Awards
Undergraduate Awards
- Gold Medals awarded twice
- National Talent Scholarship
Post graduate Awards
- Myre Sim travelling fellowship award by Royal College of Physicians
Memberships
- General Medical Council UK
- Pakistan Medical and Dental Council
- Royal College of Physicians Edinburgh
- Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons Glasgow
- British Society of Clinical Neurophysiology
- Association of British Neurologists
- International League Against Epilepsy
Dr Akhtar was born in London where he received initial schooling. He received secondary schooling in Dubai and graduated in medicine overseas in 1995. He completed a research project and was awarded Master degree in medicine (M Med Sci) by the University of Sheffield UK in 2009. He completed basic post-graduate medical training in General and Internal medicine in 2012. He passed MRCP exams and became a member of the Royal College of Physician, London in 2012. He worked as Specialty registrar in Neurology in Hull, England until 2013. He spent the next 4 years in national training post in the field of clinical neurophysiology in Glasgow. While training in Glasgow, he promoted the specialty of neurophysiology and represented trainees across Scotland in his NHS Education Scotland (NES) roles of “Training Ambassador” and “Trainee Representative” until 2017. He received Myre Sim fellowship award from the Royal College of Physicians Edinburgh in 2016. He gained enhanced training in pediatric and adult neurophysiology by working in honorary posts at the well-known centres of excellence at Great Ormond Street Hospital, London and UCL-National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, London in 2016.
Dr Akhtar strongly believes in continual professional development and has attended numerous national and international courses and conferences, including presenting cases at Oxford and Cambridge universities in UK.
Dr Akhtar is a well-established consultant in Clinical Neurophysiology and Electro-diagnostics in Scotland and is currently based at Queen Elizabeth University hospital, Glasgow, since 2017. He was awarded fellowship (FRCP) by Royal College of Physicians Edinburgh in 2018 and was awarded fellowship (FRCP) by Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons Glasgow in 2019. He offers wide range of neurophysiologic tests including nerve conduction studies, EMG, evoked potentials, EEG and video-telemetry EEG. He has special interest in Nerve conduction studies, EMG, EEG. He is one of the very few consultants in the country who are contributing to the novel field of intra-operative neurophysiologic monitoring in Scotland..
Research
- Dr Akhtar completed a research project and wrote thesis on a renal condition, contributing towards the award of Masters’ degree in Medicine from the University of Sheffield, UK in 2009.
Teaching and Training
Post Graduate
- Dr Akhtar regularly contributes to Training of Post Graduate Trainees in Clinical Neurophysiology.
Under Graduate Level
- Dr Akhtar regularly contribute to teaching of medical students from the University of Glasgow attending Queen Elizabeth University hospital in Glasgow.
- Dr Akhtar has been contributing as an examiner for the University of Glasgow final year medical students’ examinations since 2015.
- Dr Akhtar has contributed to teaching and examinations of BSc physiologist degree course students at Glasgow Caledonian University since 2015.
Workshops
- Dr Akhtar conducted Neurophysiology workshops at the Edinburgh University Neurological Society undergraduate conference attended by neuroscience students in 2016 and 2017. These were rated one of the best.
