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, Colonoscopy & GI Diagnosis
And other clinical expertise https://www.pennmedicine.org/providers/profile/farzana-rashid

Recipient of many awards, such as

Penn Health Care Hero
Award (2015)
The Radhika Srinivasan
Award for Humanism
and Professionalism
Award (2015)

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:

Note: Maiden name is

Dr. Farzana Rashid

Primary location: Penn Presbyterian Medical Center

51 N. 39th Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Patient appointments: 1-800-789-7366
Satellite Location: 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