Dr. Zulfiqar Ali is a Dubai-based consultant physician. He completed his graduation from Allama Iqbal Medical College, Punjab University Lahore in 1990. In 1995, he joined Ministry of Health, UAE and later Dubai Health Authority in 2004. He obtained MRCP (Ireland) in 2003, MRCSEd A&E (UK) 2005, and EMDM (Italy) in 2007 and MRCPS (Glasgow) in 2014. He got his FRCP (Ireland in 2017) and completed postgraduate diploma (PgD) in diabetes from (UK) in 2019. At present, Dr. Ali is performing his clinical duties at Rashid Hospital Dubai, UAE. He is a teaching faculty with Dubai Medical College and visiting faculty as Professor of Medicine at Sialkot Medical College.He is also a member of the team serving H.H. Sh. Mohammad Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, the Prime Minister and Vice-President of UAE and the Ruler of Dubai.
In addition to his clinical commitments, Dr. Ali has great interest in academics, research, teaching and training. Many of his research articles have been published in various local and international journals. He is actively involved in teaching and training both undergraduates and post graduate healthcare professionals. His personal academic courses and workshops such as Advanced ECG, Pearls of Clinical Diabetes, Clinical Toxicology, Emergency Pharmacology, Emergency Radiology, ABGs Interpretation, etc. are a regular feature of Dubai Health Authority’s MED training schedule.
He is also a senior instructor and faculty for many life support training courses such as ACLS, PALS, PEERS, ACLS-EP, PHTLS, and few more. He has been a regional faculty (MENA region) for American Heart Association (2010 – 2016) and contributed significantly in establishing life support training network in Pakistan. He was also the founding member and General Secretary of Medical Wing of Pakistan Association Dubai in 2008-09. He was also a founding executive member of Association of Pakistani Physicians and Surgeons (APPS) – Middle East in 2021.
