Yasameen has 12 years of experience in general practice (6 years as an overseas GP and 6 years as a GP in Australia). She graduated from Basra Medical School,Iraq in 1998, and followed this with 3 years postgraduate training. Following this she worked as a GP in a rural area of Baghdad from 2000-2004 and went on to train in ultrasound diagnostics and radiology for a year. Moving to Australia in 2010, Yasameen worked as a resident at Calvary Hospital in Canberra, going on to work as a GP in Wagga Wagga for three years. She gained fellowship of RACGP and has been working in Canberra since 2017.