Qasim Ali Butt, MD

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Qasim Ali Butt, MD

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.

04/28/2026

🤔🥼✈️ What is locum tenens? Can I travel as a doctor?

In training as a physician, you are typically steered down two paths, private practice or academia.

But as is evolving, newer and even older clinicians as seeking alternatives in their career options that provide flexibility.

Here I discuss the reality of locums with Chris Franklin President of LocumTenens.com who goes into the trends he is seeing.

For me locums temporary work served as an excellent bridge of income after I left my full time practice of 11 years.

It opened my eyes to the world of traveling as a doctor, actually getting a chance to do an assignment in the U.S. Virgin Islands.
But the real value it added was the notion that I could control my own schedule.

Chris mentions that that the provider demographics are now shifting to younger physicians.

We got a chance to meet up at their Staffing Symposium in Austin, Texas.

04/22/2026

What is angel investing? 😇💰And who exactly can invest in startups?

I asked Juan Sebastian Garzon the head of Alamo Angels to help clarify some basic definitions and presumptions.

Oftentimes, early stage companies need capital to get started before any revenue can be generated. Particularly if they have a novel idea that has yet to be tried in the market.

A founder may not have the funds on hand and no bank is willing to lend.

So they have to turn to angel investors, which are high net worth individuals who are willing to take a chance on an entrepreneur.
They have to be deemed accredited investors, which means they meet some financial criteria set out by the SEC.

Now this is the case in a lot of companies, because the path to profitability will be many years from conception, to minimal viable product, to clinical trials to eventual FDA clearance.

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04/17/2026

👨‍⚕️4 doctors that found alternative ways to add value in .

Met each one of these guys at different points and places over the years.
Last night was the first time seeing them all together on a panel discussion hosted by Austin Medtech Connect at VelocityTX here in San Antonio.

What’s crazy is that we all still practice medicine in different capacities, which to the average physician sounds kind of crazy.

To me it was realizing that the clinical point of care is not the only or even best place to make improvements in patient outcomes.

We all came to healthcare innovation through different paths and participate in it in various ways.

Neil R. Parikh, MD MBA is a Radiation Oncologist who is also a .
Amit Mehta, MD is a Interventional Radiologist, serial entrepreneur who also runs a VC fund.
Jawad Ali, MD is a Surgeon who is help building the Texas ecosystem, connecting founders, investors and clinicians.

Interactions with guys like these have slowly changed how I see the potential in healthcare.

04/08/2026

“Think like an engineer” is how we get medical schools involved in innovation.
📚🧑‍🎓✍️

That’s what Lance Black, MD, MBID says is the mindset switch at Texas A&M School of Engineering Medicine (EnMed), where they give medical students a master’s in engineering along with their M.D.

As doctors we are trained to be risk averse due to the ethical principal of non-malfecience (do no harm).
Where as engineers are trained to go fast and break things to find that solution.

It’s seems that Enmed is looking for that right balance of conservative and creative in the next generation of doctors they train.

One of the great conversations I had LSI 2026 in Dana Point, California.

04/01/2026

🧐Getting some insights from LSI 2026 from my good friend Omar Khateeb.

As always Omar is running around the conference meeting innovators and really has the pulse of what is going in .

He did a great panel discussion where he brought up the existential risks to medtech, which are:

1️⃣ Need for more investors and capital, particularly at that Series C stage
2️⃣ The need to attract more talent out of universities, due to lack of awareness of medtech as an industry or career path

From my experience, I have realized that most physicians or students (whether pre-med or medical) don’t even know this field exists - or their potential to get involved.

M. KhateebeThe State of MedTechcState of Medtechch

03/27/2026

🧑‍🏫Medical education in the 🇺🇸United States will change dramatically in the next five years.
This will be in both medical school and residency programs.

I got a chance to speak with students at the Long School of Medicine here in San Antonio this week.
They happen to be a part of a club called the Business of Medicine founded by a forward thinking student Lucas S. Wang.

These students are actually eager to learn the other side of medicine, the one were never taught.

I gave them a very optimistic view of where I think medicine can go, since I get practice medicine in a more flexible way via and be apart of innovation with companies.

But with the advent of OpenEvidence, ChatGPT, Claude, etc., the rote memorization of massive amounts of data that I went through may not be applicable in that future of medicine.

I actually told these students that they’re in this weird intermediate phase for institutions who are trying to adjust to this new reality.

I think that future of medicine will be less specialists like me and more primary care physicians empowered by .

Honestly, it was just great seeing young people that are going into medicine being so open to new ideas.

03/20/2026

LSI USA changed my career in 2021. I keep coming back because of that. 🩺

🤷‍♂️Five years ago I walked in as a nephrologist with a clinical mindset and minimal medtech fluency. I left with a completely different vision for my professional growth and what kidney care could look like.

If you’re in you need to make it over to Dana Point.
Scott Pantel and the LSI team run the best event in medtech. Full stop.

Grateful for every conversation and every new connection made this week.

Also, I made a ton of videos highlighting the innovation I saw here. Make sure to look out for those over the next few weeks.

03/18/2026

Ohh just 2 kids from New York City 🌃
I jokingly tell Marc Zemel bring me a bagel 🥯 to the LSI 2026 Conference.

I fly over to Dana Point, California meet this dude in the lobby of the hotel, he opens his briefcase, then opens a zip lock bag that smells like a NYC bagel shop.

The only crime…. he forgot the cream cheese 🤷‍♂️

Great to see the success he has had over the years with his company Retia Medical.
Having fun meeting a lot of the leaders in here at Life Science Intelligence.

03/12/2026

👉Most medtech conferences don’t have a nephrologist in the room…. I’m changing that.
I’ll be at LSI USA ’26 at the Waldorf Astoria, Monarch Beach next week — one of the most exciting medtech and investment conferences in the country.

If you’re a founder, investor, or innovator who thinks nephrology or kidney care is an untapped space, come find me. I want to talk. 🏥🩺🩻👨‍💻

I’ll be doing my medtech on the street interviews if anyone would like get a shoot out on what they are up to.

Scott Pantel throws the best party in Medtech 🤛
This is Omar M. Khateeb Super Bowl.
And my guy Lance Black, MD, MBID will be representing Texas Med School innovation for the first time.

Who else is going to be there?
Let me know in comments 👇

03/04/2026

Can AI prove that the eyes 👀 are the window to the soul…. and kidneys⁉️

Got to meet up with Maria Khan in Chicago 🏙️ at the American College of Artificial Intelligence and Medicine conference where she gave a lecture on AIs🧑‍💻 potential in care.

She goes into detail how some AI can use retinal imaging to determine the presence of disease in the kidney - thereby potentially bypassing the need for a kidney biopsy 💉.

This is has been shown to be the case in diseases like diabetes, high blood pressure and IgA Nephropathy.

What is really interesting about this, is that as a we ask a patient about any history of diabetic retinopathy (in the eyes) to determine the likelihood of diabetic nephropathy (in the kidneys) in our clinical decision making already.

02/20/2026

So when it comes to taking blood pressure 💪 proper technique is everything.👨‍⚕️
Many people, including a lot of doctors’ offices 🩺 take it in an inaccurate way.

For me the key to explaining it is simplicity, not perfection.

So this is what I tell my patients….

1) put BP cuff on your arm
2) sit down
2) back to the chair
3) feet planted on ground
4) arm level to your heart on a table
5) relax with no distractions (no talking or phone)
6) after 5 minutes press start on machine
7) record it on paper or connected to phone via Bluetooth

I ask my patients to check it….
🔹at least once a week (sometimes more if we are adjusting meds)
🔹at a consistent time in the day (about an hour or more after meds) when they can be relaxed

👉“Let’s say every Friday morning Mr. Gonzales”

Now many medical organizations will go into excessive detail about the above instructions, but I find that can lead patients to feel overwhelmed - leading to non-compliance and giving up.

If I can get a patient to do the above for an average 4 month appointment, that’s 16 BP readings - which give me a lot of good data of what’s really going on at home. 🏠

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