Somia Iqtadar

Dr. Somia Iqtadar  is an accomplished physician serving in the capacity of Associate Professor of Medicine at King Edward Medical University Lahore,Pakistan.Dr Iqtadar is a fellow of College of Physicians and Surgeons Pakistan and Royal College of Physicians London. She was also awarded Fellowship of Pakistan society of Internal Medicine. Dr Iqtadar is  also appointed as adjunct faculty in Institute of Public Health and University of Health Sciences Lahore, Pakistan. She has been actively engaged in the medical education, research and clinical leadership. Being an avid member of several health and medical education committees and having estimable membership of several national and international Medical Advisory Boards, she has contributed immensely, restricted not only to the medical community that included teaching, training, and conducting numerous workshops, but also routinely provides public healthcare awareness on several national and international written, digital and televised forums. 

She is the founder Secretary General of Pakistan Society of Internal Medicine the most dynamic medical organization of the country with twenty national and five international chapters under which she has organized numerous CME activities and six international conferences in Pakistan UK and UAE She has numerous publications in indexed national as well as international journals of high impact factor. She is reviewer of many national and international journals and also Associate editor of Journal of Pakistan Society of Internal Medicine and Frontiers of Tropical Medicine.  

Dr Iqtadar has contributed to Kumar and Clark Text Book of Medicine authoring three chapters on Dengue Ebola and Congo. She’s also the editor and International advisory board member of McMaster text book of Medicine. She has also a contributing author in books, Telemedicine A novel way to fight Pandemic, A success story from Pakistan and Hyperglycemia in Pregnancy. She is the primary author of Guidelines on Dengue, Congo ,Influenza, Ebola and COVID-19 in her country and author of two handbooks on Dengue in 2012 and2020. She has been trained in Sri Lanka, AIT Thailand and WHO Singapore on Dengue and worked incapacity of Secretary and then Chairperson Dengue Expert Advisory Group and has recently formulated first national Dengue guidelines in pregnancy. She is also member of international society of hypertension (ISH),Dengue advisory group(DAG) International Society of Neglected Tropical Diseases (ISNTD), member American Society of Tropical Medicine and hygiene (ASTMH)and is advisor to WHO on arboviral diseases where she also serves as master trainer on Clinical management of Dengue. She is also a Member Corona Technical Working Group and Corona Expert Advisory group Typhoid, Cholera and Monkeypox Pakistan. 

She has represented Pakistan in numerous international conferences, including prestigious forums like EASD,ISH,Asia Dengue Summit,Asia Vaccine Conference, McMaster  International Review Course in Internal Medicine and many more presenting her research and experiences. Her areas of interest include cardio metabolic medicine, women health and leadership, infectious diseases and tele-medicine. Dr Iqtadar is on advisory board of Women in global health Pakistan chapter and was part of Pakistan panel of WGH in gender Equality forum in Paris in year 202.She has recently launched the Women in healthcare leadership program in Pakistan, first in South Asian region in collaboration with Royal College of Physicians London. She is also Punjab lead for Women in leadership league in Medicine 

Her work on dengue was recognized by International society of Neglected Tropical Diseases where her contribution to Dengue tracking system in Pakistan won the best application award in ISNTD festival in UK March2020.She was also nominated for civil award Sitara e Imtiaz by department of Health Punjab in year2020.She was awarded Women health hero award in 2020 by Women Chamber of Commerce and Industry and honored by Governor’s award for her remarkable contribution in health sector in year 2021.She was awarded with Presidential award of Excellence in year 2022 for her contribution to diabetes care in the country. She has also been awarded Charles Wallace fellowship with attachment in Oxford University to work on antimicrobial resistance for year 2022-2023. 

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