Islami Bank gets new vice-chairman

Tanveer Ahmad has been elected as the vice-chairman of Islami Bank Bangladesh Ltd.

Ahmad earned his MBBS degree in 2009 from the University of Science and Technology Chittagong.

He obtained his doctor of medicine degree in cardiology in 2017 from Sir Salimullah Medical College under Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University.

He joined United Hospital in 2017 in the post-doctoral fellowship programme in the department of cardiology and is currently working as a cardiologist in the same hospital, said a press release.

Ahmad is a life member of Bangladesh Cardiac Society, the Bangladesh Society of Cardiac Intervention and Bangladesh Echocardiographic Society.

He is also the joint secretary of the Bangladesh Heart Failure & Research Foundation and a board member of Interactive Professional Development Initiatives (IPDI) Foundation.             

He represented Bangladesh in the emerging leaders' summit of the Asia Pacific Society of Cardiology.

Ahmad was awarded a scholarship for observer fellowship in the USA in 2023 under the PHA programme.