After completing medical school, Dr. Hashmi studied at Johns Hopkins School of Public Health for a Master in Public Health, focusing on Health Policy and Management. Upon graduation, she was hired by Natural Standard, a company focused on Complementary and Alternative Medicine in MA. Dr. Hashmi, then completed her Adult Psychiatry Residency at University of Connecticut in Farmington, CT and Yale School of Medicine in New Haven, CT. Her last year of residency was focused on thought and mood disorders amongst veterans and their families. 

Dr. Hashmi then enrolled in a Forensic Psychiatry fellowship at Yale school of Medicine in New Haven, CT. After graduating from there, she accepted a faculty position at Brown University affiliated Rhode Island Hospital. There, she worked for six years as an Assistant Clinical Professor, staff psychiatrist and later as an Assistant Director of the Psychiatric Emergency Services. She taught medical students, residents and forensic fellows in a clinical setting. She also had a private clinical and forensic practice on the side. In 2013, she  completed a fellowship in psychoanalysis from the Boston Psychoanalytic Institute.

Dr. Hashmi has an extensive experience in correctional  (state and federal prisons) , emergency, forensic and outpatient psychiatry. 

She is a board-certified adult and forensic psychiatrist and currently works for Boston Medical Center, a Boston University affiliated hospital. She is also one of the original members of the Massachusetts Mind Center.  Her clinical practice incorporates current developments in the field of psychiatry and evidence-based methods in providing psychopharmacological treatment to her patients.