Linda Idris Suleiman is an American physician, Assistant Dean of Medical Education and Director of Diversity and Inclusion at the Feinberg School of Medicine.
They immigrated to Canada during the Somali Civil War, taking their three children (including Suleiman) and her teenage cousin with them.
[1] Her family relocated to Hamilton, Ontario, where her mother's medical degree was not recognised and her parents were forced to do janitorial work.
She completed her medical training at Howard University College of Medicine, where she saw pictures of LaSalle D. Leffall Jr. on the walls.
[5] In 2018 Suleiman joined the faculty at the Feinberg School of Medicine, where she was the first Somali-American woman orthopaedic surgeon.