B. A. Zikria

B.A. Zikria finished college in USA in three years. He graduated from John Hopkins University School of Medicine and specialized in surgery, metabolism, gastrointestinal pathology and oncology at Bellevue Hospital and Columbia Presbyterian Medical Centers (CPMC). Dr. Zikria worked as an assistant professor along Professor John Kinney in Surgical Metabolic Unit in CPMC, which became the first surgical ICU. He taught medical students at the Columbia College of Physicians & Surgeons (P&S) for more than twenty years and taught interns and residents for forty years. Dr. Zikria after Columbia University’s association with Harlem Hospital Medical Center in 1967, continued serving patients and teaching residents until 2009. Among his most prominent students are Professor Robert Solomon, the youngest Chairman of Neurosurgery Dept. at CPMC and Dr. Mehmet C. Oz of ‘Dr. Oz American TV Show’ who educates the public to live a healthy life through understanding of Comprehensive Medicine.

Besides clinical research he also personally performed laboratory in- vitro and in-vivio studies, i.e., inhalation injuries, smoke poisoning, sepsis, shock resuscitation and carried out extensive studies in therapy of capillary leak syndrome and pathophysiology of capillary circulation. He has published over seventy peer reviewed medical articles.

He has presented papers and delivered lectures by invitation across the United States, France, Belgium, Switzerland, Holland, Germany, Italy, Turkey and China. Professor Zikria has published several books: “Manuel of Surgical Knots”, “Reperfusion Injuries and Capillary Leak Syndrome”, “One Home, One Family, One Future”, “The Afghan Prince and I: The First American in Afghanistan, First Anglo-Afghan War” and “Malalai, Joan of Arc of Afghanistan and The Victors of Maiwand". He has received several rewards and 10 United States Patents i.e. surgical teaching aids, macromolecules for sealing capillary leak, fish model for studying capillaries, methods for measurement of capillary leak, blood volume determination, therapy of capillary leak in post bone-marrow transplant, chemotherapy, hemorrhagic viral infections, and a method to reduce glycemic index of carbohydrate foods (2013) for diabetic and obese patients.

He was endowed the title of Clinical Professor Emeritus & Special Lecturer in 2004.