Dr. Farhat Moazam is the founding Chairperson of CBEC, and has had a long academic career. She was the founding Chairperson of the Department of Surgery and the first Associate Dean for Post Graduate Medical Education, FHS, in Aga Khan University, Karachi. Currently she is also a Fellow of the Institute of Practical Ethics and Visiting Professor at the Center for Humanism in Medicine, at the University of Virginia, USA.

Dr. Moazam has been an invited speaker at many national and international conferences on topics that have included Islamic Perspectives on Abortion; Foundational Ethical Concepts in Islam: The Qur’an, Imam al-Ghazali, and Muslim Physicians; Local Moral Worlds: Reflections on Renal Transplantation in Pakistan, and From Individualistic Ethics to Relational Morality.

She has published extensively in her areas of interest. Her doctoral dissertation, Bioethics and Organ Transplantation in a Muslim Society: A Study in Culture, Ethnography and Religion, was published by the Indiana University Press, USA in September, 2006.

Email: famoz@mindspring.com

Dr. Anwar Naqvi is a well known name in the field of urology and transplantation nationally and internationally. He is Vice President of the Pakistan Association of Urological Surgeons (PAUS), and a Council Member representing Pakistan in the Middle East Society for Organ Transplantation (MESOT) and at the Asian Society of Transplantation (AST).

He was Managing Secretary of the Journal of the Pakistan Medical Association (JPMA), the oldest and most respected internationally indexed medical journal from Pakistan, and has contributed over 50 publications in internationally indexed journals. He has written two chapters, “Resistance to Cadaver Organ Donation: Experience in a Developing Country” and “Fallouts of Commercialism in Organ Donation as seen in Pakistan,” both published in Organ Replacement Therapy: Ethics, Justice, Commerce (Springer Verlag: Germany).

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Dr. Aamir Jafarey joined CBEC in October 2004 after training in bioethics as a Fogarty Fellow in the Department of Population and International Health, Harvard School of Public Health. He is also Lecturer and Consultant General Surgeon at Aga Khan University, Karachi.

Dr. Jafarey has been involved in bioethics related activities in Pakistan since 1997. He has been the recipient of several grants for bioethics related projects. He has conducted several research projects and has published in national and international journals. He has been invited to present papers and conduct workshops at vatious institutons nationally and across the region. Dr Jafarey serves as the Coordinator of the Ethical Review Committee of SIUT.

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Dr. Rubina Naqvi is a Nephrologist on the faculty of Sindh Institute of Urology and Transplantation (SIUT), Karachi. She is an alumnus of the Postgraduate Diploma Program of CBEC, Class of 2006 and has been a part of the CBEC associate faculty since 2008. She teaches biomedical ethics to medical technology students at the ZA School of Medical Technology, SIUT.

Dr. Rubina is a member of the Asian Bioethics Association and the Karachi Bioethics Group. She also serves on the Ethics Review Committee of SIUT. She has attended and presented papers at national as well as international conferences of bioethics.

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Dr. Bushra Shirazi is a general surgeon on the faculty of Ziauddin University (ZU), Karachi with an interest in clinical ethics. She has a Postgraduate Diploma in Biomedical Ethics from CBEC and was appointed to its faculty in 2008. Dr. Shirazi is currently enrolled in the MA Bioethics program (Class of 2011) of the Sindh Institute of Medical Sciences (SIMS), Karachi.

Dr. Shirazi is a member of the ZU committee that developed the bioethics curriculum for its medical students, and is responsible for taking ethics education sessions for students and faculty. She is also a member of the Ethics Review Committee of ZU. Dr. Shirazi is actively involved in CBEC educational programs including national workshops and seminars, and has presented several papers in national and international bioethics related conferences. She is currently serving as the Vice President (West Asia) of the Asian Bioethics Association. She also holds memberships of the Karachi Bioethics Group and the Ethical Review Committee of Ziauddin University.

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Ms. Anika Khan is a remedial teacher working at READyslexics, Karachi. She has worked with children and adolescents with dyslexia since 1998. She also works as a trainer in the READ diploma course for remedial teachers and has extensive experience in running workshops for teachers and parents on dyslexia, ADHD, and the teaching of academic skills like creative writing and phonics. She has a Bachelor in Arts from Kinnaird College, Lahore and is currently enrolled in the MA Bioethics program (Class of 2011) of the Sindh Institute of Medical Sciences (SIMS), Karachi.

Ms. Khan is also involved in running workshops and training programs for schools in disadvantaged areas. She has conducted two workshops for schools on the teaching of ethics and is currently doing a pilot project on teaching ethics in a government school. She hopes to extend her work on ethics by conducting more workshops for teachers based on her present experience.

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Abdul Wahab Suri, Ph.D
Assistant Professor
Department of Philosophy
University of Karachi
Karachi, Pakistan

Amar Jesani, M.D
Managing Trustee, Anusandhan Trust
Coordinator of the Centre for Studies in Ethics & Rights
Mumbai, India

Asif Aslam Farrukhi, MPH
Writer and Critic
Health & Nutrition Specialist
UNICEF
Karachi, Pakistan

Asma Fozia Qureshi, FCPS, DCH
Chairperson
Department of Medical Education
Sindh Institute of Urology and Transplantation
Karachi, Pakistan

Kausar S. Khan, MA       
Associate Professor
Community Health Sciences
Aga Khan University
Karachi, Pakistan

Khalid Zaheer, Ph.D
Assistant Professor
School of Arts and Sciences
Lahore University of Management Sciences
Lahore, Pakistan

Mala Ramanathan, MA, Ph.D
Associate Professor
AMCHSS, SCTIMST
Kerala, India

Manzoor Ahmed, Ph.D
Professor, Chairman of the Board
Usman Institute of Technology
Karachi, Pakistan

Mohsin Naqvi, MA, Ph.D
Member of Council of Islamic Ideology
Government of Pakistan
Karachi, Pakistan

Muhammad Khalid Masud, MA, Ph.D
Chairman,
Council of Islamic Ideology
Government of Pakistan
Islamabad, Pakistan

Murad Moosa Khan, MBBS, MRCPsych, CCST, Ph.D
Professor
Department of Psychiatry
Aga Khan University
Karachi, Pakistan

Naim Siddiqi, MBBS, MRCPsych
Consultant Psychiatrist
Aga Khan University
Karachi, Pakistan

Paul A. Lombardo, JD., Ph.D
Professor of Law
Georgia State University, College of Law
Atlanta, Georgia, USA

Richard Cash, MD, MPH
Senior Lecturer
Department of Population and International Health
Harvard School of Public Health
Boston, USA

Riffat Moazam Zaman, Ph.D
Professor
Department of Psychiatry
Aga Khan University
Karachi, Pakistan

Sahin Aksoy, MD, Ph.D
Professor
Department of Medical Ethics and History of Medicine
Harran University
Sanliurfa, Turkey

Sharmeen Ali Khan, LLM, LLB (Honors)
Director Legal & General Counsel for Pakistan
Pfizer Global Pharmaceuticals
Islamabad, Pakistan
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