Dear friends, A big thank you to all of you. AMAANA and other alumni groups have reached target of 200K for the second oxygen plant for JNMC. This would not […]
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2020 Fall House of Delegates Meeting
The Annual Fall House of Delegates Meeting will be held on Saturday, October 10, 2020. It will be a virtual meeting.
Doctors share frontline COVID experiences
On October 26th, 2020, Alumni of the Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College (JNMC), Aligarh Muslim University from various parts of India and USA came together to share experiences of fighting Covid-19. This was the third session of the international webinar series on “JNMCites’ Experiences from the COVID frontlines: USA and India” which was organised by Aligs’ Academic Enrichment Programme (AAEP) in association with Aligarh Medical Alumni Association of North America (AMAANA).
International Webinar Series – Session II
The second session on the Experiences of JNMCites from COVID Frontlines was held on October 4th, 2020.
International Webinar Held
The Aligs’ Academic Enrichment Programme (AAEP), in association with the Aligarh Medical Alumni Association of North America (AMAANA) held an international webinar on “JNMCites’ Experiences from the COVID frontlines: US and India”.
#WeStandforAMU
AMAANA Second Resolution An emergency meeting of AMAANA executive committee was held December 22, 2019. Following was resolved: AMAANA will collect funds to support the injured students for their treatment, […]
AMAANA Solidarity Message
AMAANA opposes CAA, police atrocities on silent student protestors and supports national unity On behalf of its members across the United States and Canada, the Aligarh Medical Alumni Association of […]
Dr. Tazeen Beg graduated from the Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College, Aligarh in 1991. After completing Residency in Anesthesiology at JNMC she immigrated to the United States to be with her husband Mirza Irfan A Beg and his family. She joined Stony Brook University Medical Center as a Resident again in Anesthesiology. Because of the fact that ‘who comes to Long Island stays on Long Island’ she stayed on at The Brook! Currently she divides her time between working as an Assistant Professor of Clinical Anesthesiology and the Section Chief of Anesthesia for Endoscopic Procedures and being a mom to two beautiful daughters Tanya and Amber.
Dr. Ananthakrishnan Ramani, >MD, FACP, AAHIVS, is the Chief of Infectious Diseases and Microbiology at Columbia Memorial Hospital, Hudson, NY. He graduated from J. N. Medical College, India in 1979. After completing his residency in Medicine, he joined Kasturba Medical College, Manipal, India. He was professor of Medicine, when he migrated to US. He completed an Internal Medicine residency and an Infectious Diseases Fellowship at Albany Medical Center, Albany, NY in 1997.
Dr. Syed Mohsin Alvi received his MBBS in 1996 from J.N. Medical College, AMU. He served as the General Secretary of the J.N. Medical College Society in 1994 and University Secretary for the Music Club in 1995. Dr. Alvi achieved his MBA in Medical Services Management from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and completed his residency in Internal Medicine at the University of Connecticut . He has experience of working in more than 20 large, small, urban and rural hospitals in North America . He has clinical and clinical trial investigation trainings from renowned hospitals like Johns Hopkins Hospital, Harvard Medical School and Tufts Medical Center. He is currently employed as an academic hospitalist for Vanguard Health Systems and is based at Saint Vincent Hospital located in Worcester, Massachusetts . He holds a faculty appointment at University of Massachusetts Medical School as an Assistant Professor of Medicine and teaches medical students, residents, physician assistants, nurse practitioners evidence based clinical decision making. Dr. Alvi is a founding member of Society of Participatory Medicine and is member of North American Thrombosis Forum, Society of Hospital Medicine, Massachusetts Medical Society, Health Information and Management Systems Society, Institute of Healthcare Improvement, American Society of Addiction Medicine and other national and international healthcare organizations. He is passionate about clinical decision support systems/electronic medical records and serves in Medical Informatics/Computerized Provider Order Entry , Hospital Process and Medicine Performance Improvement Committees.
Dr. Shamsi, MD, PhD, co-founder and principal of RadMD is a radiologist with 25+ years of clinical development experience for drugs and devices.
Dr. Ashraf Khan received his medical (MBBS) degree in 1980 from Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College, AMU, Aligarh, India following which he did 3-year postgraduate training (MD) in Pathology and then joined as a lecturer in Pathology at the same institution in 1983. In 1985 Dr. Khan moved to England where he trained in Histopathology at Lewisham and Guy’s Hospital of the University of London. This training included experience of working at the Hedley Atkins Breast Unit of the Imperial Cancer Research Foundation at Guy’s Hospital under Dr. Rosemary Millis an internationally recognized breast pathologist who inspired him to become interested in breast pathology. After serving as a senior Registrar in Histopathology for 3 years at Guy’s Hospital and passing the MRCPath examination, Dr. Khan migrated to the United States in 1993 to join as a Surgical Pathology Fellow at University of Massachusetts Medical Center (UMMC). This one-year fellowship was followed by his appointment as an Assistant Professor in Pathology at UMMC in 1994, and worked his way up to his present position as Professor of Pathology (since 2005). He is currently the Director of Surgical Pathology and served as Director of Pathology Residency Program from 2001-08 at the University of Massachusetts Medical School. He is actively involved in the UMASS medical center and medical school administrative functions serving on the Faculty Council, Medical School Admissions Committee, Cancer Committee, and Director of Clinical Labs at UMASS’s Hahnemann and Memorial campuses and Quality Assurance Coordinator of the Hospital Tumor Registry among others.
Dr. Sadia Chaghtai, is a graduate of J.N. Medical College and received her MBBS degree in 1996 and Diploma in Ophthalmology in 1998. Sadia is married to Shujaat, also a J.N. Medical College graduate and they reside with their family in Shrewsbury, Massachusetts. 
Dr. Sameer Qamar was born & raised in Aligarh. He got his schooling from Our Lady of Fatima Higher Sec School and joined JNMC in 1986 and graduated in 1992. He then joined postgraduate Diploma in Radiology(DMRD).