Our Board

• Founding member of IMANA 1967 in Columbus,Ohio.
• First to join NIIMS as a member and treasurer of both NIIMS and IIIM. Past president of IMANA.
• Member of founders committee of ISNA from its inception.
• Past president of AFMI.
• Founding member and president of MVIA.1975.
• Past president of Clark County medical Association.
• Founding president and director of cardiology community hospital 1973.
  founding president of Clark and Champaign county cardiology
  Corporate chairman of NWSC ( Muslim college).
• Founder and president of Taj Foundation (a nonprofit educational foundation)

Dr. Aasim I. Padela is Professor with Tenure of Emergency Medicine, Bioethics and the Medical Humanities at MCW. In addition to being Vice Chair for Research and Scholarship in the Department of Emergency Medicine, he co-leads the Community Engagement Core for the Comprehensive Injury Center, serves on the Council of Faith for the Clinical and Translational Science Institute at MCW, and holds a faculty appointment in the Center for Bioethics and Medical Humanities in the Institute for Health and Equity. Dr. Padela is an internationally renowned clinician-researcher with scholarly foci at the intersections of healthcare, bioethics, and religion. In addition to maintaining an active clinical, research, and bioethics practice at MCW, he provides public health and bioethics consultation to international organizations, legislative bodies, and in court.
Dr. Padela is an internationally-recognized thought and research leader, as well as a widely-sought after lecturer, in the fields of Muslim health and healthcare disparity research, and Islamic bioethics.

Naim is the founder & CEO of Hema-Q, Inc., a biomedical start-up company, is a technical expert in the medical ultrasonic core sensing field. He personally holds thirty patents in the fields of biomedical and clinical diagnostic critical parameters sensing systems and has published numerous articles in medical & industrial automation journals. Naim holds a masters degree in electrical engineering from Purdue University. Naim is very active in the Muslim community of Long Island, New York and has served as a permanent board member of the Islamic Center of Long Island (ICLI) for over sixteen years. Presently he is involved with the Muslim Youth Foundation, whose aim is to unleash the potential of Muslim youth by cultivating and empowering them to further their contributions to the community. He also helps Muslim entrepreneurs by providing them guidance and seed money to help them start their ventures.
Naim’s interest in Islamic treasures began in 1989 when he met an Antique Dealer who was a scholar in Islamic history and calligraphy. This meeting kindled Naim’s interest in Islamic history, culture and calligraphy. Naim became an avid collector of rare and antique Qurans over the past 30 years and he will be presenting a portion of his collection of antique Qurans and Quranic manuscripts today.

Specialist in Orthopedic Surgery and the History of Medicine – Aleppo University

Alia Hirzalla is the Executive Director at the Institute of Islamic Medicine Art and Culture (IIMAC). Alia served as the Principal at Mohammed Webb Youth Sunday Program and Al-furqaan Saturday school. She served as a MAS pace leader. She has taught the history of calligraphy in Islam at the University of Illinois, the University of Chicago, and the Illinois Institute of Technology. She has a Bachelor’s degree in interdisciplinary studies and a Master’s in community counseling and a second Master’s in Theology with a concentration in Islamic history.