Professor Dr. Hasin Anupama Azhari
Professor Dr. Hasin Anupama Azhari is the Director of Centre for Biomedical Science and Engineering in United International University (UIU). She is the former Chairman of the Dept. of Medical Physics and Biomedical Engineering, Gono Bishwabidyalay (GB, University) and former Dean, Physical and Mathematical Sciences, GB. She has academic experience of more than 15 years of the academic field and got many clinical training in radiation oncology and diagnostic radiology from India, Germany, Italy. Currently she is the CEO, South Asia centre for Medical Physics and Cancer Research (SCMPCR), Secretary- General Asia–Oceania Federation of Organizations for Medical Physics, (AFOMP); and Founder President, Bangladesh Medical Physics Society (BMPS).
She has been awarded as PhD fellow, OWSD, Zhejiang Cancer Hospital, China was the host institute. About more than 60 research works were published in different national and international Journals and books. She has organized many national and international conferences and workshops. She acts as a reviewer for different national and international Journals and supervised many BSc projects, MSc thesis and PhD thesis.
During Covid-19 Pandemic Dr. Anupama has been keeping up her work with the Health Ministry, Bangladesh Government to create and spread awareness following the directives from WHO. Recently a chapter Medical Physics during the COVID-19 Pandemic Global Perspectives— Asia-Pacific. In the book: Medical Physics During the COVID-19 Pandemic Global Perspectives in Clinical Practice, Education and Research Taylor and Francis 2021.
Dr. Azhari received the “International Day of Medical Physics award 2018” from IOMP and AFOMP Outstanding Medical Physicist Award 2020. She has collaborated different countries for development of Medical Physics education in international standard. She was a project coordinator for Bengal translation at EMITEL e-Encyclopaedia of Medical Physics and Multilingual Dictionary and terms, a project of IOMP from 2000-2015.
She is the first women Medical Physicists in Bangladesh having MSc in MP. She has communicated with the health ministry and other government. nongovernment organization to publicize of the subject. She has able to create position and recruitment rules working with Directorate of Health Services and Ministry of Health.