Kashif Ahmad

Kashif Ahmad, MBBS, MSc, MSc (MEdL), PhD, is an educator with a progressive career in diverse business cultures including higher education, research, leadership and educational technology. A dynamic leader, he is an award-winning instructor and professor, and established author of numerous medical and scientific books, theses and articles including service as an international thesis evaluator.

Dr. Ahmad is a compassionate collaborator with a high degree of responsibility for quality, accuracy and implementing sound solutions for continuous improvement of educational institutions. He is adept at developing proactive strategies for thorough evaluation, rigorous academic and institutional success, expertise in student engagement, faculty development, educational innovation, and influential research.

Before joining RUSM, Dr. Ahmad held many reputable positions, which include serving as a founding faculty with the Carle Illinois College of Medicine (CIMED), an engineering-based medical school at the University of Illinois; a visiting research professor and course director, physiology, for the Department of Medical Information Science at the University of Illinois; a professor of basic and clinical sciences and director of faculty development with Northwestern Health Sciences University in Minnesota; and a virtual adjunct professor for the Opus School of Business in Minnesota.

His major accomplishments include developing a new problem-based learning curriculum, designing award-winning courses that impacted curricular change with improved student outcomes, new programs and certificates for micro-credentialing of students both residential and virtual, highly effective innovative faculty development programs, and infusion of innovative educational technologies to enhance medical education programs.

EDUCATION & CERTIFICATIONS

• 2009 - 2011 University of New England, Maine, USA
• Master of Science in Medical Education Leadership (MSc MEdL)
• College of Osteopathic Medicine
• 2000 - 2004 National University of Singapore, SingaporeDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) (Chua Toh Hua Memorial Gold Medal)
• Department of Physiology, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine
• 1997 - 1998 University of London, U.K.
• Master of Science (M.Sc.)
  
• Guy’s, King’s, St. Thomas’s School of Medicine
• 1990 - 1995 Jinnah Sindh Medical University, Pakistan
• Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery (M.B.B.S / (M.D.)
• Sindh Medical College
• 2018 NICE Invitational Conference, 6.0 AMA PRA Category 1 credits,
• National Board of Medical Examination (NBME), Philadelphia, PA
• 2015 Quality Matters Coordinator Training
• Applying the Quality Matters Rubric Training
• Peer Reviewer Course Training (Quality Matters, Maryland Online)
• 2012 How To Teach Online, Department of Educational Technology, Northwestern Health Sciences University, MN
• 2006 GRAD 8101 (3 credits), University of Minnesota, Center for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education (Preparing Future Faculty Series)
• 2006 Proteomics Workshop, University of Minnesota, Center for Mass Spectrometry and Proteomics
• 2003 Basic Good Clinical Practice (Clinical Trials Management), National University of Singapore
• 1998 University of London Course in Sexually Transmitted Diseases and HIV, University College London, UK

*AREAS OF EXPERTISE *

• Medical Education, Faculty Development, Active Learning, Education Innovation, Research, Basic and Clinical Sciences, Curriculum Redesign

*AFFILIATIONS AND MEMBERSHIPS *

• International Association of Medical Science Educators since 2008
• American Physiological Society (#58979) since 2007
• American Association of University Professors since 2007
• American Association for the Advancement of Science since 2007
• National Association of Biology Teachers since 2009