Shamima Lasker

Shamima Lasker

Professor of Anatomy; Secretary General

Bangladesh Bioethics Society, Bangladesh

Email: splasker04@yahoo.com

 

 

 

 

VALIDATE Role:

Network Investigator

 

Research Keywords:

Myocardial Disarray, Diabetes, Bioethics, Publication Ethics, Research Ethics, AI in Academic Integrity

 

Biography:

Shamima Parvin Lasker, PhD (USA), EMMB (Europe), MPH (USA), MPhil (BD), MSc (BD) is an Anatomist, Bioethicist and Journal Editor. Of her 38 years of teaching career, she worked as Professor and Head of Anatomy from 2007-2023 in Bangladesh. She is also the Visiting Professor of Clinical Anatomy, Dentistry, and Bioethics, AUSN, USA.

Shamima worked as a Consultant of bioethics for UNESCO in 2009 and FAO in 2015, respectively.  She is the longest-serving President of the Asian Bioethics Association (ABA) since 2022 till now. Previously, she served ABA as Vice President (South Asia) from 2014-2022.  At the national level, Prof Lasker is the pioneer of bioethics in Bangladesh. She is the Founding Chairman and General Secretary of the Bangladesh Bioethics Society. In recognition of her dedicated work and organizing ability to promote the cause of bioethics in Bangladesh, she was honored with “Honorary Lifetime Membership” of the UNESCO Asia Pacific School of Ethics in 2009.

Prof Shamima has been occupying herself in the Journal editorial system nationally and internationally since 2001. She was the treasurer of the World Association of Medical Editors (WAME) for the year of 2017-2019 and also served WAME as Director between 2012 and 2014. Presently, She have been serving as Vice President of APAME (Asia Pacific Association of Medical Journal Editors) for 2023-2025. Before became the Vice President, she served APAME as Co-Chair, Ethics and Publication Policy Committee from 2016 to 2018. In the National Level, she is the Vice President of the Bangladeshi Society for Scholarly Journal Editors (BASE) and the Member Secretary of Bangladesh Scholarly Medical Journal Editors (BSMJE). Professor Shamima is the only activist of Academic Integrity in Bangladesh to mobilize publication ethics in academia. Currently, she organized an international conference on Academic integrity in AI technology in Bangladesh in 2023 to commemorate the International Day of Action for Academic Integrity.

She is also a member of the National Ethics Committee of Bangladesh for four consecutive term (2014-2016, 2017-2019, 2020-2022 & 2023-2024). Shamima has seventy (77) peer-reviewed articles and has authored many books on Anatomy, Bioethics, and Publication Ethics. She has been conferred many awards nationally and internationally. Most prestigious awards are Including the ENAI (European Network of Academic Integrity) award, ASOMPS-X award & Ministry of Science and Technology, Bangladesh. 

 

Related Websites:

Bangladesh Bioethics Society

 

Key Publications:

  • Shamima Parvin Lasker, Shafquat Haider Chowdhury, Turna Tribenee Mithila, Arif Hossain. Elderly expectation toward their family, society, and government: A cross-sectional observational study. Health Sci Q. 2023;3(2):117-125. https://doi.org/10.26900/hsq.2032
  • Shamima Parvin Lasker, Turna Tribenee Mithila, Arif Hossain, Ruhul Amin. Senior Citizen’s Understanding regarding the quality of life and policy of Bangladesh. Journal of Mathematics Instruction, Social Research and Opinion. 2023;2( 2):115 – 128, https://doi.org/10.58421/misro.v2i2.78
  • Lasker SP, Rahman SM, Jafurullah Md, Ansari MdAJ, Hossain A. Prevalence, symptom and severity of COVID 19 among permanent residents of Dhaka City. Health Sci Q.2022;2(2):73-80. https://doi.org/10.26900/hsq.2.2.02
  • Shamima Parvin Lasker and Darryl Macer. Effect of Intervention on Knowledge and Attitude Towards Plagiarism Among Postgraduate Students In Bangladesh - A Pilot Study. Malim: Jurnal Pengajian Umum Asia Tenggara, 2021;22: 118 – 125. DOI: https://Doi.Org/10.17576/Malim-2021-2201-09  
  • Shamima Parvin Lasker, Muslema Begum, Arif Hossain, Md Abdul Matin, Saiful Islam, Darryl Macer. Understanding of Authorship by the Post Graduate Medical Students at a Center in Bangladesh. Bangladesh J Bioethics 2021.12(1) 25-34. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3329/bioethics.v12i1.51970
  • Shamima Parvin Lasker, Arif Hossain and Abdus Shakoor. Knowledge and attitude of ethics committee (EC) members on bioethics and structure & function of EC in Bangladesh: A pilot study. Policy Brief. Dhaka: Directorate General of Health Services 2019; 1-8
  • Shamima Parvin Lasker. Peer Review System: A Golden standard for the publications process. Bangladesh Journal of Bioethics 2018; 9(1):13-23. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3329/bioethics.v9i1.37104
  • Shamima Parvin Lasker. Surrogacy around the world. Editorial. Bangladesh Journal of Bioethics 2017;7(3): DOI: https://doi.org/10.3329/bioethics.v8i3.35601
  • Antoni Barikdar, Tahera Ahmed and Shamima Parvin Lasker. The Situation of the Elderly in Bangladesh. Bangladesh Journal of Bioethics 2016; 7(1):27-36.
  • Shamima P Lasker , Craig McLachlan, Lexin Wang, Shah Mohammad Karamot Ali and Herbert F Jelinek.Discovery, treatment and management of diabetes. Journal of Diabetology 2010, 1(1): 1-8.