Amor Mehta, MD, medical director of the Level 3 Epilepsy Center at the Jay and Linda Grunin Neuroscience Institute at Community Medical Center, has been named Physician of the Year at NJBIZ’s 10th annual Healthcare Heroes awards program. Dr. Mehta was honored at the awards breakfast and ceremony on June 21 at The Palace at… Continue reading Amor Mehta Named Physician of the Year at NJBIZ’s Healthcare Hero Awards
Category: Medicine
Dr. Hirji Adenwalla: Adding Smiles To Lives
Smile Train partner surgeon Dr. Hirji S. Adenwalla is, quite possibly, the only surgeon in the world who has been exclusively performing cleft surgeries for the last 15 years. He is the head of The Charles Pinto Cleft Centre at Thrissur’s Jubilee Mission Hospital in south India, the very first hospital to apply for Smile… Continue reading Dr. Hirji Adenwalla: Adding Smiles To Lives
Bone Marrow Match Drive for Kamron Sohrabian
Meher Amalsad, friend of Parsi Khabar informs us… Kamron Sohrabian, a senior in high school is in dire need of a bone marrow transplant. He is a resident of Orange County, California. His chances of finding a match within the Zarathushti community are greater. Thus, we are asking you to reach out and make a… Continue reading Bone Marrow Match Drive for Kamron Sohrabian
Family Qualities & Mental Health of Zoroastrian Young Adults: A Study
Family Qualities & Mental Health of Zoroastrian Young Adults is the title of a very detailed and interesting research exercise conducted by Farin Bakhtiari and and Scott Plunkett. ADOLESCENT AND ADULT ADJUSTMENT (A LAB) RESEARCH PROJECT The A Lab Research Project (http://www.csun.edu/plunk/alab) at California State University Northridge was designed to enhance the understanding of successful… Continue reading Family Qualities & Mental Health of Zoroastrian Young Adults: A Study
Lifegiver: The Biography of Dr Rustom P. Soonawala
One of Mumbai’s most celebrated gynaecologists gets a biography that connects his roots with medical innovation of the 1960s Watching him drive his sedan past some serious afternoon traffic to Gallops restaurant at Mahalaxmi racecourse, and then tuck into kebabs and jalebi cheesecake between sips of techni-coloured fruit mocktail, you wonder if Dr RP Soonawala,… Continue reading Lifegiver: The Biography of Dr Rustom P. Soonawala
Can The Cure for Migraine Come From The Parsi Community ?
Migraines – debilitating and agonising, there’s not much that can be done about them. Science is still looking for an effective way to prevent these recurring headaches. The answer to what can help cure migraines may lie in research conducted among the Parsi population. This episode of The Intersection investigates how the homogeneous nature of… Continue reading Can The Cure for Migraine Come From The Parsi Community ?
Jiyo Parsi: An Inside Perspective
The following is an interview with Dr. Zinobia Madan, one of the founding members of the Jiyo Parsi Programme, on what the project really means to the community. This was originally published in the Jam-e-Jamshed on Sunday December 14, 2014. “Marriage may with propriety be called the chief concern of human life. When we reflect… Continue reading Jiyo Parsi: An Inside Perspective
The Traditional Parsi Hadvaid
Abstract This article studies the heritage of the traditional hadvaid in the Parsi-Zoroastrian community and shows how this tradition pre-dates what the world today knows as chiropractic. The article concludes with some interesting, first-hand anecdotes and a background on two of the famed and perhaps the greatest exponents of the Parsi-Zoroastrian hadvaid tradition. Article by… Continue reading The Traditional Parsi Hadvaid
Dr. Keiki Mehta Honored at American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery Congress 2014
Two Luminaries in the Field of Ophthalmology Named Honored Guests at the 2014 Annual ASCRS-ASOA Symposium and Congress in Boston Two physicians who have made significant contributions to the field of ophthalmology will receive the Honored Guest Award at the 2014 ASCRS-ASOA Annual Symposium and Congress April 25-29, 2013, in Boston. Dr. Keiki Mehta, a… Continue reading Dr. Keiki Mehta Honored at American Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgery Congress 2014
