AKU-NAMA - Aga Khan University

Class Noteschildren: Fareeha 9 years old,Zeeshan 6 years old, and Zaara 9months old.Sohail Ahmed Usman recentlyfinished his Nephrologyfellowship from IndianaUniversity and joined a group atMethodist Hospital inIndianapolis. He is married andhas two daughters, Zubia 7 andLeena 4.Faiz Bhora is a Thoracic Surgeonat St. Luke’s-Roosevelt HospitalCenter in New York City. He isan Assistant Professor of ClinicalSurgery at Columbia UniversityCollege of Physicians andSurgeons. Faiz did a generalsurgery residency at GeorgeWashington University MedicalCenter and cardiothoracicresidency and fellowships atUCLA and the University ofPennsylvania. Faiz is married toNaveen who is an immigrationattorney. They recently met upwith Mubina Gaffar and herhusband Najeeb Sherwani,Nadeem Haq and his wifeAyesha, Monira Kundi (formerlyHamid) and her husband AzamKundi. Faiz, Adeel Butt andHiba Arif organised an AKUalumni reunion in New York lastAugust, which was attended bywell over 40 alumni.Adnan Siddiqui, is an AssistantProfessor of Neurosurgery andRadiology at University at Buffalo,New York. Adnan did a PhD inNeuroscience from University ofRochester, New York, then aResidency in Neurosurgery atUpstate Medical University inSyracuse, New York, followed bya Fellowship in Neurovascularsurgery, InterventionalNeuroradiology and NeurocriticalCare from Thomas JeffersonUniversity in Philadelphia, PA.Adnan has been happily marriedfor nine years to Josephine andtheir children are Fatima Francesca8 years, Mohamed Giovanni 6years and Hasan Felice 6 weeks.1993Imran N. Chaudhary is anAssistant Professor of Medicine26and Cardiology at the Universityof Rochester School of Medicineand Dentistry. He lives inRochester, NY with wife Faizaand two daughters, Sahar andSarah.Adnan Bhutta and IramBakhtawar are married and livein Little Rock, Arkansas with theirbeautiful kids. Adnan is aPaediatric Intensivist. His currentpositions are Assistant Professorof Paediatrics at the University ofArkansas for Medical Sciences(UAMS), and Director of theCVICU at Arkansas Children’sHospital. Iram is a Pulmonologistand Intensivist. She also has aMaster’s degree in Public Health.She is currently the Section Chiefof the Tuberculosis Program-Arkansas Department of Healthand an Assistant Professor ofMedicine at UAMS.Maliha Zahid wrote, “Just writingto give some news about myselfand Asif Khalid, both (Class of1993). We got married in May1995 and have been married 12.5years. We have two boys aged 9and 6 years, Emmad and Aman.Asif is an academicgastroenterologist, AssistantProfessor of Medicine at theUniversity of Pittsburgh withexpertise in EUS, and is the Chiefof GI division at the VA. He justpublished the AmericanGastroenterology Association'sguidelines for management ofpancreatic cysts. I am a noninvasivecardiologist and work inpart-time private practice. The restof the time I am working on myPhD in human genetics in theDepartment of Molecular Geneticsand Biochemistry at the Universityof Pittsburgh”.Khaver Kirmani finished aNeonatology Fellowship fromWomen and Children's Hospitalof Buffalo, NY. He recently joineda Neonatal group in privatepractice in Phoenix, AZ.He married Tazeen in 2000 andthey have a three-year-olddaughter named Shanze.1994Asad Ansari and Adeela Alizai(class of ‘95) are married and havethree daughters. Asad is currentlyfinishing a paediatric pulmonaryfellowship at University ofAlabama at Birmingham.Shema Ahmad is anEndocrinologist and is married toan Internist named TauqeerYousuf. Both of them are currentlyworking in a private hospital inJackson, Mississippi. They havetwo boys named Zaed, 9, andHasan, 4.Khalid Matin writes, “ASAKclassmates and alumni. I amcurrently a medical oncologist inprivate practice in Alabama. I amhappily married and have two kidswho keep us entertained and busy.I had the pleasure of attending therecent AKU convocation and gotgoose bumps when the graduatesread the oath. Hope you all aredoing well, keep in touch.”1995Adeela M. Alizai married AsadAnsari (Class of 1994) in Marchof 2002. They have three young