IMAN Commemorates 7th Founding Anniversary with Lecture Series and Medical Student Partnerships

Bismillah ar-Rahman ar-Rahim

By Ahmad ibn Hajiri

MANILA -As part of its 7th Founding Anniversary, the Islamic Medical Association of the Philippines Inc. (IMAN) successfully conducted an event that marked its continuing growth in becoming the leading health organization composed of Muslim Medical Doctors. The founding anniversary and gathering of old and new members was held last November 18, 2014 at Aloha Hotel in Roxas Boulevard, Manila City.

Among those who attended are renowned Muslim Doctors in their fields like Ophthalmologist DOH ARMM Secretary Dr. Kadil Sinolinding Jr who has inspired many members to return and serve Mindanao; IMAN Awardee as Pioneer and Founding President Dr. Abdel Jeffri Abdulla from the UP College of Medicine, Dr. Basil Jajurie of Basilan, Dr. Maaliddin Biruar of National Kidney & Transplant Institute, Colo-rectal Surgeon Dr. Al-Radjid Jamiri from UP-PGH, and other Muslim doctors from around the country. Also present as guests were Congresswoman Bai Sandra Sema, Congresswoman Djalia Hataman, National Commission on Muslim Filipinos (NCMF) Commissioner Yasmin Busran-Lao, IMAN’s very own website host and founder Mr. Moslemen “Jun” Macarambon, Jr. Aspiring soon-to-be Doctors (Medical Students) from various Medical schools in the country are also present in the event and DOH Hijabi and Health Advocate Ms Anna Leah Dipatuan. IMAN also awarded Risale-i-Nur's Nur Factory for donating inspirational books dedicated to patients and physicians themselves through Mr. Olgay Serbetcioglu.

Photo (1st-3rd) Anak Mindanao Partylist Congresswoman Sitti Djalia Turabin-Hataman; NCMF Commissioner Yasmin Lao; IT Specialist Moslemen Macarambon Jr; Masters of Ceremonies: Dr. Zhamir Umag and Ms. Nihaya Casar

To top off the already remarkable gathering of Muslim doctors in one place, a series of Scientific Lectures were also prepared by selected physicians during the meeting. The speakers talked about myriads of new ideas both in the medical field and on Dawah. Indeed the audiences were enthralled to witness the short lectures by fascinating lecturers like Dr. Naheeda D. Mustofa,the first muslim Internist-Clinical Nutrition Specialist Fellow in St. Luke’s Medical Center; Dr. Al-Radjid Jamiri who is an invited Lecturer in Japan after several minimally invasive surgical trainings, Pediatrician Dr. Wendy "Jannah" Valdez who talked about Dawah in Medical Practice; and Dr. Maaliddin Biruar who shared expertise in Chronic Kidney Disease and Philhealth Issues. On the side of Infectious Disease, Dr. Abdul Nasser Maca-alin who is linked with San Lazaro Hospital distributed fliers on the Mers-COV and Ebola virus updates.

Dr. Jannah Valdez, a revert and advocate of New Muslim Care which caters to new reverts in the faith, also supports many sisters through their Hijabi Soul Designs online business

Front row L-R Dr. Al-Jazzer Angas (Surgery Resident, Makati Medical Center- nominee); Dr Basil Jajurie, Dr. Abdel Jeffri Abdulla; (rear) Dr Nelson Laja (Medical Oncology-UP PGH) 

and Dr Muktader Kalbi (Neurologist)

 

The new 2015 IMAN Officers and BODs elected into office were as follows-

President-Dr. Al-Radjid Jamiri; Vice President-Dr. Naheeda Mustofa; Secretary-Dr Zhamir Umag; Treasurer-Dr. Almira Zoraida Fernandez; Other Board Members-Dr. Khasmin Ismael;Dr. Saud Alfaizal Basman;Dr. Maaliddin Biruar;Dr. Abdul Nasser Maca-alin and Dr. Basil Jajurie.

The IMAN has recently held 2 succeeding BOD meetings and will be forming each Committee to involve each Member including medical students. 

Dr. Khasmin Ismael, who is known for her outreach activities since medical school together with Dr. Guiaria Camarudin, Dr. Nadhira Mangondato and many others all took the effort of flying to and fro Manila and Mindanao just to make sure the event successfully takes place. Both of them have been Incorporators since 2007 together with Dr Zhamir Umag who became a Medical Officer and Doctor to the Barrio physician alongside other NGO activities.

The 8-hour event that lasted until the evening of that day was finally concluded with a grand Interactive Dinner banquet and the election of the new sets of IMAN Officers and Board of Directors. Of course, the mandatory photo-ops came in afterwards with the happy faces of all the Muslim Doctors and soon-to-be doctors snapped in a memorial photograph for a wonderful future that lies ahead, in shaa Allah.

Students from Our Lady of Fatima University (OLFU)

Medical students from St. Lukes, Cebu Institute of Medicine, UPCM, De la Salle

IMAN would like to thank all the Organizing Committee Members, Volunteers and Partners in making the 7th IMAN Fouding Anniversary a success! Alhamdulillah! Jazakallahu khairan katheer!

To those who wish to be part of the growing family of IMAN, feel free to email us at imanphil07@gmail.com!

OLFU Muslim Medical Students join IMAN

Quezon City - Our Lady of Fatima University (OLFU) Medical Students were invited to join the committees for the upcoming anniversary to be held in Aloha Hotel next month.

Board Members Dr Al-Radjid Jamiri, Dr. Zhamir Umag and Dr Naheeda Mustofa together with OLFU medical students Madz Vincent Ibrahim, Scherazade Ibno, and Shameem Jailani tackled discussions on IMAN's beginnings, reactivation, and future plans to help medical institutions receive appropriate information on Islamic practices (ie patient's burial, hijab concerns) to assist hospital policies and address needs of muslim patients at an international level.

Invited guest speakers are Cong. Bai Sandra Sema, AMIN's Cong. Djalia Hataman, NCMF Sec Yasmin Busran-Lao, Atty Edilwasif Baddiri, and DOH ARMM Sec Dr Kadil Sinolinding.

Scientific sessions will cover Surgical Cancer and Nutrition, Renal Failure and Dawah. IMAN will also recognize Atty Rasol Mitmug Jr's role as pioneer volunteer legal adviser during the early years and Mr Moslemen Macarambon Jr for his IT assistance in making this webpage existent.

The upcoming 7th IMAN Founding Anniversary is expected to be a progressive step towards mobilizing its practitioners from different fields and medical students from various universities in the hope of elevating the status and spiritual role of muslim physicians in the Philippines, the Bangsamoro, and ASEAN nations, inshaAllah.

IMAN Meets Medical Students in UP Manila

Members of the Board of Directors of the Islamic Medical Association of the Philippines (IMAN) met with a number of Muslim Medical students in University of the Philippines Manila last September 28, 2014. Aside from introducing the organization to the new breeds of future physicians, IMAN also officially invited the students to attend the 7^th Anniversary and General Assembly of IMAN to be held in November this year. The students were encouraged to actively participate in the development of this growing network of professionals in the medical field and future physicians as well. Suggestions and inputs from the students were also heard and more plans on various activities that the organization can possibly do were also proposed. The short dinner meeting ended with a new hope of strengthening the bonds among Muslim doctors from different fields of expertise, different places of origins, and different cultural backgrounds but united with a single ideology and aspiration to better serve the ummah of this generation in sha Allah (God willing).

BOD Dr. Khasmin Ismael shared her insights about IMAN to the students

7th IMAN FOUNDING ANNIVERSARY

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Summer conventions, Celebrating blessings

By Dr. Naheeda Dimacisil-Mustofa

Alhamdulillah, despite each of the members' busy schedules as physicians and specialists, summer conventions will always be a wonderful avenue for reconnecting with Muslim doctors especially in the South.

Dr Mohammed Abedin, a budding Cardiologist at Amai Pakpak Hospital in Lanao has recently expressed much willingness to serve back his community even through small educational activities such as Lay Fora on cardiovascular diseases. With due collaboration, inshaAllah,  IMAN anticipates to join forces in carrying out this Lanao activity. Dr Abedin who is also a Fellow of the Philippine College of Physicians recently completed his subspecialty training in Makati Medical Center.

Subspecialists in Mindanao and the Bangsamoro areas are still lacking, with some areas even depending on well-rounded generalists alone.

Meanwhile, one of the first Pulmonologists in Cotabato, Dr Bai Naida Sinsuat, who also heads the ICU management in Cotabato Regional Hospital is also tasked to train other internists alongside holding positions to accomodate needs in her region. Other Cotabato Internists who attended the 44th PCP Convention included Dr Nor-Aine Kansi, Dr Marcelito Caragay of Sanitarium,  and Dr Nashiba Daud.

Another worth mentioning was the recent inclusion of Zamboanga City Medical Center's representation in the Top 9 PCP-Pfizer Quiz Bee with Dr Shadrina T. Sarapuddin as Team Captain together with colleagues Dr Alex Pang, Dr Sarah Laida Isnani, Dr Christian Cesar Esplana with Coach Jerome Barrera. 

Dr Shadrina Sarapuddin was among those who selflessly attended to the evacuees of the Zamboanga incident which until now remains to be an unsolved problem. Several children have passed away already in evacuation centers and tired attendees remain to be a task for IMAN to look into.

Many others need due commendation, whether in community work like Dr Khasmin Ismael through her co-founded NGO Health Org Mindanao (HOM) and her several affiliations with international health organizations;   Medical student Dr Ahmad Hajiri who just recently conducted a surgical mission with colleagues, busy Residents- and Fellows-in-Training as well as Consultants who are determined to deliver utmost goodwill and Islamic compassion to their patients. 

InshaAllah, may Allah grant you all more IMAN in this life to carry on.

"In the Name of Allah, the Beneficent, the Merciful. By the time! Surely man is in loss, except those who believe and do good and exhort one another to the Truth and exhort one another to Patience" Surah Al-Asr (The Time), Qur'an Chapter 103