Director & Chief Consultant's Profile
Prof. Dr. Md. Nazrul Islam

Doctor's Profile
Dr. Nira Ferdous
Dr. Farzana Islam
Dr. Noorsali

Research Team Profile
Salma Nasrin
Dr. M Sheikh Giash Uddin PhD
Mst. Karimon Nesha
Ashis Ribaro
Prof. Johannes ( Hans) J. Rasker MD PhD
Peter M. ten Klooster, PhD

Clinical Nutritionist Profile
Bipasha Rani Pal

Clinical Physiotherapist Profile
Abu Mohammad Rezwan

Front Desk Executive Profile
Tahmina Begum (Shikha)

Supporting Technologists Profile
Insert Technologies


Director & Chief Consultant's Profile

Prof. Dr. Md. Nazrul Islam
FCPS (Medicine), MD (Internal Medicine), Clinical Rheumatology Fellowship (Australia) Prof. Nazrul's carrier in Rheumatology has begun in the year 1999 in the Dept. of Rheumatology of Royal Perth Hospital, Western Australia & continued it in the Dept. of Medicine, BSMMU (former PG Hospital). Now Dr. Islam is serving the Rheumatology Wing of Dept. of Medicine of BSMMU as Professor of Medicine (Rheumatology). His experience in the field of Rheumatology Medicine is more than 17 years out of his 25 years Medical experience.


Doctor's Profile

Dr. Nira Ferdous
MBBS
Dr. Nira's enthusiasm in Medicine is reflected by the passing of FCPS (Part-I) in Internal Medicine just after completion of Internship. Dr. Ferdous has joined in MOAC&RC® in 2010 as Chief Medical Officer after having close supervision and intensive training from the Director & Chief Consultant in the field of Rheumatology and Research works for 6 months.


Dr. Farzana Islam
MBBS







Dr. Noorsali
MBBS
Dr. Noorsali is running her training in internal medicine. She is dedicated to build up her carrier in the field of Rheumatology and acquiring knowledge about patient care and management in MOAC&RC® under the direct supervision of the Chief Consultant.


Research Team Profile

Dr. M Sheikh Giash Uddin (PhD)
M. Sc (CU), PGD (Egypt) PhD (JU) Dr. M Sheikh Giash Uddin (PhD) is working in the Department of Statistics, Jagannath University, Dhaka, Bangladesh as Assistant Professor. As statistician he has started his carrier in the Department of Epidemiology and Bio-statistics of Institute of Child and Mother Health, Dhaka in 1998. He has active involvement as statistician in different Community Oriented Programme for Control of Rheumatic Diseases (COPCORD) studies in Bangladesh from 2002 to till date.

Salma Nasrin
Salma Nasrin is now working as Assistant Professor in the Dept. of Linguistics, University of Dhaka. She enrolled herself in PhD course in the same Department. The title of her thesis is: "“An analysis of the nature of the Language used at home by Bengali speaking autistic children.”. As research associates Nasrin has active involvement in the research activities of MOAC&RC®.

Mst. Karimon Nesha
Mst. Karimon Nesha is studying Master of Disaster Management at University of Dhaka. She has joined MOAC&RC® as Research Coordinator in 2011. A month-long training on Epidemiology and Biostatistics from International Centre for Diarrheal Disease Research (ICDDR'B), Bangladesh was completed by her while working in the center. She works under the direct supervision of the Director.

Ashis Ribaro
From the beginning of MOAC&RC® Mr. Ashis is working as a Research Assistant. He has completed Graduation from Dhaka College, Dhaka in 2002. Even having hand on training on different courses on computer, IT and data processing as well as job experience he received 3 months intensive training on collecting patient information and data analysis from the Director of MOAC&RC® before beginning his professional carrier.

Prof.  Johannes ( Hans) J.  Rasker MD PhD

Prof. Hans studied medicine at Leiden University and specialized in internal medicine and rheumatology in Groningen in the Netherlands. In 1975 he worked in Bath (England) as research fellow for a year. After his return he became consultant rheumatologist at the Hospital Medisch Spectrum Twente and Professor at the University of Twente, Enschede. He has had many national and international positions, among others:Current positions: Associate Editor Clinical Rheumatology (the ILAR journal), Member Editorial board LER International Journal (letter to the editor rheumatology) and Ambassador of the Bone and Joint Decade, representing the Netherlands.
Past positions Secretary General of the International League of Associations for Rheumatology (ILAR) and Chairman of the Standing committee health professionals (ILAR). He is honorary Member of the Dutch Society for Rheumatology. Knight in the order of Oranje Nassau.

Hans Rasker is author of more than 400 articles on different fields of rheumatology, ethics and nuclear medicine. He wrote and edited 4 books and many chapters in books.

Peter M. ten Klooster, PhD
Peter ten Klooster studies Communication Science at the University of Twente, the Netherlands. In 2004 he started a PhD project on the assessment of health status by self-report questionnaires.In June 2008 he received his PhD for his thesis entitled “Interpreting patient-reported outcomes in rheumatology.” Afterwards he spends 6 months as a visiting researcher at Quality Metric in Lincoln (RI), USA. He is now working as Assistant Professor at the University of Twente. His research interests include research methods, modern psychometrics and health assessment, specifically with respect to rheumatic diseases.


Clinical Nutritionist Profile

Bipasha Rani Pal
Bipasha obtained her graduation (B.Sc, Hons) and MSc in Food & Nutrition from Home Economics College, Under Dhaka University. Her carrier in the MOAC&RC® as nutritionist has from 15th Feb' 2011. Other than internship training from BIRDEM, Bipasha has received 3 months intensive training in clinical nutrition assessment and prescription writing from the Chief Consultant of MOAC&RC® before beginning her professional carrier.


Clinical Physiotherapist Profile

Abu Mohammad Rezwan
Abu Mohammad has graduated (B.Sc) in Physiotherapy from National Institute of Traumatology & Orthopaedic Rehabilitation (NITOR). He has joined in MOAC&RC® in 2010 as Clinical Physiotherapist after having close supervision and intensive training from the Chief Consultant for 3 months. Mr. Rezwan has more than 10 years experience in the field of physiotherapy before starting his carrier in MOAC&RC®.


Front Desk Executive Profile

Tahmina Begum (Shikha)
Tahnima completed her graduation in the year 2008. She served as an executive of Women’s World before joining this center. She has special skills in computer operating system, Windows XP (MS word, Excel).