Dr. M Taruj Ali is from the 1990 Batch of DCMS. He is board certified in Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine as well as Sleep Medicine.  He is the Medical Director of the Sleep Lab at Pulmonary Associates of Richmond.  Dr. Ali also practices at Henrico Doctors Hospital. He is married to Dilshad Ali and they have three children. Taruj likes traveling, biking, nature, swimming, cricket, and spending time with family and friends.

Location: Richmond, VA 
Medical Education: Deccan College of Medical Sciences Hyderabad, India
Residency: St. Luke’s Roosevelt Hospital Center – Columbia University
Fellowship: St. Luke’s Roosevelt Hospital Center – Columbia University
Board Certifications: Diplomate, American Board of Sleep Medicine American Board of Internal Medicine – Internal Medicine, Pulmonary/Critical Care Medicine, and Sleep Medicine
Affiliations:
American Medical Association
Richmond Academy of Medicine
American Thoracic Society
American College of Chest Physicians
American Academy of Sleep Medicine
Medical Society of Virginia
Society of Critical Care Medicine
American Association of Physicians of Indian Origin (life member)
Fellowship: Medical College of Wisconsin Affiliated Hospitals
Board Certifications: American Board of Internal Medicine, Pulmonary Diseases and Sleep Medicine
Affiliations: American Medical Association, American College of Chest Physicians, American Academy of Sleep Medicine.

Dr. Shaista Safder is an alumnus of the 1995 batch of DCMS. She has lived in the United States since 2001.
Dr. Safder MD FAAP, serves as Director of the Pediatric GI Motility Laboratory and Director of the Healthy Lifestyle Program at the Center for Digestive Health and Nutrition at the Arnold Palmer Hospital in Orlando, Florida. She is also a Clinical Assistant Professor at the University of Florida College of Medicine Department of Pediatrics, Florida State University, and the University of Central Florida College of Medicine, as well as a Pediatric Gastroenterology Attending at the Center for Digestive Health and Nutrition. She currently serves as the chair of the pediatric obesity committee with the Florida chapter of the American Academy of Pediatrics.  Her research interests include motility disorders, allergic gastro enteropathies, defecation disorders, obesity medicine, and medical education.
 
She and her husband call Florida home and are enjoying raising their two kids in the Sunny state. She loves to travel, have good food, and time spent with loved ones. Her faith and her family ground her and impact every decision she makes. She hopes to serve in her role on the Board of Directors with humility, honesty, and humanity.

Location: Florida, USA
Medical Education: Deccan College of Medical Sciences in Hyderabad, India
Residency: Pediatrics – Marshall University in Huntington, West Virginia -Chief Resident
Fellowship: Pediatric Gastroenterology, hepatology, and nutrition at Rainbow Babies and Children’s Hospital at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio.
Board Certifications: American Board of Pediatrics, Pediatric gastroenterology, and Diplomate of the American board of obesity medicine.

Dr. Mohammed Shakeel Ur Rehman, MD

Current Position: 
Director, Hospital Medicine Prime Physicians
5808 Callaway Lane Fort Smith, AR 72916

Graduate Training:
7/2004 – 6/2007 University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS) 4301 W.Markham St. Little Rock, AR 7220
Licensure: Arkansas State Medical Board.
Education:
07/2004 – 06/2007 the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS)
4301 W.Markham St. Little Rock, AR. 6/2007
10 / 1993 – 05 / 1998  Deccan College of Medical Sciences. Hyderabad, India.
Bachelor of Medicine & Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS), 11 / 1999 
07 / 1991 – 06 / 1993  St. Alphonsa’s Junior College. Hyderabad, India.
Major: Botany, Zoology, and Physics & Chemistry.
Board of Intermediate Education (B.I.E), 06 / 1993 

Memberships in Honorary/Professional Societies:
Member of the American Medical Association (AMA),
Member of the Society of Hospital Medicine (SHM)
Member of Western Arkansas River Valley Medical Reserve Corps (WARVMRC),

Volunteer Experience:
09/1/2005 – 10/4/2005 – Fort Chaffee Hurricane Katrina Evacuee Care
Volunteer Physician
Worked as a volunteer physician at the medical clinic for Katrina evacuees organized by Western Arkansas River Valley Medical Reserve Corps (WARVMRC), Fort Chaffee, Arkansas.

Dr.Altaf Aman is a Hospitalist at Swedish American Hospital in Rockford, IL & at Northwestern Medicine in Huntley, IL. He’s based out of Chicago, IL.
After finishing medical school in DCMS, he did an internship in general surgery at Graduate Hospital in Philadelphia and then FM residency at the LSU in Shreveport Monroe Program and has been a Hospitalist since then at different hospitals.

Dr.Aman volunteers at the Hayat Clinic for the underprivileged in the Chicago area and has been on a medical mission overseas to help the Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh. He has been on the mentorship committee associated with DAANA and has held the position of chair for the mentorship program.

He’s among the Editors of the medical school magazine, Odyssey, whose second Edition was published in 2018 at the mega union in Chicago. He held an exhibition of his photographs taken from his phone in Hyderabad and raised close to 1.8 lacs which was donated to DAANA to be used for charitable causes.

Dr.Aman loves to hold events and was part of the DAANA Global Mega Reunion in Chicago in 2018 and the DAANA Chicago get-together in 2021.

Dr.Aman is an active member of SHM ( Society of Hospital Medicine ) and the AMA ( American Medical Association) In his free time, he loves to travel and is passionate about it and leaves no opportunity in taking pictures from his I phone.