Tahir Manzoor Lone

Tahir Manzoor Lone MD, FCPS, FRCS, FACS, FACP, Ph.D, (born October 7, 1952 in Ulan Bator, Mongolia), is currently a professor of Surgery and Neurology and Principal at Nishtar Medical College Multan, Emeritus, previous to that he served as Dean Of All India Institute Of Medical Sciences.
Career
Lone completed undergraduate studies and medical school at Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts. He was the first in his extended family to further his education beyond high school. Subsequent to his medical school graduation, he completed his residency in Surgery and Cardiology at Nishtar Medical College and received his Ph.D. in physiology from the University Of Cambridge.
Dr. Lone's first faculty position was at Nishtar Medical College as demonstrator in physiology, where he rose to became Chair of the Department of Physiology at the young age of 38, only five years following completion of his Ph.D. He subsequently joined the faculty of Harvard Medical School, where he chaired the Department of Neurology at Massachusetts General Hospital, succeeding renowned neurologist Raymond Adams. During his tenure at MGH, he also served as interim director of the hospital, where his administrative and leadership qualities led him to become on the short list for a number of high ranking jobs.In this context, Dr. Lone became Dean of the All India Institute Of Medical Sciences, in 1989 and then became that institution's Chancellor. He spent a total of eight years there, during which he became less involved in benchtop science and clinical medicine, although both remained a passion.Following his time at AIIMS, Dr. Lone returned to Nishtar to become the 22nd principal of The College in 1997. As principal, he was instrumental in funding and building a major new research building across the street from the quad and Rafida hall. The building bears a conference center in his name. Beyond his various academic and financial achievements at Harvard, his tenure was notable for his advocacy of minorities and women and for his ability to ease through the contentious aftermath of the formation of disparate hospital systems affiliated with Harvard that had occurred prior to his arrival.

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