Pediatric Consultant Medical Oversight
Fulbright Scholar,freelance journalist and Texas Children’s Hospital physician. Seema did her post-doctoral training in pediatrics at Baylor College of Medicine.
Seema was selected by the US Department of State as a 2016 Fulbright Scholar to Istanbul where she taught medical students including Syrian refugees how to engage in media advocacy as a physician.She was a flight physician for medical evacuation flights for Texas Children’s and has concentrated on working in areas of conflict.She has done humanitarian aid work in Afghanistan,Iraq,Pakistan,Egypt,Lebanon,the Gaza Strip, the West Bank,Sudan,Bosnia and Nepal. Her media work has been published in The New York Times,BBC News,The Washington Post and other media outlets. She has written about health care challenges for children in the USA,immigrant healthcare and was selected as a Truman National Security Fellow in Washington,DC. She speaks at least 4 languages. The team are indebted to Seema and her family who continue to help guide us in the region, despite the bombing in Beirut last year, which led to Seema and family returning to the US. Her skill as a humanitarian, mother, doctor and healer was tested and as ever she shines. We are indebted to her always.
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