Team

Experience & Activities

Brig (R) Abdus Sattar SI(M), after graduating (MBBS) from Quaid-i-Azam Medical College, Bahawalpur, joined the Pakistan Army as a career. He qualified with a grading diploma in Pathology and MCPS (Clinical Pathology) in 1984 after one year of training at the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, Rawalpindi (AFIP). During deputation in Saudi Arabia (1985-1988), he submitted guidelines on dietary food supply to Pakistani Troops, which had profound effects on the prevention of obesity, hypertension, and ischemic heart disease, resulting in a significantly decreased incidence of deaths due to IHD.   He did FCPS (Chemical Pathology) in April 1992 & M. Phil (Pathology) in Oct 1992. He underwent “On-the-job Training” in the UK in 1993.

Dr Abdus Sattar served in the Armed Forces for 31 years and mostly served in tertiary Care Hospitals (> 500-bedded hospitals) and the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, Rawalpindi, which is a training institute and a referral laboratory of international repute. As an Armed Forces requirement, he made a tremendous contribution to Medical Defense against CBRNE warfare, prepared management and training policies, imparted training to AMC medical offices, and organized a National Seminar on Medical Aspects of Nuclear, Biological, and Chemical Warfare on 22 May 2006.   He played a key role in the up-gradation of Clinical Pathology Services and, as a result, got recognized by the Pathology Departments of various Armed Forces Hospitals for fellowship training by the College of Physicians & Surgeons Pakistan. He has served as a member of the faculty of chemical pathology, CPSP, and is a supervisor and examiner of FCPS students for over 20 years. He was awarded a complimentary membership of the American Diabetes Association for one year for his review article on “Stress Hyperglycemia. He has been conferred with “Sitara e Imtiaz” Military as recognition of his meritorious services towards the Pakistan Armed Forces. He was awarded the “Lifetime Achievement Award” in Pathology in 2012 to acknowledge his contribution to the field of Pathology.