This article is related to the recognition of Dr. Sultan Ahmed (Dow 1963) for his life long services to Dow and CHK.
He was given the Lifetime Achievement Award in 2006
July 2006
S. Sultan Ahmed, MD, SQA,
Dr. Sultan Ahmed entered Dow Medical College in 1958 after obtaining B.Sc. from D.J. Science College, Karachi. He graduated from Dow in class of 1963. His graduate training began in Civil Hospital Karachi. In United Stated Dr. Sultan Ahmed began his Rotating Intern in Samaritan Hospital, Troy, NY, then residency and Cardiology fellowship and post graduate fellowship was completed at CMDNJ, USPHS & NIH and UMDNJ, Newark, NJ.
Selected Academic & Staff Positions: 1971-1972: Instructor in Medicine, UMDNJ Medical School, Newark, NJ; 1972-1975 Assistant Professor of Medicine, UMDNJ, Newark, NJ; 1975-1980 Associate Professor of Medicine, UMDNJ Medical School; 1975 Present: Director, Stress Testing laboratory, University Hospital; 1976-1995: Co-Director, Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory; 1980-Present: Professor of Medicine, UMDNJ Medical School, Newark, NJ.
Recognition In Teaching; Department of Medicine Nominee for Extra Merit Award for Clinician Teacher of the Faculty of New Jersey Medical School (1981) Exceptional Merit Award-UMDNJ (1982); Designated Clinician Scientist/Teacher for the Department of Medicine (1988); Awarded Shield for meritorious teaching, Armed Forces Institute of Cardiology/National Institute of Heart Disease, Rawalpindi, Pakistan (part of United Nations Development Program & TOKTEN) (1988 & 1992); Awarded: ” Pakistan Academy of Medical Sciences Professor-97″ Awarded PAMS-Professorship, Pakistan Academy Medical Sciences, Islamabad, Pakistan, December 3, 1999; Nominated for “Golden Apple” Student Council, NJMS (1999, 2001 & 2003) Voted very highly as “excellent teacher” by medical residents and cardiology faculty annually for the past twenty years.
Research & Publications: 25 Grants as investigator and co-investigator from NIH, American Heart and other foundations; 128 full publications and abstracts in peer-reviewed journals. Chapters in 8 books and authored one book; 200 presentations at local, national and international meetings.
Service to University hospital, NJMS & UMDN; Chief, Medical Service (1986-1991) Co-Director, Cardiac Cath lab (1976-1994); Director, Stress lab (1976-present); Member, Executive committee (1988-1990); Chairman, FCAP, Faculty Affairs, & Student Affairs Committees; Member Faculty Council (1981-1990); Chairman, IRB (1981-1983); President, AAUP (1989); President, NJMS Faculty Org (1988); Member University-wide committee of Review (1985-86); Member, of many Boards of trustees, professional and ethnic societies
Selected Awards & Honors; Fellow of many American Colleges (Cardiology, Physicians, Chest Physicians, Clinical Pharmacology) & Royal college of Canada, and professional societies (Physiology, Society of Cardiac intervention & Angiography and Royal Society of Medicine of UK); Exceptional Merit Award-University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (1982); Delivered the Opening Lecture at the inauguration of Medical Research Society of Pakistan; Awarded “Sitara Quide Azam (SQA)” by President of Pakistan for meritorious service (1993); Lifetime Achievement Award, Principal & Faculty, Dow, Karachi, Pakistan (2003); “2005 Faculty of the Year” by faculty of New Jersey Medical School; International Consultancies & Visiting professorships; 1984-1992: Consultant, National Talent Pool, Govt. of Pakistan & Visiting Professor, Dow Medical College, Armed Forces Institute of Cardiology, Postgraduate Institute of Medicine, Peshawar, Punjab Medical College, (TOKTEN) Faisalabad, Pakistan; 2001: Member, President of Pakistan’s Task Force on Human Development.
