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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.