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Lancet Author & Clinical Research Specialist delivering rigorous Scientific Writing and Literature Reviews

Profile Summary

I am a medical professional and national research trainer with 45+ publications and 35+ ongoing and completed research projects across 50+ medical colleges in Pakistan and internationally. My work spans a broad range of clinical and epidemiological study designs, including systematic reviews, meta-analyses, network meta-analyses, database-based analyses (CDC WONDER, GBD, NIS, NRD), cross-sectional and cohort studies, and clinical audits. I am proficient in key research and statistical tools such as RevMan, R, STATA, SPSS, Rayyan, CDC WONDER, GBD tools, and Mendeley, enabling end-to-end support in data analysis, evidence synthesis, and manuscript preparation. My research has been published in high-impact international journals, including The Lancet (IF 98.5), with additional presentations at leading global conferences such as CHEST, AHA, AAN, ACC, ACG, AACR, ASCO, and ESC. Alongside research output, I actively provide scientific writing and mentorship services, including protocol development, systematic reviews and meta-analyses, manuscript drafting, structured literature reviews, abstract writing, and reference management. I also serve as a peer reviewer for journals including the CHEST Journal, BMC Series, and Frontiers. In leadership roles, I have served as President of a medical research society, Chair of an international conference (AIMSCon 2025, with 400+ abstracts from 70+ institutions), and held positions within IFMSA. I have also been recognized under the Pakistan Science Foundation’s Science Talent Farming Scheme (STFS) for academic excellence. My work focuses on delivering rigorous, publication-ready research with clarity, methodological strength, and adherence to international standards.

Subject Matter Expertise

• ☆ R
• ☆ Primary Care/Family Medicine
• ☆ Neurology
• ☆ Pediatric Neurology
• ☆ Epilepsy & Seizures
• ☆ Clinical Neurophysiology
• ☆ Neuromuscular Disease
• ☆ Movement Disorders
• ☆ Non-Alzheimer's Dementia
• ☆ Parkinson's Disease
• ☆ Alzheimer's Disease
• ☆ Headache & Migraine
• ☆ Multiple Sclerosis
• ☆ Neuroendocrinology
• ☆ Stroke & Cerebrovascular Disease
• ☆ Autism Spectrum Disorders
• ☆ Sleep Medicine
• ☆ Teratology/Birth Defects
• ☆ Orthopedics & Sports Medicine
• ☆ Women's Health
• ☆ Breast Cancer
• ☆ Ovarian Cancer
• ☆ Obstetrics & Gynecology
• ☆ Birth Control Methods
• ☆ Men's Health
• ☆ Oncology
• ☆ Radiation Therapy
• ☆ Chemotherapy
• ☆ Surgical Oncology
• ☆ Pediatric Oncology
• ☆ Gastroenterology & Hepatology
• ☆ Colorectal Cancer
• ☆ Pancreatic Cancer
• ☆ Stomach & Esophageal Cancer
• ☆ Crohn's Disease
• ☆ Hepatitis
• ☆ Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS)
• ☆ Liver Cancer
• ☆ Endocrinology
• ☆ Hormone Replacement Therapy
• ☆ Reproductive Medicine
• ☆ Endocrine Surgery
• ☆ Diabetes
• ☆ Neurosurgery
• ☆ Spine Surgery
• ☆ Plastic Surgery
• ☆ Hematology
• ☆ Hematology-Oncology
• ☆ Leukemia & Lymphoma
• ☆ Infectious Disease
• ☆ Viral Diseases
• ☆ COVID-19
• ☆ Antibiotic Resistance Research
• ☆ Sexually Transmitted Infections (STI)
• ☆ HIV/AIDS Treatment
• ☆ Tropical Medicine
• ☆ Malaria
• ☆ Dengue
• ☆ Cardiovascular Disease
• ☆ Interventional Cardiology
• ☆ Hospice & Palliative Medicine
• ☆ Pain Management
• ☆ Pulmonology/Respiratory Disease
• ☆ Lung Cancer
• ☆ Tuberculosis
• ☆ Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS)
• ☆ Respiratory Therapy
• ☆ Influenza
• ☆ E-Health & Telemedicine
• ☆ Dietetics
• ☆ Medical Toxicology
• ☆ Health Informatics
• ☆ Healthcare Administration & Management
• ☆ Hospital & Medical Facility Management
• ☆ Managed Healthcare
• ☆ Healthcare Quality Improvement
• ☆ Counseling & Mental Health Support
• ☆ Drug Addiction Treatment
• ☆ Substance Abuse
• ☆ Addiction & Recovery Counseling
• ☆ Body Image
• ☆ Stress Management
• ☆ Anger Management
• ☆ Bipolar Disorder
• ☆ PTSD
• ☆ Anxiety Disorders
• ☆ Depression
• ☆ Schizophrenia
• ☆ Personality Disorders
• ☆ ADHD
• ☆ Counselor Education
• ☆ Occupational Therapy
• ☆ Psychiatry
• ☆ Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
• ☆ Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
• ☆ Neuropsychiatry
• ☆ Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
• ☆ Traditional Medicine
• ☆ Intensive Care Medicine
• ☆ Pregnancy & Childbirth
• ☆ Behavior Therapy
• ☆ Pediatric Endocrinology
• ☆ Rural Health
• ☆ Hemophilia
• ☆ Photomedicine/Phototherapy
• ☆ Internal Medicine
• ☆ Environmental Medicine
• ☆ Geriatric Medicine
• ☆ Perinatology
• ☆ Travel Medicine
• ☆ Medical Terminology
• ☆ Medical Sciences
• ☆ Musculoskeletal Oncology
• ☆ Neuro-Oncology
• ☆ Asthma
• ☆ Metabolism & Metabolic Disease
• ☆ Laparoscopic/Minimally Invasive Surgery
• ☆ Sclerosis & Demyelinating Diseases

Services

• Writing

Writing Medical Writing, Creative Writing

Work Experience

Research Trainer

Medverse

April 2026 - Present

Education

Bachelor of Medicine Bachelor of Surgery (MBBS)

Allama Iqbal Medical College

February 2021 - Present

Certifications

• Certification details not provided.

Publications

JOURNAL ARTICLE

Sophia Ahmed, Armaghan Ur Rehman, Muhammad Asfandyar Nadir, Ariba Fida, Muhammad Sheheryar Javed, Talha Abbas, Mohsin Raza, Muhammad Bilal Sardar, Hooria Waqas Saeed (2025). Demographic and regional disparities in adult thoracic aortic aneurysm-related mortality rates in the USA: Insights from a CDC WONDER analysis (1999–2020) . Archives of Cardiovascular Diseases.

Sophia Ahmed, Hamza Ashraf, Haider Ashfaq, Haneen Kamran, Umm E. Aimen Minhas, Ibrahim Nagmeldin Hassan, Saleha Azeem (2025). Impact of Pakistan's economic crisis on dietary patterns in Lahore: A cross-sectional study . Diabetes & Metabolic Syndrome: Clinical Research & Reviews.

Sophia Ahmed, Muhammad Asfandyar Nadir, Areej Iftikhar, Hamza Ashraf, Mohammad Ashraf (2025). Demographic and regional mortality trends in patients with asthma in the United States (1999–2020): a CDC WONDER analysis . Journal of Asthma.

Sophia Ahmed, Syed Saad Ul Hassan, Sameen Tahira, Hira Saleem Raza, Muhammad Asfandyar Nadir, Mohammad Ashraf (2025). Demographic and regional disparities in U.S. adult mortality due to cutaneous lupus erythematosus: insights from a CDC wonder analysis (1999–2020) . Archives of Dermatological Research.

Ahmed, S., Hassan, S.S.U., Tahira, S., Raza, H.S., Nadir, M.A., Ashraf, M.(2025). Demographic and regional disparities in U.S. adult mortality due to cutaneous lupus erythematosus: insights from a CDC wonder analysis (1999–2020) . Archives of Dermatological Research. 317. (1).

Nadeem, Z.A., Ahmed, S.(2025). Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and lovastatin: a promising treatment perspective . Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis and Frontotemporal Degeneration. 26. (5-6). Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.Localization.LocalizedHtmlString 595-596.

Ahmad, F., Khan, A.I., Asif, A., Ahmed, S., Nisar, M., Fatima, E., Khan, F., Razzaq, A., Tahir, A., Khalid, A.R., et al.(2025). Clinical Efficacy of Percutaneous Microwave Ablation in Treating Uterine Fibroids: A Comprehensive Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis . European Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Reproductive Biology. 310.

Ahmad, E., Ahmed, S., Ahmed, S., Ashraf, H., Akram, U., Ahmad, S., Ullah, I., Khanji, M., Awad, W., Nkomo, V., et al.(2025). Comparison of mortality trends in patients with rheumatic mitral valve disease and nonrheumatic mitral valve disease: A retrospective study in US from 1999 to 2020 . Ijc Heart and Vasculature. 59.

Javeid, A., Nabi, R., Affan, M., Farooqi, H.A., Ahmed, S., Javeid, J., Hassan, W., Zahid, T., Rajpar, N.A.(2025). Concomitant trends in stroke and COPD-related mortality in the U.S.: a 25-year retrospective analysis of the CDC WONDER database . International Journal of Neuroscience.

Tariq, W., Ahmed, S., Ahmed, S., Ahmad, E., Waseem, N., Ain, H.U., Ahmad, S.(2025). Disparities in pediatric stroke-related mortality in the United States: Insights from the CDC WONDER database . Journal of Clinical Neuroscience. 141.

Masood, S., Paracha, M.R., Ahmed, S., Malik, M., Khalid, A.R., Khalid, M.H., Fatima, L., Nasir, B.M., Ur Rahman, S., Khan, K., et al.(2025). Efficacy of anti-interleukin 5 therapy in hypereosinophilic syndrome: An updated systematic review and meta-analysis . Allergy and Asthma Proceedings. 46. (2). Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.Localization.LocalizedHtmlString e24-e32.

Ahmed, S., Nadir, M.A., Farooqi, H.A., Ashraf, H., Azlan, A., Hasan, F., Ashraf, M.(2025). Enhancing Hepatitis C Management: Mortality Trends and Disparities in the US by Sex, Age Group, Race/Ethnicity and Region (1999–2020) . Journal of Viral Hepatitis. 32. (4).

Ashraf, H., Ashfaq, H., Dawood, M.H., Kan Changez, M.I., Butt, M., Ashraf, A., Ahmed, S., Nadeem, Z.A.(2025). Sex disparities and trends in stroke incidence, prevalence, and mortality in the US and worldwide: Findings from the global burden of disease, 1990–2021 . Journal of Clinical Neuroscience. 133.

Shahzad, M., Ahmed, S., Ahsan, M., Zulfiqar, E., Hurjkaliani, S., Thakur, T., Khan, R., Sethi, P., Daoud, M., Goyal, A.(2025). Trends and disparities in heart failure mortality with and without chronic kidney disease in a nationwide retrospective analysis . Scientific Reports. 15. (1).

Ashraf, M., Ahmed, S., Nadir, M.A., Tariq, Z., Iqbal, M., Malik, M., Khan, M.H., Assad, A.A., Awan, A.R., Saeed, A.R., et al.(2025). Value of Intraoperative Computed Tomography in Intra-Axial Brain Tumor Surgery: A Systematic Review . World Neurosurgery. 198.

Ahmed, S., Nadir, M.A., Iftikhar, A., Ashraf, H., Ashraf, M.(2025). Demographic and regional mortality trends in patients with asthma in the United States (1999–2020): a CDC WONDER analysis . Journal of Asthma. 62. (6). Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.Localization.LocalizedHtmlString 1070-1081.

Ashraf, H., Ashfaq, H., Ahmed, S., Kamran, H., Aimen Minhas, U.E., Hassan, I.N., Azeem, S.(2025). Impact of Pakistan's economic crisis on dietary patterns in Lahore: A cross-sectional study . Diabetes and Metabolic Syndrome Clinical Research and Reviews. 19. (8).

Rehman, A.U., Nadir, M.A., Fida, A., Javed, M.S., Abbas, T., Raza, M., Sardar, M.B., Saeed, H.W., Ahmed, S.(2025). Demographic and regional disparities in adult thoracic aortic aneurysm-related mortality rates in the USA: Insights from a CDC WONDER analysis (1999–2020) . Archives of Cardiovascular Diseases. 118. (8-9). Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.Localization.LocalizedHtmlString 436-445.

Sophia Ahmed, Hamza Ashraf, Haider Ashfaq, Ali Ashraf (2024). Two decades of influenza and pneumonia mortality trends: Demographics, regional shifts and disparities in the United States: 1999 to 2020 . American Journal of Infection Control.

Sophia Ahmed, Hamza Ashraf, Zain Ali Nadeem, Haider Ashfaq, Ali Ashraf, Abdulqadir J. Nashwan (2024). Mortality Patterns in Older Adults with Infective Endocarditis in the US: A Retrospective Analysis . Current Problems in Cardiology.

Sardar, M.B., Ahmed, S., Ashraf, H., Ashfaq, H., Nadeem, Z.A., Babar, M., Nadeem, A.(2024). Temporal and regional trends in adults with diabetics kidney disease in the US from 1999 to 2020 . Diabetes Research and Clinical Practice. 213.

Ashraf, H., Ashfaq, H., Ahmed, S., Ashraf, A.(2024). Two decades of influenza and pneumonia mortality trends: Demographics, regional shifts and disparities in the United States: 1999 to 2020 . American Journal of Infection Control. 52. (10). Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.Localization.LocalizedHtmlString 1152-1159.

Ashraf, H., Nadeem, A., Ashfaq, H., Fatima, T., Ahmed, S., Nadeem, Z.A., Saleh, A.(2024). Disparities in mortality trends of adults with HIV in the USA A comprehensive examination across 2 decades . Medicine United States. 103. (25).

Ahmed, S., Nadeem, Z.A., Kamran, U., Ashfaq, H., Ashraf, H., Ashraf, M., Agarwal, A., Farooq, M.(2024). Magnetic Resonance-Guided Laser Interstitial Thermal Therapy in the Management of Hypothalamic Hamartomas: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis . World Neurosurgery. 190. Microsoft.AspNetCore.Mvc.Localization.LocalizedHtmlString 463-469.e6.

Ashraf, H., Nadeem, Z.A., Ashfaq, H., Ahmed, S., Ashraf, A., Nashwan, A.J.(2024). Mortality patterns in older adults with infective endocarditis in the US: A retrospective analysis . Current Problems in Cardiology. 49. (4).

OTHER

Nadeem, Z.A., Ahmed, S., Ahmad, E., Sardar, M.B., Akram, U., Shoaib, M.H., Ashraf, H., Ashfaq, H., Nadeem, A., Rao, R., et al.(2025). Temporal Trends and Regional Variations in Scoliosis-Related Mortality in the United States: A Retrospective Analysis from 1999 to 2020 . Ssrn.