Fareed N. Fareed

Fareed N. Fareed is a Palestinian-American professor and doctor specializing in emergency medicine, who has dedicated much of his career to improving access to life-saving cardiac treatment in the developing world.

Fareed was born in 1975 to Palestinian immigrants, and was raised in Long Island, New York, but often paid visits to the Palestinian West Bank, where his parents were originally from. He earned his B.A. in Biochemical Sciences from Harvard College in 1997, and then went on to study medicine at the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, where he received his medical degree in 2001.

After completing his studies, Fareed became one of the youngest board-certified faculty members at Columbia Medical School, where he currently holds the post of assistant professor in the Health Sciences division. He is also a full-time ER Attending Physician at New York-Presbyterian Hospital in New York City.

In 2007, Fareed launched GlobalACLS, an initiative designed to help disseminate basic and advanced cardiac life support (ACLS) knowledge and skills worldwide by promoting the establishment of international training sites in developing countries. He has performed international emergency medicine work in both Eastern Europe and the Middle East, including the training of Palestinian physicians in the Israeli occupied West Bank through courses offered by the organization Physicians for Peace.

In addition to his international humanitarian work, Fareed is also a National Institutes of Health Research Fellowship Recipient and a member of the Palestine Liaison Committee of the National Arab American Medical Association.

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