Dr. Qasim currently works as an Associate Professor of Emergency Medicine, Prehospital Care, and Critical Care in the Department of Emergency Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, United States. He obtained his medical degree from the University of Karachi. He then completed postgraduate training in Emergency Medicine and Critical Care in the United Kingdom, where he also worked as a Consultant in Emergency Medicine and a BASICS Prehospital Care Physician. He moved to the United States to complete training in Trauma/Surgical Critical Care at the R Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center in Baltimore, Maryland, before taking up his current role in Philadelphia. His academic interests lie in advanced trauma and endovascular resuscitation, airway management, simulation, and prehospital care.