Aga Khan University
Asad Latif. MD, MPH is currently the Chair of the Department of Anaesthesiology at the Aga Khan University, Karachi. A graduate of the Aga Khan University Medical College, he did his internship in general surgery from the Hospital of Saint Raphael, New Haven, Connecticut, and completed a Residency in Anaesthesiology, starting at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, Massachusetts and finishing from the State University of New York at Downstate, Brooklyn, New York in 2007. He then did a Fellowship in Adult Critical Care Medicine from Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland. Dr Latif joined the faculty at the Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine at the Johns Hopkins in 2008, and subsequently obtained a Masters of Public Health from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in 2012, focusing on Health Systems and International Health.
Dr. Latif’s areas of clinical expertise include anesthesiology partciularlyfor high risk patients, and critical care medicine, . Aside from his active clinical responsibilities, Dr. Latif’s research interests lie in patient safety and quality improvement, with an emphasis on global surgical care, preventing hospital-acquired infections, improving patient outcomes and communication, and health system strengthening, particularly in developing countries. Prior to moving to Pakistan., he has led projects in multiple countries looking at implementing a comprehensive patient safety-oriented approach to evaluate and address infections in their intensive care units. He has also worked on promoting surgical care as part of the global development agenda. Other research interests include evaluation and prevention of healthcare errors, the utility of telemedicine to deliver critical care in remote settings, and the implementation of communication tools and techniques to improve the care of obstetric emergencies.