  I'm an ivy league educated psychiatrist and a neuroscientist (MD/PhD) at Columbia University, currently in a postresidency research fellowship and pursuing a career in academic medicine.  I spend most of my time now in a neuroscience laboratory conducting basic science research on mechanisms of learning/memory and neuropsychiatric illnesses.  I also spend several hours a week as a practicing clinician, seeing patients in my own private practice on the Upper West Side of Manhattan.  The remainder of my time is spent supervising and teaching residents and medical students.  My work results in a busy lifestyle but I am passionate about my career and the chance it gives me to serve the ill, contribute to the illumination of new scientific and medical knowledge, and mentor students and training physicians and scientists.  Neuroscience has always been one of my deepest and earliest passions [since I was about 4!] as I come from a background steeped in science and medicine, with both parents being professionals with doctoral degrees.  

My life is guided by Islamic spirituality and I am passionate about exploring it's universal forms and highest expressions, whether through art, music, and other sincere expressions of Divine Beauty. I come from a background infused with tasawwuf (sufism) and am actively engaged on a spiritual path.  I have progressive values, which I strongly feel are consistent with the Tradition.  I don't have a beard, I don't drink, and I don't judge, but I do take compatibility into account.  

Given my hectic lifestyle, I do not have the opportunity to readily meet new, potentially compatible Muslim partners during my professional and day to day activities.  I am divorced as I was briefly married (less than a year) at age 29 to someone from a different religious and cultural background.  Its now been several years since the divorce with no kids and a clean separation. It was an experience that led to considerable growth and quickly taught me a lot about love, commitment, maturity, and the importance of shared values and compatibility in building a lasting relationship.  I am happy to answer any questions you might have about this. 

I am somewhat of an adventurous person: I currently ride a sport motorcycle and I used to box in college.  I love to travel and have fondest memories of Turkey, Morocco, Madagascar, Andalucia, Japan, Moscow [just prior to the collapse of the USSR], and a host of beaches and ocean locales... 

I would love to meet someone who is a good-hearted, intelligent professional, who values the cultivation of spiritual virtues, open-mindedness, confidence, patience, and independence, is radiant inside and out... and definitely has a sharp wit!