Rehmat Foundation Institute for Global Medicine
This program focuses on sharing/exchange of the latest information and collaborative research in the field of Medicine between individuals/institutions in the USA and Pakistan to improve healthcare.
Anesthesiology
Zulfiqar Ahmad MD
Clinical Associate Professor, Wayne State University, School of Medicine
Director of Education, St Joseph Mercy Hospital Oakland, Pontiac,
Michigan
Asif Malik MD
Pediatric Anesthesiology
Henry Ford Healthcare, Detroit, Michigan
Alisher Dadabayev MD
Pain Medicine
Clinical Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor,
Michigan
Irfan Suleman MD
Director of Pediatric Regional Anesthesia, Johns Hopkins Children’s Center
Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine
Baltimore, MD
Muhammad Jaffar, MD, FASA, FCCM, FCCP
Professor of Anesthesiology, Director of Anesthesiology Residency Training Program,
Wayne State University School of Medicine.
Allergy and Immunology
Arif Seyal MD
Clinical Professor of Medicine, University of California, Davis, Sacramento,
California
Division of Allergy and immunology
Special interest. severe asthma, primary immunodeficiency, air pollution,
urticaria Angioedema, food, and drug allergy
Tariq Yunus MD
Allergy, head and neck, otolaryngology,
Pediatric otolaryngology
Fort Worth, Texas
Hassan Nasir DO
Memorial Healthcare, Owosso, Michigan
Former Chief of Staff and Program Director, Allergy and Immunology Fellowship at Larkin Community Hospital, Miami, Florida
Mohsen Nasir MD
Memorial Healthcare, Saginaw, Michigan
Cardiology
Sohail A. Hassan MD FACC, FHRS
Director of Cardiac Electrophysiology services,
Ascension St John Hospital, Detroit
Assistant Professor of Medicine, Wayne State University School of Medicine
Nour Juratli MD
Director of Cardiac Electrophysiology, Beaumont Healthcare,
Dearborn On Faculty of Wayne State University School of Medicine
Saeed Ahmad MD
Best Graduate University of Punjab, Nishtar Medical College 1971
Interventional Cardiologist
Oklahoma Heart Hospital
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Muhammad Yasin MD
2nd best graduate Nishtar Medical College 1971
Interventional Cardiologist
Oklahoma Heart Hospital
Usman Babar MD
Interventional Cardiologist
Director of Cardiac Cath Lab
The University of Oklahoma, School of Medicine
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Zaheer Babar MD
Interventional Cardiologist
Oklahoma Heart Hospital
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Waleed T Kayani MD, FACC
Assistant Professor of Medicine,
Section of Cardiology, Department of Medicine,
Baylor College of Medicine.
Director Cardiac Catherization Laboratories
Director of Cardiac Care Unit,
Ben Taub Hospital, Harris Health System.
Associate Director (Research) Cardiovascular Disease Fellowship Program,
Associate Director Interventional Cardiology Fellowship,
Baylor College of Medicine,
Houston, Texas USA.
Zain Ul Abideen Asad, MD MS FACC
Assistant Professor of Medicine,
Cardiovascular Section,
University of Oklahoma HealthSciences Center,
Oklahoma City, OK
Dentistry
Dr. Francisco Plaza Villegas DDS, MS
Clinical Asst. Professor
The University of Detroit Mercy, School of Dentistry, Detroit, Michigan
Dermatology
Iltefat Hamzavi MD
On faculty of Wayne State University School of Medicine.
He has access to most of the Muslim Dermatologist in the USA and will make
available several of them
Muhammad Jafrany MD
Professor of Psychiatry, Central Michigan University, School of
Medicine. Special interest in Psycho Dermatology
Dr. Sarwat Ayub Shah
Lead Consultant of Dermatology
Bridgewater NHS Trust
Warrington Cheshire, UK
Wasim Nasir MD
Medical and Cosmetic Dermatology
Memorial Healthcare, Owosso, Michigan
Endocrinology
Naseer Ahmad MD
Ascension Healthcare, Southfield, Michigan
Associate Professor of Medicine Wayne State University School of Medicine,
Detroit, Michigan
Special interest Diabetes and thyroid disease
Sleman Khoury MD
Beaumont Healthcare System
Associate Professor of Medicine, Wayne State University School of Medicine,
Detroit, Michigan
Special interest in Diabetes and Reproductive endocrinology
Emergency Medicine
Jawad Arshad MD, FACER
Beaumont Hospital, Dearborn, Michigan
CEO/ cofounder of WoW Health Solutions
COO/ cofounder Zip care coordination platform
ENT
Tariq Yunus MD
Allergy, head and neck, otolaryngology, Pediatric otolaryngology
Fort Worth, Texas
Mueed Ahmad MD
Special interest in parathyroid surgery
Kaiser Permanente, Santa Rosa , California
Has access to numerous colleagues who will be willing to participate.
Gastroenterology
Faiza Bhatti MD
Mercy Hospital, South
St Louis, Missouri
Special interest IBD
Kamran Qureshi MD
Associate Professor St Louis University, School of Medicine
St. Louis, Missouri
Special interest Hepatology
Genetics
Sophia Chauhdry, PhD
Van Andel Institute
Grand Rapids, Michigan
Surgery
Cardiothoracic Surgery
Raza Dabir MD, FACS, FRCS
Ascension St John Hospital
Detroit, Michigan
Salik Jahania MD FACS
Erlanger Heart and Lung Institute
Chattanooga, Tennessee
Asghar Nawaz
MBBS, MRCS, FCPS, FRCS Cth, CVT UK, MEBCTS
Cardiothorasic, Robotic, and Transplant Surgery
Shifa International Hospitals Ltd, Islamabad, Pakistan
General Surgery
Farrukh Jabbar MD
General Surgery with Special Interest in Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Diseases
Adventist Hospital, Tampa, Florida
Alexander DeMare MD
Attending Physician
Beaumont Hospital Royal Oak, Michigan
Vascular Surgery
Mubarik Shah MD
Port Tobacco, Maryland
Majid T Aezid MD
McLaren Healthcare, Midland, Michigan
Urology
Muzamil Ahmad MD
On faculty of the University of Michigan, School of Medicine.
Chief of staff Beaumont Healthcare, Wayne, Michigan
Area of interest Prostate problems
Infectious Diseases
Marcus Zervos MD
Professor of Medicine and Asst. Dean Wayne State University School of Medicine
for Global Medicine
Chief, Division of Infectious Diseases, Henry Ford Healthcare system. He and
several of his staff will participate in teaching and research.
Mazhar Ahmad MD
Attending Physician and Faculty
St Joseph Mercy Hospital, Ann Arbor, Michigan
Arsala Bakhtiar, MD
Pediatric ID
Associate Professor of pediatrics
Wayne State University, School of Medicine
Program Director, Beaumont Hospital, Dearborn
James Sunstrum, MD
Attending Physician Beaumont Hospital, Dearborn
Associate Professor of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit
Internal Medicine
Zeeshan Noor MD
Attending Physician
St. Joseph Mercy Hospital, Ann Arbor, Michigan
Muhammad Sanaullah MD
Special interest in Quality Assurance and
Utilization Review
Chief Medical Officer
University of Oklahoma, Edmond, OK
Microbiology
Dr. Ghulam Rasool PhD
Professor of Biological and Biomedical Sciences, Oakland University, Rochester,
Michigan
Special interest in stem cell research
Neurology
Saleem Tahir MD
Board-certified in Neurology and Psychiatry, Clinical Neurophysiology
Electrodiagnostic Medicine (EEG, EMG, Evoked potentials) St. Mary
Mercy Hospital, Livonia, Michigan
Motivational Speaker
Shaneela Malik MD
Special interest in strokes
Henry Ford Healthcare, Detroit, Michigan
Abdullah Ahmad, PhD
Associate Scientist
Henry Ford Healthcare System, Detroit, Michigan
Associate Professor, Michigan State University
Nasrul Huda, PhD
Associate Scientist
Henry Ford Healthcare System, Detroit, Michigan
Associate Professor Michigan State University
Neurosurgery
Ghaus Malik MD
Professor of Neurosurgery, Wayne State University, School of Medicine
Former Chief of Neurosurgery Beaumont Hospital Royal Oak, Vice Chief of
Neurosurgery, Henry Ford Healthcare System, Detroit, Michigan Special
interest in cerebrovascular, AVMs, aneurysms, trigeminal neuralgia,
complex brain and spinal cord tumor.
Mick Perez-Cruet MD
Professor of Neurosurgery
Oakland University, William Beaumont Medical School, Rochester, Michigan
Michigan Head and Spine Institute
Southfield, Michigan
Special interest in minimal invasive surgery
Awais Zafar Vance MD
Neurosurgery, Diagnostic and Neuroradiology
Baylor Scott & White Healthcare, Temple, Texas.
Faculty Baylor Medical School
Nephrology
Shehpar Khan MD
Areas of Interest Hypertension, Acid-base, Electrolyte
Dallas, Texas
Ahmad Masood MD
Attending Physician and Faculty
St Joseph Mercy Hospital, Ann Arbor, Michigan
Bilal Saleem MD
Transplant fellowship
Ascension Providence Hospital
Southfield, Michigan
Oncology
Feroze Momin MD
Medical Oncology and Hematology
Beaumont Healthcare System
Professor of Medicine, Beaumont Medical School, Rochester,
Michigan
Special interest in bone marrow transplant
Hakan Demirci MD
Director of Ocular Oncology
Professor of Ophthalmology and visual sciences
University of Michigan School of Medicine
Noman Ashraf MD
Medical Oncology
VA Hospital
Associate Professor, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida
Waseet Zafar Vance MD
Radiation Oncology
Cancer Specialists of North Florida
Jacksonville, Florida
Zafar Iqbal MD
Radiation Oncology
Buffalo, New York
Saima Saeed MD
Hematology/Oncology
Palo Verde Cancer Specialist
Scottsdale, Arizona
Affiliated with Banner University Medical Center
Phoenix, Arizona
Irum Khan MD
Associate Professor of Medicine
University of Illinois, Chicago, School of Medicine
Dr. Shabeeha K Rana, MBBS, MRCP, FRCPath ( Hematology-UK), CCT (UK)
Consultant Hematologist-Oncologist, Stem Cell Transplantation
American Hospital, Dubai, UAE
Ophthalmology
Shahzad Mian MD
Professor of ophthalmology and Director of residency
training University of Michigan School of Medicine
Special interest: cornea transplanting and keratoplasty techniques
Tamer Mahmoud MD, PhD
Professor of ophthalmology
Oakland University, William Beaumont School of Medicine
An international authority on diseases of retina and vitreous.
David Crandall MD
On Faculty of University of Utah School of Medicine and Henry Ford Hospital,
Detroit
A Leader at the American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery.
Hakan Demirci MD
Director of Ocular Oncology
Professor of Ophthalmology and visual sciences
University of Michigan School of Medicine
Nauman Imami MD
Director Glaucoma Services and former director of
training. Henry Ford Healthcare System, Detroit
Associate Professor of Ophthalmology, Wayne State University, Medical School.
Zuhair Peracha MD
Fellowship in Retina
Canton, Michigan.
Pediatrics
General Pediatrics
Arsala Bakhtiar, MD
Pediatric ID
Associate Professor of Pediatrics
Wayne State University, School of Medicine
Program Director, Beaumont Hospital, Dearborn
Naseer Kaukab MD
Special interest in Learning Disabilities
Chattanooga, Tennessee
Khawaja Raza Mahmood MD
Special interest in asthma but can take any topic
Associate Professor of pediatrics at Medical College of Georgia.
Sarah R Chaudhry MD
Medical Center Pediatrics
Bingham Farm, Michigan
GI
Muhammad Usman Shaukat MD
Asst.Professor of Pediatrics, University of Oklahoma, School of Medicine
Hemo/Oncology
Shahina Qureshi MD
Former Professor of Pediatrics
Children’s Hospital, Islamabad
Associate Professor of Pediatrics
State University of New York, Down State, Brooklyn, NY
Infectious Diseases
Arsala Bakhtiar, MD
Pediatric ID
Associate Professor of Pediatrics
Wayne State University, School of Medicine
Program Director, Beaumont Hospital, Dearborn
Neonatology
Shahid Khan MD
Former Chief of Neonatology, Ascension Healthcare, Southfield.
Associate Professor Michigan State University, School of Medicine
Nasir Rashid MD, FAAP
Neonatology
Shady Grove Adventist Hospital
Rockville, MD
Pain Management
Irfan Suleman MD
Director of Pediatric Regional Anesthesia, Johns Hopkins Children’s Center
Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine
Baltimore, MD
Child Psychiatry
Muhammad Ghaziudin MD
Professor of Psychiatry, University of Michigan, School of Medicine, Ann Arbor, Michigan.
Child psychiatrist with a special interest in Autism Spectrum Disorders
Neera Ghaziudin MD, MRCPsych
Professor of Psychiatry, University of Michigan, School of Medicine, Ann Arbor, Michigan.
Child psychiatrist with a special interest in mood disorders, psychotic
disorders, catatonia, the biology of adolescents’ mood disorders, and ECT.
Psychiatry
Muhammad Ghaziudin MD
Professor of Psychiatry, University of Michigan, School of Medicine, Ann Arbor, Michigan.
Child psychiatrist with a special interest in Autism Spectrum Disorders.
Neera Ghaziudin MD, MRCPsych
Professor of Psychiatry, University of Michigan, School of Medicine, Ann Arbor, Michigan.
Child psychiatrist with a special interest in mood disorders, psychotic
disorders, catatonia, the biology of adolescents’ mood disorders, and ECT.
Muhammad Jafrany MD
Professor of Psychiatry, Central Michigan University, School of
Medicine. Special interest in Psycho Dermatology
Manzar Rajput MD
Geriatric Psychiatry
St Mary Mercy Hospital, Livonia, Michigan
Former Chief of Psychiatry, Allegiance Henry Ford healthcare, Jackson,
Michigan
Special interest ECT
Huda Zenati, MS, MSW, PhD
Co-founder of Rehmat Foundation
Psychotherapist at Apex Behavioral Health – Dearborn, Michigan
Areas of interest are emotional aspects of cancer, bedside manners, nutrition, and stress management
Ghulam Qadir MD
Founder of Rehmat Foundation
Chairman NANA Scholarship Committee
Certified by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology in General, Addiction, and Geriatric Psychiatry. Certified in Administrative Psychiatry.
Fellow of the Academy of Psychosomatic Medicine. Distinguished Life Fellow of American Psychiatric Association CEO Apex Behavioral Health – Dearborn, Michigan Served as Chief of Psychiatry at Oakwood Healthcare for 14 years
Areas of interest. Mental Health Advocacy, Doctor-Patient Relationship, and Cost of Care, Bipolar Disorders
Marilyn Bonem, PhD
Associate Professor of Psychology
Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, Michigan. Psychologist Apex Behavioral
Health- Dearborn, Michigan.
Jeffrey Guina MD
Director of Psychiatry Residency Training Program, Beaumont Medical School,
Royal Oak, Michigan
Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Michigan State, Oakland, and Wright State Universities
Sabah Syed MD
Professor of Psychiatry
University of California, Los Angels
Robert Dasher MD DFAPA
Clinical Professor of Psychiatry(ret 2021)
University of California, Los Angels
Director of HIV Mental Health Services/Wellness Chair – Olive View/UCLA Medical center.
Muhammad Aslam MD
Clinical Professor of Psychiatry
University of Cincinnati, College of Medicine , Cincinnati,Ohio.
Director of Geriatric Psychiatry Fellowship, Education and Research.
Sriram Ramaswamy MD
Professor of Psychiatry
Creighton University School of Medicine, Omaha Nebraska.
Vice chair of Research Department of Psychiatry.
Radiology
Ansar Zafar Vance MD
Vascular Interventional Radiology
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Awais Zafar Vance MD
Neurosurgery, Diagnostic and Neuroradiology
Baylor Scott & White Healthcare, Temple, Texas.
Faculty Baylor Medical School
Colorectal Surgery
Fuad Turfa MD
Attending Physician Beaumont Hospital Dearborn
Assistant Professor, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit
OB/GYN
Aesha Khan MD
Associate Director of OB/GYN Residency Training Program, Beaumont Hospital, Dearborn
Clinical Associate Professor, Wayne State University School of Medicine, Detroit
Nursing
Karla Dean, RN, BSN,CEN, CPEN
ED Nursing Educator
BJC Health System, Saint Louis, Missouri
Patricia L. Sirwaitis, RN, BSN, CPN
Henry Ford Healthcare System
Detroit, Michigan