Dr. Salman El Khalid received his initial education in Nigeria and then completed his MBBS from University of Sind in 1984. After house job he joined Aga Khan University Hospital for a 5 year residency upon the completion of which he cleared his FCPS in 1991. He then went to UK for further training and returned in 1992 after completing his FRCS. He rejoined Aga Khan University Hospital as an Instructor in Urology.

In 1993 when The Kidney Centre started its urology Department, Dr. Salman was offered the Post of Consultant Urologist which he accepted as a challenge and took up the initiative of building up a new department in a new hospital. Since then he has been working tirelessly as Head of Urology Department and along with other Faculty and Staff members has brought it to its current status whereby it is a recognized unit by the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Pakistan for Post Graduate Training of doctors leading to award of FCPS.

Dr. Salman has actively participated in several National and International Conferences in Urology. He also went to Australia to receive training in Renal Transplant and has initiate the Renal Transplant Programme at The Kidney Centre.

Dr. Ahmad has rich experience in teaching and training, he is an examiner in nephrology for The College of Physicians and Surgeons, Pakistan. He has on his credit many publications in peer reviewed journals and chapters in two text books; he is a reviewer for the Journal of Pakistan Medical Association, Journal of College of Physician and Surgeons, Pakistan and the Pakistan Journal of Medical Sciences. He is a member of the International Advisory Board, Indian Journal of Medical Ethics.

In 2003 he pursued his interest in Bioethics and completed his Masters from University of Toronto. He is the chairperson of Bioethics Group and a member of Ethics Review Committee of Aga Khan University; he is also a member of Ethical Review Board of Médecins Sans Frontières (doctors without borders).

Dr Syed Mamun Mahmud
MBBS FCPS (Urology)
Fellow of European Board of Urology (Paris)

Dr Syed Mamun Mahmud is currently working as Asstt. Professor in the Department of Urology, The Kidney Centre Postgraduate Training Institute .
He did his MBBS from Sindh Medical College Karachi in 1993 . After acquiring basic surgical training at Aga Khan University Hospital, he joined Urology Residency Programme at The Kidney Centre PGTI in 1999. At the end of the programme he acquired FCPS (Urology ) in 2003 and continued as Senior Registrar at The Kidney Centre PGTI for one year . Then he joined Ziauddin Medical University Hospital (Clifton Campus) in 2005 as Asstt. Professor and in the same year acquired Fellowship of European Board of Urology(FEBU) from Paris, France. He then was offered a post of Asstt. Professor at The Kidney Centre PGTI  in 2006 which  Dr. Mamun accepted as he found better opportunities to pursue his interest in teaching and training and also his growth as Urologist .

Dr Mamun is actively involved in all teaching activities in the hospital. As Senior Registrar (Urology) he initiated ‘Urodynamic Meeting’ as part of academic routine in Urology ,which is first and the only in Pakistan . He has been organizing workshops on Medical Error –Preventive Strategy for the last two years for doctors and last year for nurses. He has also been a driving force in organizing the first Urology-Nephrology Kidney Centre Symposium held in 2006 as convener and it has now become a biannual feature of the hospital activities. He has publications to his credit in both national and international indexed journals. He is also a reviewer for Journal of Pakistan Medical Association (JPMA ), Journal of College of Physicians and Surgeons  Pakistan (JCPSP) and Urology (Official Journal of International Society of  Urology-SIU).Dr. Mamun has also served as Associate Editor of PAUS newsletter ( Official newsletter  of Pakistan Association of Urological Surgeons). He is member of Pakistan Association of  Urological Surgeons (PAUS) and Socie’te’ Internationale d’ Urologie (SIU).

He has special interest in Stone Disease , Uro-oncology ,LASER and Laparoscopic Surgery. In this connection he has attended Mini-fellowship Course in Laparoscopic Urology  in November 2007 at Muljibhai Patel Urological Hospital (MPUH )  Nadiad India, a centre which has done nearly 1000 laparoscopic Donor Nephrectomy besides other laparoscopic surgeries and has recently initiated ‘Single Port Laparoscopic Donor Nephrectomy’.

Dr. Malik Anas Rabbani passed his MBBS exam from Quaid-i-Azam Medical College in 1989. After completing 4 years residency in internal medicine, he passed his Fellowship examination from College of Physicians & Surgeons of Pakistan in 1998. Subsequently he joined Section of Nephrology at Aga Khan University Hospital as an instructor. In the year 2000 Dr. Anas won ISN-scholarship for further training at Department of Nephrology, Guy’s & St. Thomas Hospital London, UK. After completing his training, Dr. Anas returned back to Pakistan and joined Department of Medicine at AKUH as a Consultant Nephrologist. In the April 2002 he was awarded fellowship by International Society of Nephrology. In 2004 he was promoted to Assistant Professor Rank.

On June 2005 he joined The Kidney Centre Post Graduate Training Institute as Assistant Professor and Programme Director Post Graduate Training in Nephrology. In 2007 he was promoted to Associate Professor Rank.

Apart from clinical responsibilities Dr. Anas has vast undergraduate and post graduate teaching experience. Dr. Anas has more than 24 original articles, published in National as well as in International indexed journals. Besides publications he has presented more than 15 papers at various National as well as International Nephrology Forums. Dr. Anas has the honor of having his abstracts accepted for presentation during 2003, 2005 and 2007 World Congresses of Nephrology held in Berlin, Singapore and Brazil respectively. He has recently been selected by Asian Pacific Journal of Nephrology as a reviewer.

Dr. Kiran Nasir passed her MBBS from Dow Medical College in 1997. She did he internships in general medicine and general surgery from Civil Hospital Karachi in 1996. She joined Sindh Institute of Urology and Transplantation (SIUT) as a post graduate trainee in 1999. She left SIUT to complete her two years general medicine training at Aga Khan University Hospital (AKUH). She rejoined SIUT in 2003 to complete her nephrology training. In January 2005 she went to Islamabad where she worked as Chief Resident in Nephrology at Shifa International Hospital Limited.

She got her Fellowship degree FCPS from College of Physicians and Surgeons of Pakistan (CPSP) in Nephrology in 2006 and joined The Kidney Centre Post Graduate Training Institute as Consultant Nephrologist and Faculty Member in June 2006. Since than she is working on the same post. Along with that she is Transplant Coordinator and Chairperson of Library at The Kidney Centre Post Graduate Training Institute. She is also Life Member of Pakistan Society of Nephrology (PSN) and Coordinator of PSN Karachi Chapter.

She got interest in academics too. Her publications are in process in multiple National and International Journals.