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, rehabilitation and their personal loss. We are appealing all AMAANA members to donate generously. Our goal is $20000 and up. You can donate via PayPal on AMAANA website or send a check for AMAANA to the treasurer Mohsin Alvi’s at 24 Grand Hill Drive, Dover, MA, 02030. We are pledging at least $10,000 to the student who lost his arm.
- The reports of police brutality and excesses are gut wrenching and ex-tremely disturbing that students of our alma mater went through this havoc for exercising their democratic right to protest. On behalf of all AMAANA members, we implore the university authorities viz. Vice Chancellor, Chancellor, Executive Council, University Court to exercise their collective power to bring the perpetrators to justice and criminal prosecution.
- We urge the university authorities that right to protest and freedom of speech must be upheld and to recreate safe environment for students to exercise their democratic rights.
- The university must provide unconditional legal support to the students to pursue ‘their cases in the court of law individually and collectively (if they so desire). No innocent student should be prosecuted 0r perse-, cuted for his/her right to protest against u~constitutional CAA or any other just cause.
- We appeal to all AMAA-NA members to stay united in our endeavor to support the harmed students and to bring all culprits to justice. A united front is critical at this juncture to be most effective. Our goal should be to help the affected students and put pressure on the university administration that something like this does not happen again and the affected students get the appropriate help that they need. We should refrain from negative statements from the AMAANA group against anyone at this very sensitive and trying times and trust that the AMAANA EC is with you to do whatever is needed to help the students of AMU.
UNITED WE STAND
Kohkan Shamsi, MD, PhD
President, AMAANA
#WeStandforAMU
Dr. Shamsi, MD, PhD, co-founder and principal of RadMD is a radiologist with 25+ years of clinical development experience for drugs and devices.
JNMC Year of Graduation: MBBS 1991, MS (General Surgery) 2001
JNMC Year of Graduation: MBBS 1990, MD (Pediatrics) 1993. Won 3 Gold Medals and President of India’s Silver Medal during MBBS.
JNMC Year of Graduation: MBBS 1976, MD (Medicine)1980
JNMC Year of Graduation: MBBS 1992, MD Radiology (1992-95, did not finish, moved to US)
JNMC Year of Graduation: MBBS 1995
JNMC Year of Graduation: MBBS 1996
JNMC Year of Graduation: MBBS 2002, MD (Radiology) 2007
JNMC Year of Graduation: MBBS 2005, MD (Pathology) 2008
JNMC Year of Graduation: MBBS 1991, MD (Anesthesiology) 1994.
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.