Leadership

Prof. Nuzhat Mushahid is a consultant haematologist and transfusion medicine specialist with 36 years in clinical pathology, haematology and blood transfusion services. She served as Director of the Armed Forces Institute of Transfusion and Professor of Haematology at Army Medical College, and retired from the Pakistan Army as a Brigadier. She was awarded the Tamgha-i-Imtiaz (Military) in 2004.

She holds the Certificate in Transfusion Medicine of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh. She has led the ISO certification of a national transfusion institute, introduced ISBT 128 labelling standards, and contributed to national standards for blood banks under the Safe Blood Programme. She currently directs the laboratory and blood bank at Max Health Pathology, Riphah Healthcare Services, and advises on national blood policy.

She has published more than 30 peer-reviewed papers, in journals including Transfusion and PLoS ONE, on donor screening, immunohaematology and the evaluation of diagnostic methods. At InnovexHealth she provides medical oversight of every study and reviews all safety data.

Expertise: In vitro diagnostics · Pathology · Haematology and transfusion medicine

Dr Fatima Sajid is a dermatologist and a Fellow of the College of Physicians and Surgeons Pakistan. She graduated from Army Medical College as a silver medallist, trained in internal medicine at Fauji Foundation Hospital and in dermatology at PAF Hospital Islamabad, where she was Chief Resident. She is a Senior Registrar in Dermatology at Riphah International University.

Her published research includes a study of the efficacy and safety of intense pulsed light in inflammatory acne. She served as secretary of the working committee for Pakistan's national consensus statement on biologic dose reduction in psoriasis. She holds Good Clinical Practice certification and has completed Johns Hopkins University's course on the design and conduct of clinical trials.

At InnovexHealth she leads study start-up, site management and monitoring.

Expertise: Dermatology

Dr Abeera Aslam is a physician who trained in transfusion medicine. She graduated from Shifa Tameer-e-Millat University and completed the master's programme in Transfusion Medicine and Cellular and Tissue Therapies at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, run jointly with Leiden University. Her dissertation assessed serum lead levels in blood donors in northern Pakistan.

She has worked as a blood bank physician, where she managed component traceability and haemovigilance, and trained at the Armed Forces Institute of Transfusion. She holds Good Clinical Practice certification and a project management qualification.

At InnovexHealth she manages regulatory submissions to DRAP and ethics committees, and is the project manager for client engagements.

Expertise: Haematology and transfusion medicine

Dr Anila Sikandar is a pharmacist with more than 18 years in regulatory affairs, quality compliance and pharmacovigilance. She has held regulatory, quality and drug safety roles at Searle, Novartis and Novo Nordisk, and was Pakistan Lead and Qualified Person for Pharmacovigilance for Pakistan and Afghanistan at Johnson & Johnson Medical.

She has since advised USAID-funded programmes with the United States Pharmacopeia and Chemonics International on medicine quality, vaccine safety and hospital service standards, and represented the Drug Regulatory Authority of Pakistan in a WHO Global Benchmarking Tool audit. She has trained more than 1,000 healthcare professionals in patient safety and pharmacovigilance. She holds a certificate in clinical research from Dow University of Health Sciences.

At InnovexHealth she owns the quality management system, the audit programme and corrective and preventive actions.

Aiza Amjad is a data scientist and epidemiologist trained at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, specialising in oncology, health economics and causal inference. She is a real-world evidence data scientist in health economics and outcomes research at Tempus AI in New York, and previously worked on clinical immunotherapy research at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.

At InnovexHealth she manages clinical data. She wrote the company's clinical data management procedure, which covers database design, edit checks, query management, data privacy and database lock. She builds and maintains study databases on OpenClinica, reviews incoming data and prepares the datasets and summary tables used in study reports.