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Dr. Sumaira Abdul Ghani

Senior Lecturer

  • MPhil in Physical Therapy with a specialization in women’s health and pediatric rehabilitation from Ziauddin University, Karachi, Pakistan, in 2021
  • Doctor of Physical Therapy (DPT) was achieved in 2015 from the same institution.
  • Diploma in Sonography with a specialization in whole abdomen and gynecological obstetrics ultrasound from the Karachi Institute of Ultrasonography

About

Motivated and highly experienced, the individual possesses a rich background spanning eight years, encompassing both clinical and academic realms. Currently on the verge of undertaking the DHA license exam, the professional is actively seeking an opportunity to contribute expertise to a hospital setting. With a patient-centered approach at the forefront, the individual excels in monitoring, documentation, and the implementation of treatments tailored to specific conditions.

Area of Expertise

  • PHYSICAL THERAPY.
  • WOMEN HEALTHREHABILITATION.
  • PAEDIATRICREHABILITATION
  • CARDIACREHABILITATION.

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.

  • An experimental research wasconductedunderthesupervisionofZIAUDDINCOLLEGEOFPHYSICALTHERAPY(ZCPT)onthe“EffectofstretchingandmulligansNAGtechniqueinthetreatment ofcervicogenicheadache”
  • Anexperimentalmaster’sresearchEffectsofPMRtechniqueandtreadmillindepressionandanxietyofpatientshavingPCOS.
  • Significant publications include “Effects ofMassage Therapy for Achilles Tendinopathy – A Meta-Analysis on Determiningthe Effects on Pain and Functional Outcome”
  • An observational study on Functional TaskPerformance and Patient Satisfaction in LateralEpicondylitis: Unraveling the Effects of Physical Therapy Interventions,”both featured in the Allied MedicalResearch Journal.