Mohamud A. Verjee
Dr. Mohamud A. Verjee, BSc(Hons), MBChB, MBA, DRCOG, CCFP, FCFP, is a practicing family physician. He is an Associate Professor of Family Medicine, the Assistant Dean for Medical Student Affairs, and a Co-Director of the Primary Care Clerkship at Weill Cornell Medicine - Qatar. He studied biochemistry and then medicine at the University of Dundee, Scotland. He first taught medical students at Oxford University, England in 1990. Migrating to Canada in 1994, he spent several years in rural practice in Alberta, Canada. Joining the University of Calgary, he established a career in academic medicine and was appointed the Family Medicine Clerkship Director. In 2016, he completed his MBA (Leadership & Sustainability). Now an alumnus of the Harvard Macy Institute in Boston, Massachusetts, he has presented at TEDx. His clinical interests include interprofessional education, communication skills, and narrative medicine. He is a keen musician, learns history from the study of Islamic coins, and still enjoys a game of squash.