Dr. Nida Zeeshan Quraishi

Dr. Nida Quraishi is a US-board-certified pediatrician with over a decade of experience. She completed her MBBS with honors from Pakistan in 2009, specializing in Pediatrics and Biochemistry. In 2016, she completed her pediatric residency at Newark Beth Israel Medical Centre, USA, after which she worked in the pediatric emergency department in Philadelphia & an outpatient setting in New Jersey and Chicago, USA, before relocating to the UAE. Dr. Nida Quraishi has experience in treating children from birth into early adulthood. She is particularly interested in childhood obesity and early childhood development, including ADHD management and routine physical exams. Dr. Nida Quraishi has been a part of medical student education in the USA as Clinical Instructor at Robert Wood Johnson Medical School in New Jersey, USA.

Her areas of expertise includes

• Early Childhood Development
• ADHD Management
• Obesity and Nutrition
• Annual Physicals

Research & Publications

• Co-investigator in a quality improvement project aimed at improving pain management of sickle cell patients presenting to the Newark Beth Israel Pediatric Emergency Room (2013- 2016)
• Poster presentation at the Newark Beth Israel Medical Center Quality Fair titled ‘Decreasing Time to Analgesics in Patients with Sickle Cell Pain Crisis in the Pediatric Emergency Department,’ (Sep 2015)
• Poster presentation at St. Barnabas Medical Center Annual Research Day, titled ‘Haemophilus E meningitis in a 9 month old infant; a rare cause of invasive disease,’ (May 2015).

Membership

• Registered as Consultant Paediatrician with Dubai Health Authority
• Member of American Academy of Pediatrics
• Licensure: Licensed physician in the states of New Jersey and Illinois, USA
• Certifications: Basic Life Support