Dr. Muhammad Usman Khalid is an alumnus of the Aga Khan University class of 2020. He completed one year of the Dean’s Clinical Research Fellowship and is currently a Research Associate with the AKUH dept. of surgery and Academic Associate with the Pakistan Academy of Neurological Surgery. As the founding president of the Neuroscience Interest Group, Dr. Khalid has always been a mentor to the students at his alma mater and his research focuses on challenges in neuro-oncological surgery in LMICs.