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The
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Professor Dr. Syed Arif Kamal, Founder, Project Director and Principal Investigator of the NGDS Pilot
Project (wearing cap) has a distinguished academic career
(throughout first class first position), with four gold medals awarded for
scholastic achievement. His academic achievements include breaking the record
of Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education, Hyderabad in HSC
Examination, and obtaining Quaid-é-Azam Scholarship for first position in MSc
Examination from University of Karachi (98.8% aggregate marks). He obtained graduate degrees from the
Johns Hopkins University (USA) and Indiana
University, Bloomington (USA). He held visiting positions at Malmö
General Hospital (Sweden) and the Albert
Einstein College of Medicine (New York). He holds a PhD in Mathematical Neuroscience. He developed models of
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human brain, the
human heart and the human spinal column). He has over 27-year experience on the development of moiré techniques (an effective tool for the detection, the documentation, the follow up
and the quantification of curvatures
of spinal column, in particular, scoliosis). He
developed and implemented moiré systems at Malmö General Hospital, Malmö, Sweden and the James Whitecomb Riley
Hospital for Children, Indianapolis, USA. He lectured on moiré
techniques at the Harvard
Medical School (USA), the
Abdus Salam International Center for Theoretical Physics (Italy), University of Karachi and the Aga
Khan University Medical College. He trained master anhropometists of
TAWANA PAKISTAN Project (2003), provided technical support to pediatricians at
the Nishtar Medical College, Multan (2004) and conducted training sessions for
the faculty and the students of Department of Special Education, University of
Karachi to obtain anthropometric measurements of special children (2006). He
has 103 research papers (91 as solo/first/corresponding
author) to his credit. Currently, he is
Professor, Department of Mathematics, University of Karachi and Convener, National-Curriculum-Revision Committee (Mathematics), Higher Education
Commission. During 2003 – 2006, he served as
Chairman of Department of Mathematics (full term of 3 years).
Syed Firdous, Senior Mathematician cum Statistician
(wearing blue shirt in the photograph above), was responsible for anthropometry
and data analysis during 1998-2008. He obtained his MSc from University of
Sindh and worked as Associate Professor and Head, Mathematics Department at
Sindh Muslim Government Science College. He was a member of Board of Studies,
Department of Mathematics, University of Karachi. He has co-authored 10 papers with the Project Director. He
remained active in the project till his death on June 21, 2008. To honor his
contributions for the NGDS Pilot Project, Growth and Imaging Laboratory at
University of Karachi has been renamed as The Syed Firdous Growth and Imaging
Laboratory.
Dr. Shah Jamal Alam is to be remembered for developing the first-generation-growth software
and constructing the NGDS website. He had been associated with this project
during 1998-2002. Just got married to Sadaf, he is heading to US to take up a
postdoctoral position.
Shahid
Ali Khan is assisting us in data collection and developing picture manual of anthropometry.
Nida
Jamil is developing a method to generate a limited growth profile after the
first check up.
Munir
Hussain has, just, joined us and is given the task of developing
one-checkup-growth-profile software.
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