Dr. Ali Nafisa is an esteemed and skilled surgeon who has a special interest in advanced breast surgery. She graduated from Rajshahi Medical College in the year 2007. After that, she has pursued her career in surgery and earned her FCPS degree in 2014.
She has completed her breast surgery training in Breast Unit, Wycombe Hospital, Buckinghamshire Healthcare, NHS Trust, UK under Dr. SK Farid Ahmed, MBBS, FRCS, consultant oncoplastic breast surgeon and All India Institute of Medical Science, India, and also worked with several senior breast surgeons in Bangladesh for years.
She is currently working as an Associate Professor in the Department of Surgery in Anwer Khan Modern Medical College. She also works as a consultant surgeon in, breast unit from 1st July 2020 to date, at BRB hospital, Panthopath, Dhaka, Bangladesh.
She has shown great determination and enthusiasm in developing breast disease management in Bangladesh a traveled to various countries to obtain post-graduate training in Oncoplastic breast surgery. She went to the UK four times to work and gain experience in the Breast unit, Wycombe hospital, under the supervision of Dr. SK Farid Ahmed, an Oncoplastic breast surgeon. The first-ever breast unit was established at AKMMCH which has successfully generated a good number of trained surgeons, radiologists and provided UK standard treatment in Breast cancer following UK guidelines. She contributed to establishing many surgical procedures of oncoplastic breast surgery in Bangladesh the concept of breast-conserving surgery with wire localization, RF seed localization, Sentinel node biopsy, breast reconstruction with implants, acellular dermal matrix. Hydrogel marker insertion for neoadjuvant chemotherapy and aim to do breast-conserving surgery if downstaging takes place.
While she was committed to teaching medical students at AKMMCH, she organized many educational events. Out of which, two international live surgery workshops at AKMMCH were hugely successful and contributed to the development of modern management of Breast cancer. She has participated as foreign faculty in India, Maldives as part of ASOMA and attended many conferences at home and abroad as part of continuous medical education. She has developed software that allows keeping patient details for outcome data, and registry. She has published a good number of research papers, published in National and international reputable journals.
Her passion and dedication for breast surgery enabled her to establish the first-ever dedicated breast care unit in Bangladesh according to UK protocol to provide world-class treatment for breast diseases including breast cancer in Bangladesh. She is associated with various associations both nationally as well as internationally such as the Society of Surgeon of Bangladesh (SOSB), Society of Laparoscopic Surgeon of Bangladesh (SlSB), Society of Association of Breast Surgeons of Bangladesh (ASBS), and Asian Society of Mastology (ASOMA), INDIA.
MBBS, FCPS
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