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  3. Recent Faculty Appointments — March 2021

Recent Faculty Appointments — March 2021

Please join us in welcoming these recent additions to the College of Medicine faculty.

Department of Internal Medicine

Dr. Saira Hassan

Saira Hassan, M.D., has joined the Department of Internal Medicine as an Assistant Professor in the Division of Hematology/Oncology. Dr. Hassan specializes in gastrointestinal and genitourinary cancer. She received her medical degree at the King Edward Medical College in Lahore, Pakistan.

After completing internal medicine residency training at the University of Texas in Houston, she accepted a position as a staff physician at the Veterans Affairs Hospital in Dallas. Dr. Hassan continued her training with a fellowship in hematology/oncology at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston and went on to practice as a locum tenens physician. In 2010, Dr. Hassan began serving as a consultant for hematology/oncology at Shaukat Khanum Cancer Hospital in Lahore, Pakistan.

Department of Neurology

Dr. Taqi Zafar

Taqi Taimur Zafar, M.D., has joined the Department of Neurology as an Assistant Professor in the Adult Epilepsy Program. A fellowship-trained epilepsy specialist, he will see patients in the UAMS Health Epilepsy and Neurology Clinic, the state’s only Adult Level 4 Epilepsy Program.

Dr. Zafar received his medical degree at Shifa College of Medicine in Islamabad, Pakistan. He completed a neurology residency at SUNY Upstate Medical University in Syracuse, N.Y., followed by an epilepsy fellowship at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston.

Posted by Tamara Robinson on March 25, 2021

Filed Under: Faculty Updates

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