Anam Najam ( ur, ) is a Pakistani medical doctor and
psychiatrist
A psychiatrist is a physician who specializes in psychiatry, the branch of medicine devoted to the diagnosis, prevention, study, and treatment of mental disorders. Psychiatrists are physicians and evaluate patients to determine whether their sy ...
. She is Pakistan's first and only
quadriplegic psychiatrist.
She is a recipient of the
Chevening Scholarship for higher studies in the
United Kingdom.
Early life and education
Najam was born in
Muzaffarabad,
Azad Jammu and Kashmir,
Pakistan. She passed her intermediate from Shaheen Model College in Muzaffarabad and received a distinction in the
AJK Board. After completing her
MBBS
Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery ( la, Medicinae Baccalaureus, Baccalaureus Chirurgiae; abbreviated most commonly MBBS), is the primary medical degree awarded by medical schools in countries that follow the tradition of the United King ...
from
Ayub Medical College
Ayub Medical College (Urdu, Hindko: , ps, د ايوب طبي کالج, or AMC) is a leading public medical institute located in Abbottabad, Pakistan. It is one of the medical colleges affiliated to Khyber Medical University. AMC is home to 1,500 ...
in
Abbottabad
Abbottabad (; Urdu, Punjabi language(HINDKO dialect) آباد, translit=aibṭabād, ) is the capital city of Abbottabad District in the Hazara region of eastern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. It is the 40th largest city in Pakistan and fourth ...
, she pursued post-graduate studies in psychiatry from the
College of Physicians and Surgeons in
Karachi. Until 2019, she worked as a psychiatrist at a
Combined Military Hospital in Muzaffarabad,
following which she was awarded a
Chevening Scholarship and left to pursue a
Master of Science in War and Psychiatry at
King's College London
King's College London (informally King's or KCL) is a public research university located in London, England. King's was established by royal charter in 1829 under the patronage of King George IV and the Duke of Wellington. In 1836, King's ...
in the
United Kingdom.
2008 attack and paralysis
On 15 March 2008, while traveling from
Rawalpindi
Rawalpindi ( or ; Urdu, ) is a city in the Punjab province of Pakistan. It is the fourth largest city in Pakistan after Karachi, Lahore and Faisalabad, and third largest in Punjab after Lahore and Faisalabad. Rawalpindi is next to Pakistan's ...
to
Muzaffarabad with her family, a group of armed robbers attacked and fired at Najam's car, following which a stray bullet penetrated her neck and led to a severe spinal cord injury that paralyzed her body from below the neck. In October 2010, Najam went to
Cologne,
Germany for
stem-cell therapy, which proved unsuccessful and ultimately led her to lose control over all four of her limbs, a condition known as
quadriplegia.
Awards
*Empowered, Dignified and Prosperous Woman Achievement Award on Women's Day 2016
References
Further reading
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Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
Pakistani women medical doctors
Women psychiatrists
Shooting survivors
People with tetraplegia
Pakistani psychiatrists