Dr. Yasar Mehmood Yousafzai has been involved in diagnostic pathology for more than a decade. He received pathology training at Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital and Research Center (SKMCH&RC) and FCPS-II (Haematology) training at Hayatabad Medical Complex, Peshawar. He earned a post-graduate diploma in Evidence-Based Medicine & Research from the University of Glasgow, UK. He completed his PhD in Haematology at the University of Glasgow, UK. Currently, Dr Yasar is working as an Associate Professor in Haematology at Khyber Medical University, Peshawar, where is a post-graduate research supervisor. He is also a part-time consultant haematologist at the Rehman Medical Institute, Peshawar, where he runs the province’s only diagnostic molecular haematology service. He is also the Director of KP-Public Health Reference Laboratory (PHRL), the provinces largest COVID-19 testing laboratory. He is the secretary of the Institutional Biosafety Committee (IBC), a member of the IBMS Graduate Studies Committee (GSC) and a subject expert for Haematology in the IBMS Board of Studies (BoS).