- TFOS global ambassadors and international chapter affiliate
Pakistan
Muhammad Aamir Shahzad
Muhammad Aamir Shahzad is a dynamic academician with 21 years of professional medical experience. He is a graduate from Nishtar Medical University, Multan, followed by Nishtar Medical College. Aside from his academic and professional activities in college, he was actively involved in extra-curricular activities, including being “Publication In-charge” of his college annual magazine “Nishtar.” Dr. Shahzad completed his FRCS Ophthalmology from the Royal College of Surgeons of Glasgow, UK. He was awarded a Medical Retina Fellowship by “the International Council of Ophthalmology” and he completed his training at the prestigious Leicester Royal Infirmary UK, Department of Ophthalmology. Dr. Shahzad worked at Centre of Excellence, Singapore National Eye Centre, and is currently working as Assistant Professor of Ophthalmology at Aziz Fatimah Medical and Dental College (AFMDC) in Faisalabad, Pakistan. Dr. Shahzad’s main medical interests are the retina and ocular surface diseases. He participated as a speaker in many national Ophthalmology conferences organised by the Ophthalmological Society of Pakistan (OSP), and worked as an “Aide” to Scientific Committee of 22nd Congress of Asia Pacific Academy of Ophthalmology, held in Lahore, Pakistan (2007). Dr. Shahzad was first-author of a multi-center study that he presented at the World Ophthalmology Congress (WOC) in 2012 in Abu-Dhabi, and was a reviewer for a program submitted for 2016 WOC in Mexico. He is a member of the Editorial Board of the “Journal of Ocular Infection & Inflammation” and has published some research articles in high impact peer-reviewed, indexed journals, and is Principal Investigator for a number of studies being conducted. Dr. Shahzad hails from “City of Saints,” Multan. Currently, he lives in Faisalabad, a city in eastern Punjab, Pakistan, with his wife Shazia, daughter Zynab, and two sons, Moosa and Eesa. He enjoys outdoor activities with his family and friends when he is “off the clock.”