Royal college of physicians Glasgow in its meeting has nominated Dr Muzaffar Ahmad for the prestigious fellowship of the Royal college,a statement said.
It said that thefellowship is awarded globally to the persons of eminence for theircontribution in the field of medicine. ” The nomination for the fellowship toDrMuzaffar Ahmad has been made for his significant contribution for developmentof emergency and disaster medicine in India, and providing leadership forcapacity development in disaster medicine , and also introducing and propagating concept of simulations on emergencies in vulnerable states of India,he has been the pioneer in starting Indo UK faculty development programme fordisaster medicine which has been first of its initiative in India,” thestatement added.
Dr Muzaffar Ahmad is considered as an expert of national and international eminence in the area of Disaster risk reduction and management, He has been instrumental in formulating more than 8 National Guidelines on the important subjects including school safety and hospital safety, the statement said.