Dr. Iram Sirajuddin will bring a new specialty to Susan B. Allen Memorial Hospital. She is an Allergist and Immunologist, who will see patients in the SBA Clinic Augusta beginning Monday, June 5.

Dr. Sirajuddin got interested in medicine at a young age. Her father is a doctor (anesthesiologist) and she enjoyed hearing him discuss his cases with the family. She also had a cousin with a blood disorder and would sometimes accompany her to doctors appointments. She was inspired by the caring relationship between the doctor and her cousin.

Thats what drew me to medicine, Dr. Sirajuddin said.

Dr. Sirajuddin attended medical school at the 6-year program at the University of Missouri - Kansas City. She trained at St. Louis Childrens Hospital with Washington University. Her residency was in Pediatrics.

I have always loved working with children, she said. Their energy and curiosity about things is something I admire.

She rotated through different specialties during her training, and developed an interest in Allergy/Immunology.

I feel when I do my job correctly, it can help people lead their best possible lives, Dr. Sirajuddin said. Its a field where you can say you really have made a difference.

She is trained to see adults and children with seasonal and food allergies, asthma, eczema and immunodeficiencies.

She moved to Wichita in 2010 and worked for the KU Medical Center from 2010 to 2012. She took an extended maternity leave, then returned to work doing Telemedicine in 2015.

She said the Telemedicine company she worked for was focused on rural Kansas and providing services to people who didnt have easy access to the medical care they needed.

While Dr. Sirajuddin enjoyed this, she said she missed the face-to- face contact with patients.

I love seeing patients face to face and building that relationship with them in person, she said.

That made her start thinking about getting back into an office setting.

While she worked at KU, she had come to SBAMH to introduce herself to the pediatricians because she was only seeing pediatric patients at the time.

She said when she recently started looking at job opportunities, she recalled how those doctors were good to work with and seemed happy where they worked.

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