September 2020 Edition
Publication of APPNA Communications Committee
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Dr. Masood Akbar
Chair - Scholarship Committee










Dr. Ghulam Qadir
Co Chair 


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Abdul Rashid Piracha, MD, FACC
Chair Advocacy Committee

A total of 209 Pakistani Descent applicants were accepted in different  J-1 or H-1b residency programs.

Unfortunately Corona virus pandemic started around the match time in mid march.The newly matched  applicants faced many challenges. Advocacy Committee contacted the state department ,ECFMG,US Embassy in Pakistan, the Association of Program  Directors. Health  ministry of Pakistan and PMDC.

It gives me great pleasure to let you know that none of the visas got refused this year. 

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APPNA Stories from frontline

Dr. Jamal Nasir

Tribute by:
Habib Khan MD
September 10th, 2020
Phoenix Arizona

"Which one do you have to call me"
In memory of Dr. Jamal Nasir......

The D-87 people have sworn to make them cry. Today Jamal Nasir left. Friends, I could not heal many wounds in the past, so that you also gave me the stains. As far as my memory works, I saw Jamal Nasir for the first time in the debate competition in Habib School.  I don't remember the topic of speech but his blind statement was heart touching.

This introduction in DMC turned into a relationship and got a chance to know Jamal Nasir closely. As it used to be, the first two years of DMC used to pass in shaking. Something like this happened to us. It was the time of student unions and like other extra-curricular activities, the activities of the looterry and debating society were at its peak and Jamal Nasir was not their part, how could it be? In this era of DMC where Umar Nazim (late) Zia Moiz, Jamil Azam Farooqi, Khalilullah Shibli and Syed Raza Muhammad were appointed as a place for himself was a commendable act.



Dr. Scharukh Jalisi
Chief of Otolaryngology- Head and Neck Surgery and Residency Program Director at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center/ Harvard medical school.

Reporting from the COVID Frontlines - My journey as a Covid survivor

It was the beginning of COVID-19 in my institution in late March 2020. We were requesting the system to make it mandatory for all patients undergoing any airway surgery to have a preoperative Covid test but due to the shortage of swabs and tests this request was under consideration. We were maintaining usual mask, face shield, N 95 and gown precautions. I unfortunately got exposed in the operating room while performing a robotic otopharyngeal cancer resection.

At the conclusion of the case the patient had a violent wake up from anesthesia resulting in him vomiting on me and need for me to take a shower. I suspect it was during this act of taking my Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) off that I must have gotten the virus into my nose or mouth.



Dr. Yusuf Khan
By: Tayyib Rana, MD, PCEO, APPNA Lifetime Member
Dr. Yusuf Khan, an American Pakistani Descent Physician who has dedicated his career to primary care in public health clinics and fought his own battle with Covid19.

Dr. Yusuf Khan was born to Pakistani Parents, Dr. Jamal Khan and Mrs. Qamar Khan, in Beckley, WV.  He was subsequently raised in the capital city of Charleston, WV where his father, a King Edward graduate of 1961 and APPNA Lifetime Member, started his own Cardiothoracic surgery practice in 1971.  His father's 33 years of dedication to his patients (second busiest practice in terms of cases behind the Cleveland Clinic in 1997) continue to serve as the backdrop of Yusuf's own genuine care of his patients today.






Real Happinesspoem

Saleem A. Khan, M.D.
9/20/2020

We may live in a nice big house
And wear the best of best dresses
But we may still be unhappy.
We may drive expensive cars
And have big bank balances
That may not bring happiness either.
We all know those rare individuals,
Who do not have much at all
But still they are always happy.
Sooner or later, we start realizing,
We cannot buy happiness in stores
Nor can we order it online.
When we share what we have
And are always willing to help others
That is when we experience real happiness.

academyAPPNA Academy Launched

Welcome to APPNA Academy: We are reaching a big milestone in the history of APPNA MERIT with launching of APPNA Academy, an online comprehensive Learning Management System (LMS) with potential to develop hundreds of online short and long courses, certificate programs and skills workshops for large audience nationally in Pakistan.




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APPNA COVID Efforts
 

APPNA/ICNA Relief mobile clinics continue serving our communities.
On Thursday, September 17th, 2020, APPNA/ICNA Relief mobile clinic free community health fair was organized along with food and home supplies distribution on North Texas Giving day in Dallas, Tx.

APPNA COVID-19 food/ration distribution to Christian families in Pakistan.
On September 10, 2020 APPNA (Association of Physicians of Pakistani descent of North America) in collaboration with URI (United Religions Initiative) Lahore distributed food supplies among 50 Christian families affected by COVID 19 pandemic in Bilal town Lahore.










KEMCAANA: donated a generous amount with matching funds from APPNA under the leadership of Dr. Waseem Aziz to salute and honor our medical profession, essential workers, and ER responders and local front line health care workers. Since May of this year, 2,500 hot meals have been distributed on multiple occasions.




APPNA COVID19 Resources

APPNA President Dr. Naheed Usmani's Message - August 28, 2020
President's Message - August 2020
APPNA President Dr. Naheed Usmani's Message - July 27, 2020
President's Message - July 27, 2020


COVID19
Donation Drive
as of 9/28/2020
Events

APPNA Winter Meeting 2020
Pakistan
December 21-26, 2020


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