Ethical Committee

HITEC Medical and Dental Journal (HMDJ) ethics committee convene as per requirement but not less than three meetings per year. Editors can consult members by email and can consult experts who have broad expertise including clinical medicine, research, bioethics, and medical editing. Responses are coordinated by the and a decision is made by majority. The committee is advisory. The editor can ignore its advice but must justify his/her action to the chairman in writing. The advice and the editor's response would both be published. In the event of a dispute, the committee's chairman can appeal to the journal committee of HITEC Medical and Dental Journal (HMDJ).
Roles of the committee
The committee has following roles:

  1. Clarifying, reviewing and developing on issues such as:
  • Material arising from the doctor patient relationship
  • Competing interests for authors, reviewers, editors, and ethics committee members
  • Prior disclosure of results to research participants
  • Editors' duty of confidentiality to authors
  1. Formulating new editorial policies
  2. Advising editors on ethics questions that arise during routine editorial work including scrutinizing papers referred by editors or peer reviewers worried about some aspect of the conception, design, conduct, presentation, authorship, or peer review of the work described in those papers.
  3. Advising editors on duties and responsibilities to patients, research participants, authors, reviewers, publishers, other editors and readers.
  4. Keeping editors informed of developments in research and publication ethics.

Ethical Committee Members

1. Maj. Gen. Hamid Shafiq
Chief Editor, HMDJ
Professor, Medicine
HITEC Institute of Medical Sciences, HIT, Taxila Cantt, Pakistan

2. Dr. Wajiha Mahjabeen
Managing Editor, HMDJ
Professor, Pathology
HITEC Institute of Medical Sciences, HIT, Taxila Cantt, Pakistan

3. Brig. Prof. Farhat Bhatti
Professor, Pathology
HITEC Institute of Medical Sciences, HIT, Taxila Cantt, Pakistan

4. Prof. Asma Hafeez
Professor, Anatomy
HITEC Institute of Medical Sciences, HIT, Taxila Cantt, Pakistan

5. Prof. Aashi Ahmed
Professor, Community Medicine
HITEC Institute of Medical Sciences, HIT, Taxila Cantt, Pakistan

6. Dr. Salma Ambreen
Associate Professor, Department of Medical Education
HITEC Institute of Medical Sciences, HIT, Taxila Cantt, Pakistan

7. Brig. Javid Hassan Hashmi
Director Adm & Ops
HITEC Institute of Medical Sciences, HIT, Taxila Cantt, Pakistan

8. Mr. Noman Bashir
Statisitician
HITEC Institute of Medical Sciences, HIT, Taxila Cantt, Pakistan

9. Mr.Naeem Afzal
Teacher Islamic Studies
HITEC Institute of Medical Sciences, HIT, Taxila Cantt, Pakistan