Biography – Dr. Hassaan Anwer Rathore

Research Interests

• Neurohumoral control of cardiovascular & kidney functions in health and disease.
• Hypertension, diabetes and antioxidant research.
• Traditional medicine, translational and integrative Physiology and Pharmacology.
• Hydrogen Sulphide and Nitric Oxide in vascular diseases.

Dr. Hassaan Rathore is an Associate Professor at the College of Pharmacy, Qatar University and heading the assessment committee at CPH. He completed his bachelors in pharmacy from University of The Punjab, Lahore, Pakistan in the year 2001 and was awarded a doctorate degree in the field of physiology/pharmacy by the Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM), Penang in year 2009 where he served as a senior lecturer at the School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, until 2017. Previously he has worked as an Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Pharmacology & Toxicology, the Pharm D Program Coordinator and was a member of the strategic planning committee at the University of Hail, KSA.  He has also been a visiting academician at the School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang and a visiting professor at the Lahore College of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Lahore, Pakistan.

At Universiti Sains Malaysia, he had his own independent research program in the area of cardiovascular & renal physiology and pathophysiology and developed the Hypertension and cardiovascular research laboratory (HCRLab) which had been generously funded by the Ministry of Science, Technology & Innovation, Malaysia (MOSTI) as well as by Universiti Sains Malaysia through several research grants to him as Principal Investigator (PI) over the past decade. He has published more than 55 research publications in renowned journals indexed and graded by ISI and Scopus and other well-known databases along with several conference proceedings, research reports and has contributed several book chapters. He has been invited at university, national and international levels to give seminars, conduct workshops, invited presentations, and has extensive experience in organizing national and international conferences in the field of pharmacy. Dr. Rathore has supervised 5 MSc and 6 PhD students who are now successful academicians, researchers and serving different governmental and non-governmental organizations in Malaysia, Pakistan, USA, Ireland, Libya and other countries.

He has keen interest in improving teaching-learning techniques especially in teaching of physiology to pharmacy students. He has been an active member of Physiology teaching group formed at IUPS 2009 in Kobe, Japan and has been a full member of the American Physiological Society, The Physiological Society UK and served as an editor to a quarterly newsletter of the Malaysian Society of Pharmacology and Physiology from 2005 to 2012.

 He was a member of the institutional ethics committee for the use of animals in science at the university level and served the postgraduate research evaluation board of the school of pharmaceutical sciences. He has been both internal and external examiner of MSc and PhD theses at both national and international level and serves as reviewer for several renowned journals in the field of physiology and pharmacy. He was also appointed as the Associate editor of the Hail Journal of Health Sciences and a member of research committee, academic staff recruitment and promotion committees at University of Hail.

He was awarded the Excellence in service award at Universiti Sains Malaysia in 2013, Sangar Sanjung award for journal publication categories in 2013 and 2015. He received several travel awards from Federation of Asian Pharmacists Association (FAPA), The American Physiological Society (APS), The Physiological Society UK, Federation of Asian & Oceanian Physiological Societies (FAOPS) and a young investigator award by International Union of Physiological Societies (IUPS). He was also awarded the best student advisor at the College of Pharmacy, University of Hail, KSA.

Dr. Rathore’s expertise is teaching human physiology and researches via In vivo experimentation in cardiovascular & renal research areas. He is well trained in surgical manipulation of small animals including cannulation of carotid & iliac artery, jugular vein, tracheotomy etc. Surgical & chemical induction of different diseases such as left ventricular hypertrophy, heart failure, renal failure; hypertension models, diabetes, metabolic syndrome etc. were routinely developed in his laboratory. He also has extensive experience in the use of PowerLab^® research and teaching systems, Millar’s PV catheters and MPV systems, small animal ECG, metabolic studies, renal and cardiovascular function studies etc.