Faculty

Basmaa Ali, MD

Dr Basmaa Ali is a Board Certified Internal Medicine Physician and a Clinical Instructor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. She is the medical director of Zanjabee Integrative Medicine and a co-founder of Appropria Medical Solutions. Dr. Ali went to medical school at King Edward Medical College and did her Internal Medicine residency at University of Illinois at Chicago. She has an MBA from MIT Sloan School of Management and is a certified yoga teacher from Kripalu School of Yoga in Stockbridge, MA.

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Dr. Ali Madeeh Hashmi is a graduate of King Edward Medical College (1991). He did his Psychiatry residency training at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas. From 1998 till 2010, he was Staff Psychiatrist and Medical Director in charge of all medical, nursing and pharmacy services at Mid-South Health Systems in Jonesboro, Arkansas, the largest community mental health system in the state of Arkansas. He also held faculty appointments at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences in Little Rock, Arkansas and the University of Tennessee Health Science Center in Memphis, Tennessee. In 2010, Dr. Hashmi was unanimously voted 'Teacher of the Year' by the Family Practice residents at the University of Arkansas AHEC Family Practice Residency Program. Also in 2010, he moved back to Lahore and was appointed Foreign Professor in the Department of Psychiatry and KEMU under the Higher Education Commission's Foreign Faculty Program. He held this position for 3 years. In 2013, he was selected as Associate Professor of Psychiatry (Tenure Track) at KEMU. Dr. Hashmi currently teaches at KEMU and is also the KEMCAANA Faculty representative at KEMU.

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NAJAM A ZAIDI, MD, FACP, FIDSA 

Dr Zaidi is an infectious disease specialist based in Providence RI. He divides his time between teaching at the division of Infectious Diseases, Roger Williams Medical Center and leading the Infection Control and Antibiotic Stewardship for Southcoast Hospitals Group. He is an Assistant Professor of Medicine (Clinical) at the Warren Alpert Medical School/Brown University where he has been teaching since 2004 and has won the Dean’s teaching award for clinical clerkship in medicine in 2004 and 2005 and has been involved in the doctoring program as a clinical mentor since 2007. He is a graduate of Rawalpindi Medical College and did his internship and residency at OSF St Francis Hospital, University of Illinois College of Medicine in Peoria IL and his fellowship in Infectious Disease at William Beaumont Hospital, Royal Oak, MI. His work in Pakistan Included medical and surgical Residencies in Holy Family Hospital Rawalpindi and a clinical research role as field based epidemiologist at the Aga Khan University division of Community Health Sciences. His research interests include hemorrhagic fevers, hospital epidemiology, antibiotic resistance and stewardship.

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Ahmad M Rashid MD, FCCP, is a graduate of King Edward Medical College. He trained in internal medicine at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, he did fellowship in Critical Care Medicine at University of Pittsburgh, finishing his training at Pulmonary Medicine at Chicago Medical School. Dr. Rashid graduated in top ten of his medical school,and was selected to represent King Edward Medical College at the prestigious Washington University School of Medicine.Dr. Rashid has been practicing since 2005, the last 5 years at National Jewish Hospital in Denver, that has been voted top Pulmonary hospital in the United States for the last fifteen years. Dr. Rashid's practice specializes in the care of critically ill and injured postoperative patients. His interests also include neurologic critical care, and asthma. Dr. Rashid is also a clinical assistant professor of medicine at National Jewish Health/Colorado University Medical School and is a fellow in the College of Chest Physicians. Dr. Rashid is board certified in internal medicine, pulmonary medicine, critical care medicine and neuro-critical care medicine.

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Dr. Nasir Raza Awan MBBS, FCPS (NS) 


Fellowship in Functional Neurosurgery, University of Toronto Fellowship in Functional Neurosurgery and Radiosurgery,University of Pittsburgh Associate Professor of NeuroSurgery, at Sharif Medical and Dental College, Lahore.