Passion - Integrity - A Million Dollar - Who is Dr. Naheed Usmani?

Guest: Dr. G. Nahid Usmani

Part 2

Dr. Usmani, a Pakistani-born physician, is dedicated to improving medical education in Pakistan. She said her mother inspired her to pursue a career in medicine. Her mother came from a small town in Pakistan, dreamed of a modern college education and became a member of Pakistan's first class of medical graduates.

Usmani came to the United States after graduating in 1980 from medical school in Pakistan, where she grew up. She had a fellowship at New York's prestigious Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and joined UMass in 1999. "It was the warmest, most inviting place I've ever worked," Usmani said of UMass.

Usmani followed her mother, Amina, a primary care physician, into medicine, and told a story of a girl who was rebellious from a young age, just like her mother. "My mom was a feminist before there were feminists," said Usmani, one of six children. "She raised her daughters to be independent." When Usmani landed in New York, she said she found the United States to be exactly as she wanted it.

She was finally free from objectification of women back at home and able to pursue what she felt was anything she wanted. Her father gave her permission to marry the Harvard student she met only if she first took a qualifying exam for medical school in the U.S. "If someone says I can't do something, I have to do it," she said. For Usmani, she founded the New England chapter of the Association of Physicians of Pakistani Descent of North America.

There are an estimated 18,000 to 20,000 such doctors in the United States, Usmani said, and she will lead them as the president-elect of the national group. Usmani has traveled back to Pakistan on a few occasions to help medical students like her. Those trips could be a reminder of what she left behind, with a bomb blast hitting her hospital once and killing one of her patients.

She said much of her drive professionally comes from wanting to prove herself and her fellow Pakistanis in the years after the Sept. 11 attacks, when they could be looked at more suspiciously. "I needed to establish a professional identity in this country," she said.

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