Medical Student Internship Program
Meet Our 2018 Medical Student Interns
Learn more about our interns and read their academic and/or public pieces they worked on this summer.
Naadhira Mahomed
MS3 University of Stellenbosch
Cape Town, South Africa
Naadhira Mahomed is in the penultimate year of her medical studies in Cape Town, South Africa. She has a longstanding interest in the field of bioethics within Islam, and how Islamic laws and practices impact medical trends and findings. She hopes to use this opportunity to learn more about integral concepts of Islamic jurisprudence and to cultivate her academic research skills so that she may make valuable contributions to the existing Islamic bioethical literature pool. Of particular interest to her, is the Islamic attitude towards organ donation and how this translates to transplant statistics, as well as the impact of religious beliefs on healthcare practices and patient outcome.
Nushrah Malik
MS1 Tulane University School of Medicine
New Orleans, Louisiana
Nushrah Malik completed her undergraduate education at Tulane University in 2016, where she majored in Cell & Molecular Biology and Management Consulting. She is currently a first-year MD student at Tulane University School of Medicine. Through this internship, she hopes to learn how to navigate the literature within the field, gain exposure to core concepts in Islamic Bioethics, and acquire a conceptual framework with which to continue her study of the field after this internship. She is particularly interested in how doctors can incorporate Islam into the doctor-patient relationship and how Islam views physicians’ obligations to their patients.
Sadaf Popal
MS1 Touro College of Osteopathic Medicine
New York City, New York
Sadaf Popal completed her Bachelors degree at Hofstra University Honors College, where she majored in biology and minored in Middle Eastern Studies, Arabic, and Chemistry. She was first introduced to the field of bioethics in Islam and Medicine at Hofstra where she developed an independent study course on the subject and researched the Islamic bioethics of IVF. Sadaf is currently a medical student at the Touro College of Osteopathic Medicine in New York. She is grateful for the opportunity to study Islam and Medicine and hopes to delve into researching the perceptions on brain dead patients within the Islamic realm. Sadaf thinks that the increasing medical advances makes the field of Islamic bioethics important for Muslim clinicians and scholars to develop and study.
Anas Qatanani
MS1 Drexel University College of Medicine
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Anas Qatanani received his Bachelor’s degree in Biology and Philosophy from Drexel University, where he conducted immunology research analyzing the effect of spinal cord injury on vaccines. As an incoming medical student at the Drexel University College of Medicine, he will take part in their longitudinal Medical Humanities Program. Anas has also studied Islamic Studies at Manara Institute for the last year and plans to continue part-time. At the Initiative on Islam and Medicine, Anas hopes to gain a better understanding of Islamic and Western standards on bioethics, and to use that perspective as he continues his Islamic and medical studies.