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Mohamud Verjee
Associate Professor
Department of Clinical Medicine
Cornell University
USA
Biography
Mohamud A. Verjee is an Associate Professor of Family Medicine in Clinical Medicine at Weill Cornell Medical College in Qatar (WCMC-Q). He is the Director of the Primary Care (Family Medicine) Clerkship. Dr. Verjee graduated BSc (Hons) in Biochemistry and later MBChB from the University of Dundee, Scotland. He started teaching medical students at Oxford University, England in 1990. Moving to Canada in 1994, he practiced rural family medicine and emergency medicine for two years in Newfoundland and Labrador before settling in Alberta, Canada. He joined the University of Calgary as clinical faculty, and became a Certificant (CCFP) of the College of Family Physicians of Canada. He is a former Chief Examiner in Alberta for the Medical Council of Canada. He was appointed as the Director, Family Medicine Clerkship, in 2003 and his link with Calgary continues as an Adjunct Associate Professor of Family Medicine. He joined Cornell University at their branch medical campus, Weill Cornell Medical College in Qatar (WCMC-Q) in 2007, when he took up the inaugural appointment of Director, Primary Care Clerkship. He has gained family medicine recognition for achievement and excellence from the College of Family Physicians of Canada.
Research Interest
My research interests are multidisciplinary and include Inter-Professional Education; Internet accessible resources of medical information available in the Middle East; Patient Centred Care (and the “Medical Home”); vaccinations in preventive care and outcomes of uptake;epidemiology of behavioural attitudes of drivers who have been involved in accidents; epidemiology of back pain and its relationship to anxiety; epidemiology of blindness, and preventative action; Simulation training; Gestational Diabetes; urinary tract infections in pregnancy; patient-doctor opinions of care in a public hospital; thyroid disorders; patient held medical records: and oral health care and relationship to preventable diseases.