Rahman Chaudhry, M.D. M.P.H.
Rahman earned his B.S. degree in Biological Sciences from the University of Illinois at Chicago. He attended medical school at St. Matthew’s University School of Medicine in the Cayman Islands and briefly taught Biochemistry at the Xavier University School of Medicine in Aruba and at the St. Martinus Faculty of Medicine in Curacao. He then took a faculty position at Brown Mackie College in Indianapolis, teaching anatomy, physiology, medical terminology, pharmacy and phlebotomy to nursing, medical assistant and occupational therapy assistant students, while completing a Master’s degree in Public Health from Benedictine University. He worked for a year as a clinical research associate at the Celiac Disease Center of the University of Chicago, where he created a clinical database, followed by a year as a laboratory research associate in the Ophthalmology and Neuropathology Department at the University of Chicago. Rahman did the first three years of his Anatomic and Clinical Pathology residency in the program at Wayne State University Detroit Medical Center, where he published case reports on myxoid dermatofibrosarcoma protuberans of the scrotum and on myoepithelial carcinoma of the posterior mediastinum. He presented a poster comparing molecular identification of bacteria with phenotypic identification during routine clinical laboratory use at a June, 2016, meeting of the American Society for Microbiology. At Wayne State, he served on the Residency Council Sports and Wellness Board and as a representative for the Department of Pathology on the Residency Council. Rahman transferred to UT Southwestern for his final year of residency and is currently completing a Hematopathology fellowship.