Prof. Mirza Naqi Zafar, PhD.

Professor of Pathology and Head of Research and Publication. SIUT, Karachi.

I graduated from the University of London in 1975 and completed PhD in 1979 from the Royal Post Graduate Medical School, University of London.  Currently, my research interests are living donor follow-up care where donors have been followed up yearly in a dedicated clinic, and transplant Immunology where the focus has been on HLA-driven immunosuppression and transplant outcomes.  I have authored more than 100 publications and 4 book chapters.  I am on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Pakistan Medical Association.  Currently, I am secretary General of the Transplant Society of Pakistan, Secretary of the Nephrology Urology and Transplant Society of SAARC countries, member Ethics Committee, Asian Society of Transplantation, member of the American Society of Histocompatibility and Immunogenetics, and till 2022 was Councilor of Asia Region for The International Society of Organ Donation and Procurement.  I was the organizer and Head of the Scientific Committee of the SIUT Conference in 2017 where over 150 invited foreign speakers participated along with 3000 delegates from abroad and Pakistan.  Recently in August 2023, I was spotlighted in the ASHI newsletter.