Farzana Rashid Hossain, MD (maiden name, Farzana Rashid, MD) is an Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine and a Gastroenterologist at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Farzana Rashid Hossain holds additional roles with Penn Medicine:
- Director of Quality Improvement, Penn Medicine at Radnor
- Faculty for the Urogynecology Fellowship, Urogynecology Division, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
- EPIC Governance Committee member representing Penn Medicine at Radnor
She was appointed to the First Philadelphia Commission for Women to help on issues of importance to Philadelphia’s women and girls. She is a member of the medical advisory committee for the local chapter of the Crohn’s & Colitis Foundation of America and is on the board of trustees of the Self-Freedom Foundation, a non-profit charitable organization that funds high impact projects in the areas of education, critical healthcare, and special situations that directly benefit underprivileged women and children in developing countries.
Rashid Hossain earned her medical degree at the University of Sheffield in England. She completed her internal medicine and pediatrics residency at MetroHealth Medical Center, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine and her gastroenterology fellowship at the University of Missouri-Columbia School of Medicine. She also completed a rotation in inflammatory bowel disease at Harvard University.
Twitter: @fr_hossain
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/frhossain
Clinical expertise as a woman gastroenterology physician
- Crohn’s Disease.
- Ulcerative Colitis.
- Transitional Care for adolescents to adulthood.
- Inflammatory Bowel Diseases (IBD)
- Endoscopy and GI Diagnosis
- and other clinical expertise(https://www.pennmedicine.org/providers/profile/farzana-rashid)
Co-author with Octavia Pickett-Blakely, MD, MHS and Laura Uwakwe, MD: Obesity in Women GI Clinics of North America : 2015.
Rashid, Farzana and Lichtenstein, Gary.: Chapter in Book: Novel Treatments in Ulcerative Colitis Medical Therapy of Ulcerative Colitis : 2014.
http://www.chop.edu/service/gastroenterology-hepatology-and-nutrition/transition/: CHOP-Penn Transition Education Videohttp://www.chop.edu/service/gastroenterology-hepatology-and-nutrition/transition/ : 2011.
Rashid F, Bechtold M, Puli S, Bragg J.: Utility of IBD serology tests: Experience at a Midwest Academic Center. Am J Gastroenterol. 104 (S3): S465,2009.
M.L. Bechtold, N.M. Szary, F. Rashid, T.W. Kilgore, S.R. Puli, A. Diaz-Arias, M.R. Antillon: Delayed Colonic Perforation after ESD in a Patient with Ulcerative Colitis: A Case Report and Review of the Literature. The Internet Journal of Gastroenterology. 8 (2): 2009.
Praveen K. Roy, Jing Chen, Farzana Rashid, Suzanne Ridenhour, Jamal A. Ibdah:Mechanism of Interferon-Gamma Induced Increase in Intestinal Epithelial Tight Junction Permeability: Role of JNK Pathway and Cross-Talk with the PI-3 Kinase PathwayGastroenterology 134 (Issue 4, Supplement 1): A36,2008.
Roy PK, Rashid F, Bragg JD, Ibdah JA.: Role of the JNK signal transduction pathway in inflammatory bowel disease. World J Gastroenterol 2008 January 2008; 14: 200-202. 14 : 200-202,2008.
D S Sanders, D P Hurlstone, R O Stokes, F Rashid, A Milford-Ward, M Hadjivassiliou, A J Lobo: Changing face of adult coeliac disease: experience of a single university hospital in South Yorkshire Postgrad Med J 78 (915): 31-33,2002.
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Farzana Rashid Hossain, MD 