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Hajera MahtabHajera Mahtab is a Bangladeshi physician, researcher and a fellow of the Bangladesh Academy of Sciences. She was President of the Endocrine Society of Bangladesh.[1] She is a member of the Association of Physicians of Bangladesh.[2] She is a member of the trustees board of the Bangladesh Diabetic Foundation.[3] She is a member of the trustee board of the Bangladesh University of Health Sciences.[4] Mahtab was the Chief Consultant of the Diabetes and Endocrinology Department at the Bangladesh Institute of Health Sciences General Hospital.[5] She is the professor emeritus of BIRDEM and Bangladesh Institute of Health Sciences.[6][7] She is an advisor of Centre for Global Health Research.[8] Early life and educationMahtab was born on 22 September 1941 in Calcutta, West Bengal, British India.[1] Her father was Muhammad Ibrahim, founder of BIRDEM, and her mother was Nilima Ibrahim.[9][10][11] She married Fasihuddin Mahtab, son of Pakistan National Assembly member Mahtabuddin Sarker.[10] Her sister was actress Dolly Anwar who was married to Anwar Hossain, a photographer.[12][11] Her other sister is Professor Kishwar Azad who is married to professor AK Azad Khan.[13] Mahtab finished her Senior Cambridge with first division.[1] In 1964, she finished her Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery at the University of Liverpool.[1] She then did a Diploma in Tropical Medicine and Hygiene at the University of Liverpool in 1965.[1] She did her Fellowship of the College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1970 at the College of Physicians and Surgeons Pakistan.[1] She studied at King's College Hospital in 1972 as a Commonwealth Fellow.[1] CareerFrom 1962 to 1972, Mahtab was a research assistant at the Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University.[1] She was an assistant professor of medicine at the Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University from 1973 to 1976.[1] From October 1976, she was a Senior Consultant in Medicine at BIRDEM.[1] In 1977, she was the Project Manager of the diabetic programme of the World Health Organization.[1] From 1979 to 1980, she was the head of the Bangladesh Institute of Research and Training on Applied Nutrition.[14] In 1982, she was appointed director of the Collaborating Centre for the Prevention and Control of Diabetes of the World Health Organization.[1] From 1983 to 1986, she was member of World Health Organization's Advisory Council for Health and Medical Research of the South-East Region.[1] Mahtab was the associate professor of medicine at the National Institute of Diseases of the Chest and Hospital from 1980 to 1990.[1] She was a consultant of the Ministry of Health Oman from 1989 to 1991.[1] She was a professor of medicine at the Mymensingh Medical College when she retired on 21 September 1998.[1] From November 2000 to August 2003, chairperson of the International Diabetes Federation's South-East Asia Regional Council.[1] She served as the director of clinical services, research and academy at BIRDEM till September 2003.[1] From September 2003 to December 2004, she was an advisor of the National Healthcare Network project of the Diabetic Association of Bangladesh.[1] In January 2005, Mahtab was elected member of the National Council of the Diabetic Association of Bangladesh.[1] She was the chairperson of the National Healthcare Network.[1] She was a management board member of BIRDEM.[1] In January 2006, she was appointed a board member of Ibrahim Medical College.[1] She founded the Under 30 Clinic of BIRDEM.[1] She was editor of the Diabetes and Endocrine Journal which is published by the Endocrine Society of Bangladesh and Diabetic Association of Bangladesh.[1] In 2018, she was awarded the Mohammad Ibrahim Memorial Gold Medal.[15] References
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