About Janet Siddiqui

Janet has been a resident of Howard County for 20 years, but grew up in western N.Y. on a farm with her parents and two sisters. After high school, she went on to get an associates degree in Accounting and then her bachelors in Biology at S.U.N.Y. at Buffalo. After her marriage to Nayab, she continued schooling at Eastern Virginia Medical School and completed her residency at Georgetown University Medical Center. During her medical studies, she started her family and now has three beautiful children: Ahmed (11 years old, attending Clarksville M.S.), Jahanzabe (15 years old, attending Atholton H.S. and Javedan (18 years old, who just graduated from Atholton H.S.)

After completing her residency, Janet joined the Johns Hopkins Community Physicians and has been working in Pediatrics for almost 12 years. She is part-time faculty at Johns Hopkins SOM and teaches pediatric residents, and also volunteers at a free health clinic. She has been a member of the PTA and the HCPSS Anti-bullying task force. She was appointed by the Governor of Maryland to the Patuxent River Commission, and recently presented a case study on childhood obesity at the Howard County American Heart Association Annual Gala.

She is committed to children: their education, health, and future.