Thanks for sharing Madhury's joyful achievements! Congrats to Madhury and to you for raising her and her achievements!
We thoroughly enjoyed your joy and inspiration in Madhury's success since her early age. We pray for Mahdury's continued success--all parents will like to see their offsprings achieve success!!
From: mahbubkhan@ieee.org , <mahbubkhan25@hotmail.com>
Subject: [chottala.com] Madhury is now an MD (Doctor of Medicine)
To: mahbubkhan@ieee.org
Date: Friday, May 29, 2009, 2:19 PM
Our daughter Madhury is now an MD (Doctor of Medicine).
Madhury's MD Graduation Ceremony was held on May 15, 2009 in a huge big Theatre Hall in Philadelphia. She got her MD from the Drexel University in Philadelphia, Pennslyvania, USA.
Our whole family flew from the West Coast California to the East Coast Philadelphia in order to attend this very Special Ceremony on May 15, 2009. We flew from Berkeley/Oakland, San Jose, Los Angeles and San Diego to join Madhury's Graduation. Madhury's very dear friends Lia and Sharif also flew from California to Philadelphia and attended this Ceremony.
Madhury's MD Graduation Ceremony was a very joyous, enormously pleasant and deeply satisfying occasion for us and for our whole family. We have no end of thankfulness for this grand gift in our lives.
Madhury matched her Medical Residency at the State University of New York (SUNY) in Brooklyn, New York. She will be doing her Residency there in OB/GYN for 4 years. Madhury is very happy with the OB/GYN program there at the SUNY DownState in Broklyn, NY. She will be working there at two huge big hospitals including the SUNY Hospital and also the Kings county Hospital. Madhury just rented an apartment near the SUNY Hospital, and her Residency starts there on June 15, 2009.
It was during her transition from the Elementary school to the Middle School (from 5th grade to the 6th grade), when Madhury told me that, Dad, I want to be a Medical Doctor and I want to help the women and Mothers. I was quite surprised then, seeing this young child setting up her aim in life at such an early age. I did not know then, and I never asked Madhury wherefrom she got that inspiration so early on to be a Doctor. However, recently my father-in-law (Dr. Mirza Quamarul Haque) passed away in San Jose, California, and in a community gathering for special Du'a for him, Madhury told everyone in her speech that it was her this Grand father (Nana), who inspired her to be a Doctor so early on. My father-in-law (Dr. Mirza Quamarul Haque) was a professor of Medicine at Dhaka Medical College. He had his MRCP from London, and later he was awarded the FRCP. Madhury visited him in Dhaka, Bangladesh when she was in Elementary school, and she saw her Nana in the Dhanmondi house as a big doctor, and that is what inspired Madhury. Now I know.
Madhury was identified as a GATE student early on. (GATE = Gifted And Talented Education). Madhury was the Valedictorin in all of her schools (Elementary School, Middle School, and High School). Madhury also received Presidential Award from the US-President. Madhury also made onto the list of the Hall of Fame of Silicon Valley for her extraordinary level of volunteer work and services for the Community through various clubs and organizations.
Madhury studied at UC-Berkeley for her undergraduate with several Scholarships, including the Alumni scholarship and the prestigious UC-Regents scholarship. Madhury also received the prestigious IBM T. J. Watson Memorial Scholarship in a worldwide competition among the kids of the IBM employees worldwide, when I was working at IBM as a Senior Scientist.
Madhury also studied at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. She also studied at the Georgetown University in Washington DC for her pre-Med SMP (Special Masters Program). Then she moved on to the Drexel University in Philadelphia for her MD. Now she is on her way to New York at SUNY for her Medical Residency.
I will briefly mention here about two of the overseas trips of Madhury.
During her UC-Berkeley days, Madhury went to Bangladesh to work as a volunteer at a clinic. There she helped and nursed the AIDS patients, and she also helped and nursed many of the very young and immature girls who became ill because of working as prostitutes in unhealthy circumstances in order to support their desperately needy and poor families. I did not initially agree to her going to Bangladesh alone, but when Madhury came back to USA and told me what she did there in Bangladesh, I was simply moved.
Madhury also went to Africa during her Georgetown University days. There she helped and nursed some of the young mothers who were rejected by their husbands and the society because of a condition that they develop after their first delivery of their first baby. I did not know that any society treats their women that badly, and Madury went to Africa on her own expense to help those rejected mothers.
Madhury is our first child, and she is a delight of our family. She is happy, jolly, Kind, thoughtful, and an active kid, and she is very respectable to others. Madhury guides our family in many different ways.
Madhury is an inspiration for the youths and kids of our community and beyond, and she is a good role model for them as well.
Once again, we have no end of thankfulness for this grand gift in our lives.
Please pray for Madhury.
With best regards,
Reena and Mahbub Khan
Kamal, Jamal, Monika
San-Jose/Los- Angeles, California, USA408-859-3566, 408-942-0256, mahbubkhan@ieee. org
