Javed Akram

Javed Akram (Urdu: جاوید اکرم ) is a Pakistani academic who is a former caretaker Minister of Health of the Government of Punjab, Pakistan, former vice-chancellor of the University of Health Sciences, Lahore and the Shaheed Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto Medical University, Islamabad and former principal of Allama Iqbal Medical College, Lahore. Akram is an eminent professor of medicine and well known as a global medical researcher.

He trained in UK and US and served as dean of medicine at King Edward Medical College, Principal Allama Iqbal Medical College, CEO Jinnah Hospital, Lahore, founding vice chancellor Shaheed Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto Medical University, CEO Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences and remained vice chancellor of the University of Health Sciences, Lahore from 2018 to 2022, founding president of Pakistan Society of Internal Medicine and international advisor to Royal College of Physicians London and is the recipient of the global excellence in patient care award from the same institution due to his recent research during the COVID-19 pandemic. He was conferred with the prestigious fellowship from the Ceylon College of Physicians (CCP) in Sri Lanka.

He is currently the chairman of Akram Medical Complex in Lahore, Pakistan.