JOHNSTOWN, Pa. – Dr. Saba Waseem, an interior medicine specializer astatine Conemaugh Memorial Medical Center, has received a authorities grant for her enactment for women successful medicine.
The American College of Physicians’ Pennsylvania section recognized Waseem with its Dr. Ann Preston Women successful Medicine Award for the occidental region.
The grant is named aft Ann Preston (1813-1872), who was successful the archetypal people enrolled successful the erstwhile Female Medical College of Pennsylvania successful 1850. She went connected to make a schoolhouse of nursing, and she was named the archetypal pistillate dean of the Woman’s Medical College of Pennsylvani successful 1866.
Waseem said she is honored to person the award, which recognizes accomplishments and dedication to fostering tomorrow’s women leaders successful medicine.
A postgraduate of Dow Medical College successful Karachi, Pakistan, Waseem serves arsenic manager of Conemaugh’s interior medicine residency program.
She says she acceptable 2 goals erstwhile she began practicing medicine 20 years ago: To enactment with superior attraction clinics treating patients and to beryllium an pedagogue of physicians and aesculapian professionals.
“I’ve trained a batch of residents implicit the past 11 years,” Waseem said.
Completing the Conemaugh residency allows doctors who graduated from aesculapian schools extracurricular the United States to suffice for aesculapian licenses present and specialize successful interior medicine.
Graduates of the programme person gone connected to palmy careers and enactment positions astatine Conemaugh and different hospitals, Waseem said.
In addition, the programme and its graduates lend to aesculapian probe by identifying patients whose circumstantial conditions are invaluable for study.
Those patients’ captious statistic and aesculapian accusation tin beryllium shared anonymously with researchers tracking the conditions.
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