Shaigan Health TV · Interview · 2025
Senior cardiologist
Maj. Gen. (R) Dr. Zafar ul Islam
Cardiology & Medical Specialist
MBBS, MD, FACC. Consultations at FZ International Hospital in Jinnah Garden for patients across Islamabad and Rawalpindi.
Role / qualifications
MBBS, MD, FACC
Clinical focus
Cardiology & Medical Specialist
- Chest pain
- Heart disease
- High BP
- Palpitations
- Shortness of breath
- Diabetes
- Fever
Location
Islamabad & Rawalpindi
204 Street, Shaheen Commercial, Jinnah Garden · Phase 1, Islamabad, Pakistan
Professional profile
Medicine, teaching and clinical leadership.
A senior interventional cardiologist and physician-educator, Maj. Gen. (R) Dr. Zafar ul Islam has combined clinical practice with decades of medical teaching and departmental leadership. He served as Director General Medicine and Adviser Cardiology at GHQ from 2011 to 2013.
45
Years of clinical experience
PMDC verified
Cardiologist · Interventional cardiologist
Video appearances
Heart health, explained.
Interviews and patient education on heart attacks, prevention, angiography and cardiac care.
Wilson’s Pharmaceuticals · 19 min · 2025
Myths and truths in coronary angiography and angioplasty
Rawal General and Dental Hospital · 8:46
World Heart Day 2021 — Maj. Gen. (R) Zafar ul Islam
Health Point Pakistan · 12:05
Heart attack symptoms and treatment — Dr. Zafar ul Islam
Honours and recognition
Recognition across military and academic medicine.
Hilal-i-Imtiaz (Military)
Awarded in recognition of distinguished service to medicine.
Lifetime Achievement Award
Presented by Dow University in recognition of his career in medicine.
Career highlights
A record of academic and clinical leadership.
Leadership appointments across Islamabad, Rawalpindi and Sargodha.
- 01
Professor of Cardiology and faculty member at PMC
- 02
Professor of Cardiology and Chief Interventional Cardiologist at Quaid-e-Azam International Hospital
- 03
Professor of Cardiology and Head of Medicine at RAI Medical College, Sargodha
- 04
Professor and Head of Cardiology, and Director of the Cath Lab, at Rawal Institute of Health Sciences, Islamabad
- 05
Professor of Cardiology and faculty member at Rawal Institute of Health Sciences
- 06
Professor of Cardiology and Head of Medicine at Army Medical College, Rawalpindi
Clinical expertise
Specialist heart care.
01
Interventional cardiology
02
Angioplasty
03
General cardiology medicine
04
Echocardiography
05
Exercise tolerance testing
06
Preventive heart care
Selected research
Cardiology research in military medicine.
Research spanning cardiac stress testing, ischemic heart disease and coronary artery disease in military medicine.
01Use of exercise tolerance test and thallium stress test in the diagnosis of ischemic heart disease in soldiersJournal of the College of Physicians and Surgeons Pakistan · 2009Department of Cardiology, Armed Forces Institute of Cardiology/NIHD, Rawalpindi02Normal exercise tolerance test in a patient with severe left main coronary artery diseaseJournal of the College of Physicians and Surgeons Pakistan · 2004Department of Medicine/Cardiology, Combined Military Hospital, Multan