Farhat Moazam Receives Hastings Center Founders’ Award

Dr. Farhat Moazam, CBEC’s Chairperson, received the Hastings Center Bioethics Founders’ Award for 2022. The award is conferred annually on individuals from across the world in recognition of substantial and sustained contributions to bioethics. Dr. Moazam was cited for her “remarkable range of accomplishments as a pediatric surgeon and an educator, ethicist, ethnographic researcher and institution builder.” The other recipient for the year was Anita L. Allen, Professor of Law and Philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania. Previous recipients of the award have included Henry Beecher, James F. Childress, Tom Beauchamp and Renee’ Fox among others. Dr. Moazam is the first woman from Asia to receive the award.

To mark the occasion, a dinner was organized by Dr. Adib Rizvi, Director of SIUT, CBEC faculty, and Dr. Moazam’s erstwhile residents and students in surgery and bioethics, several of whom are now working in leadership positions in different institutions in Pakistan. Colleagues from across the world sent Dr. Moazam congratulatory video messages, and those present reminisced about their long association with her as their teacher. The event ended with a dinner on the terrace outside CBEC on a balmy Karachi evening.