Prof. Dr. Asif Bashir is a world-renowned neurosurgeon and spine surgeon who, after two decades in the USA, left his position as Professor and Director of Neurosurgery at the JFK New Jersey Neuroscience Institute to lead the Neurosurgery Department at the Punjab Institute of Neurosciences (PINS) at Lahore General Hospital (LGH), Pakistan. He trained at some of the most prestigious institutions in the USA, including the University of Minnesota, Upstate University in Syracuse, NY, Harvard Boston Children’s Hospital, and the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota.