Christine Schmotzer
Christine Schmotzer has been the medical director of Aid To Leprosy Patients since 1995, and the superintendent of Rawalpindi Leprosy Hospital since 1993. She is also a member of the International Leprosy Association, a member of the International Union against Tuberculosis and Lung Diseases, a Focal Person on Leprosy in Pakistan for the World Health Organization (WHO) and a member of the Technical Advisory Group on Leprosy for WHO.
Ms Schmotzer was born in Hersbruck, Germany. She graduated from the Medical School of Heidelberg University in 1981 and gained a postgraduate qualification (‘Facharzt') in Gynaecology and Obstetrics in 1987. She did training in Leprosy Control and Reconstructive Surgery at the All Africa Leprosy & Rehabilitation Training Centre (ALERT), Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, in 1988. She did certificate courses in the Management of Prevention of Blindness Programmes, at the Institute for Community Eye Health, London, UK, in 1997, and in the Management of Tuberculosis Control Programmes, at the Nuffield Institute of Public Health, Leeds, UK, in 2000.
