Dr Omar Awale is a general and family physician who graduated from the Ohio State University Family Medicine Residency Program in 2005. He holds Master's in Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine. He received his medical degree from the Ateneo Patavino in Padua, one of the first in the world to exemplify the idea of the Gymnasium Omnium Disciplinarum.
Currently he is practicing in his private clinic in Columbus, Ohio. He is interested in treating chronic diseases and HIV as well as health promotion/health education.
He is commited in improving the health and quality of life of underserved individuals. In 2005 he was awarded the Ohio State University FM Community Service Award in recognition of his foresight, persistence and innovation in caring and helping communities in need.
Dr Awale is a member of the American Medical Association, the American Academy of Family Physicians, the Ohio Academy of Family Physicians, and National Medical Association.
You can contact him at : omarawale@yahoo.com
Dr Mohamud D Afgarshe attended to the School of Medicine & Surgery at the Somali National University in Mogadishu, Somalia. He then joined the Ministry of Health in Somalia where he worked in various capacities.
He obtained a Master's in Publick Health from Prince Leopold Institute of Tropical Medicine in Antwerp, Belgium
He completed his Internal Medicine training at Howard University Hospital in Washington DC and was one of the assistant chief residents.
He has won the Medical Honor Society Award, Alpha Omega Alpha for teaching medical students at Howard University Hospital.
Dr Mohamud D Afgarshe, MD, MPH
Dr Afgarshe joined the International Health Clinic in Sept 2002.
What We Do: Care of adults
Adolescents
Pregnant women
Sadness/Depression
Assistance with billing, transportation
and insurance
How to contact us:
Central appointment line 952 967 7875
Appointment line 651 254 4858
Somali Interpreter Service 651 254 4418
Dr Ahmed Dalmar graduated from Medical Military Academy, St Petersburg, Russia , with honor ( Laurea cum Laude) in 1973. He worked in Central Military Hospital in Mogadishu and Famine Relief Camps in Beer and Ainabo in Northern Somalia, where he was awarded a Silver Medal and Scholarship Merit to study in Italy. He completed his residency in Urology in 1979 at the University of Pisa Medical School, Pisa, Italy.
In 1980s Dr Ahmed Dalmar worked as urologist and surgeon in Central Military Hospital inMogadishu and also as an Assistant Professor in Urology/Nephrology at the Somali National Medical University.
In 1990 Dr. Dalmar took a Preventive Medicine Course at the Academy of Health Science US Army . He also completed a three year post doctoral fellowship in Cardiovascular Medicine and Hypertension at the Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee. He also completed an Intermediate Methods Course at Rollins School of Public Health of Emory University and Center for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta Georgia and later obtained an MS in Epidemiology from Graduate School of Biomedical Science, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. Dr. Dalmar then became a Certified Clinical Research Coordinator from Association of Clinical Research Professionals. He is also a Certified Clinical Trial Investigator
From 1995 to 2003 he worked at the Medical College of Wisconsin as a research volunteer, posdoctoral fellow, Senior Research Associate and partecipated as co investigator, subinvestigator and coordinator in several NIH and pharmaceutical industry sponsored studies.
Dr Ahmed Dalmar was instrumental in the conduct and completion of the study "Cardiovascular Risk Assessment in Somali Immigrants in Minneapolis.
Currently Dr A Dalmar works at Aurora Health Care Inc/ University of Wisconsin Medial School as a Clinical Assistant Professor and Coordinator, clinical research. Certified Clinical Trial Investigator.
Current Research Interests: Epidemiological transitions of Somali Immigrants in USA - Risk assesment of hypertension in blacks and new model of conducting clinical trials.
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Contact Dr Ahmed Dalmar
dalmar@intergate.com
ahmed.dalmar@aurora.org
Dr Ahmed Dalmar,
Dr. Omar Awale, MD
Dr. Mohamed Buwe Osman, MD
Somali Doctors in North America
W H O A R E W E
Dr Mohamud Sheikh Ahmed Mohamed, MD
Dr Mohamed, a Board Certified Physician in Internal Medicine, graduated with honors /Magna Cum Laude from Naples Medical School at the University of Naples (Federico II) in Italy.
He completed his residency in General Internal Medicine at Riverside Methodist Hospital in Columbus, Ohio.
He obtained an award for Outstanding Resident in Ambulatory Care.
Membership:
Member of the American Medical Association.
Member of American Board of Internal Medicine.
Dr Mohamed is currently practicing at Riverside Methodist Hospital as a Staff Physician/Hospitalist.
Dr Mohamed H. Abib is a graduate of the National University of Somalia, Faculty of Medicine in 1980. He completed basic surgery training at Department of Surgery of the National University of Somalia in 1984.
He also completed one year surgical fellowship as an exchange student of Somalia to USA at Tulane University, New Orleans in 1985 - 1986. Additionally he completed an advanced training in plastic surgery at the University of Rome II, Italy in 1990. He successfully completed his residency in Family Practice at the University of New York , Buffalo, NY in 1995.
Currrent positions :
1. primary care doctor/skin surgeon at Ross County Dept of Health, Ohio.
2. Hospitalist, night shifts, VA hospital at Chillicothe, Ohio.
His aspiration: An advanced training in cleft lip/plate in Europe and then estabilish cleft lip/plate clinic somewhere in Somalia.
Dr Mohamed H. Abib, MD
Dr Said O.Ismail is a graduate of the Somali National University, 1984. He completed a Postgraduate Training in Medical microbiolgy at M.Sc Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden - 1988, He earned the title of Ph.D. in Molecular Biology at the University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada - 1995.
He completed Residency in Anatomic Pathology/Clinical Pathology at the University of Cincinnati, Ohio 1999. He had also successfully completed Fellowship at MD Anderson Cancer Center, University of Texas in Houston, 2000.
Dr Said O.Ismail is Board Certified in Anatomic and Clinical Pathology by the American Board of Pathology since 1999. He currently holds a position as a Pathologist and Associate Medical Director for Spectrum Health Cytology Services, Grand Rapids Michigan.
Membership:
American Medical Association
Somali Medical Association
College of American Pathologists
Americal Society of Clinical Pathjolopgy
Michiogan State Medical Society
Kent County Medical society
Areas of Special Interest:
General surgical Pathology(FNA Biopsies), Hematopathology(including bone marrow)
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Dr Said O. Ismail MD, Ph.D.
Dr Hussein Hanfi, MD
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Dr Hussein Hanfi is a graduate of the Somali National University. He successfully completed a post-graduate training in Anesthesiology and Intensive Care at the University of Rome, Italy "La Sapienza" 1990 - 1994.
Dr Hussein Hanfi, relocating to the US, successfully completed his residency in Anesthesiology at Howard University in Washington DC 2000 - 2003. He is American Board Certified in Anesthesiology, 2004.
Presently Dr Hussein Hanfi is working as an attending staff anesthesiologist at Howard University Hospital in Washington DC
Membership & Titles :
Member of American Society of Anesthesiologists.
Member of Virginia Society of Anesthesiologists.
Diplomate of the American Board of Anesthesiology.
Graduate of Kalinin State Medical School in Russia-1979, American Board Certified in Family Medicine with > 20 years of clinical experience in a variety of settings including as the United Nations Physician..... For more info click here
Dr Osman practices full time medicine in Fayetteville area, North Carolina.
To visit his Private Clinic click here
Dr Osman is also the webmaster/artist/
designer of the page. Any question pertinent to this page
These 2 objects are located side by side in the Padua University Museum. I was struck by their similarities and differences. In other words the discoveries came from the Rural Somalia and from the great physicist Galileo Galilei.
Dr Abdulqadir Omar: Graduated from Faculty of Medicine and Surgery, Somalia, in 1980. He is specialized in Community Medicine, with further studies in Public Health.
Dr. A.Omar worked in Somalia as Refugee Camp Medical Officer; Head of Infectious Unit, Forlanini Hospital, and Provincial Primary Health Care Coordinator.
Dr. Omar moved to Canada in 1989, where he worked as Project Coordinator with City of Toronto’s Department of Health, and as Research Assistant in a project sponsored by Health & Welfare Canada, in 1993-1995.
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Dr Abdulqadir Omar, MD
Dr. A. Omar has been working with a number of International Non Governmental Organizations, in the Health sector, since 1997, and has recently completed a mission with World Health Organization, as Emergency Health Coordinator in South Sudan.
Dr Ambaro Guled, graduated from the faculty of Medicine and Surgery of Somali National University in 1984. She workd in Banadir Hospital, Maternity Department (Ob\Gyn), in Mogadishu, from 1984-1987. She went to Romania in 1997 to specilazie in Obstetrics and Gynecology, where she specilazed in OB\Gyn. in 1990. Dr Amabro moved to Canada in 1991. She has been working with Regent Park Community Health Center. in down town Toronto since 1993 to Present as Community Health and Case Manager.
Dr Ambaro Guled, MD
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Education & Training
Dr. Hassan has trained at the Somali National University and the University of Rome “La Sapienza” where he finished a Gastroenterology Fellowship. In addition, he completed a residency program in Internal Medicine and a Gastroenterology Fellowship at Howard University Hospital in Washington DC. He also completed an advanced fellowship in Hepatology and Liver Transplant Medicine at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota.
Dr. Hassan became a faculty member as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Medicine-Gastroenterology Division at the University of Minnesota in 2004. His responsibilities include: Endoscopic Services, in-patient consults, and out-patient clinics.
Board Certification
Internal Medicine, 2000
Gastroenterology, 2003
Membership
Dr. Hassan is currently a member of ACG, AGA, and AASLD. He received the AASLD Schering Hepatology Fellowship Award in 2003-2004.
Research
Dr. Hassan has special interest in viral hepatitis and liver transplant medicine. He is currently establishing a research project on viral hepatitis in minority communities in the Twin Cities area. He has published articles both in international and national medical journals on viral hepatitis and other related topics in Somalia. He also published in the United States on the topic of hepatitis C in sickle cell patients.
Contact Information
Email: hassa042@umn.edu
Address:
Department of Medicine, GI Division
MMC 36
420 Delaware St., SE
Minneapolis, MN 55455
Dr Mohamed Hassan, MD
Assistant Professor, Depart of
Internal Medicine & Gastroenterology
University of Minnesota
Dr. Nadifa Ali graduated from the National University
of Somalia School of Medicine and Surgery. She worked
for two years as a medical director and general
practicioner in Brava Hospital, Somalia. She then
completed one year of pediatric training at Benadir
Hospital.
In 1995, she completed her residency in internal
medicine at Wilson Memorial Hospital in Johnson City,
New York. She passed the American Board of Internal
Medicine in 1996.
Currently, she is working in private practice in
Oneonta, New York with her husband, Dr. Mohamed Egal.
Dr Nadifa Ali, MD
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Dr. Mohamed Egal graduated from the University of
Bologna. He completed three years of internal
medicine residency at Brooklyn Hospital in New York.
Dr. Egal is board certified in geriatrics and internal
medicine.
He was the medical director at Fox Nursing Home for
twenty years. Dr. Egal started a private practice in
Oneonta, New York in 1983, which he continues to this
day with his wife, Dr. Nadifa Ali. He also has a
practice in Otego, New York
Dr Mohamed Egal, MD
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Dr. Ahmed graduated at Somali National University, then completed residency in Internal Medicine at Mogadishu General Hospital where he was a staff physician also also faculty member at Faculty of Medicine and Surgery at Somali National University. After several years at University of Rome 'La Sapienza" as doctorate research student, Dr. Ahmed joined Internal medicine residency at Conemaugh Valley Memorial Hospital/ Temple University Medical School at Johnstown, Pennsylvania. Dr. Ahmed is board certified and recertified in internal medicine and Fellow of American College of Physicians, and currently at University of Minnesota Medical Center, Fairview as a hospitalist, and also an adjunct Assistant Professor at Department of Family Medicine and Community Medicine at University of Minnesota Medical School.
Dr Abdullahi Isse Ahmed, MD, FACP
MD, MS, CCRC, CCTI
Research Scientist, Clinical Research
EDUCATION:
University of Medicine and Dentistry New Jersey
Robert Wood Johnson Medical School
Piscataway, NJ
Degree: Doctor of Medicine 2004
Drexel University
College of Health Sciences
Philadelphia, PA
Degree: Masters in Biological Science
Portland State University
Portland, OR
Degree: Bachelors of Science in Molecular/Microbiology
Dr Deka Jama, MD
POST GRADUATE TRAINING:
University of Minnesota
Minneapolis, MN
Categorical Internal Medicine Residency Program
Currently Dr Deka Jama :
Hospitalist-Internal Medicine
Virginia Hospital Center
Arlington, VA
Dr. Ismail Mualin
Dr Ismail Mualin had successfully completed
The Internal Medicine Residency Program
in Minneapolis, MN
Currently He works as a
Hospitalist-Internal Medicine
Regions Hospital
St. Paul, MN
Dr Ismail Mualin
graduated with honors from the University of Florence, Italy in 2001. He did externship/fellowship at the Karolinsk Institute, Stockholm, Sweden. He was a practicing general physician in Florence, Italy, before coming to the United States. His interest is in primary care medicine and policy/healthcare administration. He is a member of Physicians for National Health Program. He is committed public universal health care for all somalis in the future.
