Dr. Awab Alvi
Sharing an interview of Dr. Awab Alvi published on TEDBlog on Friday November 5th 2010.
Sharing an interview of Dr. Awab Alvi published on TEDBlog on Friday November 5th 2010.
Dr Arif Alvi has been elected as a Trustee and Councilor of the World Dental Federation. The election was held in Salvador Brazil yesterday in the General Assembly in which delegates from more than 150 countries took part.
He was voted in by more than a hundred countries with a clear majority when 62% delegates casted their votes in his favor. He soundly defeated candidates from India, Brazil, New Zealand, Italy, Malaysia and Armenia. Millions are spent in the campaign for these elections by some countries with embassies and foreign ministries playing a major role, but Dr Alvi won the election without any extraneous expenses or help. Delegates gave importance to his candidature as the Asia Pacific Region had recognized him and bestowed the List of Honor award on him for outstanding contributions to dentistry.
This was the biggest congress of dentists in recent years and there were more than 10000 participants. The floods in Pakistan were also discussed in the General Assembly where it was decided to consider helping the flood victims in Pakistan similar to the effort done for Haiti by the World Dental Federation. It must be pointed out that no Pakistani or Indian has ever been elected to this prestigious position before.
On the 4th of June Karachi witnessed an amazing event in the form of TEDxKarachi organized by a team of volunteers, in which Dr. Awab Alvi as a TEDIndia fellow curated the first session of the meeting. The event was organized under the official license from the TEDx organization and showcased seven speakers who motivated the audience with their own inspirational stories in the trademark 18-minutes TED Talks. The speakers were
It was followed by an Op-ed by Dr. Awab Alvi published in his weekly column at Express Tribune on 11th of June. Videos and Pictures of the event can be seen at the TEDxKarachi website
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Alvi Dental Hospital is please to update that Dr. Awab Alvi [Blogs as Teeth Maestro] has recently been selected as a TEDIndia Fellow for his leadership capabilities and his innovative work in Pakistan. The selection to this TED Fellows group was limited to bringing together some brilliant future leaders from this region together.
Of the list of 103 TEDIndia Fellows from around the world Dr. Awab Alvi is one of the five Pakistanis who would be invited to Mysore for a four day networking conference to meet and exchange ideas amongst probably the future innovators of the world (more…)
In the annual conference of the FDI in Dubai 2007, Dr. Arif Alvi was elected as a counselor for a period of three years into this prestigious body. FDI, Federation Dentist Internationale is the world governing body of dentists, it is for the first time in history that a Pakistani has been elected as an office bearer into this organization and that too with a landslide victory.
Dr. Arif Alvi has since then been actively involved in helping guide the FDI into further developing issue of the third world countries.