Kadir Alam completed his BPharm from Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences, Bangalore, India, his MPharm (Pharmaceutical Care) from Kathmandu University, Nepal, and his PhD from Chulalongkorn University, Thailand.
At present, he is working as an Associate Professor in the Department of Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics, at B.P. Koirala Institute of Health Science, Dharan, Nepal where he is also the Secretary of the Teachers Welfare Society. Additionally, he has been associated with Purbanchal University as chairperson of Pharmacy Subject Committee and a member of the faculty board since August 2021. His prime area of research is the rational use of medicines.
Kadir started his career as a hospital pharmacist and later became a lecturer in the Department of Pharmacology at Manipal College of Medical Sciences, Pokhara, Nepal. As well as academia, he was actively involved at the Manipal Teaching Hospital in managing hospital pharmacy activities and the medication counselling centre as Chief of Pharmaceutical Services from 2012 to 2015. At that hospital he was also a member secretary of the Drug and Therapeutic Committee and was in charge of the Drug Information and Pharmacovigilance Centre which was a regional pharmacovigilance centre of the National Pharmacovigilance Program.