Director HTC
Hemophilia Patient Welfare Society RAWALPINDI PAKISTAN
Rawalpindi, Pakistan
Tahira Zafar MD
MBBS,DCP,MRCPath ,FRCPath
• Director Haemophilia Treatment Centre (HTC), Haemophilia Patient’s Welfare Society (HPWS), Rawalpindi, Pakistan.
• Chairperson Medical Advisory Board (MAB)HPWS Rawalpindi
• Member National MAB, Haemophilia Foundation of Pakistan (HFP)
• Member, Executive Board, Hemophilia Patients Welfare Society, Rawalpindi
• Professor of Haematology, Frontier Medical College, Abbotabad, Pakistan
• Member, Steering committee, WFH, HEMNET group
• Faculty Member, The Aslan Project for educating physicians in developing countries for care of children with cancer
• Founder member, Hemophilia Patients Welfare Society & HTC , Rawalpindi
Graduation: King Edward Medical College, Lahore Pakistan
Training in UK: St Georges Hospital Medical School
Royal free Hospital & Medical School i
Kent Hemophilia Center ,Canterbury
Experience in Pakistan : Armed Forces Institute of Pathology (AFIP), Rawalpindi Pakistan.
Founded Haemophilia patients Welfare Society (HPWS), Rawalpindi, in 1999 and have been closely associated with it.
Pioneer in developing the first HTC of HPWS, Rawalpindi & Children & Adult HTC’s at Pakistan Institute of Medical
Sciences (PIMS), Islamabad. The Centre has 1485 registered patients.
Run regular educational programs for; Medical students, doctors, hematologists, nurses & physiotherapists
Actively involved in awareness programs for patients & general public
Publications 50 publications. In addition to this published
6 awareness booklets for patients in Urdu (local language), 6 awareness booklets for care givers in English,
Booklet on Surgery in patients with Inherited Bleeding Disorders
Guidebook on management of HTC
Haemophilia Handbook for caregivers.
Chapter on Women With Inherited Bleeding Disorders in different cultural settings,2nd edition . Wiley Blackwell
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