Khurshid Anwar

Associate Professor
Pathology
Alfaisal University
Saudi Arabia

Academician Pathology
Biography

Dr. Khurshid Anwar is currently an Associate Professor in Pathology department at Alfaisal University, Riyadh. He teaches General and Systemic Pathology courses to undergraduate medical students. He has teaching experience of more than 32 years in various medical institutes in Pakistan, Malaysia, Japan, UAE and Saudi Arabia. He did his MBBS and MPhil (Pathology) from Khyber Medical College Peshawar and University of Karachi Pakistan respectively. He completed his PhD from Fukui University Japan in 1993. His main research interest is in Human carcinogenesis related to Human Papillomavirus infection and genetic mutations. Recently he has developed keen interest in medical education and is actively using Team Based Learning (TBL) techniques in teaching Pathology courses for last 3 years. He has attended number of international conferences and has more than 16 publications in international Journals related to cancer and medical education. Moreover he is managing his Human Pathology (https://www.facebook.com/pages/Human-Pathology/169869373198364) and Interactive Neuroscience (https://www.facebook.com/pages/Interactive-Neuroscience/160305064167505) pages on facebook which are accessed by Pathology teachers and students from all over the world.

Research Intrest

Human Pathology, Neuroscience.

List of Publications
Prevalence of Intestinal parasitic infections in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates. Human Parasitic Diseases. Volume 2(1):21 - 24, 2010 .
The Effect of Euryco ma Longifolia Jack (Tongkat Ali) on CCl4 - induced Liver damage in Rats;Hamoud Hussein Al - Faqeh1, Bala Yauri Muhammad, Emad Mohammed Nafie and Anwar Khurshid. MJPS, Vol. 8, No. 2, 71 - 84, 2010.
Comparing the efficacy of team based learning strategies in a problem based learning curriculum. APMIS. 2012 Sep;120(9):718 - 23.