Dr Syed Tahir Ali graduated from Sindh Medical College in 1989. He started his career from the Aga Khan University Hospital and then worked at Civil Hospital, Karachi from where he acquired his initial DCH. He went to Ireland in 1995 and completed his membership of the Royal College of Physicians, Dublin, Ireland. He moved to England where he got his membership of the Royal College of Pediatrics and Child Health, London. After working for two years in Al-Rahaba General Hospital, Abu Dhabi, he came back to Karachi in 2009. He has been affiliated with SCH since 2013. Dr Tahir Ali is a trained neonatologist and has a special interest in the management of asthma, allergic conditions and nutritional issues related to children.