Dr. Qasim Butt is a board certified Nephrologist and Medical Consultant. My goal is to be a leader in the rapidly changing face of health care.
As technology companies come into medicine, I truly believe they need the insight of real life, experienced physicians to improve the lives of patients. As far as experience…..
✔ 12+ years as a nephrologist - both clinical and interventional (dialysis access related procedures)
✔ 11 years in private practice, as partner, more recently at a University setting
✔ Highly versed in value based care and trends in the kidney care market
✔ Passionate about education through public speaking, social media and video creation
✔ Hosted webinars and given lectures on kidney care
✔ Actively involved in innovative companies including medical device, artificial intelligence, telehealth, remote patient monitoring, digital health, health insurance and more
Oh, and I still practice part-time medicine to make sure I keep grounded in patient care. I want to work with entrepreneurs that have serious ideas to improve health care, meet interesting people and have fun along the way.
08/15/2025
🥈🏹 Silver medal for my daughter Ayana at the USA Archery 2025 JOAD Outdoor Nationals tournament.
Shout out to our team 🇺🇸Enduring Freedom and Melissa Tenant who coached all 3 of my daughters (Ayana, Rania & Maliha).
We make the road trip up every year for this tournament, this time it was in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
It’s so awesome seeing my girls compete. 🤛
The road trip always reminds me of the family road trips we took as kids, except my daughters are far less annoying with the “are we there yets” than I was as a kid.
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08/01/2025
👨🏫 Mentoring healthcare innovation. Got a chance to mentor a team in the Texas Health Catalyst at UT Austin Dell Medical School.
Drove up yesterday to Austin to see all the pitches from the various teams in , and health tech.
Now these are very early ideas for companies, but you can see how crucial it is to nurture both young ideas and entrepreneurs.
I was actually taken aback by how involved Dell Medical School is involved in fostering students minds to think this way.
In my conversation with Maarten Rotman, Ph.D. and he talked about how 3rd year medical students are allowed to chose a distinction track in things like innovation and entrepreneurship.
Honestly just fun to be apart of it and I got a pretty plaque out of it.
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07/28/2025
🩺⚕️📦 Thinking Outside the Box, was the panel discussion I got to be apart of with medical students from Long School of Medicine over the weekend.
There is a new pardigm developing in the next few years due to the application of technology, when it comes to the path of a doctor’s career.
To me your professional growth will no longer be limited to your geography due to things like .
Flexibility maybe the new normal, by working with different practices, hospital systems or locums agencies.
Other interests can be pursued if you take the time to learn new things, for me it is technology & innovation.
Was really excited to see the reception a lot these students had to new ideas.
Shout out to Lucas Wang and Devansh Kurup, two forward thinking medical students for inviting me.
Ohh and yes, I buzzed my hair for the summer 💇💈😅.
07/23/2025
👨⚕️💻Being a doctor in the new economy.
As remote work and technology comes into , the opportunities available for physicians have changed. The need to be a part of a practice in a fixed location does not have to be your reality.
Over the last few years I’ve gotten to work with different companies - clinical and non-clinical, traditional clinic and inpatient - giving me way more flexibility.
I’ll be getting the opportunity to discuss this with medical students at the Long School of Medicine.
I’ll be on a panel discussion this Saturday called “Thinking Outside the Box”.
I’ll will also be emphasizing my role at DeLorean Artificial Intelligence and other companies.
07/16/2025
🏥🔢 It’s all about the numbers. And when it comes to disease no other patients have as much data collected on them for an ongoing chronic basis.
And when it comes to 🤖 the more accurate data you collect the more accurate the models you can produce.
I discussed kidney care as an ideal use case for the application of AI with Severence MacLaughlin, Ph.D, CEO of DeLorean Artificial Intelligence at the 2025 Renal Physicians Association conference.
The patients in later stages of Chronic Kidney Disease (Stage 3b, 4 or 5) already have to see their physicians on a more frequent basis than the average patient - likely every 2-4 months.
That means more progress notes, labs, vital signs, all of which add to the body of knowledge of the patient journey.
Now if you take that to End Stage Kidney Disease (ESRD), a patient on has even more touchpoints - 3 times a week dialysis sessions, with monthly or biweekly labs.
06/12/2025
💻👉 Introducing into healthcare 🏥 is not as easy as you think.
Talking to a young with fresh eyes, Dillon Wintz goes over the challenges he is facing.
Different systems to work with, data silos, different levels of quality, missing pieces of data all contribute to Dillon being diligent and questioning the validity of data he gets when working with organizations.
One of the issues I have seen as a physician, is in the data that requires manual entry of a staff member. When working with DeLorean Artificial Intelligence it can be something as simple as weights of a patient being recorded in pounds instead of kilograms or outrageous erroneous blood pressure readings.
05/29/2025
💰💸 What does a venture capitalist look for in a company❓
Got to ask that question to Neil R. Parikh, MD MBA, a with HealthQuest Capital.
He is a physician turned investor, so he has a unique eye into related startups.
What founders need to understand is that each investor (be it angel, private equity, family office or VC) fits a certain profile in companies they like to invest in.
Attributes that define who they invest in will include:
🔹 Industry: therapeutics, , biotech
🔹 Stage of company: pre-seed, seed, Series A, B, C
🔹 Revenue: pre-revenue, or a certain amount of annual revenue
🔹 Amount of money needed: $100k, $1 million, or more
🔹 Certain qualities in a founder
🔹 Number of founders
🔹 Team dynamics
We got to discuss his thoughts at the LSI 2025 Conference.
LSI - Life Science Intelligence
05/22/2025
🧐Should kidney care be integrated into primary care ⁉️
Well that’s what the team at ChenMed is doing with the leadership of Virginia Irwin-Scott DO, MBA, FASN, CPE, FACOI, their National Director of Kidney Care.
“There is only one 👨⚕️ for every 3800 patients with ” as she puts it, the involvement of the primary care in upstream management is so needed.
Also, considering that 70% of CKD is due to diabetes, high blood pressure and vascular disease - better control of these disease processes requires involvement of primary care.
ChenMed is one of the most innovative primary care practices in the U.S. They take on risk for the total cost of care of a patient working with Medicare Advantage plans. To help with the patient journey Virginia’s team also assists with care coordination in that transition to ESRD (transplant, access, etc.)
Virginia has a passion for improving kidney care and we had a fun time catching up at the 2025 Renal Physicians Association meeting.
In my heart she is the “Jersey girl” of kidneys 😉.
05/07/2025
📚🎓 Med school dropout 👉 finding that alternative career path. Omar M. Khateeb wears that title with pride.
This guy has made a name for himself in the world of , but he describes how he had to make his way in and find that one break.
He now is a marketing expert interviewing industry leaders on the State of Medtech podcast.
He is one of those guys that pushed me to take that chance into medical innovation out of the comfort zone of traditional practice.
Got a chance to discuss his story at LSI 2025 in Dana Point, California 🏝️ (while numerous people walked in front of the camera 😆).
Omar M. Khateeb
04/24/2025
🧐 Mindset: Physician vs. Data Scientist
How do we approach the application of to medicine⁉️
As I have gotten a chance to get into innovation, I noticed their appears to be certain characteristics inherent to those in different professions.
Physicians are bound by the principle of non-maleficence (do not harm).
Data scientists or engineers are problem solvers and are apt to go fast to find solutions.
The discussions between physicians and data scientists are so crucial to the development of AI/ML models in .
In my discussion with Severence MacLaughlin, Ph.D, CEO of DeLorean Artificial Intelligence we go over those different perspectives while at the 2025 Renal Physicians Association conference in Las Vegas.
Ohh, Sev gave a fantastic intro to this video 👐.
04/16/2025
🏥💊 2025 State of Kidney Care
Now if you want updates on our industry, there is no better resource than Tim Fitzpatrick of Signals From [Space].
We just met up in Las Vegas for the Renal Physicians Association Conference mingling, but also absorbing trends that we are seeing.
Tim articulates innovation into 4 different buckets:
1️⃣ Pharmaceuticals
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3️⃣ Government policy
4️⃣ Transplant
04/05/2025
👉Seeing the progress in care.
Here with my team DeLorean Artificial Intelligence at the Renal Physicians Association 2025 Conference in Las Vegas.
We our demonstrating the capabilities of our platform to the world of . 🤖💻
Also, got a chance to do my panel discussion “Out of Box Careers” along with Shika Pappoe MD, MPH, MBA and Nishant Jalandhara. It was well received as I think traditional career paths are being disrupted.
RPA is one of those medical conferences that is more business oriented with discussions of , operations of a practice or unit, government policy and emerging trends.
Great meeting people that are the decision makers in the industry.
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Dr. Qasim Butt is a highly skilled and well rounded physician that serves the San Antonio area. He not only practices clinical nephrology, but is also a certified interventional nephrologist able to handle all issues related to dialysis access (fistulas, graft, catheters, etc.).
He is board certified by the ABIM in both internal medicine and nephrology. He is also a skilled interventional nephrologist and is certified by the American Society of Diagnostic and Interventional Nephrology. He received his training at LSU Health Science Center (Shreveport, LA), completing a residency in internal medicine and a fellowship in nephrology.
Dr. Butt goes above and beyond his clinical responsibilities, as a physician leader serving the community. He has had numerous leadership roles, including current Chief of Medicine of Metropolitan Methodist Hospital and Treasurer of Board at the Texas Kidney Foundation. In 2019 had been nominated for the Grace Ann Durr Award by Methodist Healthcare System. Also, in 2020 he received the Texas Rising Stars Doctors Award by Texas Monthly Magazine.
He enjoys mentoring young aspiring physicians, allowing them to shadow him and giving real life practical advice that will help them on their journey to a career in medicine. He also is a mentor for several years with Big Brothers Big Sisters, trying to improve the life of an adolescent from an underprivileged background.
Dr. Butt is also very passionate about not only raising awareness of kidney disease, but also the epidemic of poor health in our nation. He has worked with the Texas Kidney Foundation for many years, volunteering for health screenings, fundraising walks and engages in public speaking events to the general public about kidney disease. He also has a professional Facebook (@qasimbuttmd) and YouTube Channel (Your Kidneys Your Health) where he does fun, entertaining videos that breakdown health related topics in a simple way.
Dr. Butt is a nephrologist that takes his time addressing patient concerns. He enjoys discussing lifestyle modifications, fitness and diet. He thoroughly explains kidney disease and encourages patients to bring family members to the office, as well. He consistently receives high satisfaction ratings from his patients on numerous online surveys.
Awards:
2020 Texas Rising Star Doctor Award – Texas Monthly Magazine
2019 Grace Ann Durr Award (nomination) - Methodist Healthcare System
2017 Healthgrades Honor Roll
2016 Vitals - Patient's Choice
2016 Vitals - Compassionate Physician
2016 Vitals - On Time Physician
2015 - Leading Physicians of the World
Leadership Roles:
Chief of Internal Medicine - Metropolitan Methodist Hospital
Treasurer/ Board Member - Texas Kidney Foundation
Medical Director - Metropolitan Methodist Hospital Dialysis Unit
Medical Director - US Renal Care, Boerne Dialysis Unit
Medical Director - US Renal Care, Central SA Dialysis Unit
Prior Positions:
Vice Chief of Internal Medicine - Metropolitan Methodist Hospital
