Esam Omeish

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Esam Omeish
Religious beliefs	Sunni Islam

Dr. Esam Omeish is an award winning^{[citation needed]} Northern Virginia Physician, Chief of the Division of General Surgery at INOVA Alexandria Hospital and current President of the Muslim American Society.

Born in Libya in 1969, in 1982, he migrated to the United States without knowing any English. In spite of that, Omeish not only learned English, but achieved entry into the gifted and talented programs and advanced placement courses and graduated high school with a near perfect grade point average in only two and a half years.

While in high school, he was an activist in the community and started the first Friday prayers in a High school in the District of Columbia area and was president of the International Club (which included many non-Muslims from Latin America, Africa, and Asia) as well as being an officer and member of several honor societies and appointed Cabinet member by the school principal after his first year at the school.

After graduating from JEB Stuart High School with honors, he earned admission to the College of Arts and Sciences at Georgetown University. Upon graduating with a double major in International Relations and Biology in 1989, he gained admission to the Georgetown University School of Medicine where he completed his studies.

Seeing the need for Muslims to be involved in campus life in an organized manner, he was able to help successfully start the first chapter of the Muslim Students Association at Georgetown and since that time the MSA has evolved into a leading presence on campus. The Muslim Student Association evolved as an organizational body with a goal to help both foreign born Muslims and those raised in this country fully advance into American society and at the same time overcome any challenge to surrender their religious identity.

Omeish also helped establish and chaired the MSA Council for the Washington DC metropolitan area during his tenure at Georgetown.

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