Specialty: Internal Medicine
Career Highlights: Assistant Dean for Community and Global Health/ Assistant Professor, Medicine
Awarded "Leading Physician of the World" by the International Association of Healthcare Professionals and she was also selected as an “Outstanding Woman in Healthcare." The IWLA also recognized Dr. Haffizulla as a “Woman of Outstanding Leadership” in May 2014.
Author of 2 books, Lead With Your Heart: A Doctor's Rx for Personal & Professional Success and Harmony of the Spheres: Career, Family and Community - a Working Mom's Lessons of Love, Strength and Balance
Awarded a "Quality First Award" by the Florida Health Care Coalition
Founder and owner of HousecallsMD aka JFDOC PL, a concierge, hybrid medical practice combining office visits, housecalls and
telemedicine
Founder of AMWA's Preventive Medicine Task Force, Fellowship program and Affiliate Program
Nationally recognized expert and speaker on work/life balance and empowering women to lead and live with passion and true fulfillment
Host, Medical Correspondent of the nationwide public health program: Mission Critical Health
National Speaker, Thought Leader and Activist for Women.
Service with AMWA: 2014-2015 National President of AMWA; Founder and chair of the Preventive Medicine Task Force; Founder and co-chair of AMWA's Fellowship program; past co-chair of Public Relations; past member of Governance, Membership, Finance; Past
executive co-chair of fundraising; past President/Founding Officer, AMWA South Florida Branch. AMWA lifetime member.
Quote: With humility, drive, passion and a positive outlook, you can yoke and harness your own inner strength as a parent and as a working professional, achieving all your life goals.
Biography:
Farzanna Sherene Haffizulla, MD FACP FAMWA is the 2014-2015 national President of the American Medical Women’s Association (AMWA) and served as the South Florida AMWA branch President and one of its founding officers. She graduated summa cum laude and with
University Honors in Molecular Biology and Microbiology from the University of Central Florida. She completed medical school at The
University of Miami Miller School of Medicine. Her residency training was at the Cleveland Clinic Florida and at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation in Ohio and she is Board Certified in Internal Medicine. As national President of the American Medical Woman’s Association, she leads the organization into its centennial year. Her leadership vision is to build strong community, national and global networking by encouraging positive strides in healthcare, leadership, scholarship and academia and improving the synergy among health care and professional organizations. During her current tenure as AMWA President she spearheaded the formation of an affiliate program for AMWA and continues to speak
nationally on improving cohesion among health care organizations and physicians. She is involved on many levels with AMWA including being the chair and founder for AMWA’s Preventive Medicine Task Force, founder of AMWA’s fellowship program and she served as the executive chair of the fundraising committee.
Dr. Haffizulla is the on-camera show host, anchor and medical correspondent for the nationwide health program, Mission Critical Health. She currently teaches Honors Organic Chemistry to the pre-med seniors at American Heritage School and she is an Affiliate Clinical Assistant
Professor of Biomedical Science at the Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine at Florida Atlantic University and a Voluntary Assistant
Professor of Medicine at the University of Miami. She is also a primary scientific board member for Shulman Institutional Review Board. Dr. Haffizulla was chosen as a National Delegate, representing Florida for Drexel’s Institute for Women’s Health and Leadership’s Vision 2020 program. She also serves as a Physician Ambassador for Broward County’s Department of Health promoting prevention of disease.
Dr. Haffizulla has earned several awards including a Quality First Award from the Florida Heath Care Coalition, a “Leading Physician Of The World Award” from The International Association of Healthcare Professionals and she was also selected as an “Outstanding Woman in Healthcare” by the International Women’s Leadership Association (IWLA). The IWLA also recognized Dr. Haffizulla as a “Woman of Outstanding Leadership” in May 2014. Dr. Haffizulla was featured in “Practice Link” magazine’s Winter 2014 edition featuring her medical practice and work/life balance techniques. Dr. Haffizulla was also featured in the American College of Physicians “My Kind of Medicine” series in September 2014 shortly after receiving the Florida Chapter of the ACP’s 2014 award for Volunteerism and Community Service.
Dr. Haffizulla is a nationally recognized speaker and expert on work/life balance and published “Harmony of the Spheres: Career, Family and Community” in 2011. She also founded and runs a work/life balance site www.BusyMomMD.com. She authored and nationally published several articles to parenting and professional communities and in July 2014 published her second book: “Lead with your Heart: A Doctor’s Rx for Personal and Professional Success.” She founded and opened her own concierge, Internal Medicine hybrid private practice in 2008 after practicing in a traditional setting for 5 years. Her innovative, creative approach to medical practice allows her to efficiently fuse traditional clinical practice with technology. Her medical practice allows her to offer office visits, house calls and telemedicine to her patients. She describes her unique private practice on her personalized website: www.HousecallsMD.us. Dr. Haffizulla lives in South Florida with her husband Dr. Jason Haffizulla and their four children.
