Final-year medical student at the Aga Khan University, Karachi. I work on randomised trials, systematic reviews, surgical and imaging research and medical education, and write the code that analyses them.
I’m a final-year MBBS candidate at the Aga Khan University in Karachi. Most of my research asks whether a treatment, device or programme that works elsewhere still works in Pakistani hospitals and schools, where staff, equipment and money are stretched thinner.
That question runs across study designs. In the AKU neonatal unit I’m a co-author on a randomised crossover trial of automated oxygen control in preterm infants and on two trials of non-invasive ventilation, and I’m first author of TANS, a double-blind trial of topical tranexamic acid in children’s heart surgery. I’m joint first author of meta-analyses on pain flare after palliative radiotherapy and on diabetic retinopathy in Pakistan, and of a systematic review of simulation training for mechanical thrombectomy. I also sit on the steering committee of PakSurg, a prospective study of surgical site infection across 28 Pakistani hospitals.
In 2026 I trained in the United States: a vascular surgery sub-internship at the University of New Mexico, interventional and diagnostic radiology at Cleveland Clinic, where I co-authored a review of interventional oncology for liver cancer, and imaging research with Dr Shadpour Demehri at Johns Hopkins on deep-learning measures of bone and muscle from CT.
A growing part of my work is about how doctors learn and are judged. I built and validated the abstract scoring tool for AKU’s International Student Research Conference, study who gets protected research time and who reviews for surgical journals, and build teaching tools such as theVascular Surgery Field Guide andOnlyStats.
Before medicine I studied natural and computational sciences at Minerva University. I analyse my own data in R, Stata and Python, and since 2021 have co-led National Science Bowl Pakistan, now the subject of a randomised trial across 185 schools. I’m open to collaboration, and to research mentorship in surgery, interventional radiology and medical education.
October 2026
Review of interventional oncology for hepatocellular carcinoma published in Cancers
September 2026
Randomised crossover trial of automated oxygen control in preterm infants posted as a preprint
July 2026
June 2026
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Two Outstanding Poster Awards at the International Student Research Conference
April 2026
1st place at the RUFAYDA Anti-Burnout Hackathon for Baat Karo
January 2026
Four lines of work, colour-coded the same way everywhere on this site: teal for studies that collect new data, plum for studies that pool existing evidence.
Neonatal respiratory support, perioperative care and education, each tested in the setting where it would be used.
Pooling trial and observational evidence on supportive care, surgical practice and sustainability.
Multicentre surgical cohorts, cancer and inpatient registries, national surveys and case reports.
Prediction models, bioinformatics pipelines and studies of how AI is adopted in Pakistani hospitals.
The same work, sorted by subject. Each topic opens a filtered list of papers.
Outcomes, techniques and quality of care in general, colorectal, robotic and vascular surgery.
13 papers, 10 presentations, 3 projects
Interventional oncology, embolisation, quantitative CT and MRI, and image-based biomarkers.
6 papers, 3 presentations, 1 project
Simulation, assessment tools, and who gets the chance to do and review research.
4 papers, 5 presentations, 4 projects
Respiratory support and jaundice screening for newborns, and paediatric case reports.
5 papers, 1 presentation, 3 projects
Locoregional liver cancer therapy, early-onset colon cancer and palliative radiotherapy.
3 papers, 3 presentations
Closed-loop devices, smartphone diagnostics, robotic performance data and AI adoption.
4 papers, 1 presentation, 4 projects
National estimates for Pakistan and the environmental footprint of surgical care.
5 papers, 1 presentation, 2 projects
Surgical site infection and antimicrobial use, cost and outcomes in sepsis.
2 papers, 3 projects
Atrial fibrillation ablation, valve surgery, AI-read ECGs and cardiothoracic research equity.
4 presentations, 4 projects
Cancers. 2026;18(20):3319
Written with the Gadani Lab, Interventional Oncology Research Laboratory, Cleveland Clinic.
Reviews transarterial chemoembolisation and radioembolisation, image-guided ablation, combination immunotherapy and emerging locoregional treatments for liver cancer.
Journal of Surgical Oncology. 2026;134(5):720–729
Presented as a podium talk at the Society of Surgical Oncology Annual Meeting 2025.
In 3,333 patients under 50 in the National Cancer Database, adjuvant chemotherapy improved survival in stage III (HR 0.71) but not in stage II.
Collaborator and steering committee member, PakSurg Collaborative
The Lancet Regional Health – Southeast Asia. 2026;50:100786
In 1,711 patients across 28 hospitals, 9.5% developed a surgical site infection after elective surgery: the first national estimate for Pakistan.
Research Square. Posted 3 September 2026
In 25 preterm infants, automated control raised time in the oxygen saturation target range from 37.8% to 55.9% and halved severe desaturations.
Clinical Case Reports. 2025;13(3):e70260
* Joint first authors
BMJ Supportive & Palliative Care. Published online 1 October 2025
Across four trials and 765 patients, glucocorticoids reduced pain flare after palliative radiotherapy (RR 0.59, 95% CI 0.35 to 0.98).
World Journal of Surgery. 2024;48(9):2212–2223
Presented at the American College of Surgeons Clinical Congress 2024.
Every high-quality life-cycle analysis among 13 studies found a smaller environmental footprint for multi-use instruments.
A free, buzzer-based science competition for school students, run with the Centre for Economic Research in Pakistan. I captained a winning team at one of its first pilots, have co-led it since 2021, and co-designed its offline competition app with CERP Labs.
With Professor Asim Ijaz Khwaja of Harvard Kennedy School, we are now testing whether competing changes students’ engagement, performance and career aspirations, in a randomised trial across 185 schools of The Citizens Foundation.
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