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Volume 16, Issue 34; Aug 15 - 21, 2014<br />

continuations<br />

The <strong>Muslim</strong> <strong>Observer</strong><br />

13<br />

PhDs<br />

from pg 2<br />

The couple met as undergraduates<br />

in their native Pakistan,<br />

and Ajaib began graduate studies<br />

at UD in 2008. The next year they<br />

married, and Nasir also enrolled<br />

at UD. Both say that because their<br />

research was largely computational,<br />

as opposed to laboratorybased<br />

experimentation, much of<br />

it could be done at home, giving<br />

them some flexibility in child<br />

care.<br />

Nasir was a teaching assistant<br />

and so spent more time on campus<br />

than her husband, a research<br />

assistant, did. “So he was home<br />

Ahmed<br />

from pg 1<br />

a Nizamabad (Telangana) born<br />

psychiatrist and an alumnus of<br />

Aligarh <strong>Muslim</strong> University’s<br />

medical college, has been elected<br />

president of West Virginia Board<br />

of Medicine for a two year term.<br />

He was trained in the India, UK,<br />

and the US. He immigrated to the<br />

US in 1976.<br />

Elected a fellow of the American<br />

Psychiatric Association in<br />

1989. He was awarded Distinguished<br />

Life Fellow status, the<br />

association’s highest honor.<br />

Faheem received the Wyeth-<br />

Ayerst Outstanding Community<br />

with our daughter the most,” she<br />

said. “When she first started to<br />

talk, she called him ‘Mama.’”<br />

With their extended family<br />

half a world away, the couple<br />

relied on a part-time baby sitter<br />

and on the understanding of<br />

their colleagues. Shafi, they said,<br />

was especially supportive in encouraging<br />

them to work at home<br />

whenever possible.<br />

Since completing their doctoral<br />

work, life hasn’t slowed<br />

down a lot. This week, the family<br />

is packing and preparing to move.<br />

Nasir smiled: “That’s another<br />

challenge,” she said.<br />

Service Award from the West Virginia<br />

State Medical Association<br />

in 1991 and is a past president of<br />

the Beckley Appalachian Regional<br />

Hospital, the Raleigh County<br />

Medical Society and the West<br />

Virginia Psychiatric Association.<br />

He is also associate medical<br />

director of general psychiatry and<br />

medical director of adolescent<br />

psychiatry at Beckley Appalachian<br />

Regional Hospital, established<br />

a teen outreach program<br />

in Beckley for troubled teenagers<br />

and was the alternate West<br />

Virginia delegate to the AMA for<br />

several year.

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