Minutes of AANA Meeting March 2024

EC Members Present:

• Dr.Saqib Sheik
• Dr. Raza
• Dr. Abid Hussain 

Agenda: Chapter expansion Creation of the 21st endowment fund Saturday Lunch for Abdalians at Washington Retreat. Mentorship Program 

Meeting started at 9:00 PM Eastern time. 

Dr. Sheik greets the members and confirms that 5 regional chapters have been created for members. We have created whatsapp chats and are looking for people interested in becoming the chair of the young Abdalian Association. After Ramdan a volunteer will begin to call every member to confirm member information. Dr. Raza believes we can help support the young Abdalians chapter. 50th and higher will be considered in the young entry. 

Dr. Sheik introduced a new endowment fund presented by the 21st . It will be an endowment fund by Dr. Raza’s class. It is proposed to be called the AANA’s 21st endowment fund. Once the fund is established they plan to communicate to other members to contribute to the fund. Profits will go to scholarships for students. A plan is proposed to maybe encourage different classes to start their own fund to fund scholarships for students abroad. 

Dr. Saqib has already created QR codes for people to donate so that they can look for a way to increase donation rates. It is proposed to also have lunch at the Washington retreat for AANA to discuss AANA’s plan and discuss donations. The mentorship program has started to kick in and it is showing an influx on the physician side. We are looking for more engineer mentors and Dr. Raza has provided some names to help aid the find. This program can be more efficient once we have a members database fully completed so we can reach out to others for potential mentors for these students.

Meeting ended at 9:30 PM Eastern time.