Dr. Syed Irshad Haider has one of the longest associations with Hashmanis Post Graduate Teaching Hospital as Consultant Ophthalmologist. Simultaneously, as Assistant Professor he is also serving as visiting faculty at Zia ud Din Medical University Hospital, Karachi.

He has been presenting every year since 2001 till this year on different topics in ophthalmology in conferences of POS. He also have a few publications to his name including; “Phacoemulsification - Result and complication during learning curve” (1997), “IOL Implantation in Fuch’s Heterochromic Cyclitis”, (1997) and “Ocualar Coherent Tomography (OCT) in Macular Disease” (2006).

After completing his MBBS from Dow Medical College Karachi in 1981, he went abroad to further his academic qualification and received DORCS from Royal College of Surgeons Ireland and MRC Ophthalmology United Kingdom in 1991 and then FRCS Edinburgh in 1998. Dr. Syed Irshad Haider is also registered member of Irish Medical Council.

Dr. Syed Irshad Haider spent a decade of his professional career abroad; mostly in Ireland, after starting taking a start in Civil Hospital Ophthalmology department in 1981. Over the years he has diligently carried out many responsibilities being Registrar, SHO, RMO, General Physician and Surgeon.