Dr. M. Aslam Nasir


Dr. M . Aslam Nasir


Education

PhD., (Otago U. NZ)
MSc., (QAU Islamabad Pakistan) 
BSc., (Punjab U., Lahore Pakistan)

Areas of Teaching

Financial Mathematics, Business                        Mathematics, Business Analysis,                        Computational and Applied Mathematics,        Engineering Mathematics, Numerical                Methods, Bio-informatics, and Database        Management Systems.

Contact

The University of Goroka
P.O Box 1078
GOROKA 441, Eastern Highlands Province
Papua New Guinea
Phone: (+675) 531 1984
Biography

Dr Nasir has over sixteen (16) years of teaching experience in various topics of Mathematics, Computer Science, Information Processing, and Information & Communication Technology at various levels, ranging from secondary schools to post-graduate levels; in Pakistan, Ghana, Fiji, New Zealand, Tanzania, Australia, and PNG.

In addition to teaching experience, Dr Nasir has over seventeen (17) years of IT industry experience in Programming, Analysis, Design, Software Engineering, Business Analysis, Database Management Systems, Database Administration, Systems Administration, Team Leader and Project Management, in NZ (2 years), USA (3 years) and Australia (12+ years).

Research Interest/Background

 Bio-informatics, Database Design Methodology, and Numerical Methods for Engineering and Scientific Problems.

Publications

Loughland C, Draganic D, McCabe K, Richards J, Nasir MA, Allen J, Catts S, Jablensky A, Henskens F, Michie P,                Mowry B, Pantelis C, Schall U, Scott R, Carr V.
 The Australian Schizophrenia Research Bank: A database of comprehensive clinical, endophenotypic and genetic        data for aetiological studies of schizophrenia. ANZ Journal of Psychiatry

Carr, V., Loughland, C., McCabe, K., Nasir, MA., Catts, S., Jablensky, A., Henskens. F., Michie, P., Mowry, B., Pantelis,     C., Schall, U., Tooney, P. and Scott, R.
"The Australian Schizophrenia Research Bank (ASRB): demographic, clinical and neuropsychological profile of            participants with schizophrenia", Australian Schizophrenia Conference, 2010.

Carr V, Loughland C, McCabe K, Nasir MA, Catts S, Jablensky A, Henskens F, Mowry B, Michie P, Pantelis C, Schall        U, Scott R.
Demographic, Clinical, and neuropsychological profiles for the first 500 participants with schizophrenia.                        Schizophrenia International Research Society Congress, Florence, April 2010.

Loughland, C., Draganic, D., McCabe, K., Richards, J., Nasir, MA., Allen, J., Catts, S., Jablensky, A., Henskens, F.,            Michie, P., Mowry, B., Pantelis, C., Schall, U., Scott, R., Tooney, P., Carr, V.
"The Australian Schizophrenia Research Bank: A database of comprehensive clinical, endophenotypic and genetic    data for aetiological studies of schizophrenia", Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry 44(11):1029-           1035, 2010

Loughland C, Allen J, Gianacasa L, Schofield P, Nasir MA, Lewin T, Hunter M, Carr V.
Brief neuropsychological profiles in schizophrenia: a comparison between ARCS and RBANS. Psychiatric Research,     Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry

Nasir B, Griffiths L, Nasir MA, Roberts R, Barclay M, Gearry R and Lea R
Perianal disease combined with NOD2 genotype predicts need for IBD-related surgery in CD patients from a            population-based cohort (2013) J Clin Gastroenterol 47 (3): 242-245 DOI: 10.1097/MCG.0b013e318258314d.

Henskens, F., Carr, V., Catts, S., Jablensky, A., Michie, P., Loughland, C., McCabe, K., Mowry, B., Nasir, MA., Pantelis,    C., Rasser, P., Paul, D., Richards, J., Schall, U. and Scott, R.
"The Australian Schizophrenia Research Bank (ASRB): An example of eResearch", Schizophrenia Research Society     Congress, Florence, 2010.

McCabe, K., Loughland, C., Nasir, A., Catts, S., Jablensky, A., Henskens, F., Michie, P., Mowry, B., Pantelis, C., Schall,     U., Scott, R. and Carr, V.
"The Australian Schizophrenia Research Bank (ASRB): Quality assurance and control for a comprehensive clinical,     neuropsychological, genetic and neuroimaging database for researchers", Schizophrenia Research Society                Congress, Florence, 2010.

Henskens, F. A., Carr, V. J., Catts, S. V., Jablensky, A., Michie, P. T., Loughland, C. M., Mowry, B. J., Nasir, A., Pantelis,     C., Paul, D., Rasser, P., Richards, J. M., Schall, U. and Scott, R. J.,
"An Example of eResearch: The Australian Schizophrenia Research Bank", eResearch Australasia, November 2009.

B. Nasir, R. Lea, R. Gearry, MA Nasir, D. Macartney-Coxsin, D. Hall, L. Griffiths (2011) Envirogenomic Risk Profiling     to predict clinical outcomes in CD patients, Abstracts for the 35th Human Genetics Society of Australasia Annual        Scientific Meeting, Gold Coast, Australia July 31-August 3, 2011, Twin Res Hum Gen 14 (4): 347—85, DOI:      http://dx.doi.org/10.1375/twin.14.4.347     


Conference Representations

Poster presentation at the Australian Society for Medical Research Conference 2010, "Identifying a genomic                signature for predicting the risk of CD" B. Nasir, Rod Lea, MA Nasir Lyn Griffiths

Podium presentation at the Gold Coast Health & Medical Research Conference 2010, "Perianal disease combined     with NOD2 genotype predicts need for IBD-related surgery in CD patients from a population-based cohort", BF        Nasir, LR Griffiths, MA Nasir , RL Roberts, ML Barclay , RB Gearry, RA Lea

Podium presentation at the Biomarker Discovery Conference 2010, "Identifying envirogenomic risk profiles for        predicting clinical outcomes in CD", BF Nasir, LR Griffiths, RL Roberts, R Gearry, RA Lea, MA Nasir

Podium presentation at the Human Genetics Society of Australasia Annual Scientific Meeting 2011,                                “Envirogenomic Risk Profiling to predict clinical outcomes in CD patients”, B. Nasir, R. Lea, R. Gearry, MA Nasir, D.      Macartney-Coxsin, D. Hall, L. Griffiths

Poster presentation at Australian Society for Medical Research Conference 2011, "Identifying envirogenomic risk        profiles for predicting clinical outcomes in CD", BF Nasir, LR Griffiths, RL Roberts, R Gearry, RA Lea, MA Nasir

Podium presentation at the Human Genetics Society of Australasia 2011, "Identifying envirogenomic risk profiles     for predicting clinical outcomes in CD", BF Nasir, LR Griffiths, RL Roberts, R Gearry, RA Lea, MA Nasir

Podium presentation at the Biomarker Discovery Conference 2012, "Identifying envirogenomic risk profiles for        predicting clinical outcomes in CD", BF Nasir, LR Griffiths, RL Roberts, R Gearry, RA Lea, MA Nasir

Poster presentation at the Joint Conference of Human Genome Meeting and the 21st International Congress of        Genetics 2013, Singapore, "Identifying envirogenomic risk profiles for predicting clinical outcomes in CD", BF            Nasir, LR Griffiths, RL Roberts, R Gearry, RA Lea, MA Nasir
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