Tasnim Ahsan, MRCP, FRCP, FCPS is the professor emerita at the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre and the founding dean of the Medicell Institute of Diabetes Endocrinology & Metabolism in Karachi, Pakistan. She is an internationally renowned clinician and educator who has contributed to the establishment and growth of the field of endocrinology in Pakistan.
Tasnim started the first endocrinology practice in a public sector hospital in Pakistan at the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre in 1993 and has trained over 100 postgraduate trainee doctors in internal medicine and endocrinology. She is dedicated to expanding access to care and treats a large transgender community at the Medicell Institute. She also is a founding member of the Pakistan Endocrine Society.
This award is presented to an endocrinologist who has made exceptional contributions to the field in geographic areas with underdeveloped resources for hormone health research, education, clinical practice or administration. Tasnim Ahsan is the Professor Emerita at the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre and the founding dean of the Medicell Institute of Diabetes Endocrinology & Metabolism in Karachi, Pakistan.
She is an internationally renowned clinician and educator who has contributed to the establishment and growth of the field of endocrinology in Pakistan. She started the first endocrinology practice in a public sector hospital in Pakistan at the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre in 1993 and has trained over 100 postgraduate trainee doctors in internal medicine and endocrinology. She is dedicated to expanding access to care and treats a large transgender community at the Medicell Institute.
