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Dr. Asima Faisal is currently working as Associate Professor and Head of Department, Health and Hospital Management at IoBM, Karachi. She has a Ph.D. and MPhil in Business Management specialty, MBA in Health and Hospital Management, and MBBS in her educational profile. She has more than 25 years of experience in the health industry, serving diverse roles in Healthcare Management and Academia, comprising from being a faculty in two leading universities to working for a pharmaceutical company as a third-party consultant and a corporate trainer for practicing physicians on the latest medical advances by conducting intellectual development initiative to serving as a Physician Lead in private sector hospital Karachi. As a part of her social work, she arranged “community development” activities by organizing “Health awareness and Assessment camps on a large scale, and Training programs” for school teachers (TOTs) of more than 100 schools in Sindh Province. She also served as Director Media and Marketing and later Director Programs for the development of the Health Management Institute, at its inception, at Dow University of Health Sciences. As a physician, she has been a TV program anchor in multiple talk shows on various social and community healthcare issues. She has more than 22 research publications and more than 40 Masters’ Thesis Research Supervisions to her academic credentials and has been presenting her research papers at multiple international forums. Last year, she also won the Best University Teacher Award (BUTA) from her university.