APPNA MERIT E-CME ("Electronic Continuing Medical Education") Project is focused on creating and making available web-based online Continuing Medical Education courses.
The E-CME Project is being kicked-off with a pilot program, with courses created by APPNA specialist physicians for general practitioners in Pakistan. The courses created under this pilot will be unveiled at the 32nd Annual Summer Meeting of APPNA, being held in San Francisco from July 1-5, 2009. Based on feedback received from the pilot, the E-CME program will be fine-tuned and readied for general launch.
Dr. Jamal Mubarak, an Aga Khan University graduate, and triple board-certified in Internal Medicine, Pulmonary Disease, and Critical Care Medicine is coordinating APPNA MERIT's E-CME pilot program.
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Instructor: G. Naheed Usmani, MD
Naheed Usmani, MD is Clinical Associate Professor of Pediatrics at University of Massachusetts Medical School. She is triple board certified in Pediatrics, Pediatric Hematology/Oncology, and Hospice and Palliative Medicine. She graduated from King Edward Medical College in 1980, completed Pediatric residency from Mt Zion Hospital, San Francisco and Fellowship in Pediatric Hematology/Oncology from Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center/ New York Hospital Cornell Medical Center, New York. She was part of the original commissioning team at Shaukat Khanum Cancer Hospital, Lahore where she established the Pediatric Oncology program. After her return to the US, she has been working at UMass Medical School, where she is the clinical director of Pediatric Hem/Onc Division, Principal Investigator for UMass/Memorial Children’s Medical Center in the Children's Oncology Group (COG). She also represents UMass in the New England Pediatric Sickle Cell Consortium, and is the treasurer of the New England Pediatric Cancer Survivorship Consortium. She is the Director of Pediatric Palliative Care program at UMass.
For APPNA, she has served on many committees including RESA, Membership, and SWDRC committees. Since its inception in 2007, she has chaired the Medical Education and Research, International Training and Transfer of Technology (MERIT) committee.
She was the founding president of APPNA’s New England Chapter (2003-2006) and led a New England initiative for earthquake relief which included providing medical relief and supplies including ambulance, wheelchairs and medicines to Muzaffarabad, Balakot and Abbottabad. Many departments (Emergency, Obs/Gynecology and Pediatrics) at Ayub Teaching Hospital were reequipped. She remains committed to international research and education outreach endeavors, with particular reference to Hematology and Oncology programs in South Asia and has participated in numerous symposia and workshops all over Pakistan, Bangladesh and India. She participates as a consultant Pediatric Hematologist Oncologist in SWINFEN CHARITABLE TRUST Telemedicine project. |
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