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Nassim Assefi: Doctor/Writer/Thrillionaire

Women’s health and global medicine

Nassim Assefi, a 2nd generation Iranian-American, is an internist specializing in women’s health and global medicine. For the last decade, she has been an academic in Seattle, a humanitarian aid worker and underground salsa dance teacher in Kabul, an aspiring musician in Havana, and a novelist in Istanbul. In 2009, she was selected as a TEDGlobal Fellow, and curated TEDxRainier in Seattle on 10-10-10. She has traveled to more than 50 countries, and is based in Seattle when she is not abroad. She is a graduate of Wellesley College, University of Washington Medical School, and Harvard’s Brigham and Women’s residency program. She is the author of numerous scientific publications; Aria is her first novel. She has just finished writing a second novel set in modern-day Kabul entitled Say I Am You. Other projects include: caring for patients at The Country Doctor Community Health Clinics, doing torture evaluations of refugees seeking asylum, active involvement with Hedgebrook, Whit Press, and the Guttmacher Institute, and living as a thrillionaire. Follow Nassim on Twitter or Facebook.

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mesmerizing

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That's all I can say 

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Nassim Assefi

by Liberated on Sat Oct 22, 2011 02:48 PM PDT

I have been privileged to know Nassim and her family for many years.  I remember when she graduated high school before the age of 16. She went and became an accomplished internist.  Unlike those of us who traded our true inspiration in pursuing a medical career for financial security, she maintained her humanitarian aspirations.  Risking her life at times and earning good karma and trillions. She has always been leaps ahead of her peers. Nassim we are proud of you.

 


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Bavafa

Wow... TigerLily, you didn't leave any [positive] adjective ...

by Bavafa on Sat Oct 22, 2011 11:18 AM PDT

For the rest of us, so let me add my voice to your comment and praise this "Extremely well-educated, caring, fantastic imagination, unbelievably generous, ambitious for the whole of humanity, with enormous humility, very approachable, good-looking, eclectic, inspiring, joyful, full of life,playful, sharp,acutely astute, with the most beautiful approach and attitude to life,insightful" lady

Best wishes and happiness to her.

'Hambastegi' is the main key to victory 

Mehrdad


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yolanda

...........

by yolanda on Sat Oct 22, 2011 09:54 AM PDT

Wow! Interesting that the lady wears Chinese costume, Cheongsam!

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Tiger Lily

This lady is PURE BEAUTY

by Tiger Lily on Sat Oct 22, 2011 09:57 AM PDT

Extremely well-educated, caring, fantastic imagination, unbelievably generous, ambitious for the whole of humanity, with enormous humility, very approachable, good-looking, eclectic, inspiring, joyful, full of life,playful, sharp,acutely astute, with the most beautiful approach and attitude to life,insightful,

 

you name it,

 

this lady is PURE BEAUTY

 

P.S. Thanks admin for putting her up there and I do recommend reading her website and her novels.


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