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Prof. Dr. Riaz Hussain

Professor

Department of Pathology — Faculty of Veterinary Science

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+92-321-7533473
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Department of Pathology, Room No.01, Ground Floor, Academic Block 2
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Prof. Dr. Riaz Hussain

Biography

Dr. Riaz Hussain is a Professor in the Department of Pathology, Faculty of Veterinary Science, Cholistan University of Veterinary and Animal Sciences (CUVAS), Bahawalpur, Pakistan. He holds a Ph.D. in Veterinary Pathology from the University of Agriculture, Faisalabad (UAF), awarded in 2011 with First Division, following an M.Sc. (Hons.) in Veterinary Pathology (2006) and a D.V.M. (2004), both from UAF and both secured with First Division. He maintains a First Division academic record throughout his educational career.

He has over sixteen years of teaching and research experience. Before joining CUVAS, he served as Professor, Associate Professor (Tenured) and Assistant Professor in the Department of Pathology at The Islamia University of Bahawalpur (IUB), where he was promoted through all faculty ranks. He began his career as a Veterinary Officer with the Punjab Livestock and Dairy Department, Sahiwal, and subsequently held two Research Associate positions in the Department of Pathology at UAF.

His teaching portfolio spans thirty-five undergraduate and postgraduate courses across veterinary pathology, poultry pathology, clinical pathology, toxicology, meat and milk hygiene, public health, fisheries and aquaculture, and zoology. He has supervised postgraduate research in pathology and has contributed to curriculum development at both the Faculty of Veterinary Sciences and the Department of Zoology.

His research has been published in peer-reviewed international journals including npj Clean Water, Journal of Environmental Chemical Engineering, Scientific Reports, Aquatic Toxicology, Poultry Science, PLoS ONE, Toxicology Mechanisms and Methods, and Biological Trace Element Research. His work addresses infectious and toxicological diseases of dairy and wildlife species, with a focus on genotoxicity, oxidative stress, antioxidant enzymes, erythrocyte morphology and nuclear aberrations, and histopathological evaluation. He has field experience in the investigation of outbreaks of foot-and-mouth disease, peste des petits ruminants, enterotoxaemia, pneumonic pasteurellosis, mycoplasmosis, brucellosis, blackleg and coccidiosis in bovine, camelid, ovine and deer populations.

He is a member of the editorial and reviewer boards of several international journals and maintains an active research collaboration network across Pakistan, China, Saudi Arabia and Europe.

Research interests

Veterinary pathology Toxicology and genotoxicity Oxidative stress and antioxidant enzymes Erythrocyte morphology and micronucleus assay Histopathology Aquatic toxicology Fisheries and aquaculture Infectious diseases of dairy animals Wildlife pathology and necropsy Zoonotic diseases Meat and milk hygiene Public health and epidemiology Poultry pathology Nanoparticle-based toxicology Environmental pollution

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