Prof (Dr) Arshiya Sultana is currently working as a Professor in the Dept. of Ilmul Qabalat wa Amraze Niswan (Obstetrics and Gynecology) at the National Institute of Unani Medicine, Ministry of AYUSH, Govt. of India, Bengaluru. She has completed BUMS (1998) and MD (Amraze Niswan wa Ilmul Qabalat) in 2003 from Govt. Nizamia Tibbia College, NTR University of Health Sciences, Vijayawada. She has completed her MBA in hospital Administration in 2020 and PG diploma in clinical research and clinical data management in 2012. She has more than 19 years of clinical, teaching and research experience. She has supervised the dissertation of PG and PhD scholars. She is Principal NABH Assessor for Unani Medicine. She was honored with the “Best Teacher Award 2019-20”, “Best Research Paper Award 2018-19” and “Young Scientist Award 2017-18” consecutively for clinical research and teaching in Unani medicine by Central Council for Research in Unani Medicine (CCRUM), Ministry of AYUSH, Govt. of India. She has also been honored by Best Faculty Award under Academic Brilliance Award- 2015; Certificate of Excellence with Special Mention-2015; Honorable Faculty Certificate Mention-Research, 5th Science and Technology Awards-17; 16th UMA Excellence awards in category of Teaching Excellence; 17th UMA Excellence awards in category of Best Research and Publication Award; Global Ortho-Neuro Healthcare Award-2018 for outstanding contribution in Unani Medicine; Nishan-e-Zohravi-2019 on occasion of World Health Day in National Hijama Convention-2019. She also received the Best Oral Presentation Award for the research paper in the World Congress of Gerontology and Geriatrics (2016) and World Congress on Infectious Diseases and Antibiotics (2018). She conferred Gold Medal for Best Oral Presentation Award-2019 by InSLAR in the conference organized by JN Medical College, AMU, Aligarh. She is an advisory board member, editorial board member, and reviewer in various international and national journals. In her credit she has authored two books and published more than 110 research and review papers in indexed, peer-reviewed international and national journals with citations and Thomson Reuter impact factor. She published papers mostly in international journals such as Journal of herbal Medicine (Elsevier), European Journal of Integrative Medicine (Elsevier), Chinese Journal of integrative medicine (Springer), Journal of Complementary and Alternative Medicine, Journal of Oriental Pharmacy and Integrative Medicine, etc.

Female disorders; natural products; herbal medicine