Medical Staff

Cardiology
Dr. Faiz Ur Rehman
Dr. Amber Malik

Echo-cardiography
Dr. Uzma Kazmi
Dr. M. Saleem Akhtar

Endocrinology
Dr. Syed Abbas Raza

Gastroenterology
Dr. M. Aasim Yusuf
Dr. M. Qayyum Khan

Infectious Diseases
Dr. Faisal Sultan
Dr. Hammad Nazir (Head of the Department)
Dr. Ashraf Ali Khan

Nephrology
Dr. Nauman Tarif
Dr. Syed Arslan Khalid

Psychiatry
Dr. Sheheryar Jovindah

Pulmonology
Dr. Faheem Mahmood Butt
Dr. Ali Saeed Wahla
Dr. Irtaza Iqbal Khan
Dr. M. Sabir Chaudhry

MRCP/FCPS Trainees
There are twenty four Part II positions.           

Facilities & Services

• General Medicine
  
  
• Infectious Diseases
  
  • Febrile neutropaenia service
  • HIV infection
  • The Infectious Diseases service is in the process of obtaining recognition as a training site leading to the FCPS in Infectious Diseases.

• Cardiovascular Diseases
  
  • Echocardiography Exercise
  • Treadmill Testing

• Pulmonary Medicine
  
  • Bronchoscopy with lavage and biopsy
  • Transbronchial biopsy
  • Laryngoscopy
  • Pleuroscopy
  • Foreign body removal

• Critical Care Service
  
  • Modern ICU with facilities for mechanical ventilation and invasive monitoring
  • Staffed by fully qualified respiratory technicians and ICU nurses
  • Supervision by a full time Intensive Care Specialist

• Gastroenterology
  The department runs daily Consultant run clinics for GI disorders.  
  
  • Liver Diseases
    The hospital is a referral center for cirrhosis and its complications.  Consultants are well-versed in innovative and comprehensive therapies for liver disease including complications of cirrhosis. The Hospital is a tertiary referral center for primary liver cancer or hepatocellular carcinoma.
  • Medical, surgical, and radiological specialists cooperate closely to diagnose and treat all types of liver disease and disorders including liver masses.  Staff have extensive experience with relatively uncommon hepatobiliary procedures including resection of biliary tract cancer, resection of liver cancer, ablation of liver cancers using a radio frequency probe and chemoembolization of liver tumors.
  • Endoscopy Services
    Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital and Research Center provides state of the art diagnostic and therapeutic endoscopic facilities. The purpose-built, endoscopy Unit provides facilities for all endoscopic procedures and is fully equipped with the latest videoscopes and recording systems. A computerized reporting system ensures a permanent record is maintained of all the procedures performed. International standards of cleansing and sterilization of equipment are followed to ensure patient safety.
  • Upper GI Endoscopy (oesophago-gastroduodenoscopy)
    Diagnostic and therapeutic OGD including dilatation, polypectomy, banding, metallic stent placement, argon plasma coagulation (APC) therapy, metallic stent and percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy (PEG) placement
  • Lower GI endoscopy (Colonoscopy)
    Diagnostic and therapeutic colonoscopy including polypectomy, dilatation, argon plasma coagulation (APC) and metallic stent placement.
  • Endoscopic retrograde Cholangiopancreatography (ERCP)
    Diagnostic and therapeutic ERCP including biliary / pancreatic stone removal and / or stent placement, both plastic as well as metallic.
    
  • Endoscopic Ultrasound (EUS)
    Diagnosis and staging of esophageal cancer
    Diagnosis and staging of pancreatic cancer
    EUS guided FNA of mediastinal masses/lymph nodes
    EUS guided pancreatic mass FNA
    EUS-guided aspiration of cystic lesions
    Coeliac axis neurolysis for pain control
    Diagnosis, imaging and treatment of pancreatic pseudocysts
    
  • Other Tests / Procedures
    Small bowel enteroscopy
    Liver biopsy
    PEG tube change
    
    
• Endocrinology
• Nephrology
• Neurology
  

Training

Research

Awards, Certifications & Affiliations