The American University of Antigua College of Medicine

Dr. Pathan, professionally qualified as a librarian in 1966, has worked as a Medical Librarian for major medical schools and hospitals in the U.S. and abroad since 1972. He was the first recipient of the Eileen Cunningham Fellowship of the Medical Library Association, Chicago in 1970, while he was as St. John's Medical College, Bangalore. Dr. Pathan received Bachelors' degrees in Arts and a Bachelor’s degree in Library Science, and a Master's degree in Health Sciences Librarianship from Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio. He received a Doctorate in Library and Information Sciences from Karnataka University. He has extensive experience with the establishment of state-of-the-art medical libraries and learning resource centers and their management. Dr. Pathan is a member of the Academy of Health Care Information Professionals of the Medical Library Association Chicago. He has published several papers in peer-reviewed journals and has edited numerous multiple-choice USMLE -type questions for Basic Science courses. He has been appointed as an examiner for Ph. D. thesis and has adjudicated thesis for [1] Bharathidasan University, [2] Andhra University, and [3] Vinayak Mission University all in South India.