He has earlier served at King Edward Medical College and till recently he was Principal of an undergraduate medical college in Lahore. Prof.M. Aslam was Prof. of Physiology at Army Medical College Rawalpindi from where he retired as Principal. Then he joined Shifa College of Medicine as Principal at Islamabad and later assumed the charge of Vice Chancellor when Tameer-e-Millat University was established and Shifa became a constituent college of this university. It may be mentioned here that he was also selected for Vice Chancellorship of UHS when earlier interviews were held and he was one of the candidates who was short listed for this coveted post.