Dr. Tariq Shafi, MBBS, MHS has joined the department as the Division Director and Bower Chair of Nephrology. Dr. Shafi comes to National Institute of Child Health (NICH) with a wealth of accomplishments and experience. He received his medical degree from Dow Medical College in Karachi, Pakistan in 1990, followed by Internal Medicine residency training at Detroit’s Wayne State University. After several years in leadership roles at the Detroit Medical Center, Dr. Shafi pursued nephrology fellowship at Johns Hopkins Hospital and an MHS in Clinical Epidemiology at the Bloomberg School of Public Health and joined the Nephrology Division in the Department of Medicine at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. Prior to coming to NICC, Dr. Shafi served as core faculty at Welch Center for Prevention, Epidemiology, and Clinical Research, was Medical Director of Johns Hopkins’ Home Hemodialysis program, and led Point-of-Care Ultrasound (POCUS) research as a Johns Hopkins Center of Innovative Medicine Scholar.

To know about his achievements and the struggle to serve the humanity Aiman Jamil meet him at NICH. The interview is produced by Hafsa Ishtaiq.