Dr. Mutahar Fauzia is an American

United States

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 reproductive endocrinologist and OB/GYN

Obstetrics and gynaecology

Obstetrics and gynaecology are the two surgical–medical specialties dealing with the female reproductive organs in their pregnant and non-pregnant state, respectively, and as such are often combined to form a single medical specialty and postgraduate training programme...

 of Pakistani origin

Pakistani American

A Pakistani American is any citizen or resident of the United States who has Pakistani heritage.- History in the United States :Muslim immigrants from areas that are now part of Pakistan have been migrating to America and first entered the United States as early as the eighteenth century, working...

. Dr. Fauzia was born into a well-to-do business family in Lahore, Pakistan. She attended the Convent of the Sacred Heart School for Girls and later on attended Fatima Jinnah Medical College. She immigrated to the United States in 1981 and did her residency at New York Methodist Hospital in Park Slope, Brooklyn. Dr Fauzia completed her fellowship from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. Dr. Fauzia now runs a reproductive endocrinology and OB/GYN private practice in Falls Church, Virginia.

She made headlines in July 2001 for delivering the third set of septuplets

Multiple birth

A multiple birth occurs when more than one fetus is carried to term in a single pregnancy. Different names for multiple births are used, depending on the number of offspring. Common multiples are two and three, known as twins and triplets...

 known to live past infancy, the Qahtani septuplets. Dr. Fauzia has received much press from the delivery of the septuplets, appearing on the NBC Morning Show with Katie Couric, NPR All Things Considered and WABC Washington DC Channel 7. The story was additionally covered by the major media networks, including CNN, the New York Times, The Washington Post, the LA Times, and the Arab News. She was also interviewed by Voice of America Urdu in February 2009 and in April 2010 in regards to the rising U.S. cesarean delivery rate.