Family dentist and civic leader Dr. Mohammad Khalid, chief of dental service at NYC Health + Hospitals/Sea View since 2014 and a dentist who’s been in private practice on Staten Island for 41 years, has been honored by the NYC Health + Hospitals as an outstanding doctor.
Dr. Khalid takes great pride in the expansive dental services provided at the rehabilitation center from fillings to surgery and dentures, and he is proud that his patients and their families appreciate the thorough care offered at Sea View.
Dr. Khalid, who also has a private dental practice in Eltingville, embarked on his career in medicine following his parents’ dream and came to view his profession as a “God-given gift.”
“Growing up in Pakistan it was every parent’s dream that their child would become a doctor and help people with their medical needs,” he says. “I became a doctor in 1971 and I am so happy that I listened to my parents. This is the most noble profession on earth — helping other human beings.”
Dr. Khalid earned his bachelor of dental surgery degree and did a general dentistry rotating internship at Khyber Medical College in Peshawar, Pakistan.
He completed his doctor of dental surgery degree in the New York University Foreign Dental Program.
In addition to his professional commitments, Dr. Khalid is deeply engaged in community affairs.
He is a member of Community Board 2 and is president of the Iron Hills Civic Association and the Pakistani Civic Association of Staten Island. He previously served as a member of the New York City Charter Review Commission and the Civilian Complaint Review Board and he has been a member of a number of other civic, cultural, business and dental organizations.
Dr. Khalid takes pride in working for the NYC Health + Hospitals, inasmuch as the health system plays a large role in his family unit as well. His wife is an NYC Health + Hospitals pediatrician and his attorney daughter is an NYC Health + Hospitals compliance officer.
He counts as a “great accomplishment” his appointment as dental chief at Sea View, which “is very challenging” with patient needs “more complex and compromising than patients in private practice.”
He has worked closely with Sea View colleagues on infection prevention, educating the nursing staff regarding proper daily oral hygiene in order to prevent pneumonia — a strategy that keeps Sea View’s pneumonia rate low.
Dr. Khalid says he considers it his “moral and ethical duty to help … and provide the highest care that you can. To me that’s the best part of being a doctor every day.”