Dr. Saida Rasool talks about how she is leveraging efforts to improve the quality of the healthcare system and ensure, as she says: “we have prevention rather than cure.”
Dr. Saida Rasul
Dr Saida Rasul is a Senior Lecturer, Section of Dentistry, Department of Surgery at the Aga Khan University. She is a volunteer to the Aga Khan University where she has applied her professional expertise to help set up two preventive dental programs as part of the hospital systems operating in East Africa and in Pakistan. It is complemented by distance learning with faculty at Canadian and American universities to help upgrade skills of local practitioners. She is working with a team of volunteers to set up a diploma of dental hygiene program at the Aga Khan University to train students from East Africa, Pakistan and Afghanistan who will go back and improve the oral health and general health of their rural communities. In recognition of her sustained community contributions over three decades, SFU conferred an honorary Doctor of Law to Saida. She also received the Queen Elizabeth Diamond Jubilee Medal as well as recent recognition by the British Columbia and Canadian Dental Associations for her contribution to the profession.
few are blessed to serve in this manner ! mubarakhis !! so very proud of Dr Saida Rasul!
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