Recently promoted as chair of the Department of Pediatric Medicine at Metropolitan Hospital Center in Manhattan, New York, Dr Mahrukh Bamji’s "responsibilities include the overall administration of the department, supervising the 22 pediatric physicians who take care of patients in the inpatient and outpatient divisions. Other duties include making sure that the Department is in compliance with the numerous regulations of the Department of Health and the other governmental regulatory bodies,” she stated when responding to queries from Parsiana.
Top: Dr Mahrukh Bamji; above: Metropolitan Hospital
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The former director of Pediatric AIDS services at the Metropolitan has "a national reputation in the field of Pediatric HIV infection and has published over a hundred articles in peer-reviewed journals. I was involved in landmark clinical studies which included determining the rate of perinatal transmission and the prevention of mother-to-infant transmission of AIDS,” she related to Parsiana.
Over the years the senior clinician, able administrator, researcher and educator has been a recipient of several grants from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Health Resources and Services Administration and the New York State AIDS Institute. She was the site principal investigator "for over 30 NIH-funded clinical trials... which changed the trajectory of the pediatric AIDS epidemic,” noted a press release shared by Edul Daver, president of the World Zarathushti Chamber of Commerce.
Professor of Clinical Pediatrics at New York Medical College, Board-certified in Pediatrics and in Pediatric Hospital Medicine, Bamji who has received several teaching awards mentioned that at Metropolitan she is "responsible for training the residents during their three years of residency and medical students who rotate through the department.”
Born to Rati and Dadiba Cooper in Bombay, after her graduation from the Grant Medical College with an MD in pediatrics in 1975, Bamji proceeded to the US where she completed her residency in pediatrics. Affiliated with Metropolitan Hospital since 1979, she joined as a junior attending in the Pediatric Outpatient Department and was promoted to deputy chair of pediatrics three years later. In the subsequent years she served as deputy chief of Pediatrics and chief of Pediatrics Inpatient.
Mahrukh’s immediate family is in the medical profession too: husband Dinshaw is the associate chair of the Department of Psychiatry at Jamaica Hospital in New York City, son Neville is a practicing adult gastroenterologist in New York City and daughter Natasha, specializing in pediatric gastroenterology, practices in Westchester.
A regular participant at activities organized by the Zoroastrian Association of Greater New York, Mahrukh maintained, "I am a practicing Zoroastrian and a staunch believer in Ahura Mazda.”