Associate Professor
Division of Allergy, Pulmonary, and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Majid Afshar, MD, MS is a tenured Associate Professor in the Departments of Medicine and Biostatistics & Medical Informatics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where he co-leads the Critical Care Data Science Lab. He also serves as Director of the Learning Health System in the School of Medicine and Public Health, focusing on AI-driven interventions that directly improve healthcare delivery.
Dr. Afshar has helped build a joint university–health system 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 health operations.
As a physician-scientist, his research centers on early disease detection and prevention using clinical translational natural language processing and predictive analytics with electronic health record data, particularly for critically ill patients. 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 to successful data science career development awards, co-authored the TRIPOD-LLM guidelines for reporting LLM-based research, and published in high-impact journals including Nature Medicine and NEJM AI.
Comparing prognostic performance and reasoning between physicians and large language models
Saturday, March 7, 2026
11:55am - 12:15pm PST
Disclosure(s): No financial relationships to disclose