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Faisal H. Cheema

Dr. Faisal H. Cheema is the Director of Research and Innovations for Division of Cardiothoracic Transplantation and Circulatory Support in Michael E. DeBakey Department of Surgery at Baylor College of Medicine, Texas Heart Institute and CHI St. Luke's Baylor Medical Center, Houston, TX.

Dr. Faisal H. Cheema hails from Pakistan. Belonging to the rural areas of Wazirabad and Hafizabad, he got his education from Crescent Model School and Government College, Lahore before moving to Karachi to attend his medical school at Aga Khan University. After graduation, he moved to USA and further trained and worked at Columbia University (NY), Loyola University (IL), Johns Hopkins University (MD), University of Maryland (MD) and University of California Berkley (CA). He is currently a faculty member at Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Heart Institute in Houston, TX. He has served as Senator for the Ivy-League Columbia University and is involved with several professional, academic, community and philanthropic organizations. Dr. Cheema’s passionate and selfless work for young physicians culminated in establishment of Committee for Young Physicians within Association of Physicians of Pakistani-descent of North America (APPNA), on which he served for more than a decade that included chairing it. He has helped hundreds of students in their search for residencies and or advancing their medical careers in USA. He loves to mentor medical students and young physicians. Ever since he left his motherland, he continues to collaborate with various institutions in Pakistan (Aga Khan University, Punjab Institute of Cardiology, Armed Forces Institute of Cardiology, National University of Medical Sciences (NUMS), Shifa College of Medicine and others) and guides students from medical schools all across Pakistan. Dr. Cheema has published more than 110 scientific manuscripts in high impact journals. In due course of time, through strategic partnerships among academic, corporate, governmental and philanthropic institutions, Dr. Cheema’s mission is to make heart and lung transplant and artificial devices for end-stage heart failure and lung disease a reality in Pakistan. He also aspires to develop a national organ donation and allocation system for Pakistan. Dr. Cheema is the Life Member of Khwarzimi Science Society (KSS), Aga Khan University Alumni Association of North America (AKUAANA) and Association of Physicians of Pakistani-Descent of North America (APPNA). Dr. Faisal H. Cheema and his colleague Dr. Jeffrey A. Morgan have been awarded $4 Million in funding from Brockman Medical Research Foundation to lead cutting edge research on heart transplantation.