Over 18 years in healthcare, I have had the opportunity to work across some of Pakistan’s most demanding tertiary care environments — Shifa International Hospital Islamabad, PKLI Lahore, and Rehman Medical Institute Peshawar — before taking on what has been the most defining chapter of my career so far:

commissioning a 200-bed tertiary care teaching hospital in Quetta from the ground up, as a founding team member. At Aria Institute of Medical Sciences (AIMS), I have led the organization through every stage of its development — from infrastructure readiness and clinical system design to workforce capacity building, supply chain establishment, and full accreditation. On the quality front, we achieved ISO 9001:2015 certification and went on to attain SafeCare Level 4 with a 90% score, within just 8 months of preparation. That timeframe is well below the typical 15–18 month cycle, and it reflects what a well-structured, operationally grounded approach to accreditation can achieve. A significant part of my career has been in healthcare supply chain operations.

At PKLI Lahore, beyond heading the Materials Management function, I worked as Champion User in the end-to-end implementation of a supply chain ERP developed by Sisoft — a Turkish healthcare software firm. I worked directly with their development team to devise, configure, test, and continuously improve the system to reflect real hospital procurement and inventory workflows. That experience gave me a depth of understanding of healthcare supply chain systems that goes well beyond process management. I have also engaged in independent healthcare consultancy, supporting hospital setup and operationalization projects at the international level — working on facility planning, equipment procurement, and operational readiness for greenfield healthcare projects.

My qualifications include the Diplomate of the American Board of Quality Assurance and Utilization Review Physicians (ABQAURP), alongside HCQM certification, which grounds my work in evidence-based quality management principles. What I bring to any organisation is not just operational breadth, but the ability to build systems where none exist — and to sustain them through accreditation, staff development, and continuous improvement.