Prof. Abdul Shakoor
Prof. Abdul Shakoor
MBBS, FCPS (Psych)
Professor of Psychiatry & Behavioural Sciences
Sheikh Zayed Hospital and SKZ Medical College, Lahore
Consultant Psychiatrist LHC, Lahore
Email: ashakoor62@hotmail.com
Dr. Abdul Shakoor is one of the few well reputed psychiatrists around who believes
and practices in the art of psychiatry based on a balanced combination of pharmacological
and psychotherapeutic interventions.
He got his postgraduate training in psychiatry
at Academic Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Sciences, Mayo Hospital/ King
Edward Medical College, Lahore under supervision of Professor I A K Tareen and Professor
Emeritus K I Tareen. After passing his FCPS (Psych) he joined Children Hospital,
Lahore as Assistant Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and got an invaluable
experience of understanding and managing a wide range of psychiatric disorders including
Mental Retardation, Learning Difficulties, ADHD and Pervasive Developmental Disorders
like Autism.
In the year 2000, Dr. Shakoor joined Sheikh Zayed Hospital, Lahore
and ever since he is heading the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Medicine.
While working at Sheikh Zayed Hospital he got the vast experience of Liaison Psychiatry
i.e. assessment and management of patients suffering from both physical illnesses
as well as psychiatric disorders.
Dr. Shakoor has quite a few National and International
publications to his credit.