Prof. Dr. Javaid Haider Rizvi

Prof. Rizvi is a graduate of Dow Medical College, Karachi. After postgraduate training in the medical schools of Oxford, Cambridge and St. Mary’s Hospital, London he obtained fellowships of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists and the American College of Surgeons. He was the first Pakistani to hold a consultant gynaecologist post in the UK. Dr Rizvi has had a distinguished academic and clinical career for which he has received national and international recognition. He has published over 60 scientific papers in peer-reviewed journals and has contributed 16 chapters to textbooks of Obstetrics and Gynaecology. During this time he has received many honors including the Academic Fellowship of the Commonwealth Universities, FIGO Professorship, visiting professorships at the universities in Malaysia, Saudi Arabia, East Africa, and UK. He has the singular honour of being a Teaching Fellow of the Imperial College of Science, Medicine and Technology. Recently he was awarded the Sitara-e-Imtiaz by the President of Pakistan. Prof. Rizvi has served as the founding professor and chairman of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at the Aga Khan University. His clinical expertise lies in Urogynaecology, particularly fistulae surgery, Infertility and Assisted Reproduction, Gynaecological Oncology and general Gynaecology, including reconstructive surgery. He has served as the medical director of Australian Concept Infertility Centre, and is a director and a board member at South City Hospital.