Qualifications:

2021 - FCPS Rheumatology College of Physician and Surgeon, Pakistan

2021-SCE Rheumatology Royal College of Physician, UK

2017-FCPS Medicine College of Physician and Surgeon, Pakistan

2007-MBBS Sindh Medical College, Karachi, Pakistan

Working Experience:

6th Dec 2021 – 31st Aug 2022, Senior Registrar, Rheumatology

Fazia Ruthfao Medical College & PAF, Hospital Karachi

31st Jan 2019 - 30th Jan 2021, Fellow FCPS Rheumatology

Liaquat National Hospital, Karachi

1st October 2018 to 30th January 2019, Senior Medical Officer (Rheumatology) Liaquat National Hospital, Karachi

9th February 2018 to 30th September 2018, Senior Registrar (Medicine)

Patel Hospital, Karachi

4th October 2016 till 5th August 2017, Registrar (Medicine)

Patel Hospital, Karachi

29 May 2016 to 30 July 2016, Senior Medical Officer

Emergency Department, Aga Khan University Hospital Karachi

04 July 2014 to 01 Jan 2016, TRMO (Medical Officer)

Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre (JPMC- Medical Unit-II), Karachi

24 May 2010 to 30 June 2014, Postgraduate (FCPS) Trainee

Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre (JPMC- Medical Unit-II), Karachi

Special Skills & Procedures

Arthrocentesis

PRP (Platelet rich plasma)

IV cannulation

Urethral Catheterization

Nasogastric intubation

Paracentesis

Lumbar puncture

Pleural fluid aspiration

Central venous cannulation

DC cardioversion

Oropharyngeal Intubation

Publications

1) Ahsan T, Erum U, Jabeen R, Khowaja D, etal. Takayasu’s arteritis: Rare but not infrequent… Int J Case Rep Images 2016; 7(2):75-80.

2) Ahsan T, Erum U, Jabeen R, Khowaja D. Ankylosing Spondylitis: A Rheumatology Clinic experience. Pak J Med Sci 2016;32(2):365-68.

3) T Ahsan, D Khowaja, R Jabeen, U Erum, et al. The burden of Rheumatological Disorders in a Tertiary Care Hospital. J Pak Med Assoc 2016;66(5):563-67.

4) Ahsan T, Jabeen R, Erum U, Khowaja D. Rheumatoid Arthritis: A Major Disease Burden. Int J Curr Res. 2016;8(10):40061-63.

5) Erum U, Ahsan T, Khowaja D. Lipid abnormalities in patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis. Pak J Med Sci 2017;33(1):227-30.

6) Ahsan T, Erum U, Inam Pal KM, et al. The many guises of Primary Hyperparathyroidism: An unchanged scenario… J Pak Med Assoc. 2017;67(4):580-585.

7) Ahsan T, Erum U. An elusive case of Dermatomyositis. J Pak Med Assoc. 2017;67(11):1756-1758.

8) Ahsan T, Erum U, Khowaja D, Dahani A. Delayed conventional DMARDs therapy is effective in Rheumatoid arthritis patients. Pak J Med Sci 2017;33(4):840-843.

9) Ahsan T, Erum U, Dahani A, Khowaja D. Clinical and immunological profile in patients with Mixed connective tissue disease. 2018;68(6):959-62.

10) Azam W, Erum U, Muhammad AJ. An elusive case of digital ischemia in a patient with rheumatoid arthritis. Pak J Med Sci. 2018;34(4):1024-1026.

11) Jabeen R, Ahsan T, Erum U, Rehman UL. The pattern of pituitary lesions at the endocrine center of a tertiary care hospital. Pak J Med Res 2019;58(2):89-92.

12) Mughal J, Muhammad AJ, Erum U. Ocular cicatricial pemphigoid, camouflaged as persistent conjunctivitis. JCPSP 2019;2(S34-S36):34-36.

13) Alam H, Umer TP, Nazir L, Erum U, Alam N, Irfan M. Primary Sjögren's Syndrome beyond Sicca symptoms: a Rheumatology clinic experience. J Fatima Jinnah Med Univ 2019; 13(1):26-29

14) Ghaus S, Ahsan T, Sohail E, Erum U, Ajiaz W. Burden of Elevated Body Mass Index and Its Association With Non- Communicable Diseases in Patients Presenting to an Endocrinology Clinic. Cureus 2021;13(2): e13471. doi:10.7759/cureus.13471 

15) Alam, H., Umer, T., Khanum, I., Nazir, L., Erum, U., & Irfan, M. (2021). Comparison of steroids to NSAIDS, and other forms of analgesia in the management of post-chikungunya arthritis. PAFMJ, 71(2), 619-24. https://doi.org/10.51253/pafmj.v71i2.271216) Erum U, Umer TP, Arain SUR, Ahmed MR, Nazir L. Significance of elevated synovial fluid lactic acid and lactate dehydrogenase levels in differentiating between septic arthritis, inflammatory arthritis, and non-inflammatory arthritis. Pak Armed Forces Med J 2022; 72(Suppl-2): S276-279. DOI: https://10.51253/pafmj.v72iSUPPL-2.3996

17) Ahsan ET, Ghaus S, Pal KMI, Erum U, Jabeen R. Persistently Elevated Parathyroid Hormone level after curative parathyroidectomy in patients with primary hyperparathyroidism. J Fatima Jinnah Med Univ. 2022; 16(4):