Ferrukh Faruqui
Class of 2025
Ferrukh Faruqui has practised medicine for 36 years across Manitoba, Quebec and Ontario as an emergency and family physician. She’s a prize-winning freelance writer and essayist with bylines in Edify, The Globe and Mail, the National Post, The New Quarterly and two anthologies. She teaches at the University of Ottawa, has spent four decades as a community leader, and was selected to participate in the U.S. State Department’s 2012 International Visitor Leadership Program, a premier 21-day cultural exchange program. She earned her MFA in creative nonfiction at King’s College, Halifax, in 2020 and is completing a memoir. She loves to read, kayak, canoe and ski with her family.
Death ‘is not a medical process. It shouldn’t be made one’: Suicide pod stirs controversy among right-to-die proponents
Whose business is it if a woman lends out her womb?
I dedicated my life to being a family doctor. I just can’t do it anymore
Should Canada allow surrogates to be compensated?
‘When you have severe disabilities, life isn’t over’: Expansion of MAiD raises concerns
