Daijiworld Media Network – Mangaluru (SB)

Mangaluru, Nov 19: Prof U T Ifthikar Ali, has been nominated as the Syndicate member of the prestigious Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences, Karnataka.

Prof Ifthikar is the brother of Housing and Urban Development minister U T Khader and professor of Dr M V Shetty College of Physiotherapy.

He is very well known in health, social, educational fields across the district and state and is president of Dakshina Kannada Physiotherapy Teachers Association, Sport & Fitness Training Federation of India and executive committee member of the Indian Association of Physiotherapy.

As chairman of U T Fareed Foundation, a charitable institution founded in memory of his late father and former MLA U T Fareed, Prof Ifthikar has undertaken many charity activities. Being a social activitist he is involved in various social service activities. He is also very closely associated with prestigious hospitals, medical colleges and celebrity sportspersons and physiotherapists from across India and abroad.