OUR TEAM
- Physicians / Medical Providers
Most of the work at the Mariam Clinic is accomplished by volunteers.
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These generous volunteers are the heart and soul of our clinic. They have diverse backgrounds representing various religions, cultures and ethnicity. Many of these volunteers are multilingual, which allows us to effectively communicate with our equally diverse patient population in a more welcoming manner.
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To learn more about joining our team please click on the button below
Dr Waheed Bajwa
Dr. Waheed K. Bajwa is board-certified in adult psychiatry and addiction psychiatry and is certified by the American Society of Clinical Psychopharmacology. He has twenty years of experience in the field of psychiatry. Dr. Bajwa has held academic positions in Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York and Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee. Dr. Bajwa has extensive experience in working with managed care and has special interest in treating mood disorders, depression, bipolar, anxiety disorders, adult ADHD, and dual diagnosis. Dr. Bajwa is local and regional speaker for several pharmaceutical companies. Dr Bajwa coordinates care of his patients with primary care physicians, psychotherapists, inpatient attendance and hospitalist.
Dr Firas Chazli
Dr. Firas Chazli graduated from the Univ De Med Si Farm Carol Davila, Fac De Med, Bucharest, Romania in 1989. He specializes in Internal Medicine. He has been in private practice for 26 Years and is fluent in Arabic and English. Dr Chazli joined the Mariam Clinic in 2009. "I am humbled and it is a honor to be able to help a community that has a medical need which is not met by out current medical system. It is a wonderful and exciting challenge to interact, work and learn about different cultures, I have enjoyed doing this since 2009 with Mariam Clinic".
Tisa Fullwood, N.P.
Tisa Fulwood, N.P.
Julie Cortese NP
Julie has been a Family Nurse Practitioner for 30 years. Her previous jobs include working in Primary Care, Acute Care, Women's Health Care and Occupational Health.
Janet Maran NP
Janet Maran is a Nurse Practitioner who retired from the Veterans Administration in Las Vegas where she treated veterans with mental health problems. She also volunteered there with the Volunteers in Medicine, an organization like Miriam Clinic which helps people who have no insurance. Many of them were immigrants from a variety of countries. She also has experience in primary care and with developmentally disabled people. She is happy to be living these last three years in Durham with her husband. Since joining the Mariam clinic she enjoys providing Primary Care and Mental Health Counseling.
Dr Sameer Maroof
Dr. Sameer Maroof is board certified in Family Medicine and Osteopathic Medicine. He started practicing medicine in 2014. His medical experience includes outpatient Family Medicine, urgent care, inpatient hospital medicine as well as covering the intensive care unit. He was born in Durham, NC and grew up in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. He graduated with highest honors from NC State University and Graduated from Nova Southeastern University School of Medicine, Fort Lauderdale Florida in 2010. He completed his residency in Family Medicine from Long Beach Hospital in Long Island New York. He currently practices as a Hospitalist at UNC Rex Johnston Hospitals. He also serves as a teaching professor in the department of Family Medicine at Campbell University School of Medicine.
Dr Nadeem Modan
Dr, Modan graduated from the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth. He is a Board-Certified Emergency Medicine Specialist.
Dr Shaheda Nasruddin
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Dr. Shaheda Nasruddin, MD
Dr Ayaz Pathan
Born in NY but schooled and raised in the triangle area, Dr. Pathan attended North Carolina State University where he majored in Biochemistry and attended East Carolina University for his combined MD/MBA degree. Dr. Pathan went on to Emory University in Atlanta to train in Emergency Medicine and came back in 2008 to practice locally. He has been a key addition to the Mariam Clinic since 2011. His passion for helping those in need and mentoring the young volunteers has made him a wonderful addition to our staff.
Dr. Akef Rahman
Akef Rahman was born and raised in the triangle area and is currently practicing Emergency Medicine. He graduated from UNC-Chapel Hill and attended medical school at Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia, PA. He trained as an Emergency Physician at East Carolina University and practiced briefly in the Charlotte area before moving back to Cary in 2016. He enjoys spending time with family and friends and staying active.
Dr Ghulam Shaikh
Dr. Shaikh completed medical school at Sind Medical College, Karachi, and finished his residency training at New York Methodist Hospital, University of Cornell, NY in 1995. In 2009, he received a Master of Health and Science and Clinical Leadership from Duke University. He is a Board Certified Internist, and has been practicing medicine in NC since 1995. He started his own private medical practice, Shaikh Medical Clinic in year 2000 in Garner, NC. Presently he has admitting privileges at Wake Med, Raleigh and Johnston Hospital of Smithfield and Clayton, NC. He has been serving as a volunteer physician at Mariam Clinic since its inception in 2007, and has also served as a Medical Director, Mariam Clinic. Dr. Shaikh is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians and the American Academy of Cardiology. He is an adjunct clinical faculty member at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and teaches Nurse Practitioner and PA students from UNC-CH.