Taranjeet Kalra Ahuja, DO, MSEd

Dr. Taranjeet Kalra Ahuja is a graduate of the 7-year BS/DO program at NYITCOM.  She completed her pediatric residency at Stony Brook University Hospital located and while there was selected to be chief resident for her skills as a clinician and medical educator. 

Following time in private practice, Dr. Ahuja assumed a position in academics as an Assistant Professor of Science Education & Pediatrics at the Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra/Northwell (ZSOM), where she has been a full-time faculty member since 2012.  Dr. Ahuja currently holds the title: Director, Humanism in Medicine and Communications Co-Leader.  In this role, she oversees the scholarly concentration in humanities; Narrateur, ZSOM’s literary and art journal as well as serving as the co-advisor of the Gold Humanism Honor Society.  Previous to this role, she was the Director of the Ambulatory Clerkships overseeing a robust outpatient clinical pre-clerkship and clerkship experience for 300 students annually.

In addition to her other responsibilities, Dr. Ahuja teaches physical diagnosis and clinical reasoning.  She is a Co-Director of the Tell Me More® elective, a program of The Arnold P. Gold Foundation.  She also serves as a facilitator for PEARLS, a case-based learning course designed to help students learn the key concepts of biomedical science embedded in real patient cases.