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Recommended Citation Aga Khan University Alumni Association, "AKU-NAMA : Summer 2011, Volume 4, Issue 1" (2011). Alumni Magazines. Book 6. http://ecommons.aku.edu/aku_nama/6 AKU-NAMA Aga Khan University Newsletter and Magazine for Alumni Summer 2011, Vol. 4, Issue 1 C o n t e n t s

Editor-in-Chief Adeel A. Butt [email protected]

Editorial Staff Shain Amershi, Executive Assistant [email protected]

Associate Editors Faiz Bhora Medical College, North American Chapter [email protected]

Rahila Zakir Medical College, European Chapter [email protected]

Nursing alumni at the Alumni Reunion, December 2010. Audio/Visual Department, AKU Tazeen Jafar Medical College, Pakistan Chapter [email protected] IN THIS ISSUE Erum Kabani School of Nursing From the Editor’s Desk 3 [email protected]

Fahmida Mehdi (Re)Creating Culture through Art 4 School of Nursing [email protected] In the Age of Transformative Technology 6 Nadim Farooqui Institute for Educational Development A Unique Experience 7 [email protected]

Nilufar Shariff Symphony 7 Advanced Nursing Studies, East Africa [email protected] Taking the AKU Torch Forward 8 Balkis Rouached

adia Bettega Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations Thank You, AKU 10 [email protected]

Marie Andrades Care for the Dying 11 Postgraduate Medical Education [email protected] A Lifetime of Learning 11 at Convocation 2011 / N Advisory Members Firoz Rasul Mini-Reunion in Kansas City 12 President

Louis R. Ariano World Health Day – in Kenya 13 University Registrar

Reaching Out to the Community 14 Abdul Haq Wahedna

mal and Meriam Ben Amor, Manager Alumni Affairs Teaching the Teachers – Interview with Jane F. A. Rarieya 16 Dhunmai Cowasjee Director Campus Happenings 18 Public Affairs

ates, Mustafa Abulhi Class Notes 19 Shariq Haroon Senior Assistant Manager Public Affairs A Friend Remembered – Dr Basith Ghazali 19 Khuzaima Fatima Azam Assistant Manager NRMP Match Results 22 Public Affairs

Cover photo: ISMC gradu The views and opinions expressed in this publication are of the individual authors alone and do not necessarily reflect the views or policy of the editorial board or Aga Khan University.

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the Bucket List Adeel A. Butt

The Class of 1988 at their orientation ceremony; Dr Basith Ghazali is third row from the front, fourth from left.

I have a bucket list. As the years was on their bucket lists, or our bucket lists, and that our lives pass by, I have been able to check whether they even had one. What is have made some difference. off many items on this list. Some certain is that whatever remained, happened fortuitously and without would remain unchecked. In memory of Dr Basith Ghazali much effort on my part. Others Which brings me to the point I required some effort. Yet others am trying to make: checking off needed a fair amount of struggle. items on our bucket lists while we And then there are those that still have the ability to do so. This require little effort or struggle – is especially true for items that and yet remain on the list undone. require little effort, and those that Till a few months ago, I had a would leave our legacy behind. sense of certainty. After all, I had Whether it is a gift to our alma been able to check off some daunt- mater, the people we mentor, the ing items on my bucket list. And children we help educate, or the things were well on track to com- political or social change we help plete those that remained. Then I bring about, that is what will was woken up by two phone calls, remain. All that is left of us is the in a span of one hour, delivering people who have benefited from news of the deaths of two people I our lives, the societal good that we knew well. Both about the same have helped achieve. That is the age as myself, both doing very well ultimate capital, the ultimate the last time I met them, both with investment in humanity, which will enormous potential, much of which remain. Someone once said that the will remain unutilised. One of them worth of a man’s life can be best was a fellow alumnus from Class measured by the number of people of 1988, the first class to graduate who shed tears at his death. I cer- from Aga Khan University Medical tainly hope that we all are able to College. I will never know what check off a few more items from

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(re)Creating Culture through Art Zahra kazani, mA in muslim Cultures ’08

to create meaning for their visitors. The Jameel Gallery in the Victoria and Albert Museum, in London – housing art from the 8th and 9th cen- turies all the way to the years before World War I, and from Spain in the west to Uzbekistan and Afghanistan in the east, taking in Turkey and Iran – brings to the fore the significance of design in all the exquisite pieces displayed. The Gallery seeks to introduce its audience to Islamic art by emphasising the features that are commonly present in all the objects: geometry (and the regular division of the circle), calligraphy and plant- based ornamentation, as well as human and animal representation in objects that are not religious in nature. Visitors are meant to focus on the design, pattern and illumination that the art pieces project. The idea of social relevance here is significant as the Victoria and Albert Museum (previously the South Kensington Museum) was established to collect and represent the best in art and design. The objects in the Gallery demonstrate the breathtaking range of Islamic art, showcasing culture from the Middle East and its design aesthetics – and The Ardabil Carpet (detail), Iran 1539-40. © Victoria and Albert Museum, London visually complementing the other galleries in the Museum. As one walks into an exhibition tration of the diversity and plural- Many of the objects are a space, the artefacts and colours, the ism that exists in the Muslim world reminder of the political affiliations designs and patterns all aim to mes- and beyond. While the objects have that shaped the Middle East. A cas- merise our senses, to create an emo- the power and ability to highlight ket from 13th century Sicily that tive response while serving as a exquisite artistry, they also open the uses 11th century woodwork with reminder of the rich and creative doors to many different facets of inlaid ivory from Fatimid Egypt as history of societies – delighting the societies, recreating cultures, both its base provides a perspective of eye while satisfying the curiosity of past and contemporary. Pieces used trade and cultural interaction the viewer of the evolution and envi- at court or as religious art reveal the between societies in the 13th ronment of cultures worldwide. meaning or symbolic value of an century. Further insight into how the Exhibitions of Islamic art seek object in society or even social and casket was used in society or the to do just that: to inspire, to lift their political contexts. means that led to its production audiences to worlds afar through A brief look at two galleries of would allow for a much deeper objects from different regions and Islamic art will help in understanding understanding of the trade and inter- centuries, providing a visual illus- how art objects and exhibitions work actions that shaped the region. Thus,

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Indian and Persian carpets, 16th / 17th centuries. © Muserum of Islamic Art / State Museum of Berlin the Jameel Gallery’s displays ry Europe for the ‘Islamic market’ organised, curated, labelled and rep- attempt to recreate Muslim culture and the skyline of Sharjah are both resented can convey a variety of through an artistic and political seen as components of Islamic art. In meanings and be used to achieve framework. this way, the Museum has allowed numerous goals. In essence, muse- Moving to a newer exhibition the art objects to portray the city and ums have a responsibility as posses- space, in the Gulf, the Sharjah the Emirate of Sharjah as a continua- sors and keepers of art objects to not Museum of Islamic Civilization tion of the rich artistic tradition and collect and preserve artefacts, which attempts to look at Islam and legacy of the past. By blending the are significant goals in themselves, Muslim cultures through many lens- ‘Islamic’ past with the present, the but also to responsibly portray and es including its influence on reli- Museum appropriates the objects as represent items. gious culture, politics, science and ‘Arab’ and ‘Islamic’ though a major- It is believed that art objects art. ity of objects in the collection are have the power and potential to pro- The four galleries of Islamic art Persian and Indian. Also, by archi- vide educated intellectual insights provide a chronology of objects pro- tecturally integrating the Museum into cultural histories and narratives duced in the Muslim world with its into the surrounding landscape, the – in addition to provoking curiosity roots in 7th century Arabia. The final suq or marketplace where the build- and eliciting a response. With gallery, however, showcases contem- ing is housed, the art objects and the Islamic art in particular, where porary art and architecture in the Museum collectively recreate a cul- everyday objects are used as a medi- Middle East, extending the tradition- ture, which boldly portrays the um of communication, art becomes al concept of Islamic art – which ‘Islamic’ identity of the Emirate and a tool through which not only design typically ends in the 19th century – the country as a whole. and aesthetics are traced through to modern times. As such, a set of Thus, museums and art exhibi- history, but also a means of cultural cups with a matching glass urn tions use objects to weave a number communication, societal evolution embellished with colourful enam- of narratives from artistic to political and a reflection of the multiple his- elled motifs, produced in 20th centu- to cultural. The way art objects are tories of a region.

5 f e A t U r e in the Age of transformative technology suraiya simi rahman, mBBs ’97

Tariq Gilani In the past few years, we are in the significance to an interaction, a rela- you risk being called old-fashioned if thick of a world being transformed tionship. A patient tells us a story, you resist getting on the information by technology. However, there are and sometimes the story is about the highway. However, adopting new those of us who are still trying to patient and their life, sometimes it ways of integrating information into resist its onslaught and the imper- can be about us as healers, and our environment does not mean giv- sonal wall that can be erected in the sometimes we can reach towards a ing up our effort to make that essen- name of efficiency and expediency. greater significance, a hidden truth. tial human connection. Oliver Sacks, the neurologist, com- And that is what makes us human. We are part of a generation that pared the inner world of his patient Technology helps us make con- is taking a technological leap in Mr P “the man who mistook his wife nections in different ways. Many of earnest: from the earliest Atari gam- for a hat” – in his book of the same us who have a Facebook account ing system and Apple IIe computers name – to that of a computer, sens- have connected with people we to the present day iPod, Kindle and ing only key features without grasp- might otherwise have forgotten: MacBook, we are living our lives in ing what is real and concrete about high school friends, long-lost rela- an age of transformative technology. objects or people. By extension, tives, and maybe even coworkers As professionals we have gone from does our love for technology place from the past that we’ll eventually paper charts to electronic charts and us at risk of losing touch with reali- de-friend. Through YouTube and order entry systems, from actual X- ty? By relying so heavily on tech- Twitter, we come in contact with an rays to digital X-rays, and are deal- nology is there a chance that we even greater variety of stories. ing with all the ramifications of may miss out on the real meaning of Again, the computer may help us these changes. life altogether? make connections between pieces of However, like time travellers we Those of us who practice medi- information to create a virtual uni- cannot run full tilt into the future cine have a special relationship with verse of stories, but it cannot give without looking back at the past and the schematics of disease. We form value to these chronicles. packing the essentials. As physicians connections, see patterns and recog- As physicians we hear stories what that means is, we must meld nise microbes, manifestations and everyday, stories of loss and pain, the old with the new. We must malignancies, all in a dance between hope and transcendence. But without remind ourselves, and the future nature and our minds. All of the fac- the significance our listening or generation of physicians, of the ulties of a healer are wrapped up in understanding can give these stories, meaning that the practice of medi- creating a reality, a picture, an they can form a web of information cine, the healing of people, brings to atmospheric consisting of the body that is meaningless. our lives. Let us step off the super- and soul, disease and health, life and Computers, smart phones and highway a few times a day and death. Unlike computers, we can tablets with all their opportunities behold the natural scenery and our sense meaning and thereby bring and frustrations are here to stay – place in it.

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A Unique experience Written by debutante novelist His father’s attempts to have his Haider Warraich, MBBS ’09, Auras son cured of the ‘jinn’, through the of the Jinn: A Pakistani Story is a ministrations of a local cleric fail tale about growing up in modern day and Imran finds himself confined to Pakistan, peopled with characters a hospital’s Special Ward. who are almost caricatures of the Enter a kadeliscope of people: personality types that dot society’s the stern Nurse Kulsoom, the junior landscape. The novel is centred on a physician Nida, the facile Dr Abid teenager, Imran, from a rundown and the privileged yet troubled neighbourhood in Rawalpindi. His Zerrish, all who seem far removed father runs a motorcycle repair shop, from the world he knows. Here and is interested only in Indian Warraich draws on his medical movies and his coterie of friends. His experience to paint a fairly realistic mother is a typical housewife with a picture of a health institution and life centred around the kitchen while the tribulations of its patients. his two sisters, Resham and If Imran survives the Special Zaitoona, work as maids. Ward it is thanks to one person as Farhan, a streetwise young man, the rest are part of the ‘great game’ befriends and introduces Imran to a played in Pakistan today. new life of street crime and drugs – with drastic consequences. Picked up Khuzaima Fatima Azam is by the police, Imran receives a beat- Assistant Manager, Public Affairs, ing severe enough to induce seizures. at AKU in Karachi. symphony Spread over five countries on upcoming due dates and over dues. informed of upcoming resources in three different continents, all nine of They can even set-up their own their subject area. Aga Khan University’s libraries are search profile and be regularly For librarians, the system pro- now working under a new integrated vides a better and more transparent library management system. The control of major library functions. newly implemented system called Cataloguing is greatly improved by Symphony is one used by hundreds access to international standard bib- of academic libraries worldwide to liographic data, available from the connect people with information. Library of Congress, the National Thanks to the new system, all Library of and other inter- AKU library users now have much national institutions. The new sys- improved access to resources as well tem also permits cataloguing in as to functions related to their own Arabic, Urdu and other non-Roman account. From anywhere on the scripts. University network or the web, they The implementation of this new can search the catalogues of one or system is a major step in achieving all AKU libraries. Search results not the overall goal of creating a global only yield internal AKU resources network of information resources but also provide access to Google’s and systems supporting all of AKU’s freely available ones. Users can teaching, learning and research check the status of their personal endeavours. account and renew and reserve books online. They also regularly Normand Demers is the University

receive notices warning them of Ahmed Zuberi Librarian.

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Taking the AKU Torch Forward

Above: Graduates at ISMC’s 2011 convocation in London. Nadia Bettega

Bottom left: ANS graduates (front to back): Nturu Christina Simwanza, Peter Chami Joachim and Peter John Kilimuhana at the conovocation in Dar es Salaam Alkarim Pirmohamed

Opposite Page Top left: Nansimbe Zaitun receiving her BScN degree at the convocation in Uganda. Sai Digitec Prints Ltd.

Middle left: Medical College graduates at convocation 2010 in Karachi. AKU

Bottom left: EN-RN students: (left to right) Winifrida Fredrick Sombe, Magdalena Vandelini Matemu, Pricilin Isack Mushi, Segolina Andrea Ogonga, Mariam Joshua Mtunguja and Rhoida Ezekiel Chamja in Dar es Salaam. Alkarim Pirmohamed

Top right: Ahmed Sokwala with his MMed degree in Internal Medicine in Nairobi. Samuel Nyakondo

Bottom right: Anne Rerimoi, MMed in Paediatrics and Child Health at the convocation in Nairobi. Samuel Nyakondo

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Gary Otte thank You, AkU omair shakil, mBBs ’10

If truth be told, the first few months that unifies us at some level. Braving the squalid Karachi sum- at AKU were intimidating to say the Early in my medical career, I mer afternoon heat without electricity least. Too many decisions to be made decided that I wanted to be a clinician in a makeshift clinic in a squatter set- and no one to make them for me. Too and pursue my research interests. tlement can be a testing experience. many things to be taken care of and However, I feared that I would not Rotating through the multiple offsite no support system to bail me out. I have the opportunity to explore both. clinics that AKU has established in had never polished a pair of shoes, let AKU gave me exactly what I had many underserved communities in alone scrubbed a washbasin or swept dreamed of – the opportunities to pur- Karachi, I witnessed first-hand the the floor! But left with no choice I sue my clinical and research interests need for and the good that can come had to take charge of my own affairs. by way of electives and selectives, out of community participation. The And as I did, I found a new kind of and the freedom to carve out my own satisfaction I derived from treating independence. career path in the process. those in need of but with- Over the next five years of While research may be a rarity in out means, has had its impact on me. snooze alarms (some of which Pakistan, I consider myself extremely I have no doubts that I will continue stopped ringing only when the batter- lucky to find at AKU an atmosphere to play my part in making health care ies died), grocery shopping and doing that values and supports its academic accessible to those who cannot afford my own laundry, I gradually learned community in ways that lead it to it. to take care of myself. Living in the develop research opportunities for Five years ago, starry eyed, AKU hostel instilled a sense of students. I, and most of my peers, clutching my admission letter, I had responsibility in me and hopefully, have been part of basic science as entered these walls, hoping to gradu- this has become a part of my charac- well as clinical research projects that ate as a doctor and treat patients. ter for life! have allowed us to develop and sus- Today, five years later, I am so much The diversity of people and ideas tain our interests. It is my hope that I more: I am a responsible individual, in each new class is one of AKU’s will add to the number of AKU alum- aware of my strengths, confident unique features. Having spent the last ni whose pioneering research work about the choices that I have made five years among such people, each has increased the evidence base and eager to act as a catalyst for sus- with their own perspective, has taught which drives medicine forward, mak- tained change in my community. All me to embrace differences in a way ing it more objective and effective. this I owe to you, AKU.

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Care for the dying A Lifetime of Learning fahmida mehdi samcha, edith msagati, Bscn ’07 rn diploma ‘00, Post rn Bscn ‘06

Though inevitable, death sometimes becomes I was lucky – while studying for a Bachelor’s degree in nurs- a ‘deliberate intervention’ undertaken with ing at Aga Khan University, I was also working at Aga Khan the intention of relieving incurable, unbear- Hospital in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. So while on duty I able pain. In health care, the role of patient would apply whatever I was being taught in class, employing consent in decision making in general, and its my knowledge about patient assessment, physical examina- role in end-of-life decisions in particular, is tion and the eleven key clinical health functions. central. In my second year, clinical Advance directives have practice was at Muhimbili been proposed as an essential National Hospital, working tool of advance care planning, with intern doctors. I clearly a process that facilitates end- remember the time when we of-life decision making for the examined a woman with pleu- terminally ill. It provides an ral effusion – water on the opportunity for a person to lungs – together. The intern’s express their wishes before the record in the patient’s file capacity to make such deci- mentioned that the woman sions is lost. It also demands was suffering from pleural from health care providers the effusion on the right side of space to plan care that reflects the lungs. However, when I a patient’s choices. It is equally physically examined her, I felt applicable for all palliative that the effusion was on the care patients, irrespective of left. This led to an ultrasound whether they are receiving care being carried out – and my at a hospital, hospice or/and at diagnosis being correct! home. Before my BScN, I In our existing health care worked as a Nursing Incharge. system, formal advance direc- The critical thinking skills I tives are not obtained as prac- learned increased my confi- tice. This led me to undertake a dence and as my performance literature review of international Jean Luc-Ray improved, I would be appoint- practices and the significance of formal docu- ed interim head in the absence mentation of advance care planning and of the Head of Nursing Services. Now, I can proudly claim advance directives for patients in palliative care. that I can stand in front of a group and confidently present on The resulting paper was accepted as a cases. My education has empowered me to be innovative, to poster presentation at the Singapore Palliative interact with different kinds of people and to even help AKU Care Conference 2011 – the fourth biennial nursing students coming for their practicum to my unit. scientific meeting organised by the Singapore Currently I am working as an Incharge of Reproductive Hospice Council. There were 450 health care Health overseeing the antenatal clinic, ante- and post-natal professionals from 15 countries participating wards, labour ward and neonate unit. The knowledge I in this conference. Being the only delegate gained in advanced concept pharmacology and biochemistry from Pakistan, I had the opportunity of, rep- have improved my nursing care practice to such an extent resenting both the country and the institution. that patient complaints are now non-existent. Last year, I was There were 37 posters on display, and around nominated for a national executive member position at the 30 scientific sessions on palliative/end-of-life Tanzania National Nurses’ Association. I continue to work in care facilitated by experts from all over the this position and am also chairperson of AKU Alumni world. It was an opportunity to reflect on and Association, Tanzania Chapter for the past two years. The recommend practical strategies to improve education I got at Aga Khan University has helped me under- the palliative care services at the University stand myself, the nursing profession and my professional Hospital in Karachi. responsibilities.

11 r e U n i o n mini-reunion in kansas City fahd Anzaar, mBBs ’03

I don’t know about you, but for me the US Midwest conjures up images of cornfields, bundles of hay, vast stretches of flat prairie land, and perhaps even herds of bison and cowboys. In short, a vision of rural countryside, that makes the Midwest not a particularly popular option (compared to the East Coast) for a freshly graduated physician searching for a residency pro- gramme or pursuing graduate med- ical education. I can vividly recall opening my Alumni in the Kansas City area. Back row: Drs Sadia Hayat ’99, Naresh Kodwani interview invitation from the ’92, Fahd Anzaar ’03, Abdul Ahad Haleem ’95. Front row: Drs Saima Ubaid ’95 University of Missouri in Kansas and Sunita Dodani ’92. Arvin Dodani City. Having dedicated several years to research in the academic Hammad Hussain, MBBS ’01 who During the occasion, Dr Dodani powerhouse that is Boston, (with completed his endocrinology fel- also announced the establishment of Harvard, Tufts and Boston universi- lowship. Both trained at the the non-profit Center for Post-Polio ties offering graduate medical edu- University of Kansas and have sub- Rehabilitation (www.cfppr.org), the cation, along with MIT, sequently moved elsewhere. culmination of her mother and her Northeastern and other universities In 2009, Dr Sunita Dodani, dreams. She proudly shared that conducting world-class biomedical MBBS ’92, arrived to head the volunteers, including orthopaedic research), the above images flashed brand-new Center for Outcomes surgeons and physical therapists, through my mind. ‘Hmmm, I’ll be Research and Education at the have already performed surgery on going to farm country with some University of Kansas Medical 20 children from India and Pakistan rednecks in the middle of Center and in 2010, Dr Abdul Ahad who were otherwise unable to walk nowhere!’ I thought. ‘Is there any Haleem, MBBS ’95, an orthopaedic and that they are also planning place, or anyone, famous there?’ surgeon, also moved here to join another trip to the subcontinent Little did I know then that this the United States Department of later this year. would end up being home for the Veterans Affairs hospitals. Apart from us, there is an even next four years, that Harry Truman, Their efforts, along with Dr larger alumni base in St. Louis, the 33rd President of the United Naresh Kodwani’s (MBBS ’92 and which is a short three- to four-hour States was born and raised here, a 10-year veteran Kansas City resi- drive from Kansas City. Some and that it is second only to Rome dent but unknown to me then) were alumni, whom we were in contact in the number of fountains it has! instrumental in arranging a mini- with, did express an interest in join- Arriving in Kansas City, I reunion in March, at Cinzetti’s, a ing the mini reunion, but were found that despite being the largest gourmet Italian restaurant. It served either on call (or back-up) the next metropolitan area in Missouri (sur- as a magnet to bring together the day and did not want to risk a late passing even St. Louis), I could latest arrivals as well as the more return. It is therefore fitting that St. count on one hand the number of ‘seasoned’ residents! Families and Louis, in the heart of the Midwest, Pakistani physicians training here. children were also welcome, bring- will host the 2011 Aga Khan Of these, only two were from Aga ing our evening’s total tally to 17. University alumni reunion over the Khan University. One was my The success of this initial meeting July 4 weekend. Several of us are classmate, Dr Emma Khan, MBBS can be judged by the fact that not a planning to attend and we look for- ’03, who completed her pathology single person excused himself or ward to meeting alumni from other residency and cyto-pathology fel- herself and all stayed well past the AKU schools as well as the univer- lowship; and the other, Dr restaurant’s official closing time! sity leadership there!

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World health day in kenya A reunion with a twist! ANS alum- deviated from the norm were ni from around Nairobi rolled up offered individualised health edu- their sleeves and organised a cation while extreme cases were health awareness day at Kiambiu, referred to Bahati Health Centre an informal settlement of almost for follow-up. 50,000 people just four kilometres Children under five were pro- east of the city centre. vided a check-up, basic medication They used the occasion of and even de-wormed. World Health Day, April 7, to By the end of the campaign, work with government and civil 401 residents were attended to by society organisations to hold a the alumni, including 123 adults day-long camp. The activities were who were screened both for hyper- facilitated by the Ministry of tension and diabetes; 288 children Health’s District Public Health of which 111 were weighed and Nurse in charge of Kariokor screened for major ailments, while District, Catherine Mugo; the area the rest were de-wormed. chief, Esther Wahome who lent her Gauging from the positive office and additional rooms as response they received, the alumni clinic space; while the Liverpool intend to make the campaign a VCT – an NGO that offers HIV quarterly activity with the intention prevention and treatment services of benefitting the community and in Kenya – screened adult commu- giving back to society. nity members for HIV/AIDS. The focus was on disease pre- George Kiptalam is Associate vention through health education Registrar, AKU, East Africa and and on current challenges: dia- Under-fives being weighed. Sammy Nyakundi is based in Nairobi.

Uganda hosts an Alumni forum

Nursing alumni in Uganda met at the annual Alumni Forum in December. They were fortunate enough to host Enid Mwebaza, Assistant Commissioner Nursing, Ministry of Health, who is also an AKU alum- nus, as the chief guest. She spoke about nursing in Uganda and AKU’s work , especially its role in keeping the alumni together. The forum was Lilian Gachago giving a health talk on diabetes at Kiambiu. Sammy Nyakundi moderated by alumnus Patrick Bateganya. This was followed by a betes and hypertension. To kick off Community members were invited general body meeting in which new the day, some of the alumni gave a to free screenings for both the dis- members of the Uganda Alumni health talk on diabetes while anoth- eases. Any resident whose blood Chapter were elected. Ms Rose er group spoke about hypertension. pressure or blood sugar readings Kaggwa is the new Chair.

13 r e U n i o n reaching out to the Community

Outreach camps for health aware- education to more than 2,000 visi- the best strategy to successfully ness and education were set-up in tors, mostly women and children. address the health issues of a com- December 2010 in Karimabad, Serving as a reminder of the munity,” said Shela Hirani, Senior Federal B. Area, Bilal Colony, University’s emphasis on community Instructor, AKU-SON and team Korangi, Sultanabad, and the New service, the visitors were also offered leader at the Karimabad Sabzi Mandi areas of Karachi by free screenings for blood pressure, health camp. alumni, as part of their annual weight, body mass index, blood glu- Earlier in the morning, an reunion celebrations. cose and anaemia. A mental health Alumni Reunion Breakfast was Over 200 graduates from the counsellor was also present to screen organised at the Stadium Road cam- University’s School of Nursing, people for depression and offer pus to provide alumni an opportuni- Institute for Educational advice on stress management. ty to interact with one another as Development and Postgraduate “These camps not only reunited well as to serve as a warm send-off Medical Education, along with a AKU alumni under one platform, to people volunteering for the day- 100 nursing students, offered basic but also reflected that a collabora- long activity in low income areas in health screening facilities and health tive, multidisciplinary approach is various parts of the city.

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Top: Children enjoying a puppet show at an AKU alumni health camp. Audio/Visual Department, AKU Left: AKU alumni explaining health education material at an outreach health camp. Audio/Visual Department, AKU

AKU alumni with support staff at Sultanabad camp after serving the community. Audio/Visual Department, AKU

15 distinGUished ALUmni teaching the teachers

Jane F. A. Rarieya, MEd ’99 is currently Associate Professor and Head, Teaching Programmes at AKU’s Institute for Educational Development (IED) in East Africa. Before this, she worked with AKU-IED Pakistan and as a teacher and teacher educator with the Aga Khan Development Network in East Africa.

Jane in a group discussion with MEd students during a gender specialisation course. Sarah Ojuando

Can you tell us about your journey Joining AKU put me right in the cen- professionalising teaching, particular- to becoming an international tre of international work in education, ly in East Africa. I have come to educationist? providing opportunities to work with clearly understand that teachers make It actually began with the comple- educators from several countries in a difference. tion of my master’s degree at the Asia, Africa and North America as If we want better citizens, we Institute for Educational well as the Middle East. need to invest in our teachers; if we Development in Pakistan. Before In addition, as an academic, I want a better economy, the case is that, I was a high school teacher in have presented my work, either on the same. Sadly, this does not seem Mombasa and my teaching encoun- research or teaching, at several inter- to be substantially recognised in our ters were limited to my high school national conferences. This has led to part of the world. students and colleagues. networking with other academics We desperately need school On completing my MEd, I and collaborative projects that have leaders and teachers who are vision- joined AKU-IED Pakistan and began been important in the development aries, able to grapple with chal- working with teachers in East Africa, of my career. lenges and are proactive in resolving conducting Certificate in Education So, whilst I have moved on from problems. School leaders and teach- – earlier referred to as Visiting being a high school teacher, I still do ers need to understand how the ideas Teacher – programmes in Kenya, what I love best and am passionate about school improvement or class- Uganda and Tanzania. At about the about – teaching. room education in the developed same time, I was asked to shift from world can be replicated in their own Kenya to Tanzania for a year to start How has learning from your past settings, but in ways that are contex- an English language proficiency pro- experiences been translated into tually relevant. My role is to help gramme for teachers at the Aga your current work? them acquire not only the knowl- Khan Nursery, Aga Khan Primary Teaching educators from all walks of edge but also the skills. and Aga Khan Mzizima Secondary life in three continents has served to So I approach the courses that I School in Dar es Salaam. bring to the fore the importance of teach with one aim: of touching the

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hearts of the professionals that I will emerged from that search. come in contact with, of sparking a I have also recently been Request for fire that will arouse them to be the approached by a publishing house Contributions best teacher or education leader that that would like to turn my doctoral they can be. thesis into a book for a wider audi- The editors of AKU-NAMA ence. I am particularly proud of this invite you to contribute to the What has been the focus of your as it is not an offer that comes our next issue of the magazine. research? way every day, especially by a rep- Your story may highlight I am profoundly interested in gender utable publisher in the developed interesting career options, unique and leadership and in the intersection world. Often, it is the other way job experiences, ground-breaking of the two as I strongly believe that round – of trying to sell a manuscript research, innovative public serv- leadership that is sensitive to gender to a publishing house. ice initiatives, or other materials issues is likely to translate into of particular interest to the alum- leadership that is inclusive with a What stereotypes, if any, have you ni. You can also contribute opin- much more humane approach to lead- faced about women in education? ion pieces on trends in education ing. But before we get there, we need What has changed and why? and modern technology, book to illustrate beyond doubt how As a woman I am expected to be in reviews and travelogues. Letters gender is manifested in leadership. I education – women always end up to the editor are also welcome. have just completed a study that there anyway. What most people Article length should be looks at how leadership is configured don’t expect is very clear cut think- approximately 500-600 words. in schools in Dar es Salaam by ing about educational issues. That Photographs are welcome but students, teachers and heads of kind of thinking is not supposed to they must be high resolution digi- schools; how they describe, define be part of a woman’s way of think- tal photographs (JPEG files over and perceive effective and ineffective ing. And therefore, whenever I speak 1MB). school leadership. The outcomes are publicly, I often see a quick double Articles can be submitted at feeding into our own leadership take by those present. www.aku.edu/alumni/alumni_frm courses at AKU. Another stereotype I encounter, articles.asp I am also involved in two especially in East Africa, is about Class Notes provide you an research projects organised by the woman academics. It is assumed that opportunity to make announce- University of Cambridge. In the first I must be arrogant and generally ments and share your successes we are exploring how gender affects impossible as there are so few of us. I with other AKU alumni. Submit student retention rates in primary get asked irrelevant questions that I your class notes at schools. In the second project we are find a bit vexing as any academic will www.aku.edu/alumni/alumni_clas studying successful women, trying to tell you that education only serves to snotes.asp understand their experiences and how humble you as the more you read and Do you know any alumni still they have been able to navigate gen- learn, the more you realise how much not on the AKU-NAMA mailing der issues to get to where they are. you do not know. list? Direct them to The other inevitable stereotype I www.aku.edu/alumni/alumni_cont Tell us about your publications? often encounter is about women lead- act.asp Over the years, I have published in ers. In most tertiary level educational Thank you for all your previ- several international journals in the institutions, especially in this region, ous submissions, feedback and areas of gender, leadership and women are conspicuously absent at suggestions. Now let’s keep the reflective practice. the management level. On numerous ball rolling for the upcoming I have also co-edited a book, occasions I have heard people refer to issue. Gender and Education in Pakistan. I IED in East Africa as an “institution am particularly proud of this volume that is run by women” and I am usu- as the idea germinated from a search ally amused at the beginning of every that showed a dearth of documented academic year when new students Nominations Wanted! work in this area in Pakistan at a walk in. They are always taken aback time when we were developing a by the fact that women are leaders in The AKU-NAMA Editorial Board course on gender at IED. We kept this organisation. It serves as a potent seeks nominations for distinguished asking ourselves what references illustration that women can run an alumni profiles from all pro- would be most suitable for our stu- institution, regardless of their femi- grammes, departments and entities. dents given the ‘sensitivity’ of the ninity, and act as a source of inspira- Please send a short profile of your topic at the time and this is what tion for our female students. nominee to: [email protected]

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People in New Positions A new Chair, Department of Surgery Award has been appointed. Dr Asad Jamil The first Director of the eHealth Raja has been a faculty member Drs Fahim Rahim, MBBS ’97 and Programme at AKU has been with the department from 1996 to Naeem Rahim, MBBS ’98, of the appointed: Dr Shariq Khoja. He 2008 before moving to East Africa Kidney Institute, are the proud will be responsible for the develop- as Chair of the Department of recipients of the Ellis Island Medal ment of a strategy and programme Surgery. of Honor awarded by the National for eHealth at Aga Khan University Dr Raja holds an MBBS degree Ethnic Coalition of Organizations and AKDN as well as support the from Dow Medical College and a (NECO) which represents over 350 academic programme in eHealth and Master of Health Science in ethnic organisations across the related fields. Before this, he has Bioethics from the University of United States; they received a worked as Assistant Professor, Toronto, Canada. He is also a Congressional Recognition award Department of Community Health Fellow of The Royal College of from the US Senate in 2007. Sciences and as Coordinator, Surgeons of Edinburgh and brings Awarded for the first time in 1986, eHealth at AKU. He is an AKU-MC with him a rich experience of teach- the Ellis Island Medal is presented alumnus whose interests led him to ing, research and clinical service. to Americans who have distin- complete an MSc in Telehealth and a guished themselves through signifi- PhD in eHealth from the University cant contributions to their communi- of Calgary, Canada. He also com- Research Talks ties and their nation, while continu- pleted his post-doctoral studies in ing to communicate the richness of health informatics as part of the The number of newborn deaths can their own heritage. Canadian Institutes of Health significantly be decreased through “Our medallists’ influence and Research’s Strategic Training the intervention of the public health achievements truly inspire and touch Program. Today, Dr Khoja also system in Pakistan, reveals a study the lives of people everywhere,” heads the PAN Asian eHealth published in The Lancet by Dr says Nasser J. Kazeminy, Chairman, Research Network and is an adjunct Zulfiqar Bhutta, Chair, Division of NECO. Past recipients include faculty at the University of Calgary. Women and Child Health, AKU. The United States Supreme Court Chief simple introduction of counselling Justice William Rehnquist, Senator Joseph Mwizerwa has been and educational outreach on well- John McCain, former New York appointed Academic Head of the known life-saving newborn health Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani and Advanced Nursing Studies pro- practices into the National Former Chairman Chrysler gramme, in Kampala, Uganda. He Programme for Family Planning and Corporation, Lee Iacocca. holds a master’s degree in Primary Care in two areas has led to nursing science from Mbarara a 15-20 per cent drop in newborn University of Science and deaths and stillbirths. The Division Recognition of Technology and a bachelor’s in in partnership with the Government Volunteer Work nursing from Makerere University. of Pakistan’s Ministry of Health, the With over seven year’s experience in World Health Organization and Save The President’s Volunteer Service nursing education and curriculum the Children’s Saving Newborn Award for the year 2010 has been development, he will now be Lives programme carried a two-year presented to Dr Aisha Sethi, responsible for the academic and research trial in Hala and Matiari in MBBS ’99 for making a difference administrative activities of the AKU rural Sindh. It introduced a commu- through volunteer service. She campus in Uganda. nity-based intervention package, received a letter from President delivered through lady health work- Barack Obama thanking her for A registered midwife and nurse, and ers from the national programme “devotion to service and for doing an experienced nurse educator with working with traditional birth atten- all you can to shape a better over 12 years of experience in nurs- dants and community health com- tomorrow”. ing education and curriculum devel- mittees. They were trained to pro- Nominated by the American opment, Dr Khairunnisa Dhamani vide group counselling on mother Academy of Dermatology, the award is the new Academic Head of the and newborn care practices, to part- recognises her dedication in the field ANS programme in Dar es Salaam, ner with the dais, and to make home of dermatology especially with Tanzania. She is an AKU-SON visits to teach simple newborn care regard to her efforts in Malawi and alumna who holds a PhD in Nursing to new mothers, including early and Pakistan. In Malawi, her work to from the University of Alberta, exclusive breastfeeding, delayed raise awareness of albinism and Canada and an MSc in Nursing from bathing and early recognition of improve local dermatological care the University of Minnesota, USA. signs of serious newborn illnesses. has been featured by national media.

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Medical College Karachi helping her parents reno- 2000 vate their hospital. She finds this a Aayesha M. Khan was highly 1992 worthwhile experience that has acclaimed for performing the first Muhammad Usman Ghani com- taught her and her family many Bone Anchored Hearing Aid opera- pleted his FCPS and then did his interesting lessons about the tion in Alton, Illinois in United FRCA from Ireland and worked as ground reality of health care avail- States of America on June 21 last a consultant anaesthetist. He now able in Karachi. year. works at Military Hospital, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. 1995 2001 Uzma Yunus is currently based in Ayesha Afzal completed her post- Sunita Dodani is in touch with fel- Chicago where she has a specialty graduation degree from Emory low alumni in the US Midwest and clinic called Depression Clinic of Family Medicine residency pro- encourages younger alumni to con- Chicago offering specialised gramme and is currently running an tact her for advice or mentorship at depression care including cutting outpatient family practice and also [email protected]. edge treatment with Transcranial working at an ER facility. Magnetic Brain Stimulation. She is 1993 an assistant professor of psychiatry 2002 In July 2009, Naaznin Jhaveri at University of Illinois at Chicago Mohamed Akram Abdullah did Lokhandwala, took a break from a and a faculty member at American his internship at AKU is now work- busy endocrine practice in Physician Institute for Advanced ing as Respiratory Registrar at the Massachusetts and has been in Professional Studies. Royal Gwent Hospital, Newport.

A friend remembered

Dr Basith Ghazali, a member of the class. Developing into an astute Basith had been brave and stoic in first Aga Khan University Medical and precise clinician, Basith’s deci- the face of an adrenal tumour. College class and a highly regarded sion to pursue surgery was made News of his death has left the AKU plastic and reconstructive surgeon early. After obtaining an MPH from community deeply saddened. Those settled in Fort Worth, Texas, died of us in Karachi recently gathered on May 9, 2011. He was 45 years at a friend’s house to honour his old. Basith was married to Sobia memory. He was a sports lover and Saeed (Class of 1992) and was a played badminton with great skill; father to their two children, aged his sweet tooth was famous and 10 and 12. you never found him without Friends and classmates will something sugary on his plate; he remember him as a sweet and dear had a boyhood love for trains that friend, a devoted professional and a never left him. calm and reflective personality who Anecdotes flowed aplenty. A had a gift of touching others with particularly insightful one has to do his serene and sincere tempera- with the love of his life, Sobia. ment. Most of all, we will remem- College legend has it that Basith ber him for his humanity, his kind- saw her sing a moving ballad at the ness, his unfailingly polite manner, annual day function, and lost his his quiet dignity, his humour and heart right away. I remember once wit and his smile. asking him if it was true; he just Basith was born and educated smiled and looked away shyly. in Karachi, attending BVS Parsi Johns Hopkins, he completed a That’s the kind of person he was. High School and DJ Science general surgery residency in New Our wishes and prayers are College, before entering Aga Khan York City followed by a plastic with Basith and his family. He was University’s Class of 1988. He dis- surgery fellowship at University of a precious and cherished gift in our tinguished himself with academic Kansas, and eventually established lives and we will miss him. excellence throughout, consistently himself in private practice. performing at or near the top of the For the last several months, Saad Shafqat, MBBS ’88

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2005 incharge anaesthesia and intensive 1991 Abdul Waheed has been elected as care at Memon Medical Institute, Rozina Ramzan Ali Farishta, RN third year Chief Resident of Family Karachi. Dip, Post RN BScN 1996, resides and Community Medicine residen- in Skokie, Illinois with her husband cy programme at Penn State Mehreen Anwar Bhamani who and two children and is working University, Milton S. Hershey did her MSc in Epidemiology and toward a MS in Nursing for Family Medical Center/The Good Biostatistics from Aga Khan Nurse Practitioner programme from Samaritan Hospital, Hershey, University is currently engaged in North Park University, Chicago, Pennsylvania for the academic year a few research projects with the Illinois. 2011-2012. He has been working faculties of UAE University, Al- with a team of friends for educa- Ain and has been published in rep- 1998 tional development at community utable journals. Misree Begum Saleem Ratoo, RN level through the Alshaoor Forum Dip, Post RN BScN 2007, is work- that works to help bring new ideas, Mohammad Tahir Yousafzai com- ing at the CICU at Aga Khan teacher training and career coun- pleted his MSc in Epidemiology University Hospital, K. selling for students belonging to and Biostatistics and is currently local government schools in Kahna working as an epidemiologist at Shireen Lalani, RN Dip, Post RN Nau, a suburban area in Lahore, Baqai Medical University. He is BScN 2009, is working as a nurs- Pakistan. This year the team suc- also a visiting epidemiologist at ing instructor at Baqai College of cessfully started publishing a bi- Dow University of Health Sciences Nursing. annual magazine focused on com- and Jinnah Medical and Dental mon socio-religious issues facing College, Karachi. Zahra Ramzan Ali Nathoo, RN Pakistan. They have also revamped Dip is happy to have returned to the Alshaoor Public Library in 2010 Aga Khan University School of Kahna Nau. Shirin Mirza received her MSc in Nursing to pursue a Post RN BScN Epidemiology and Biostatistics and after over a decade of completing 2006 is currently working as a research her RN diploma. Fazal Manzoor Arain is currently coordinator for MultiDrug- working towards his PhD in neuro- Resistant Tuberculosis (MDR TB) 2000 sciences from Vanderbilt at Association for Social Fehmida Ashiq Ali Allana, RN University, Nashville, Tennessee, Development, Islamabad. He also Dip, Post RN BScN 2006, is a clin- United States of America. His volunteers as consultant epidemiol- ical nurse specialist, ambulatory research focuses on the role of ogist for Public Health Solutions, care services at Aga Khan GABA A receptor in Pakistan. University Hospital, Karachi. Her juvenile myoclonic epilepsy. keen interests lie in palliative care. She also serves as co-chair alumni 2007 standing committee and largely Asim Hafiz who did his internship School of Nursing contributes to community educa- from Aga Khan University is now tion with regards to disease preven- doing his residency in radiation tion and health promotion by con- oncology at AKUH, K. 1986 ducting community based educa- Sharifa Lakhani, RN Dip, com- tional programmess. Sobia Haqqi, who completed her pleted her MS in Nursing residency in psychiatry from Aga Education in 2008, and is working 2001 Khan University is currently work- fulltime. She yearns to return to Mehtab Qutbuddin Jaffer, RN ing as an assistant professor at the AKU as some point. Dip, Post RN BScN 2007, is a clin- Ziauddin Medical University, ical nurse instructor at the Department of Psychiatry and has 1987 outpatient services and sends greet- contributed research articles on Amina Hussain Ali, RN Dip is ings and best wishes to all. women related issues to local and currently working as a preceptor foreign publications. and incharge RN in CVICU han- Shahina Pyar Ali Issani, BScN dling open heart pre and post care Generic, is a proud alumna present- 2009 patients. She has been practicing as ly working as a research assistant Abdul Saboor Memom, Residency a certified critical care registered at Aga Khan University School of 2009, has been promoted to junior nurse in the United States of Nursing. She misses her colleagues consultant anaesthesia and as America for over 20 years. and wishes to hear from them.

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2002 Our class of 2005 was the first Institute for Educational Suneina Shaukat Ali Popatia, RN of its kind to graduate in Development Dip, Post RN 2008, has rejoined Tanzania. We were 18 people Aga Khan University Hospital in who were awarded an undergrad- February this year as an infection uate degree in nursing after 2000 control nurse. which I went back to bedside Rozina Jumani, Adv Dip is a nursing. Watching me conduct all Commonwealth Scholar currently Zohra Sultan Kabirani, BScN those nursing procedures at the working at higher education insti- Generic, is currently working at bedside shocked my colleagues. tutions such as Notre Dame Aga Khan University Hospital in In 2007, I took a three month Institute of Education (NDIE), Dar es Salam, Tanzania. holistic counselling course at the Shaheed Zulfikar Ali Bhutto Kairuki Memorial University in Institute of Science and 2003 Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. I then Technology (SZABIST), Pakistan Nigar Abdul Jabbar Raza, RN shifted to a Care and Treatment Air Force - Karachi Institute of Dip, Post RN BScN 2009 is cur- Clinic at Muhimbili National Economics & Technology (PAF- rently working as a nursing super- Hospital, as a nurse counsellor KIET) and Institue of Business and visor at AKUH, K. for HIV/AIDS patients, perform- Technology (BIZTEK). She also ing my duties with pride for teaches an online MA programme Rozina Jalaluddin Kygiani, RN three years until my retirement in Educational Leadership offered Dip, Post RN BScN 2009, is work- last year. by NDIE, Australian Catholic ing as senior instructor at Ziauddin I am now working at the University. University College of Nursing. She Trauma Centre Hospital as a is indebted to AKU-SON for instill- Registered Nurse and Counsellor. 2004 ing the spirit of adaptability in her My BScN education and coun- Yasmin Raheel Ahmad, CEL Adv and looks forward to returning to the selling skills make me feel proud Dip, has been working with alma mater for an MScN. of AKU as it has opened doors to Generation’s School for the past 20 so many opportunities. years. She is currently the head of Rupa Himani, RN Dip, Post RN Rose Sabuka, BScN ’05 sciences at the institution. BScN 2008, is working as acting head nurse at Clifton Medical 2008 Services, AKUH, K. She feels Kiran Anwar Ali Khimani, RN Amynah Sadiq Bhaidani, MEd, indebted to the hospital for playing a Dip, Post RN BScN 2010, received currently resides in Canada and vital role in her professional growth. Merit Scholarship, Dean’s Honour will soon complete her certification Role, Merit in Adult Health Nursing for teaching allowing her to Shela Akber Ali Hirani, BScN and Best Performance Award, Post upgrade her interim certificate to a Generic, MScN 2010, received RN BScN at Convocation 2010. permanent one. She is also learning Overall Distinction in MScN pro- and practicing differentiated teach- gramme 2008-2010 and a Thesis Sarfaraz Masih, Post RN BScN, is ing and learning in the context of Distinction on the day of her currently senior lecturer at Liaquat English as a Second Language MScN graduation. National College of Nursing, along with field testing for ESL Karachi and member of National Benchmarks as an assessment strat- 2004 Task Force for College of Nursing egy through the Alberta Education. Ashraf Valliani, BScN Generic is and Midwifery at National Institute a lecturer at Liaquat National of Health and Social Sciences Sajad Ahmad, MEd, is regional College of Nursing. (NIHS), Islamabad. academic coordinator of one of the regional boards of Ismaili Tariqah Erum Shahabuddin Bachlani, RN 2006 Religious Education Board, Dip, completed her Post RN BScN Anita Akber Ali Momin, BScN Pakistan where he leads an eight- in 2009 and was promoted to Head Generic is currently working in member team involved with need Nurse, Aga Khan University United States of America as a RN analysis, planning, implementation, Hospital. for Meds Surgical Telemetry Area. monitoring, evaluation and report- ing of academic programmes such 2005 Sumaira Ahmed Bux Khowaja, as teacher education programmes Erum Lakhani, RN Dip, currently BScN Generic is proud to be a for religious education, youth edu- resides in the US and works as an graduate of the region’s first batch cation programmes and general RN at Parkland Hospital. of Master’s of Bioethics. sessions for the community.

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NAME SPECIALITY PROGRAMME CATEGORY CLASS OF 2004 Fahad Shuja General Surgery MGH/Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA (PGY-3) C M. Zeeshan Memon Neurosurgery Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH C Tariq Naseem Anaesthesiology/CC Tufts/Harvard (IP), Boston, MA C CLASS OF 2005 M. Omair Azhar Family Medicine Penn State, Hershey, Hershey, PA C Rehmat Ali General Surgery Yale University, New Haven, CT P CLASS OF 2006 Farida Malik Internal Medicine Monmouth Medical Center, Long Branch, NJ C Mansoor Arif Internal Medicine Mount Auburn Hospital, Boston, MA C CLASS OF 2007 Abdul Mueed Zafar Radiology University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX C Asha Bansari Internal Medicine Brown Memorial Hospital, Pawtucket, RI C Masooma Aqeel Internal Medicine West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV C M. Ameen Rauf Internal Medicine St. Joseph Mercy Oakland, Pontiac, MI C M. Nausherwan Khan Family Medicine Penn State, Hershey, Hershey, PA C Salman Iftikhar Chaudhary Internal Medicine Wayne State University, Detroit, MI C Sara Husain Internal Medicine William Beaumont Hospital, Royal Oak, MI C Sarah Aftab General Surgery Texas Tech, Lubbock, TX (PGY-2) C CLASS OF 2008 Aamer Imdad Paediatrics SUNY Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, NY C Abdul Basit Internal Medicine Mount Auburn Hospital, Boston, MA C Adil Haleem Khan General Surgery Yale University, New Haven, CT P Affan Irfan Internal Medicine University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL C Amina Zubair Family Medicine Penn State, Hershey, Hershey, PA C Hadi Bhurgri Internal Medicine University of Medicine & Dentistry of New Jersey, NJ C Hassan Raza General Surgery University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA P Javad Hashmi Emergency Medicine SUNY Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, NY C Mahwash Kamal Internal Medicine West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV C Mariam Shakir Internal Medicine University of Connecticut, Farmington, CT C Mehnaz Jabeen Paediatrics University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX C Mehrine Shaikh Ophthalmology George Washington University, Washington, DC C Mohammad Bin Pervez Surgery Montefiore Medical Center, New York, NY (PGY-2) C Mohiyyuddin Shaikh Internal Medicine West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV C Roomasa Channa Zafar Ophthalmology Wilmer Eye Institute, Johns Hopkins, Baltimore, MD C Rubina A Sajwani Internal Medicine Hennepin County Medical Center, Minneapolis, MN C

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NAME SPECIALITY PROGRAMME CATEGORY Saman Hashmi Paediatrics University of Illinois College of Medicine, Chicago, IL C Salman Khalid Internal Medicine University of Connecticut, Farmington, CT C Zarmeneh Aly Neurology Hofstra North Shore-LIJ, Manhasset, NY A CLASS OF 2009 Ahsan Raza General Surgery University of Florida, Gainesville, FL P Alefiyah Rajabali Internal Medicine MGH/Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA C Areeba Jawed Internal Medicine Indiana University, Indianapolis, IN C Arslan Shaukat Internal Medicine Indiana University, Indianapolis, IN C Atif Bashir Internal Medicine Loyola University, Chicago, IL C Farheen Dojki Internal Medicine University of Connecticut, Farmington, CT C Fariha Batool Khawaja Family Medicine University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada C Hamza Pervez Mughal Internal Medicine Saint Barnabas Medical Center, West Orange, NJ C Imran Tahir Internal Medicine Cook County, Chicago, IL C Madiha Rabbani Internal Medicine West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV C Madiha Syed Anaesthesiology/CC University of Arkansas, Little Rock, AR C Manal Habib Paediatrics University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX C M. Hussham Arshad Internal Medicine Metrowest Health Center, Framingham, MA C M.Umair Khan Internal Medicine Washington Hospital Center, Washington, DC C Nadeem Aqeel Khan Internal Medicine Hennepin County Medical Center, Minneapolis, MN C Nida Habib Internal Medicine Saint Barnabas Medical Center, West Orange, NJ C Taimur Saleem General Surgery SUNY Upstate Medical University, Syracuse, NY C Salim Hosein General Surgery UMDNJ, Newark, NJ P Samia Ayub Internal Medicine Mount Auburn, Boston, MA C Sidra Azim Internal Medicine University of Connecticut, Farmington, CT C

Syed Umer Ali Internal Medicine University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, TX C Jean Luc-Ray Umera Thebo Internal Medicine University of Buffalo, Buffalo, NY C Umme Rubab Syeda Internal Medicine University of Connecticut, Farmington, CT C Usman Salahuddin General Surgery Creighton University, Omaha, NE P CLASS OF 2010

ts at AKU Nairobi campus / Abdullah Khan Internal Medicine University of Medicine & Dentistry of New Jersey, NJ C Amad Naseer Khan Neurosurgery Imperial College, London, UK C Asad Javed Internal Medicine Temple University, Philadelphia, PA C Asma Saba Syed Internal Medicine West Virginia University, Morgantown, WV C

dvanced Nursing studen Basma Shahid General Surgery Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, OH P Mahwash Kassi Internal Medicine Methodist Hospital, Houston, TX C Raji Mustafa Shameem Internal Medicine Lenox Hill Hospital - North Shore LIJ, NY C

Back cover photo: A C = Categorical, A = Advanced, P = Preliminary

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