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Muhammad Atif Waqar, MD is an Assistant Professor and the founding chief of the Section of Palliative Medicine in the Department of Oncology at the Aga Khan University (AKU), Karachi Pakistan. He is also the Program Director for the post graduate Palliative Medicine fellowship at AKU. He completed his residency training in Internal Medicine from The Brooklyn Hospital Center (an affiliate of the Weil-Cornell Medical School) in New York, U.S.A. He then pursued two successive fellowships in Hospice/Palliative Medicine and Geriatric Medicine at the University of Nevada, School of Medicine in Reno, Nevada U.S.A. Dr. Waqar is board certification in Internal Medicine, Hospice/Palliative Medicine and Geriatric Medicine with the American Board of Internal Medicine and its subspecialties. Prior to relocating to Pakistan and joining the Agha Khan University, Dr. Waqar served as a consultant in Palliative Medicine at the VA Sierra Nevada Healthcare System (VASNHCS) in Reno, Nevada U.S.A. There, he was also appointed as the Medical Director for the Home Based Palliative Care services at VASNHCS. Dr. Waqar has a strong interest in medical education and has previously served as a Clinical Assistant Professor & Associate Program Director for the fellowship program in Palliative Medicine at his alma mater, the University Of Nevada School Of Medicine in Reno, Nevada, U.S.A. He has extensive experience in the realms of long term care, home based medical care, palliative and end of life care. Realizing the dire need for palliative care services in Pakistan, Dr. Waqar relocated to Pakistan to begin setting up the city’s first multidisciplinary palliative care service at the Aga Khan University Hospital in Karachi. Under his leadership and vision, the palliative care program has grown exponentially to now include inpatient palliative care consultations throughout the hospital, as well as admissions to the palliative care service for inpatient end of life care as well as intractable symptom management. To address the community based palliative care needs, his department is now offering daily outpatient palliative care clinics. Drawing from his extensive experience in the realm of non-institutional long term care, Dr. Waqar helped set up an extensive network of multidisciplinary home based palliative care services in Karachi, the first of its kind in Pakistan.