Doctor of Pharmacy  3.93/4.0, silver medallist!

Dow University of Health Sciences · Karachi · Dec 2019

• Silver Medallist of the Pharm.D batch of 2019, summa cum laude.
• Canadian equivalency established by PEBC: BSc in Pharmacy.

MBA, Health & Hospital Administration  3.68/4.0

Institute of Business Management · Karachi · Jun 2025

• Core competencies in health policy, research and survey methodology, health ethics and law.
• Completed alongside full-time trial coordination: the management half of running studies.

PGY1 Pharmacy Residency (IPPR)

American Society of Health-System Pharmacists · AKUH · 2020

• Inpatient practice residency; Trainee Pharmacist of the Year, 2020.
• Later returned to the same rotation as preceptor-in-training.

Senior Research Coordinator · Clinical Trials Unit

Apr 2026 to Aug 2026

• Led 4 international multicentre trials plus a validation study, start-up to closeout.
• Opened new enrolment channels (advertising, community clinics, off-site physician referrals) reaching 217 participants on schedule.
• Led the unit's Patient & Public Involvement and Engagement group, building its terms of reference and structural framework.

Research Coordinator · Clinical Trials Unit

Mar 2024 to Mar 2026

• Ran timelines, deliverables, reporting, and milestones for the PI's studies, with CRF design, source data verification, and real-time EDC entry to ALCOA+ standards.
• Quality reviews, internal audits, regulatory inspections: inspection-ready at all times, CAPAs closed.
• Also served as the unit's marketing and communications lead: editor and design lead of the CTU newsletter, LinkedIn page, and SharePoint site.

Research Pharmacist · Clinical Trials Unit

Mar 2023 to Feb 2024

• IMP custody for 20+ trials, fully compliant with protocol, ICH-GCP, regulatory & JCIA requirements.
• Led 7+ DRAP reconciliation panels for international multicentre trials.
• Rewrote temperature-control policy; deviations dropped across the IMP lifecycle.

Inpatient Pharmacist · Pharmacy Services, AKUH

Jan 2021 to Feb 2023

• Emergency Department pharmacy team lead, with a certificate of appreciation for dedicated work in the ED, 2021.
• Built learning modules and precepted ASHP PGY1 residents on inpatient rotation.

Trainee Pharmacist · Pharmacy Services, AKUH

Jan 2020 to Dec 2020 · IPPR PGY1 (ASHP)

Intern Pharmacist · KIRAN Hospital, KPWS

Jan 2019 to Feb 2019 · Oncology pharmacy operations

The fridge kept drifting out of range · 2023

• Recurring temperature deviations across the IMP lifecycle. I revised the governing policies: monitoring, thresholds, escalation, who does what when the alarm sounds at 3am. Deviations fell; the printout above tells the story.

DRAP wanted the count reconciled · 2023 to 2024

• Led 7+ investigational product reconciliation panels with Pakistan's drug regulator, records kept inspection-ready between panels rather than assembled the week before.

A national summit needed running · 2025

• Lead organizer of the Clinical Trials Summit of Pakistan 2025: marketing, registrations, audience engagement, and speaker and partner logistics.

Enrolment was going to miss the window · 2026

• In-hospital referrals alone wouldn't fill the studies. Added trial advertising, community-clinic referral pathways, and off-site physician referrals. 217 participants, on time.

Participants had no route into study design · 2026

• Led the CTU's PPIE group, bringing patients and the public into planning rather than consulting them after the protocol was fixed.

Trial index, a selection

As coordinator · STROKE · OvaPrint · KA6
As research pharmacist · D-LIVR · SUNRISE-3 · ACT-SouthAsia · ACTION-III · ESPRESSO · HECOLIN · AVT06 · EFFORT · V201_03 · PREFER
Closeout · PLATCOV · A-PLUS · FRACT-COV · ACT · DEFLECT · CARES · FURI · and more

Chronic Therapy Medications During the Perioperative Period: To Continue or Discontinue?

Quarterly Pharmacy Newsletter · Aga Khan University Hospital

The Research Continuum

Editor & design lead · Clinical Trials Unit newsletter, AKU

• Founded the design and led content creation and publication of the unit's recurring newsletter.