Prof. Adil Hussian

Professor & Dean
AKU Medical College, Pakistan

Dr Adil Hussain Haider is a graduate of Agha Khan University after which he attained a Master in Public Health degree from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
Upon completion of his training, he joined the faculty at Johns Hopkins Medicine as a trauma surgeon with a joint appointment in their School of Public Health.
He has served as a visiting professor at more than 30 internationally celebrated universities and has held numerous leadership positions in medical and surgical societies including serving as the President of the Association for Academic Surgery. He also continues to serve as the Deputy Editor of JAMA Surgery, the #1 scientific journal in the field.
In 2019, Dr Haider became the Dean of AKU Medical College, where he was also presented with the Kanji Jamal Family Endowed Chair. After moving back to Pakistan, he was appointed as the Chairman of the National Medical and Dental Academic Board of the Pakistan Medical Commission. Dr Haider also serves as an active member of the Prime Minister’s National Task Force on Health which has a broad mandate to reform health delivery and health education across all sectors in Pakistan