Dr. George Fareed pursued medical studies, research and teaching at Harvard and UCLA in the first twenty years of his career after graduation with honors from Harvard Medical School in 1970.  He returned to clinical medicine in 1991 when he came to the Imperial Valley to establish a general medical practice in Brawley, CA.  He was the team physician for the US Davis Cup tennis team from 1991 to 2001 involving 38 team matches and the Olympics in Sydney 2000.  He devoted himself to his many patients and in particular to working with high school athletes as team physician for Holtville,  El Centro and Imperial High Schools.  He is proudest for the F.K.M. Plessner Memorial Award from the California Medical Association as the rural California doctor of 2015,  a  border hero award for his HIV care efforts presented at the 2008 International AIDS Conference in Mexico City and for a recognition award from the El Centro Board of Supervisors in 2015.  His current activities include adult medical clinics in Brawley and El Centro, wound care and hyperbaric oxygen treatment at Pioneers Memorial Wound Center, HIV clinics in Brawley and Calexico, yearly high school football team physician duties throughout the Imperial Valley, and hospitalist work with Inpatient Care of Southern California for Pioneers Memorial Hospital in Brawley.  He has been inspired scientifically and personally throughout his career by Professors Raymond C. Valentine and Charles C. Richardson.