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February 15, 2009
Dr. Faiz Khan |
Dr. Faiz Khan is a medical doctor who
practices and holds dual board
specialization in two of the broadest
fi elds
within modern medicine – Emergency and
Internal medicine. He is Vice
Chairman / Head of Academic Affairs of
Emergency Medicine at Nassau University
Medical Center, and holds professorships
in both specialties. His areas of
expertise include diagnostic reasoning and
epistemology, critical care, and medical
ethics, and serves as chairman of the
medical ethics committee. He has
been the recipient of professional
leadership and teaching awards.
See Dr. Faiz Khan's articles
Date: Sunday Feb. 19, 2009
Time: 4 to 6 PM
Place:
St. Lawrence of Canterbury 655 Old Country
Road (off Dear Park Ave.)
Dix Hills, NY 11746
Tel: 631-793-9928
Click for
direction.
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Please join us to
welcome our guest speaker:
Dr. Faiz Khan
Dr. Faiz Khan
is a medical doctor who practices and holds dual board
specialization in two of the broadest fields within modern
medicine – Emergency and Internal medicine. He is Vice
Chairman / Head of Academic Affairs of Emergency Medicine at
Nassau University Medical Center, and holds professorships in
both specialties. His areas of expertise include diagnostic
reasoning and epistemology, critical care, and medical ethics,
and serves as chairman of the medical ethics committee. He
has been the recipient of professional leadership and teaching
awards.
Immigrating as an
infant with his parents, Dr. Khan has been in the US since 1969
– and was part of the handful of families who founded the
Islamic Center of Long Island. He received his early Islamic
education there, and went on to found the Muslim Students
Association at Union College and Albany Medical College in
upstate NY. He traveled extensively to deepen his understanding
of Islam, spending time in Morocco, Tunisia, Turkey, Syria,
Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, India, Iraq, the UK and the United
States. He was a founding member and on the board of directors
of the American Sufi Muslim Association and has also served on
the board of directors of the Islamic Center of Long Island.
Dr. Khan is a
khateeb (imam of Friday services) and conducted Friday prayers
for 7 years at the Al-Farah Mosque in TriBeca, Manhattan,
which was founded in the 1970s by Sheikh-ul-Tasawwuf (Sufi
master) Muzaffer Ozak of the Jerrahi Order in Turkey. He
continues to conduct prayers at the Islamic Center of Long
Island and other NY area mosques.
Dr. Khan has both
lectured and authored a variety of works on topics covering
medical practice, medical humanities, religious doctrine,
spirituality, current events, and poetry. He has been cited in
periodicals, newspapers, and has been featured on radio and
television both nationally and internationally.
Dr. Khan lives on
Long Island with his wife and two daughters.
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