Assalamualikum! 

I’m Fatima. I’m the the youngest of five girls and have two little brothers. I was born in Pakistan but moved to California when I was 6 years old. Alhumdulilah I grew up with a close knit working class family. Our parents are our rocks and pillars of our faith and family.  I stayed close to home for undergrad and medical school. For residency, I moved across the country and on my own for the first time! Those four years were full of intense highs and lows and lottttttts of growth. Now, I'm back home in California with my first attending job and adjusting.  I’ve come to find that aH I still love what I do. I also love to be outdoors whether it’s going for a run/hike/kayak. And like most of my generation, I love to travel, especially meaningful travel like when I can pair it with service like the month in Ethiopia I spent back in 2019.