Muhammad Hafizullah


Muhammad Hafizullah is a Pakistani Professor of cardiology who served as Vice Chancellor of Khyber Medical University in Peshawar Chief Executive of Lady Reading Hospital and Head of Cardiology Department of Lady Reading Hospital. He is the Project Director of the Peshawar Institute of Cardiology and has contributed to national guidelines on thrombolysis, acute coronary syndrome, and ST elevation myocardial infarction developed by the Pakistan Cardiac Society.

Education and career

Hafizullah studied at Cadet College Hasan Abdal, earned his medical degree from Khyber Medical College in 1979, and won Foreign scholarship for the Best Graduates for higher studies in England.
He joined the cardiology department of the Postgraduate Medical Institute at Lady Reading Hospital in Peshawar in 1984. Since then, he has held various positions:
Under the umbrella of the Pakistan Cardiac Society, Hafizullah contributed to national guidelines on thrombolysis, acute coronary syndrome, myocardial infarction, stable angina, hypertension, and preventive cardiology. He delivers lectures on preventive cardiology and has written hundreds of articles in leading newspapers and journals.

Affiliations

Hafizullah became a member of the Royal College of Physicians in 1983, of the Royal Colleges of Physicians of Edinburgh and Glasgow in 1995, and of the American College of Cardiology in 2000. He has also received fellowships from the Society for Cardiac Angiography and Interventions, the Asian Pacific Society of Cardiology, the European Society of Cardiology, the College of Physicians and Surgeons Pakistan, and the American College of Physicians.
Other affiliations and positions include: