Department of Pulmonology

Dr. Muhammad Ashraf Jamal is the Professor and Head of Pulmonology Department at Allama Iqbal Medical College. He did his graduation from Quaid-i-Azam Medical College in 1987, and after selection from PPSC served in rural health service for two years. He has over 25 years of experience in Pulmonary Medicine and working in different tertiary care hospitals (PIMS, BVH, Mayo, Services & Jinnah) as well as abroad. He initially served as Assistant Professor, Associate Professor and in-charge of Pulmonology Department in Quaid-i-Azam Medical College, BVH and converted the basic department into a teaching unit recognised for FCPS training. He supervised seven FCPS & MCPS trainees there. He worked as a Consultant Pulmonologist in Dubai for one and a half year. He also worked as an Associate Professor in Pulmonology & Critical Care Medicine in Services Institute of Medical Sciences at Services Hospital, Lahore for four years, having trained six postgraduate students there. In Services Hospital, he got more experience of critical care management and sleep medicine. After selections from PPSC on first merit, he is posted as a Professor of Pulmonology Department in Jinnah Hospital since 2016.

In 2016, he organised the 12th Biennial International conference of Pulmonology and Critical Care in Lahore as a conference secretary, where along with eminent local speakers a lot of foreign delegates from USA and UK participated. The feedback from local and foreign delegates was that it was well organised and one of the best conference in history of chest medicine in Pakistan. He is an active member of Pakistan chest society, having developed official website of PCS and also served as President of Pakistan Chest Society Punjab. He is also an examiner of MCPS & FCPS exams since 2010. Along with his services in the field of Pulmonology, he has also 10 research articles published during this period, and one of them was selected for poster presentation in European Respiratory Society Congress.