KARACHI: Pakistan’s endocrinologist Dr Tasnim Ahsan of Jinnah Hospital Karachi has been honored with the prestigious Laureate Award 2023 by the Endocrine Society of America.
The award recognizes the achievements of endocrine researchers and clinicians worldwide and Dr. Amrita Tasneem Ahsan is the first Pakistani to receive this award for her outstanding services.
A total of 12 health experts and professionals were selected to be honored this year under the Laureate Awards, celebrating the achievements of endocrine researchers and clinicians worldwide, and Dr Ahsan, a professor at JPMC and the founder of Medicell Institute of Diabetes Endocrinology and Metabolism, proved to be one of them.
She is the first Pakistani to have been awarded the “International Excellence in Endocrinology” for her exceptional contributions to the field in geographic areas with underdeveloped resources for hormone health research, education, clinical practice or administration.
The award is presented annually to an endocrinologist who has made exceptional contributions to hormone health research, education, clinical practice or administration in under-resourced geographic areas.
She started her first endocrinology practice in the public sector hospital JPMC in 1993 and has trained over 100 postgraduate trainee doctors in internal medicine and endocrinology.
