Dr. Saleem A. Khan is a board-certified child/adolescent psychiatrist who has worked with children, adolescents and their families in Delaware for nearly four decades. He is deeply involved in the community, facilitating medical lectures, vaccination events, charity fundraising drives and interfaith workshops. He has served on the boards of People to People International (Delaware), First State Islamic foundation, Pakistani American Society (Delaware Valley) and Islamic Society of Delaware. He is a vocal advocate of many charity organizations including The Citizens Foundation, Doctors Without Borders, Helping Hand, and Human Development Foundation.

He started educational endowment funds to help those who cannot afford college. And his poetry has been published extensively in newsletters, magazines and books. 

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Dr. Khan completed his medical education at King Edward Medical College in Lahore, Pakistan, and had five years of training in the field of psychiatry in the United States. He has spent more than half a century with his loving wife Sabira and is the proud father of two children and seven grandchildren. With this inspirational book, he hopes to encourage readers to give top priority to their education despite all challenges, following the example set by his father which proves that with courage, faith and resolve, anything is possible.