Linda Suleiman
American physician
Linda Idris Suleiman is an American physician, Assistant Dean of Medical Education and Director of Diversity and Inclusion at the Feinberg School of Medicine.
Early life and education
Suleiman's parents are from Mogadishu, in Somalia. Her mother was an anaesthesiologist and her father worked for the port authority. Suleiman's mother worked as a physician throughout the civil unrest in Mogadishu. They immigrated to Canada during the Somali Civil War, taking their three children (including Suleiman) and her teenage cousin with them. Suleiman has said that she was inspired to become a physician because of her mother. Her family relocated to Hamilton, Ontario, where her mother's medical degree was not recognised and her parents were forced to do janitorial work. Together they helped to settle refugees who had arrived in Canada. For her undergraduate studies, Suleiman studied neurobiology and physiology at the University of Maryland, College Park. She completed her medical training at Howard University College of Medicine, where she saw pictures of LaSalle D. Leffall Jr.
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