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Dr. Saira Azhar

Professor and Dean

PhD  Pharamcy Practice
Pharm-D Pharmacy
B.Pharm Pharmacy

About

I got my PhD. fromUniversity Sains Malaysia, Malaysia (USM). I got a Malaysian scholarship andbecame a research fellow with teaching responsibilities. In 2011, I completedmy PhD. returned to Pakistan, and finally became the first Pakistani female PhD.in the field of Pharmacy Practice. Upon return, I joined the Department ofPharmacy Comsats Abbottabad where I served 8 years as Assistant Professor and ResearchGroup Head of Pharmacy Practice. During my stay in COMSATS Abbottabad Pakistan,I got the opportunity to work in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA), as an AssistantProfessor at King Faisal University, Al Ahsa, and Princess Nourah BintAbdulrahman University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Moreover, I visited several otheruniversities in the world like the University of Manchester United Kingdom, andthe University of Pennsylvania, USA to present my research work and forresearch collaboration.

Duringmy 18 years of teaching experience in multicultural institutions, I managed topublish 72 research articles, 18 International presentations, and 22 Nationalconference presentations.

I was appointed as Principal of the College of Pharmacy at the University ofSargodha and was engaged in the overall academic administration, studentsupport, and well-being programs of the undergraduate and postgraduateprograms offered by the College. After the successful completionof my tenure as Principal of the College of Pharmacy in August 5th2021. On Aug 25th, 2021 to Aug 7th 2023, I was given the charge ofworking as Director of the Quality Enhancement Cell (QEC) at the University ofSargodha.

Presentlyworking as Professor of Pharmacy Practice in Department of Pharmacy at Iqra UniversityNorth Campus Karachi. I am confident that my expertise and experience workingin the relevant field make me an appropriate match for the prestigious IqraUniversity.

Area of Expertise

 

MAIN RESEARCHAREAS:

  •  PharmacyManagement

Publications & Research Work

Dr. Muhammad Shahnawaz Adil

Dr. Muhammad Shahnawaz Adil is an Associate Professor of Leadership and Strategic Management at Iqra University, Karachi. He holds more than 17 years of full-time university teaching, research, mentorship, and graduate thesis supervision experience. Additionally, he has been serving as the Cluster Head (Management) since January 2020 at the Main Campus. He is currently a member of the advisory and review boards of 18 national and international scholarly journals. 

He has presented various research ideas at international conferences abroad and has published over 25 research papers in national and international journals with 700+ Google citations. He has also authored a monograph on Leadership and Strategy published in Germany. He is an HEC-approved PhD supervisor and five Ph.D. candidates are going to complete their doctoral thesis under his sole supervision. In addition to supervising several industrial projects, 32 MPhil and hundreds of MBA students have successfully passed their research thesis in the Management discipline under his sole supervision. His research interests include the dark side of leadership, workplace mistreatment, multilevel modeling, and creative performance in higher education. He completed a ten-day comprehensive Training of Trainers conducted by Sindh HEC in May 2023.

Dr. Shahnawaz earned his Ph.D. degree in Management from an AACSB and AMBA-accredited business school of Malaysia in 2021. Earlier, he received his MPhil from Iqra University, a ‘triple-crown’ (AACSB, AMBA, and EQUIS-accredited) MBA from Newcastle University (UK), Postgraduate Diploma from Stratford College London (UK), and B.Sc. (Honours) with Distinction from London Metropolitan University, UK. He has secured seven consecutive distinctions in his academic career and has clinched First Class First Position at Sindh Board of Technical Education. He has been associated with Iqra University as a permanent faculty member in the Department of Business Administration since August 2008. His main hobbies include horse-riding, playing scrabble, cooking, bird-farming, and long driving.