Dr Adil H. Haider is the Dean of Aga Khan University Medical College and Professor of Surgery and Community Health Sciences - the first alumnus of AKU’s MBBS programme to have this honor. He holds a Master’s degree in Public Health from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health where he trained as a Trauma Surgeon and served as faculty for several years.
Previously, Dr. Haider was the Kessler Director of the Center for Surgery and Public Health-a joint initiative of Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH), Harvard Medical School and Harvard TH Chan School of Public Health. He has mentored over 150 research trainees, published over 350 peer-reviewed papers and served as Principal Investigator (PI) on extramural grants worth more than twenty million dollars. He is the recipient of several awards, including the Ellis Island Medal of Honor (2017), one of the most prestigious honours for civilians in the United States for his contributions towards mitigating race and socioeconomic disparities in healthcare.
Dr Haider has been one of the national leaders responding to the COVID-19 pandemic. Along with co-leading the Academic Medical Centre, he has worked towards forming public-private partnerships with the Government of Pakistan to ensure quality care through various modalities such as telemedicine and online educational offerings for building capacity and safety protocols for healthcare workers.
Selected publications from PubMed
Quality of Trauma Surgery Podcasts in Credibility, Content, and Design.
Merchant AAH, Shah SA, Khursheed AA, Ali M, Najam S, Farooq R, Bakhshi SK, Afzal N, Rahim KA, Shaikh NQ, Haider AH
JAMA Netw Open. 2024 Jun 3;7(6):e2415636 doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2024.15636.
The sleepy surgeon: does night-time surgery for trauma affect mortality outcomes?
Zafar SN, Libuit L, Hashmi ZG, Hughes K, Greene WR, Cornwell EE 3rd, Haider AH, Fullum TM, Tran DD
Am J Surg. 2015 Apr;209(4):633-9 doi: 10.1016/j.amjsurg.2014.12.015.
National estimates of predictors of outcomes for emergency general surgery.
Shah AA, Haider AH, Zogg CK, Schwartz DA, Haut ER, Zafar SN, Schneider EB, Velopulos CG, Shafi S, Zafar H, Efron DT
J Trauma Acute Care Surg. 2015 Mar;78(3):482-90; discussion 490-1 doi: 10.1097/TA.0000000000000555.
Influencing medical student education via a voluntary shadowing program for trauma and acute care surgery.
Stroh DA, Ray-Mazumder N, Norman JA, Haider AH, Stevens KA, Chi A, Rushing AP, Efron DT, Haut ER
JAMA Surg. 2013 Oct;148(10):968-70 doi: 10.1001/jamasurg.2013.363.
Epidemiology and outcomes of non-compressible torso hemorrhage.
Kisat M, Morrison JJ, Hashmi ZG, Efron DT, Rasmussen TE, Haider AH
J Surg Res. 2013 Sep;184(1):414-21 doi: 10.1016/j.jss.2013.05.099.
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