KARACHI: A Pakistani surgeon has won the prestigious Young Investigators Award given by the British Cardiovascular Intervention Society.
Dr Jaffar Khan, 34, was educated at Cambridge and Oxford and initially worked at St Thomas Hospital in London before going for his PhD at the National Institute of Health (NIH) in Washington DC.
He has developed a procedure that allows some types of heart surgery to be conducted with minimal invasive procedures. The technique has been dubbed `Lampoon’ from its medical acronym. It is a ‘keyhole’ cardiac surgery technique that resects heart tissue for the first time using minimally invasive techniques. The research that won Dr Khan the award involves invention of the concept, testing in animals and application to humans.
Published in Dawn, January 28th, 2018
