Azhar Rafiq MD, MBA, MEd

Azhar Rafiq, M.D is an associate professor, at the VCU Department of Surgery and chief scientific officer, at NASA Research Partnership Center at VCU. He is a Self motivated problem solver. Dr. Azhar Rafiq, a 2003 graduate of Virginia Commonwealth University's Fast Track Executive MBA program, traded his cap and gown for a NASA flight suit this spring. He and 15 others traveled to Johnson Space Center in Houston, to evaluate the effectiveness of their virtual reality simulation in a zero gravity environment aboard NASA's KC-135 airplane. Rafiq is a co-investigator with the NASA Research Partnership Center at VCU's Department of Surgery.