Dow Medical College

Sir Hugh Dow laid foundation stone of Dow Medical College, Karachi, on 10th December 1945, at the site of old NJV School. Three weeks later, on 31st December 1945, the college consisting of forty-five students, including one female Muslim student, transferred from Hyderabad to Karachi. The Government of Sindh under the lead of then Health minister Dr. Hemandas Wadhwani, arranged this transfer. {{cite news|url=https://dailytimes.com.pk/701682/the-beginning-of-a-medical-institution/ |title=The beginning of a medical institution |newspaper=Daily Times|location=Pakistan|author=Sohail Ansari|date=15 December 2020|access-date=11 January 2025}} The 20 member teaching faculty was led by Dr Kewalram Tarasing Ramchandani as the Principal. Some staff taught multiple subjects. It was initially housed in the old NJV High School Building on Mission Road. The new building was inaugurated in November 1946. Until 1947, it was an affiliate of University of Bombay. After the independence of India, it was under the University of Sindh. After the University of Karachi was founded, it became its affiliate. It was in 2003 when the Dow University of Health Sciences was established as an independent institution, with Dow Medical College and two other colleges being put under its umbrella.{{cite web

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Dow University of Health Sciences launched its web-based Continuing Medical Education Program named the "e-CME Program for the Family Physicians".{{cite web|url=http://www.duhs.edu.pk/ecme/|title=Welcome to Dow University of Health Sciences|website=duhs.edu.pk|access-date=12 February 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160325232102/http://www.duhs.edu.pk/ecme/|archive-date=25 March 2016|url-status=dead}}

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Dow Medical college is a large provider of physicians to Pakistan and also to the United States. It is the Pakistan medical school with the greatest amount of licensed physicians in the United States per the 2108 FSMB Survey with 3,232 licensed physicians.{{cite web |url =https://www.fsmb.org/siteassets/advocacy/publications/2018census.pdf |title = FSMB Census of Licensed Physicians in the United States, 2018| access-date = 27 April 2021 | publisher = FSMB}} Its notable graduates include:

• Basheer Ahmed - physician and American medical academic
• Abdul Bari Khan - Cardiologist, philanthropist and CEO of Indus Hospital and Health Network
• Adeebul Hasan Rizvi – Transplant Urologist, philanthropist and head of Sindh Institute of Urology and Transplantation.
• Sanjay Gangwani - Pakistani Politician
• Musarrat Hussain, director of Jinnah Post Graduate Medical Centre and president of the Pakistan Psychiatrists Society.
• Rafat Hussain – Deputy Head of the School of Rural Medicine at the University of New England, Australia
• Ishrat-ul-Ibad Khan – Governor of Sindh, Pakistan.
• Shabuddin H. Rahimtoola, MBBS, FRCP [Edin], MACP, MACC, D.Sc. (Hon) - Author, Cardiologist at Mayo Clinic best known for his work in valvular heart disease, coronary artery disease, results of cardiac surgery, and arrhythmias along with cardio-myopathy and congenital heart disease.
• Fahad Mirza - Actor and Model
• Azra Raza - Author, Director of Myelodysplastic Syndrome (MDS) Center at Columbia University
• Javed Iqbal Kazi, Dean of medicine- University of Karachi, Sindh Institute of Urology & Transplantation
• Nausheen Hamid - Pakistani politician and social activist, member of the National Assembly of Pakistan
• Tahir Shamsi - Pakistani hematologist and bone marrow pioneer

• [http://duhs.edu.pk/ Official Website of Dow University of Health Sciences]
• [http://dowalumni.com/ DOW Graduates Association of North America (DOGANA)]
• [http://www.freewebs.com/dogane/ DOW Graduates Association of Northern Europe]
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20160325232102/http://www.duhs.edu.pk/ecme/ DUHS e-CME Programme]
• [https://www.medschool.umaryland.edu/profiles/ Mohiuddin-Muhammad/Muhammad M. Mohiuddin, MBBS]

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• [http://www.duhs.edu.pk/ Dow University of Health Sciences – Official website]
• [http://www.brecorder.com/index.php?id=669007&currPageNo=1&query=&search=&term=&supDate= Complete Profile – Business Recorder.com] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210508043802/http://www.brecorder.com/index.php?id=669007&currPageNo=1&query=&search=&term=&supDate= |date=8 May 2021 }}
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20160325232102/http://www.duhs.edu.pk/ecme/ DUHS e-CME Programme]
• [https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/10/health/heart-transplant-pig-bennett.html/ In a First, Man Receives a Heart From a Genetically Altered Pig]

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