Humayun Chaudhry - Medical Educator

Medical Educator

Following the completion of his medical residency training in Internal Medicine, Chaudhry served from 1996 to 2001 as Director of Medical Education at Long Beach Medical Center, a 202-bed community teaching hospital in Long Beach, New York. From 2001 to 2007, he served as full-time Chairman of the Department of Medicine at the New York College of Osteopathic Medicine of New York Institute of Technology, where he also served from 2003-2005 as Assistant Dean for Pre-Clinical Education, supervising the undergraduate medical education delivered to first and second year medical students, and from 2005-2007 as the Assistant Dean for Health Policy.

Chaudhry is the principal author of the medical student textbook Fundamentals of Clinical Medicine, written with co-authors from New York University School of Medicine, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Tufts-New England Medical Center and Brigham and Women's Hospital. The book was praised by Jerome P. Kassirer, M.D., MACP, Editor-in-Chief of the New England Journal of Medicine from 1991–1999, who wrote in its foreword, "Every medical student should have this book."

From 1999 to 2007, Chaudhry served in the United States Air Force Reserves as a physician and medical educator, rising to the rank of Major and serving as a Flight Surgeon on flight status with the 732nd Airlift Squadron and as the Medical Operations Flight Commander for the 514th Aeromedical Staging Squadron (ASTS) of the 514th Air Mobility Wing, both at McGuire Air Force Base, New Jersey. Chaudhry has flown on training missions on the C-141 Starlifter, KC-10 Extender, and the C-17 Globemaster III and is the recipient of an Air Force Commendation Medal, an Air Force Achievement Medal and a Small Arms Expert Marksmanship Ribbon.

Every year since 2009, Chaudhry has delivered a lecture in a course on the Foundations of Public Health at the Harvard School of Public Health in Boston, Massachusetts and since 2002 has taught electrocardiography at the New York College of Osteopathic Medicine of NYIT. He served as President of the American College of Osteopathic Internists from 2008-2009 and as President of the Association of Osteopathic Directors and Medical Educators from 2007-2009. On April 11, 2013, he was awarded the title of Master of the American College of Physicians for "excellence in the practice of medicine" at a ceremony in San Francisco.