PAC Organization & Board
About the Board
The decision making body of Partnership-Afghanistan Canada is the Board of Directors, comprised of experts in relevant fields and professions. Membership on the Board is achieved through an election in the General Assembly meeting each year. Founding members,
(CEO, Field Director and Central Secretary and Administrator) become automatic and permanent members of the BoD.
The Board is responsible for the overall activities of PAC. This includes the evaluation of projects, providing advice and guidance to both central and Field Directors and officers, financial evaluations and boycotting, calling monthly, quarterly, annual and emergency meetings. Each board member has the right of one vote in any decision making process. Board members receive no financial compensation for their contributions to PAC.
Board Members
Karim Qayumi is a Professor in the Divisions of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery, Director, Centre of Excellence for Simulation Education, Simulation and Innovation (CESEI), Department of Surgery at the University of British Columbia. He is the Chair of the Canadian Network for Simulation in Health (CNSH); co-Chair of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada (RCPSC) Simulation Summit 2009; and Chair of the Technology Enabled Learning Committee of the Education Division at the American College of Surgeons (ACS).
Dr. Qayumi’s work has been acknowledged by prestigious awards such as the Bright & Shiny Award, Killam University Teaching Prize, H. Rocke Robertson Award for Recognition of Outstanding Clinical Teaching, Andreas Van Recum Award among others. Dr. Qayumi’s work has generated over $10 million in peer review grants and tens of millions of dollars in non-peer review grants. He is widely published and has been an invited lecturer to many academic events and he has also taken an advisory/consulting role for simulation centers being built or simulation-based programs developed at various universities.
Dr. Qayumi is a veteran investigator and an outstanding teacher at the University of British Columbia. He has extensive international teaching experience with excellent records. He obtained 11 awards in the field of medicine. His teaching records demonstrate a score of 6.7 (from 0-7) for the past several years evaluated by 120 medical students per year.
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