Faisal Sultan is a physician and has remained the Chief Executive Officer of the Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital and Research Centre from 2003 till publish date of this podcast. He was later appointed the Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on National Health Services in August 2020.

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Timestamps:

00:00 Inception of Shaukat Khanum and Dr. Faisal’s

2:02 Studying Medicine in the USA

3:48 Allopathy, Homeopathy and Herbal medicines

6:35 Herbal or Chinese medicine

7:25 Scientific side of Acupuncture

8:25 Incorporating herbal into modern medicine

10:11 Vaccination and immunization

13:20 COVID and its management in Pakistan

15:58 Resistance for COVID vaccination

17:22 Cell theory or germ theory of disease

19:18 DNA, PCR, and Crispr

22:35 Shaukat Khanum and Cancer therapies

23:33 Types of Cancers and its molecular reasons

28:42 Tumor vs Cancer

34:30 Healthy lifestyle for longevity

37:04 Journey at Shaukat Khanum to becoming CEO

39:22 Learning and support from all the stake holders

40:41 Imran Khan as a Chairman of Shaukat Khanum

42:36 Balancing between several roles and grooming sub-ordinates to scale-up

47:44 The universe bends towards you when you are onto something

48:53 Shaukat Khanum at Peshawar and Karachi

50:15 Fundraising for Shaukat Khanum

52:35 Challenges of capacity building for serving more cancer patients

55:40 Doctor’s attention and its significance

58:15 Symptoms and root cause of diseases

59:47 Isolated scientific findings

1:02:10 Vision of IK behind Shaukat Khanum

1:03:00 Thank you and Good bye