Asad Mian M.D., Ph.D.
Scientific Committee
Dr. Asad Mian, Professor and Chair, Dept. of Emergency Medicine, Director, Critical Innovative Thinking, Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan
Asad Mian M.D., Ph.D. is a Professor and Chair of the Department of Emergency Medicine at the Aga Khan University. He is also the Director of the Critical Creative Innovative Thinking (CCIT) Forum – a co-innovation/incubation hub at AKU. Although Asad is an ER physician-researcher and innovator-intrapreneur, itʼs really proclivity to writing that his means of “creative exploration and expression.” His articles on healthcare, education, innovation, children, humor, and popular culture have appeared in newspapers in the US and Pakistan. Other than the fictional “Biloongra” series of multi-lingual books for children, he has authored ‘An Itinerant Observer,’ short stories first published in the US in 2014 and reprinted in Pakistan in 2020.
Asad and his team of maverick (aka “crazy”) ideators and innovators have worked extensively on multi-disciplinary educational programming through Ignites, Hackathons, Innovation Fellowships, Incubation Cohorts, etc., that cut across healthcare/biomedicine and merge with arts, humanities, social sciences,
business, IT-tech, engineering, etc. You may read more about all that work, as well as how to attempt it yourself and do it even better, in “MEDJACK: The Extraordinary Journey of an Ordinary Hack.” This is his teamʼs first non-fiction, popular science book on low-cost creative innovation and entrepreneurship, and it hit virtual and physical bookstands in 2021.