BuddiesSpace

My name is Alaa, with pronouns (She/Her/Hers). Founder of Buddies Space (a peer mentorship platform for medical trainees). I am an International physician from Egypt, where I had my first combined psychiatry-neurology training and earned my Master of Science (M.Sc.) degree. I graduated with my child and adolescent psychiatry fellowship at Montefiore Medical Center/Albert Einstein School of Medicine, currently working as a Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist at Emma Pendleton Bradley Hospital, affiliated with Warren Alpert Medical School at Brown University, RI, USA. I love academic psychiatry, being a teacher is part of who I am since high school. My interests evolved during training from Cross-Cultural Psychiatry and impact of immigration on children’s mental wellbeing and their children into using Digital Psychiatry to close the gap between the need for tele-psychiatry services in children and adolescents and the challenges to access technology among underrepresented populations. Website: alaaelnajjar.com

Dr. Ahmed A. Kolkailah is originally from Cairo, Egypt where he earned his Medical Degree Summa Cum Laude at Ain Shams University. He is a current Chief Medical Resident at Cook County Health in Chicago, IL and a rising Cardiology Fellow at UT Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas, TX. He did a Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School prior to starting his residency training and later completed a Master’s Degree in Clinical Research at Rush University Graduate College.

Graduate of Ain Shams School of medicine summa cum laude. Former resident at Department of Neurology, Ain Shams University Hospitals. Graduate of Henry Ford Neurology residency and a future Vascular Neurology fellow at Emory University Hospitals. Why did you join Buddies Space? It is a great opportunity to exchange our experiences aboutresidency and the match process especially for IMGs.