in Sindh Nov 17.
Pakistan's Paediatric Association,
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Parents often ask
@khadijahumayun
what solid food brands they should feed their babies. She asks them one simple question. "How often do you eat packaged food in a week?"
#NuffSaid
#PaediatriciansRule
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Godspeed
@FyezahJehan
who sent us these few words as she heads to New York for the
#Goalkeepers2030
@gatesfoundation
event and awards. We love that a Pakistani
@AKUGlobal
member will be on stage talking about our science and healing and imagining the impossible 💪🏽✈️🥳🤲🏽
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Book launch alert: 'A Rightful World', an essential child rights book by
@kishwarenam
&
@ShelinaBhamani
and editor
@malihafazalakuh
It's free, it's factual, and it's here to empower. 'Knowledge is power,' emphasizes Dr. Kishwer. 'And don't forget,' adds Dr. Shelina, '1121 is the
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“For God’s sake, don’t play this game of death”: 2yr old Moosa has miraculously survived his neck being slit by a crushed glass-coated kite string in Karachi. Our
@AKUGlobal
PICU team extubated him yesterday. We spoke to his father Kashan about what happened.
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In 1987 Rumana Husain did murals for AKU. Prof Shahnaz Ismail remembered and asked Apa to make new ones for the WCH new clinics. She couldn’t sew any more so she enlisted 17 women from the Rana Liaquat Memorial Community Centre to make them.
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We've got an addition to the Paediatrics team in Karachi. Dr Ambreen Nizar is on the GSED project among many others. She has joined as a Senior Instructor, Research.
Dr Nizar completed her MSc in Epidemiology & Bio-Statistics from Aga Khan University, funded by an NIH
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Our metagenomics team just sequenced the newest
#SARSCoV2
variant: JN1.
@dawn_com
's
@warairfankhan
just reported it after talking to
@imran_nisar
. Here Samiah Kanwar looks at the Pakistan specific SARS-CoV-2 phylogenetic tree and Furqan Kabir stands next to Illumina that spat
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A 360-degree view of the reception as our new clinics on the first floor of WCH at
@AKUGlobal
opening today. We can't imagine the evil joy of bursting all these balloons today. 💥💥💥
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Battle scarred but fighting fit: Palliative care specialist Dr Shehzadi Resham walked away with this injury after night cricket at AKU.
#Ramadan
Mubarak, folks. Here’s to more pre-Sehri matches and in-house Tetanus shots!
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"My father was an educationist but anti-English. That's why we were made to study in Urdu and were then told to become doctors. I had to refer to the dictionary for everything. It was a difficult time but this made me what I am today," says Dr Afia Zafar on Self-Management,
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🚨We are recruiting talent!
Our top researchers, or PIs (principal investigators) will be hiring for studies and trials.
👀 this space
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The
@AKUPaediatrics
floor at the Women & Child Health or WCH building will open Friday, Dec 1. It's sweeping play area has been designed by Hamdan Ahmed Baig, the in-house architect and visual artist
@DawoodTdf
. We asked him to come play for a bit.
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Wrapping up another academic year at
@AKUPaediatrics
as we add 14 young Paediatricians and 5 subspecialists to
#Pakistan
.
God speed to all!
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What would you do if your 14-yr-old
@AKUglobal
patient had a life-limiting illness like Acute Myeloid Leukemia? Well, if you are
@DrSresshah
, Pakistan's only paediatric
#palliative
care physician, you send him to
#PSL
!
@iamamirofficial
are you listening?
@TeamQuetta
📸Video
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April 19 2021 is the day Pakistan became the first country in Asia to acquire a low-field portable MRI, the Hyperfine Swoop. It has done 412 scans so far for clinical & research cases at
@AKUPaediatrics
(73 in the PICU, CICU Clinical Cases, 262 for Mumta, 69 MINE, 7 Prisma
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10 pregnancies and 1 paternity leave made this year the year of Maternity leave—so goes the joke for the batch of 2023 residents at Paediatrics & Child Health. We bid them
#Farewell
and good luck with their new families
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Anyone fancy hitching a ride to the WCH building on the
@AKUglobal
campus?
@FyezahJehan
and
@Doc_Sherazi
are headed there.
#PartyLikeAPaediatrician
on
#WorldChildrensDay
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Our Paeds Peeps are in
#Senegal
for the
@gatesfoundation
#GrandChallenges
We cheer them on from the social media desk at home in
#Pakistan
and post their group photos. Tweets are our hack for keeping track of our faculty. Bismah, this goes in the next newsletter ok? Bookmark it.
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Overheard at Paeds:
“Dr Salman, has your cup runneth over?”
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@drSanaSaaed
@drnrsvd
@DanishAzi
@Qalb2Abbas
Our faculty is creating the next generation of paediatricians! Thank you and congratulations to you all!
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We’ve got live Mirchili chaat stations for the new Profs in the house. In a first we are celebrating our senior faculty promotions at
@AKUPaediatrics
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The 🦅has landed! Rehearsals for the
@gatesfoundation
event this evening in NYC (Sept 19-20) as world leaders gather for the 78th UNGA
@AKUGlobal
Paediatrics Chair
@FyezahJehan
is a
#Goalkeepers2030
for her work on mother-child health. Hey
@MSuzman
we’re counting down in 🇵🇰
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Dr Fahad will do his rounds now, if you please 🤣😂
Our cute patient walking to the operating room clad in white coat and stethoscope! He calls himself Dr fahad ! Ma sha Allah super cute.
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Dr Khadija Humayun did it all, says Dr Salman Kirmani as he pays tribute to her on becoming Professor at
@AKUPaediatrics
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Dr Salman Kirmani has the bowling gene! Team
@AKUPaediatrics
w Capt
@drnrsvd
creams 11 Medical College teams to win the
@AKUGlobal
Ramazan cricket tournament. We’ll be accepting congratulations throughout Ramazan!
📸Akber Madhwani, Arif Mehboobali, Khalid Chunara, Aric, Salman,
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Our team is in Zambia for PRISMA (Pregnancy Risk, Infant Surveillance and Measurement Alliance) training.
PRISMA collects data across 5 South Asian and African countries to gauge risk and develop ways to optimise pregnancy outcomes for mothers and newborns.
@akber_madhwani
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Every child has a right to free movement. That includes rehabilitation if their ability to move has been affected. Meet Izzat Noor, 5, who could not walk properly after a stroke in August. He came to
@AKUPaediatrics
specialist Dr Zehra Habib's amazing rehabilitation centre at
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No babies were harmed in the making of this video. And head of neonatology
@AliSHussain1
just found a ~Rs150,000 cheaper way to get squirmy babies MRIs at AKU. Costs are drastically cut because NO anaesthesia needed, NO ventilators, NO meds. Just a bicycle pump.
MedVac
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اور
@FyezahJehan
کا پیارا اردو پیغام
@AKUGlobal
ڈاکٹر فائزہ 19 اور 20 ستمبر کو گیٹس فاؤنڈیشن کی تقریب کے لیے نیویارک جا رہی ہیں۔
@gatesfoundation
#Goalkeepers2030
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Just some of our amazing organization team members, who made research week 2023 unforgettable. ⭐️️
#PaedsResearchWeek
@AKUGlobal
#LookingOnwards
#ThrivingTogether
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And the coup is complete! The children have taken over the new clinics at WCH building ahead of the scheduled opening ceremony at 1600hrs. Someone telephone GHQ (General Hospital Quarters) aka
@AKUGlobal
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Sorry bub, no cake for you. But thanks for coming out of the cot to take part in World Childrens Day celebrations at
@AKUGlobal
and wearing blue.
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HEY LOOK! It’s the bosslady with The Man. Woot woot! We imagine a world where Pakistani premies get to party on their 5th birthday!
With the man who's changing the world, one initiative at a time. Thank you, Mr. Bill Gates. It was a privilege to meet you ahead of the
#Goalkeepers2030
@gatesfoundation
@BillGates
! 🌍🙌
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"What should I do if my child is having fits?"
We've been getting a lot of questions about this. So we asked Prof. Shahnaz Ibrahim, a paediatric neurologist and the director of AKU's Childhood Development & Rehabilitation Centre, at WCH, to weigh in.
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Day 1 of our investigators meeting at
@AKUGlobal
with our
@IVIHeadquarters
partners from South Korea, alongside our Principal Investigator
@imran_nisar
and
@NadiaAnsari_Beg
. We're charting the course of our upcoming clinical trial - a potential game-changer in the fight against
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📺And LIVE from New York City... we bring you
@FyezahJehan
! The chair of Paediatrics is going to be speaking at
#Goalkeepers2030
Come join us in 🇵🇰on Wednesday at Lecture Hall 1, MC
@AKUGlobal
for a watch party 🎉🥳🪅🍾
5⃣:3⃣0⃣ pm Taaliyan 👏
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Can you spot our
#Goalkeepers2030
from
#Pakistan
,
@AKUGlobal
? HInt:
@FyezahJehan
is wearing blue. She's rockin' the
@gatesfoundation
vibe.
Watch live:
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Our
@AKUPaediatrics
Residency program has a well-being committee for Residents. Our "Wellness breakfast" takes place every 3 months so we have a chance to meet, have fun, chat and break bread.
📸
@DanishAzi
@Doc_Sherazi
@drSanaSaaed
@FyezahJehan
with Dr Hafiz Fasih Ahmed
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And that’s a wrap. Till the next slew of promotions to professor,
@FyezahJehan
with
@AKUPaediatrics
@akber_madhwani
, Karim, Waqar, Dr Arshalooz, Sehrish, Rozina,
@FarahQamar11
@khadijahumayun
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We’re almost awake! It’s a big day today. The ground floor of the new building, WCH (Women&ChildHealth) is OBSGYN. It was recently opened. Today is our turn: the 1st floor, with all our Paediatric clinics.
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If someone you know has had a premature or under-2.5kg baby, show them this video on Kangaroo Mother Care with full instructions here:
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How many leaders does it take to cut at ribbon?
It depends: are their calendars synched?
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We are pleased, so very pleased to tell you that (allergy expert among others) Dr. Shahzaib Khan has been appointed Clinical Assistant Professor in the Department of Paediatrics & Child Health, effective January 1, 2024.
Dr. Khan obtained his MBBS from Ziauddin Medical College in
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Look at all the talent who showed up for our recruitment drive in
#Karachi
We are hiring! For our studies and trials at
@AKUPaediatrics
📸
@imran_nisar
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Show us some love: 8-year-old Inayatullah Pathan who has been receiving treatment for cancer, painted this drawing. Let's see how many of you❤️ it.
#Oncolony
@AKUGlobal
*Photo taken with parental consent
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“We won't restrict your child from eating anything. Nothing is not allowed. Once insulin is administered and carbs are calculated, your child can have a meal." - Dr.
@khadijahumayun
emphasising freedom in managing diabetes. Spoken at the Beat Type 1 Diabetes event in honor of
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"Girls don't just get pregnant on their own, you know."
Sierra Leone's Minister for Secondary Education David Moinina Sengeh 😂
@dsengeh
is the kind of ally we need!
#Goalkeepers2030
@Gates
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The sense of humour at
@AKUPaediatrics
is peer-reviewed. This video was shot in-house on the 1st floor of the new WCH Building. 🎣
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Even the security staff at
@AKUGlobal
are caregivers. Crow ancillary nutrition experiment with gluten-based samples (paratha) underway at Gate No 3.
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#TalentHunt
at
@AKUGlobal
on Saturday Oct 21
@AKUPaediatrics
folks will be answering your questions. But just to give you an idea, our scientists are working on these projects these days.
#CareerOpportunities
#Bioinformatics
#Karachi
#Statistics
#Jobs
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We are privileged to have SONAM
@AKUGlobal
as our partners in the multi-country BRANCH randomised control trial of lactation, coordinated by
@WHO
and funded by
@gatesfoundation
. We are excited to begin our two-week training of trainers for breastfeeding counselling, which
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.
@AKUPaediatrics
new clinics on the 1st floor of Women & Child Health building start Monday, so we did a drill on how to quickly move a sick child to the ER across
@AKUGlobal
's campus
👏please for our residents and nurses who nailed it 💪
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How can you know if your child is
#autistic
? or has
#Autism
?
@SidraKaleemJaf1
is a Developmental Paediatrician at the
@AKUPaediatrics
Child Development & Rehabilitation Centre (CDRC). She walks you through some signs and symptoms. To make an appointment, just WhatsApp the CDRC at
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Today at
@AKUGlobal
, Dr. Arshalooz Rehman and
@DrPaulineSamia
had an enriching dialogue on Pediatric Nephrology. They delved into recurrent UTIs, hypertension, and nephrotic syndrome trends, exploring collaborative research and clinical experiences to enhance patient care.
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Why is there a man talking at a women leadership workshop? Well, by the end of
@SaleemIslam
’s session we will hopefully be disabused of this question
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We are lucky to have
@YaleGH
epidemiologist
@SaadOmer3
in the house.
@mominkazi
and he are talking CHAMPS, a big multi-country study on why newborn babies and children under 5 die.
Every year, nearly six million children under the age of five die. The causes of these deaths
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@drSanaSaaed
And we keep them coming! Dr Naveed-ur-Rehman Siddiqui receives the team award for Innovation in Education for their project “Teaching Through Simulation based Foundation of Paediatric Boot Camp CODE BLUE in a tertiary care center of a developing country: TRANSFORM CODE BLUE"
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The Department of Paediatrics & Child Health at
@AKUglobal
is hosting "World Children’s Week" from Nov 20-24, 2023.
A walk at the AKU Sports Center on Monday will be followed by an art exhibition featuring drawings from schools. The best art will be rewarded.
This year’s theme is
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Question: So what do
@AKUHNairobi
and
@AKUGlobal
have in common?
Ans: Their departments of Paediatrics & Child Health are chaired by women.
@DrPaulineSamia
&
@FyezahJehan
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Ms. Qianqian Xin and Mr. Wen Wei are visiting
@alfasaleem
from
#Sinovac
/Innovax, China to check on a clinical trial for an injectable
#polio
#vaccine
.
Sinovac is sponsoring the sabin strain inactivated injectable polio vaccine (sIPV) trial at 3 sites: 1 in Bangladesh and 2 in
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Very competent candidates, tough competition, says
@DanishAzi
who organised our interviews for the residency prog. Prof. Dr Khadija (endocrinology),
@drSanaSaaed
(vice chair of education at Paeds) hard at work.
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Some good news from the desk of
@imran_nisar
at
@AKUPaediatrics
His paper "Environmental surveillance for COVID-19 using SARS-CoV-2 RNA concentration in wastewater - a study in District East,
#Karachi
, Pakistan" will be out soon in
@TheLancet
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Our
@AKUPaediatrics
@drumairhamid
just received a batch of submissions from Happy Home School for our World Children Day competition on Nov 20. We have a walk planned at
@AKUGlobal
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Correction:
@imran_nisar
organised the talk w Dr Aamir Abbas on ChatGPT. We confess our bias—when we think AI we assume
@HoodbhoyZahra
“Treat ChatGPT as your intern,” says Dr Aamir Abbas on LLM being used in health research. But watch out for AI hallucination—an actual thing. We will post his talk online in case you miss it.
(Organised by
@HoodbhoyZahra
who is using LLM to crank out LMIC solutions like
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Who is the coolest doctor in the hospital? The hip consultant.
#ChildrensDay
at
@AKUGlobal
spread some laughs. The hardworking managers
@akber_madhwani
Rozina Issani, Anas Ali, and Sehrish and Salma.
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All the doctors and healthcare administration officials who attended the
@WHO
influenza vaccine information session by
@imran_nisar
today in Quetta, Balochistan
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Dr
@FyezahJehan
’s partner in crime
@imran_nisar
is 🥳 that she is ✈️ to NYC to speak at
@gatesfoundation
’s
#GoalKeepers2030
event.
@AKUGlobal
represent!
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'Ask not what you can do for your portable MRI Hyperfine scanner, but what your portable MRI Hyperfine scanner can do for you.'
We've got one of these babies at AKU and are taking it to field sites for
@FyezahJehan
and
@HoodbhoyZahra
's research. Nothing can stop us now... *evil
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.
@AKUPaediatrics
loves birthdays, esp for healthy Pakistani premies and neonates making it to their fifth birthday ++. We’re constantly working on childhood vaccines, good gut health, immunity and development... So Salgirah Mubarak, HH Prince Karim Aga Khan and felicitations to
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Former
@AKUGlobal
president Mr Firoz Rasul and Dr Saida Rasul visited us at WCH.
@AKUPaediatrics
Chair
@FyezahJehan
, WCH Chair Dr Salman Kirmani and CDRC Director Prof Shahnaz Ibrahim took them on a tour of the new building that houses both disciplines under one roof.
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Career pathway for young Pakistani who wants to save lives:
MBBS
MSc in Epidemiology
PhD from AKU
AKU vice chair research
WHO
You can thank us later.
🎧 ✂️ of
@FyezahJehan
at
@AKUGlobal
recruitment drive
#Jobs
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Not something you'd see every day: Outgoing Paediatrics Chief Resident Dr Tarab Zehra (in scarf) rubs it in for incoming Chief Resident Rozina Iqbal (grinning out of sheer terror).
2⃣0⃣2⃣4⃣is going to be the year of 👶
📸 Courtesy
@alfasaleem
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Paging
@AKU_CETE
! FLAMINGO IS DOWN! Repeat, FLAMINGO is down. Crash cart stet! Loc: WCH 2nd Floor.
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We have
@AdilHaiderMD
in the hot-seat for some “courageous questions” at our women leadership workshop. Fire away, ladies!
(He initially wondered why we’d want him in the room. His senior comms advisor Saman said he should do the keynote because the yin doesn’t work without
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Paediatric critical care meets endocrinology in
@Qalb2Abbas
&
@khadijahumayun
of
@AKUPaediatrics
— at a dinner to celebrate her promotion to professor at
@AKUGlobal
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Have you ever heard of William’s Syndrome with Supravalvular Aortic Stenosis and
#ALCAPA
—all in one child?
We did. Story time👇🏽
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