Syeda Ashna Fatima Kamal, MD, is an Instructor in Medicine in the Division of Hospital Medicine. Kamal was born in Karachi, Pakistan, and spent much of her formative years in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, where she completed her middle school, high school, and college education. She earned her medical degree from Dow International Medical College in Pakistan, graduating in 2018. Her postgraduate training began with an internal medicine residency internship at Lincoln Medical Center in Bronx, New York. She then continued her internal medicine residency as a PGY-2 and PGY-3 at Southern Illinois University in Springfield, Illinois, where she graduated in 2024. Following her residency, she pursued a palliative care fellowship at Saint Louis University, completing it in 2025. Kamal is committed to providing exceptional patient care, contributing to medical education, and continuing her involvement in clinical research, particularly in the realm of oncology and hematology.
Education
- MBBS: Dow International Medical College, Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan (2018)
- Residency, Internal Medicine: Lincoln Medical & Mental Health Center, Bronx, NY (2022)
- Residency, Internal Medicine: Southern University of Illinois, Springfield, IL (2024)
Clinical Interests
Patient care, medical education, oncology, hematology, clinical research
Professional Memberships
- American Society of Hematology
- American Society of Clinical Oncology
- American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine
Publications
Vanishing Lung Syndrome, or Idiopathic Giant Bullous Emphysema, with Pneumothorax, and Subcutaneous Emphysema in a 58-Year-Old Female Smoker with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Sohail Haris, Kilani Yassine, Osella Julietta, Kamal Ashna Syeda Fatima, Kumari Barkha, Daniel Emnet, Yusuf Mubarak, Aldiabat Mohammad, Horoub Ali, Murthy Shekar. Am J Case Rep. Published 2022 Dec 2. doi: 10.12659/AJCR.938063.
Yassine Kilani, Syeda Ashna Fatima Kamal, Ebehiwele Ebhohon, Lavina Khemani, Trisha Laxamana, Mubarak Yusuf, Vipul Shah. A Case of Methicillin-Sensitive Staphylococcus aureus (MSSA) Prostate Abscess, Osteomyelitis, and Myositis Associated with MSSA Bacteremia in a 60-Year-Old Patient Presenting with Back Pain. Am J Case Rep. Published 2022 Jul 2. doi:10.12659/AJCR.936704.
Yassine Kilani, Haris Sohail, Chee Yao Lim, Alyssa Payette, Syeda Ashna Fatima Kamal, Afsheen Afzal, Toqeer Khan, Nushra Paracha, Monica Reddy Muppidi, Daniel Sittler. Severe Pancytopenia After COVID-19 Revealing a Case of Primary Bone Marrow Diffuse Large B Cell Lymphoma. Am J Case Rep. Published 2022 Sep 24. doi: 10.12659/AJCR.937500.
Yassine Kilani, Aye Myat Mon, Trisha Laxamana, Syeda Ashna Fatima Kamal, Rahul Zain, Haris Sohail, Mubarak Yusuf, Julia Vargas-Jerez, Zahra Tasneem. An Unusual Presentation Of Adrenocortical Carcinoma (ACC): Panic Attacks and Psychosis. Am J Case Rep. Published 2022 Aug 29. doi: 10.12659/AJCR.937298.