Chief Medical Officer, Cure Hospital and Head Department Plastic Surgery

A graduate of Nangarhar High School, and the Nangarhar Medical College, Dr. Hashimi was awarded a diploma in Plastic Surgery from the Darulsalam Institute of Reconstructive Surgery in Peshawar, Pakistan. He subsequently received general plastic surgery training at the Seri Ram Chandra University in Madras, India. He continued advancing his plastic surgery training at the Saint-Luc Hospital in Brussels, Belgium. He obtained additional maxillofacial and cleft palate/lip reconstructive training at the Santo Spirito and la Sapienza Hospitals in Rome, Italy.

Dr. Hashimi’s has worked as Plastic Surgery Consultant for the Abrar Organization Nangarghar, Afghanistan, as an ICRC Consultant Surgeon and Trainer at the Jalalabad Public Hospital in Jalalabad, Afghanistan, as Consultant for Plastic Surgery for the Italian Emergency Hospital in Kabul, Afghanistan, as Consultant Plastic Surgeon in Lamer Hospital Kabul, and as Head of the Department of Plastic Surgery in Maiwand Hospital, Kabul, Afghanistan.

Dr. Hashimi started his work for Cure Hospital in 2006 and for the next three years hosted surgeons from Italy and the United states in order to establish the cleft reconstructive surgery program in partnership with SMILE Train. He has operated on nearly 9000 children with cleft deformities and has trained two female Afghan surgeons. Working with SMILE train, he is expanding the treatment of cleft deformities to include speech and nutritional therapy at the Cure Hospital. As head of the department of plastic surgery, he has trained two other plastic surgeons, including Dr. Suraya Aizad Panah, who has worked at the Cure Hospital since 2011. Together with her, Dr. Hashimi has expanded the hospitals aesthetic and reconstructive services to include burn scar contractures, hand surgery, nose and ear reconstructions, free and vascularized soft tissue flaps and more.