Quazi Deen Mohammad | |
Office: | Director (business)Director |
Order: | Founding |
Native Name: | কাজী দীন মোহাম্মদ |
National Institute of Neurosciences & Hospital | |
Alma Mater: | Dhaka Medical College |
Office1: | President |
Title1: | Bangladesh College of Physicians and Surgeons |
Predecessor1: | Kanak Kanti Barua |
Office2: | Principal |
Title2: | Dhaka Medical College |
Predecessor2: | M. A. Faiz |
Succeeded2: | Md. Ismail Khan |
Termstart: | September, 2012 |
Termstart1: | March, 2019 |
Birth Place: | Luxmipur, Faridpur, Bangladesh |
Occupation: | Physician, academic, researcher, administrator |
Quazi Deen Mohammad is a Bangladeshi physician, academic and neurologist. He is the founding director of National Institute of Neuroscience, Dhaka.[1] [2] He was the 37th principal of Dhaka Medical College[3] and 19th President of Bangladesh College of Physicians and Surgeons (BCPS).
Quazi Deen Mohammad was born in Luxmipur, Faridpur of Bangladesh, the then East Pakistan. He passed SSC from Faridpur Zilla School and HSC from Government Rajendra College. He passed MBBS from Dhaka Medical College in 1978. He completed fellowship in Medicine from Bangladesh College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1983. He did fellowship in clinical neurophysiology from University Hospital Madison, U.S. in 1989. He achieved M.D. in Neurology from University of Dhaka in 1994.[4]
Quazi Deen Mohammad joined as Assistant professor of Neurology at the then IPGMR, now known as Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib medical University in 1984. He joined Dhaka Medical College as Professor of Neurology in 1996. Later, He worked as the Principal of Dhaka Medical College from 2004 to 2012. Afterwards, he became founding director of National Institute of Neuroscience, where he is currently working as the Director & Professor of Neurology.[5] He regularly provides treatment to his patients at S.P.R.C & Neurology Hospital.[6]
He co-authored Epilepsy- Beliefs & misbelieves – WHO Bulletin.[7] He published 186 research articles in national and internationally reputed journals.