Prof. Tariq Khan Hashim is a Consultant Neurosurgeon at Northwest General Hospital and Research Center, Peshawar, and holds over three decades of experience in the field of neurosurgery to his credit. His area of interest is skull-base surgery. Dr. Khan completed his MBBS from Khyber Medical College in 1978. He then trained as a Neurosurgeon in Ireland and the United Kingdom and practiced at the Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast, Ireland till December 1989. He returned to Pakistan in January 2000, joined Lady Reading Hospital as a Consultant, and then started a new Neurosurgical Department at Hayatabad Medical Complex, eventually leaving the hospital as the Professor of Neurosurgery. In 2001, he joined Rehman Medical Institute and then shifted to Northwest General Hospital & Research Centre when it became functional in late 2009. Dr. Tariq Khan Hashim is a member of the Pakistan Medical Commission (PMC), the General Medical Council of the United Kingdom (GMC UK), and the Irish Medical Council. He has served as the Chairman of the Neurotrauma Committee in 2017 and currently serves as Dean of Neurosurgery, College of Physicians and Surgeons of Pakistan since 2020. He is also the Chairman of Alliance Healthcare, the parent company of Northwest General Hospital, Chairman of the Board of Governors, Northwest School of Medicine, and a member of the National Medical and Dental Academic Board at PMC.