Farzana Rashid Hossain, MD

Twitter: @fr_hossain
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/frhossain
Farzana Rashid Hossain, MD (maiden name Farzana Rashid, MD) is an assistant
professor of clinical medicine and a gastroenterologist at the Perelman
School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. As woman
gastroenterology doctor, her expertise includes Inflammatory Bowel
Diseases (IBD), endoscopy, GI diagnosis, chrons disease, transitional
care, ulcerative colitis, etc. She is a commissioner for First Philadelphia
Commission for Women and dedicated helping issues of importance to
women and girls.

BIO: Farzana Rashid Hossain, MD

Farzana Rashid Hossain, MD is an assistant professor of clinical medicine and a gastroenterologist at the Perelman School of Medicine
at the University of Pennsylvania, Dr. Farzana Rashid Hossain (maiden name, Farzana Rashid, MD) holds additional roles with Penn
Medicine:

Director of Quality Improvement, Penn Medicine at Radnor

Faculty for the Urogynecology Fellowship, Urogynecology Division, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania
EPIC Governance Committee member representing Penn Medicine at Radnor
Dr. Farzana Rashid Hossains honors and awards include the Health Care Heroes Award from Penn Medicine and the Radhika
Srinivasan Award for Humanism and Professionalism at the division of Gastroenterology at Penn Medicine.
She was appointed to the First Philadelphia Commission for Women to help on issues of importance to Philadelphia's women and
girls. She is a member of the medical advisory committee for the local chapter of the Crohn's & Colitis Foundation of America and is
on the board of trustees of the Self-Freedom Foundation, a non-profit charitable organization that funds high impact projects in the
areas of education, critical healthcare, and special situations that directly benefit underprivileged women and children in developing
countries.
Rashid Hossain earned her medical degree at the University of Sheffield in England. She completed her internal medicine and
pediatrics residency at MetroHealth Medical Center, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine and her gastroenterology
fellowship at the University of Missouri-Columbia School of Medicine. She also completed a rotation in inflammatory bowel disease
at Harvard University.

Expertise: Farzana Rashid Hossain, MD

Clinical expertise as a woman gastroenterology physician
Crohn's Disease.
Ulcerative Colitis.
Transitional Care for adolescents to adulthood.
Inflammatory Bowel Diseases (IBD)
Endoscopy and GI Diagnosis, and
other clinical expertise
https://www.pennmedicine.org/providers/profile/farzana-rashid

Selected Publications: Farzana Rashid Hossain, MD

Co-author with Octavia Pickett-Blakely, MD, MHS and Laura Uwakwe, MD: Obesity in Women GI Clinics of North America : 2015.
Rashid, Farzana and Lichtenstein, Gary.: Chapter in Book: Novel Treatments in Ulcerative Colitis Medical Therapy of Ulcerative Colitis :
2014.
http://www.chop.edu/service/gastroenterology-hepatology-and-nutrition/transition/: CHOP-Penn Transition Education Video
http://www.chop.edu/service/gastroenterology-hepatology-and-nutrition/transition/ : 2011.
Rashid F, Bechtold M, Puli S, Bragg J.: Utility of IBD serology tests: Experience at a Midwest Academic Center. Am J Gastroenterol. 104
(S3): S465,2009.
M.L. Bechtold, N.M. Szary, F. Rashid, T.W. Kilgore, S.R. Puli, A. Diaz-Arias, M.R. Antillon: Delayed Colonic Perforation after ESD in a
Patient with Ulcerative Colitis: A Case Report and Review of the Literature. The Internet Journal of Gastroenterology. 8 (2): 2009.
Praveen K. Roy, Jing Chen, Farzana Rashid, Suzanne Ridenhour, Jamal A. Ibdah: Mechanism of Interferon-Gamma Induced Increase in
Intestinal Epithelial Tight Junction Permeability: Role of JNK Pathway and Cross-Talk with the PI-3 Kinase Pathway Gastroenterology
134 (Issue 4, Supplement 1): A36,2008.
Roy PK, Rashid F, Bragg JD, Ibdah JA.: Role of the JNK signal transduction pathway in inflammatory bowel disease. World J
Gastroenterol 2008 January 2008; 14: 200-202. 14 : 200-202,2008.
D S Sanders, D P Hurlstone, R O Stokes, F Rashid, A Milford-Ward, M Hadjivassiliou, A J Lobo: Changing face of adult coeliac disease:
experience of a single university hospital in South Yorkshire Postgrad Med J 78 (915): 31-33,2002.

Farzana Rashid Hossain, MD

Practice Locations:
Penn Presbyterian Medical Center
51 N. 39th Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Patient appointments: 1-800-789-7366

Note:
Maiden name is
Farzana Rashid

Penn Medicine at Radnor

250 King of Prussia Road
Radnor, PA 19087
Patient appointments: 1-800-789-PENN
Key words: cancer, Colonoscopy, Crohn's Disease, Endoscopy, Gastroenterologist, Gastroenterology, Gastrointestinal, GI
Diagnosis, gi physician, IBD, Inflammatory Bowel Diseases, Reflux, women Gastroenterologist