Bani Adam
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Dr ZA Bhutta relocates AFTER reaping the harvest, getting grants/awards in the name of Pakistan!!
By: Jennifer Yang Global health reporter, Published on Sun Jun 23 2013
(Excerpts)
...... Thirty-five years later, that stubborn determination remains a defining feature of Bhuttas career as he takes up his new role as co-director and research head of the Global Child Health centre at Torontos Hospital for Sick Children.
......Now, the seemingly inexhaustible 58-year-old is adding another bullet point to that bulky CV with his job at SickKids. Although Bhutta will maintain a joint position at Aga Khan University, he is shifting his home base to Toronto.
......Bhutta was born in Peshawar ...... went on to study in England after all. He also obtained his PhD from Swedens Karolinska Institute, one of Europes most prestigious medical universities.......
Both Horton and Zlotkin insist that Bhutta could have landed a job anywhere he wanted so why Sick Kids?
It probably helped that Bhutta already has roots here. His brother and 29-year-old son both live in Toronto and another son lives in Boston. (His wife and daughter remain in Pakistan for now but will eventually join him in Toronto.)
But mostly, Bhutta is someone determined to make an impact and he sees SickKids as a perfect springboard for doing that. He considers his move to Toronto a kind of grand finale, in a place where he can build upon his work in Pakistan, foster more global connections and multiply resources, opportunities and collaborations.
But Bhutta was also impressed by the passionate young researchers he met during a sabbatical at SickKids in 2011. He sees much promise in the young people around him, and most collaborators on his last two major projects were scientists under 25, he said. Even if half of them stay in global health, thats your cohort of scientists for the next 10 to 20 years, he noted.
That to me is a much greater contribution than anything else, he said. Im, at the end of the day, an academic professor.
A lot of things you do in your life is passing the baton on to young people.
http://www.thestar.com/news/world/2013/06/23/newborn_medicine_trailblazer_to_work_at_sickkids.html
By: Jennifer Yang Global health reporter, Published on Sun Jun 23 2013
(Excerpts)
...... Thirty-five years later, that stubborn determination remains a defining feature of Bhuttas career as he takes up his new role as co-director and research head of the Global Child Health centre at Torontos Hospital for Sick Children.
......Now, the seemingly inexhaustible 58-year-old is adding another bullet point to that bulky CV with his job at SickKids. Although Bhutta will maintain a joint position at Aga Khan University, he is shifting his home base to Toronto.
......Bhutta was born in Peshawar ...... went on to study in England after all. He also obtained his PhD from Swedens Karolinska Institute, one of Europes most prestigious medical universities.......
Both Horton and Zlotkin insist that Bhutta could have landed a job anywhere he wanted so why Sick Kids?
It probably helped that Bhutta already has roots here. His brother and 29-year-old son both live in Toronto and another son lives in Boston. (His wife and daughter remain in Pakistan for now but will eventually join him in Toronto.)
But mostly, Bhutta is someone determined to make an impact and he sees SickKids as a perfect springboard for doing that. He considers his move to Toronto a kind of grand finale, in a place where he can build upon his work in Pakistan, foster more global connections and multiply resources, opportunities and collaborations.
But Bhutta was also impressed by the passionate young researchers he met during a sabbatical at SickKids in 2011. He sees much promise in the young people around him, and most collaborators on his last two major projects were scientists under 25, he said. Even if half of them stay in global health, thats your cohort of scientists for the next 10 to 20 years, he noted.
That to me is a much greater contribution than anything else, he said. Im, at the end of the day, an academic professor.
A lot of things you do in your life is passing the baton on to young people.
http://www.thestar.com/news/world/2013/06/23/newborn_medicine_trailblazer_to_work_at_sickkids.html
