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B.A. Zikria
B.A. Zikria finished college in three years. He graduated from John Hopkins University School of Medicine and specialized in surgery, metabolism, gastroenterology and oncology at B...view moreB.A. Zikria finished college in three years. He graduated from John Hopkins University School of Medicine and specialized in surgery, metabolism, gastroenterology and oncology at Bellevue Hospital and Columbia Presbyterian Medical Centers (CPMC). Dr. Zikria worked as an assistant professor along Professor John Kinney in the Surgical Metabolic Unit in CPMC, and became the first surgical ICU attending. 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. After Columbia University’s association with Harlem Hospital Medical Center in 1967, Dr. Zikria continued serving patients and teaching residents until 2009. Among his most prominent students are Professor Robert Solomon, the youngest chairman of the neurosurgery at CPMC and Dr. Mehmet Oz of Dr. OZ TV Show serving people to live a healthy life.
Besides clinical research he also personally performed laboratory in vitro and in-vivio studies, in 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.
Prof. Zikria has presented papers and delivered lectures by invitation across the United States, France, Belgium, Switzerland, Holland, Germany, Italy, Turkey and China.
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”. He has received a couple of rewards and ten United States Patents concerning teaching aids, macromolecules for sealing capillary leak, fish model for studying capillaries, methods for capillary leak determination, blood volume determination, therapy of capillary leak in post bone marrow transplant, chemotherapy, hemorrhagic viral infections, and method to reduce glycemic index of carbohydrate foods for diabetic and obese patients.view less
Books by B.A. Zikria
Malalai Joan of Arc of Afghanistan and the Victors of Maiwand: The Second Anglo-Afghan War 1878-1882