Dr Faisal Sultan Biography | Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on National Health Services
Name: Dr Faisal Sultan
Nationality: Pakistani
Profession : General Physician, Infectious Disease Specialist
Religion: Islam
Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on National Health Services, Regulations & Coordination
Who is Dr. Faisal Sultan?
- Dr. Faisal Sultan is a Pakistani infectious diseases physician.
- Faisal Sultan studied at the Cadet College Hasan Abdal in Pakistan.
- He graduated from the King Edward Medical College in Pakistan and subsequently trained in the United States in internal medicine at the University of Connecticut (1989-92) and in infectious disease at the Washington University School of Medicine (1992-1995).
- Sultan was appointed as a Consultant Physician in Infectious Disease at Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital and Research Centre in 1995 and served as the Medical Director of the Hospital in 2000 to 2002 and as the Chief Executive Officer from 2003 until August 2020.
- He is certified by the American Board of Internal Medicine in internal medicine and infectious diseases.
- He became a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians Edinburgh, UK in 2007 and a Fellow of the College of Physicians and Surgeons in Pakistan (Infectious Diseases) in 2010.
- He was later appointed as the Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on National Health Services in August 2020.
- He has served on the Prime Minister’s task force on health and as chairman of board of governors, Medical Teaching Institute Khyber Teaching Hospital Peshawar as well as on the steering committee for Punjab Health Strategic Plan.
Last Updated : 21 June, 2021
