Medical students around the country
have logged more than 6 million hours
listening to Husain Sattar, MD,
review the fundamentals of pathology.
To many of them, he’s simply
PHOTO BY JOE STERBENC
‘Pathoma guy’
“He has a remarkable gift for clarity. He can take the pathophysiology of any organ system and present the information in a way that makes the entire mechanism click in your head.” Palmer Greene, MS3
W
hen Husain Sattar, AB’93, MD’01, took a leave of absence from medical school to study Arabic and Islamic spirituality in Islamabad, Pakistan, he spent his days in a classroom that had
walls made of clay and would heat up to 120 degrees in the summer. In the
winter, the unheated classrooms were freezing — Islamabad sits at the foothills of the Himalayas — and Sattar, who was born and raised in the Chicago suburbs, sat on the floor with the other students shivering and dreaming of summer.
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THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO MEDICINE AND BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES DIVISION