He received his medical degree from The Aga Khan University, Pakistan. He completed his residency at Indiana University and fellowship at LSU. He stayed as faculty at LSU for 4 years and developed Thoracic/Head and Neck Oncology program. He has been a principal investigator of several cooperative groups, industry sponsored and investigator initiated clinical trials involving Lung and Head and Neck Cancers. He has also been involved in basic science lung cancer research. His current area of interest is inflammation in cancer.