Contact Information:
Professor Dr. Md Shahinul Alam
Pro Vice Chancellor (Academic)
Room: 116, Block: B
Tel: 55165850, 55165602
PABX: 4200, 4384
Email: provc_academic@bsmmu.edu.bd
Web:
PS to Pro Vice Chancellor (Academic):
Tel: 55165850
PABX: 4524
Email: ps_provc_academic@bsmmu.edu.bd
Prof Dr. Md Shahinul Alam, Professor and Chairman of the Department of Hepatology of Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University (BSMMU) and is the pioneer scientist of the country on “Metabolic Associated Fatty Liver Disease (MAFLD/NAFLD. He coauthored the “Clinical practice guidelines for the diagnosis and management of metabolic associated fatty liver disease “in 2020 for the Asia Pacific region also. He coauthored many research papers with the scientist from29 countries including Australia, Japan, China, Singapore, South Korea, Pakistan, India and Bangladesh. As of Scopus he is the leading scientist of BSMMU. He completed MBBS. FCPS (Medicine) and Doctorate of Medicine (MD) Hepatology
Professor ShahinulAlam was awarded with 7 international awardsby the Asian Pacific Association for the Study of the Liver (APASL) in 2004 in Delhi, India, by the American Association for the Study of the Liver (AASLD) in 2008 in Seoul, South Korea, USA- Japan Joint Medical Science Award (USJMSCP-NIH-APASL) in 2009 at Hongkong, Travel Bursary Award at Indonesia, China and Turkey in 2005, 2010 and 2015 respectively.
Recently he has been appointed as the member of “Global NASH Council”; the USA based organization of the leading scientist of Hepatology of the world. He has supervised 20 theses and co-supervised5theses of students who were awarded Doctorate of Medicine (MD) Hepatology degrees. He was awarded grants as Principal Investigator and Co-Investigator of 7 research projects of BSMMU. Of these 3 has got international Award
As Course Coordinator and Member Secretary of the Curriculum Committee of the MD Hepatology course, he contributed heavily tothe development of the “Residency Based” curriculum that started in 2011 in BSMMU and upgraded the scenario of post-graduatecourses of the country. As Member Secretary of the Institutional Quality Assurance Committee (IQAC) of the Department of Hepatology of the university, he organized the evaluation and recommended the upgradation of the course.
As an eminent scientist, he has 160 publications, of these 92 full articles in national and international journals, 3 books, and 1 book chapter. In recognition of these, in Google Scholar his citation is 2873, h- index is 21 and i- 10 index is 36 (https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&authuser=1&user=48Xtf-MAAAAJ) and in Research Gate his score is (https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Shahinul-Alam), citation 2524. He presented his research papers in 15 international conferences in UK, Singapore, India, Australia, China, Japan, South Korea, Malaysia, Indonesia, Philippines, Turkey and Hongkong.
