Dr. Ghulam M. Shaikh, an internal medicine specialist, has earned a master’s degree in health science and clinical leadership from Duke University.

Dr. Shaikh, 47, is in private practice at 171 Mast Drive, Garner, which is part of the commercial development at Interstate-40 and N.C. 42 in the Cleveland community.

Shaikh is board certified in internal medicine, and he is a Fellow of the American College of Physicians. He is on the medical staffs of both Johnston Medical Center-Smithfield and WakeMed.

Shaikh earned his medical degree in 1987 from Sind Medical College in Karachi, Pakistan, and then trained at Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre. In 1995, he finished a residency in internal medicine at New York Methodist Hospital, which is affiliated with the Weill Cornell Medical College of Cornell University.

For the next five years, Shaikh worked at a private practice in Belhaven while his wife, Mariya, attended East Carolina University in Greenville. Shaikh established the intensive care and telemetry units for Pungo District Hospital, a small private nonprofit on the Belhaven waterfront. He also taught medical students at ECU.

After graduation, Mariya Shaikh accepted a job with IBM and the couple moved to Wake County. In 2000, he opened Shaikh Medical Clinic in the Cleveland community with assistance from Johnston Memorial Hospital.

Apart from his practice, Shaikh is medical director for the Mariam Clinic in Raleigh, a charity that treats the poor and uninsured. He and Mariya have three boys, ages 2, 7 and 8.