Ghulam Mohammad Dastgeer

Background

Dastgeer, Ghulam Mohammad was born on April 27, 1939 in Kabul, Afghanistan. Son of Sofi Ghulam and Zubaida Majida (Tarin) Dastgeer. came to the United States, 1979.

Education

Doctor of Medicine, Kabul U., 1963.

Career

Intern medicine/surgery, Kabul U. Medical School, 1963-1964; general surgeon, Jalalabad, Afghanistan, 1965-1968; resident senior house officer orthopedics, Singleton/Morriston Hospitals, Swansea, Wales, 1970-1973; resident (senior house officer) oncology, Singleton/Morriston Hospitals, Swansea, Wales, 1973-1974; chief resident, registrar general and thoracic surgery, Wales and London, 1974-1977; senior resident surgery, Leicester, England, 1973-1974; chief resident general surgery, Neath General Hospital, Wales, 1974-1977; chief resident thoracic surgery, St. Helier/St. Thomas Hospitals, Surrey and London, 1977-1978; associate professor general surgery, senior registrar, North Middlesex Hospital, London, 1978; staff physician ambulatory care/surgery, VA Medical Center, Springfield/Northampton, Massachusetts, since 1987. Instructor general surgery Nangerhar (Afghanistan) Medical School, 1965-1968. Research.fellow U. College Hospital Medical School Surgical Unit, London, 1969-1970.

Honorary clinical instructor general surgery Neath. General Hospital/Cardiff Medical School, Wales, 1975-1979. Lecturer general surgery Kabul U. Medical School, Afghanistan, 1978-1979;instructor somatic medicine department psychiatry U. Massachusetts Medical Center, Northampton, 1980-1983.

Assistant physician, assistant professor, chief somatic services Harvard/McLean/Northampton Program, 1983-1986. Attending surgeon Military Hospital, Kabul, 1978-1979. Lecturer EMT pre-medical program U. Massachusetts, Amherst, 1985-1990.

Achievements

• Ghulam Mohammad Dastgeer has been listed as a noteworthy Surgeon by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Fellow Royal College Surgeons (Scotland), International College Surgeons, Academy Psychosomatic Medicine. Member American Medical Association (Physician's Recognition award 1983, 86, 89, 92, 95), Royal College Physicians (London, licensiate), Islamic Medical Association, Afghan Physicians Association American (president).

Interests

• Avocations: English and Arabic calligraphy, swimming, collecting inkwells.

Connections

Married Nassrin Sadiqua Saidy, September 1, 1960. Children: Nazifa, Walid A., Afifa, Khalid A.

Father:

Sofi Ghulam Dastgeer

Mother:

Zubaida Majida (Tarin) Dastgeer

Spouse:

Nassrin Sadiqua Saidy

child:

Nazifa Dastgeer

child:

Afifa Dastgeer

child:

Walid A. Dastgeer

child:

Khalid A. Dastgeer