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CCN Board & Staff
- M.Gafoor, MD. President
- Saquib Ahmed, MD., Vice President
- Azher Quader, MD., Executive Director
Dr. Azher Quader, MD., is a board certified urologist in private practice. He serves as chairman of the Community Outreach Committee. He is founder and Executive Director of the Compassionate Care Network, which is a provider network of mostly Muslim physicians formed to provide affordable health care to the uninsured in Chicago and suburbs. He is president of Quader & Associates, who publish the Chicago Muslim Yellow Pages. He serves on the Board of Albany Park Neighborhood Council (APNC), He is a founding member of Community Builders Chicago and serves as its Exec.Director.
- Ejaz Rahim, MD., Member
Dr. Ejaz Rahim, M.D., DABR is Interim Chairman, Department of Radiology and Associate Professor of Clinical Radiology Rosalind Franklin University of Medicine and Health Sciences/ The Chicago Medical School, North Chicago. She is also a Staff Radiologist at the Jesse Brown Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Chicago. She is a graduate of Dow Medical School in Pakistan and is Board certified in Radiology. She is a member of Chicago Medical Society, Illinois State Medical Society, American Medical Association, Chicago Radiological Society, Radiological Society of North America, Islamic Medical Association of North America, Association of Pakistani Physicians of North America and Pakistani Physicians Society. Pakistani Physicians Society.
- M. Razaq, CPA., Member
Mohamed Razaq CPA is a Certified Public Accountant- Member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants. He is a Management Consultant specializing in the Accounting and the Operations of the Manufacturing and the Processing Industries. He is a Board Member and the Treasurer of Islamic Foundation of Villa Park, IL.
- Bader Zaheer, MD., Member
Dr. Badar Zaheer, MD is a clinical preceptor in the Departments of Family Medicine at Chicago Medical School and Rush University – School of Medicine. He is a board-certified family physician who has been incorporating innovative weight management tools into his practice for 18 years. He has an extensive knowledge of effective, non-pharmacologic management of obesity and uses a holistic approach in dealing with such disease. He has given many continuing medical education presentations on diabetes and nutrition across the nation and internationally. In 1995, he was a recipient of the Award for Excellence in Research granted by the American Academy of Family Physician. Apart from this, he has been working in the emergency department for the past 18 years and teaches Advance Trauma Life Support to emergency medicine physicians. He has also served as a Speed Track Physician for Chicagoland Speedway and other NASCAR events. He is a Designated Civil Surgeon for US Citizenship and Immigration Services. Dr. Zaheer practices at two locations in the Chicagoland area, in addition to working as a staff physician at Mercy Hospital in Chicago.
- Dr. Ayesha Sultana, Member
- Arifa Siddiqi : CCN Director of Programs
- Janine Salameh : CCN Director of Marketing





