Sohaila Cheema, MBBS, MPH, CPH, Dip IBLM
Sohaila Cheema is the Assistant Dean for the Institute for Population Health (IPH) and Associate Professor of Clinical Population Health Sciences at Weill Cornell Medicine-Qatar (WCM-Q). She actively participates in the oversight and implementation of IPH education, research, and community programs. Committed to improving the quality of education, Dr. Cheema takes pride in teaching public health and related disciplines to premedical and medical students and community medicine residents. She also co-directs the pre-medical course, Health and Disease: A Global Perspective, and serves as the Associate Director for the Health Care and Public Health Clerkship. She also co-directs the pre-medical course, Health and Disease: A Global Perspective, and serves as the Associate Director for the Health Care and Public Health Clerkship.
Dr. Cheema serves as faculty and course director for several continuous professional development/continuous medical education activities for building capacity in healthcare professionals, notably the Certificate in Lifestyle Medicine and Understanding Basics of Health Research. She is co-founder of the Lifestyle Medicine Interest Group-Qatar and collaborates with private and government institutions to promote health awareness, disease prevention, and self-care in Qatar and the region. She serves or has served on many Qatar government/medical school committees. Her research interests are multidisciplinary and include the non-communicable disease paradigm, migrant health, road traffic crashes and injuries, lifestyle medicine, public health aspects of the COVID-19 pandemic, and contemporary healthcare and population health issues.
Dr. Cheema received her medical degree from Dow Medical College, Pakistan and completed her Fellowship in Integrative Medicine at the Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine, University of Arizona, USA. She received her Master of Public Health from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, USA and is Certified in Public Health by the National Board of Public Health Examiners, USA. She is a diplomate of the International Board of Lifestyle Medicine and is a certified lifestyle medicine physician.