About Me
If you are considering working with me, it’s likely an extremely important decision for you (and likewise for me).
I hope below you can get to know a little bit more about me, what drives me to do what I do and perhaps through that…..you can decide if we are a good match to work together.
I hope you will see from this that honesty, integrity, hard work, positivity and family values are core fundamentals of who I am.
My Story
Childhood and schooling: I was born and raised in Birmingham in the UK and I am one of 8 siblings. My parents emigrated to the UK in the 1970s before I was born and I was raised in a relatively impoverished urban neighbourhood in Birmingham.
I went to Bishop Vesey’s Grammar School, a selective admission 500 year old school that is in the top 100 schools in the UK and I left with 5 A-levels at grade A (highest) and won prestigious awards for my academic achievements and for captaining the school chess team (I was a bit of a geek!).
I went to medical school between 2005-2010, winning prizes in ophthalmology and primary care along the way.
Career: Between 2010 and 2012 I completed my foundation training as a doctor in Dudley and Coventry, before completing my primary care training in Manchester. During this period I completed a Post-Graduate Award in Medical Education and a Diploma in Geriatric Medicine. I taught problem based learning at the University of Manchester to medical students.
Between 2015 to 2016 I spent the majority of time working as a primary care doctor in urgent care and emergency medicine as well as being a home visiting doctor to elderly housebound patients in the North West of the UK.
In late 2016 I moved to Saudi Arabia to set up the first family medicine training program in Ha’il province. I left at the end of 2019 with 32 trainees across 4 years.
At the beginning of 2020 I came back to the UK from Saudi Arabia after having worked in the governmental and private sectors there. I started my MBA with a focus on entrepreneurship and innovation while in Saudi Arabia, but I ended up taking the Diploma just before the final research project. Both my reason for leaving Saudi Arabia and for not completing the MBA (I was on course for a distinction) were due to personal life factors that forced me to make the difficult decisions to leave Saudi Arabia and not complete the MBA.
Since 2020 until now I have been working in primary care in Birmingham, mainly urgent care and since December 2025, in an ADHD clinic. Alongside this, I have done a significant amount of work with health technology companies and startups as well as founding 2 of my own. I’ve also worked with university accelerators and I founded the UK’s largest medical community (800+) focussed on health innovation.
ADHD: In 2022 (after my son was diagnosed 2 years earlier), I received my formal diagnosis of ADHD. This is not something I am shy to talk about. Whilst on paper I have been high achieving and I have no doubt at all ADHD and neurodivergence gives me a massive advantage in terms of the way I think and see the world, the undiagnosed ADHD took a huge toll on my mental and physical health in the background, causing emotional dysregulation and massive weight gain and affecting my self-esteem and my relationship with others.
Since gaining my diagnosis, regulating my dopamine with medication and understanding the condition better and working through understanding myself better, I have lost 30kg in weight and seen success after success in my professional and personal life.
I now work in an ADHD clinic diagnosing and helping others, I speak and research about ADHD, recently coming 2nd place in October 2025 for research on ADHD understanding in Primary Care, at the International Family Medicine Conference in Dubai.
Health Innovation:
My perspective on my own role in healthcare changed significantly after my time in Saudi Arabia and I felt that I could make a much larger difference, at scale, by building systems, teams and organisations that can shape healthcare. I’d begun to realise that whilst I loved seeing patients, I felt I could do a lot more by taking a step back and changing the systems that patients navigated, tweaking them to make them better and produce better outcomes.
Unfortunately it has been frustrating as a doctor to be a passive recipient to other people dictating how best it is I should work and often being dictated to do things in an inefficient or even harmful manner.
It was that above realisation that fundamentally changed the way I view my own role in healthcare and it is why I work in health innovation, to both produce solutions but to also help valuable other solutions gets to where they need to be.
I’m also passionate about giving back to Saudi Arabia, where I personally benefitted immensely and have as such started to curate content and offerings toward Saudi Arabia and also the wider region.
Personal Interests: When I get spare time, I have a number of interests.
Languages: I speak fluent and native English and Pashto. I speak Arabic to professional working proficiency (but my handwriting could do with some improvement!).
Sports/fitness: I’m probably ‘too old’ to play football any more and after injuring my cruciate ligaments, so I’ve taken up hiking including last summer climbing Mount Snowdon in Wales (twice!).
I’ve also taken up Sambo (wrestling), which is an incredible exercise to keep fit and I try to go to the gym atleast 3 times a week but I focus on functional rather than aesthetic exercises (i.e. I want to be strong and well and I don’t care about the size of my biceps as much anymore!). Getting fitter and staying fit and healthy is very important to me, especially after seeing what being unfit did to me.
I enjoy spending time with my family, watching my children explore their interests and spending time together and with our two kittens (now cats) Filipo and Tomassino.
It’s also been a life long dream for me to memorise the Qur’an and since my ADHD has been under better control, I’ve been able to make significant progress toward this.
