Majid Afshar
Director, Learning Health System
Majid Afshar, MD, MS is an Associate Professor at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and co-leads an AI research lab. He also serves as Director of the Learning Health System, focusing on AI-driven interventions in healthcare.
Dr. Afshar has helped build a program to evaluate AI at the bedside, integrating clinical trials with health operations. He guided one of the first real-time large language model pipelines for clinical decision support and is leading initiatives to responsibly deploy generative AI technologies in pragmatic trials.
As a physician-scientist, his research centers on early disease detection using natural language processing and predictive analytics with electronic health record data. He has organized national data challenges to advance diagnostic decision support, serves as a chartered NIH study section member for AI grants, and has co-chaired national informatics conferences.Dr. Afshar has mentored numerous trainees, co-authored the TRIPOD-LLM guidelines for reporting LLM-based research, and has over 180 publications including Nature Medicine and NEJM AI.
