DR.MUHAMMAD MUNIR
Dr. Muhammad Munir has
very recently joined King Edward Medical University as
Professor and Head, Department of Pathology. He is one of
the senior most serving Medical microbiologists in the
country. Dr Muhammad Munir has the honour of working with
and being trained by some of the eminent microbiologists of
their time like Professor Salima Alvi, Professor Zafar- ul-
Aziz, Professor Fateh Muhammad Chaudhry and Prof Maj.
General (retd.) Abdul Hanan. He has a vast and rich
experience of teaching the undergraduate and postgraduate
students (Diploma and degree classes) for the last 25 years.
He has also been supervising the M.Phil (Microbiology)
students under the guidance of Professor Naseer Ahmad
Chaudhry and Professor Muhammad Tayyab. Apart from his
teaching and planning assignments Professor Dr. Muhammad
Munir has also worked as specialist clinical Pathologist and
Microbiologist at a secondary care Military Hospital in the
Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
During the
year1999 he was nominated by the Government of Pakistan to
attend a training course “Virological diagnosis of HIV
infection” at National institute of Health Tokyo, Japan and
seminar on “project management” organized by International
Cooperation Agency, Japan.
Dr Muhammad
Munir is leading a team of very efficient, able, well
qualified, dedicated and motivated faculty members. Some of
the key points of his and his team’s vision about running
the department of Pathology include: raising the standard
and scope of diagnostic facilities, development of curricula
for M. Phil and PhD courses in different disciplines of
pathology: suggest changes in the curricula of the
undergraduate courses to make them more objective and
structured, bringing them in line with the latest curricula
being followed elsewhere.
He is also striving for establishing a ‘Molecular Cell
biology and Genetics centre” at the Department of Pathology
in collaboration with Professor Samina Naeem and Foreign
Professor Dr. Fridoon Jawad Ahmad at the Department of
Pathology KEMU, Lahore. The Department of Pathology seems
destined to reach unparallel standards of excellence under
his dynamic leadership
