Prof. Saeed Hamid selected as a President PSSLD for the term 2012 - 2013

It is honor and challenge for me to take over as President of the Society from this year, honor because I am following my very dear colleague and senior, Prof Wasim Jafri, and a challenge because we have to take our Society to the next level - Message on the occasion

It is both an honor and a challenge for me to take over as President of the Society from this year, honor because I am following my very dear colleague and senior, Prof Wasim Jafri, and a challenge because we have to take our Society to the next level.

As you all would know, we came into being five years when a need for a professional and a professionally run forum for people working in liver diseases was felt. Our stated vision was to prevent and cure liver diseases and create awareness among clinicians and masses, and our mission remains to advance the science and practice of hepatology, thereby promoting health and care of patients. I hope you will agree with me that even inour early years of existence, we have managed to meet our aspirations to a great extent.

We have now successfully held five well attended Annual Meetings, a number of Single Topic Meetings and the 6th APASL Single Topic Conference on Acute Liver Failure in 2009. In addition, our members have continued to contribute in the print and electronic media for educating the masses in the early recognition,
prevention and treatment of a wide variety of liver diseases.

However over the coming years we have a lot of work cut out for us. We need to increase the impact of our society further by increasing our membership, by penetrating deeper into the rural areas of country with public awareness campaigns and by establishing and supporting a research portfolio in liver diseases. We also need to further increase our international liaisons so that we can represent Pakistan’s perspective more forcefully in the international forums.

In all these endeavors I will surely need the help and support of our committed members, and I will be contacting you all to help fulfill many of these goals.

 

 

 

 

   

 

The Pakistan Society for the Study of Liver Diseases (PSSLD) is the leading organization of scientists and healthcare professionals of Pakistan, committed to preventing and curing liver disease.

Hepatology has been recognized in Pakistan as a discipline only in the decade, and PSSLD has played a seminal and unifying role in focusing interest on Liver problems. PSSLD has organized scientific and public awareness programs to educate medical community and  public about liver diseases.

PSSLD sponsors one annual meeting  and a  Single Topic Conference each year. Our quarterly publication informs about the activity of the Society undertaken in the last quarter, includes updates about coming events and important meetings. Journal of the PSSLD would be launched at an appropriate time as the society would grow in maturity and strength.

PSSLD's membership includes all professionals dedicated to hepatobiliary discoveries and patient care. Mentoring, sharing knowledge, and dedication to professional growth and development are among the core values of PSSLD and its members.

Liver transplantation is still not available to Pakistanis in Pakistan and PSSLD would continue its efforts to develop this facility in Pakistan in Public/Private sector at the earliest by influencing the policy makers.

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