{"entity":{"id":"farhat-abbas","kind":"person","name":"Farhat Abbas","aka":[],"tldr":"Urological surgeon who is Chief Executive Officer of the Aga Khan University Hospital and Health System in Pakistan, based at the Karachi teaching hospital.","summary":"Farhat Abbas (MD, FCPS, FRCS, FRCSEd, FEBU, FACS) is Chief Executive Officer of The Aga Khan University Hospital and Health System, Pakistan, and also Special Advisor to the President and Husein Cumber Professor of Surgery (Urology) at Aga Khan University. In his welcome message he describes a relationship with AKU spanning more than 40 years, training as a surgeon and serving in multiple roles across the university and its health services. The hospital's page notes that in 2024 nearly 1.5 million patients received financial support through its Patient Welfare and Zakat programmes, and that it is accredited by Joint Commission International and the College of American Pathologists.","asOf":"2026-09-10","links":[{"label":"Source: AKUH Pakistan CEO welcome page","url":"https://hospitals.aku.edu/pakistan/AboutUs/Pages/welcome-by-ceo-akuh-pakistan.aspx"}],"tags":["leadership","clinician-scientist","hospital-management"],"related":[],"cancers":[],"sections":[],"technologies":[],"targets":[],"drugs":[],"companies":[],"institutions":["aku-karachi"],"pathways":[],"terms":[],"trials":[],"people":[],"bottlenecks":[],"keyPapers":[],"journals":["world-journal-of-surgical-oncology"],"dependsOn":[],"notes":[],"role":"Chief Executive Officer, The Aga Khan University Hospital and Health System, Pakistan","institutionId":"aku-karachi","specialisms":["Urology","Surgery","Hospital management"],"profiles":[{"label":"Welcome by CEO, AKUH Pakistan","url":"https://hospitals.aku.edu/pakistan/AboutUs/Pages/welcome-by-ceo-akuh-pakistan.aspx"},{"label":"PubMed","url":"https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=Abbas+F%5BAuthor%5D+AND+Aga+Khan"}],"papers":[{"title":"Granular cell tumors of the urinary bladder","journal":"World Journal of Surgical Oncology","year":2007,"doi":"10.1186/1477-7819-5-33"},{"title":"Incidental Prostate Cancer: The Importance of Complete Prostatic Removal at Cystoprostatectomy for Bladder Cancer","journal":"Urologia Internationalis","year":2000,"doi":"10.1159/000030486"}]},"route":"/people/farhat-abbas/","neighbours":{"institution":[{"id":"aku-karachi","kind":"institution","name":"Aga Khan University Hospital, Karachi","route":"/institutions/aku-karachi/"}],"journal":[{"id":"world-journal-of-surgical-oncology","kind":"journal","name":"World journal of surgical oncology","route":"/journals/world-journal-of-surgical-oncology/"}]}}