Qasim Ali Butt, MD

12/03/2025

🆕🗞️ A new way to deliver diuretics❗️
Fluid overload is a major reason for hospital admissions (and readmissions) in the U.S.

It typically manifests as swelling in the legs or shortness of breath, due to fluid build up in the lungs - from diseases like congestive heart failure (CHF) or chronic disease (CKD).

Now this condition is often treated with diuretics - medications that push the kidneys to make more urine, to remove excess fluid from the body.
Typically these are given in the oral form in an outpatient clinic or intravenously (IV) in the hospital.

Well scPharmaceuticals has come up with a new way of delivering the drug furosemide subcutaneously with a drug-device combination called FUROSCIX.

I got to discuss this in detail with their Chief Medical Officer John Mohr during 2025 Kidney Week with American Society of Nephrology.

It’s meant to deliver diuretics subcutaneously over several hours, helping to remove volume aggressively from a patient at home.

11/20/2025

I just watched Mark Cuban give a masterclass on pharmaceutical drug pricing. 💊💉
Pulling the curtain back on PBMs (pharmacy benefit managers) and discussing his new company CostPlus Drugs.

As a clinician most of us have no idea of the cost burden we put on our patients with every prescription we give them.
He discussed how PBMs are supposed to serve as intermediaries to negotiate the best price for a drug, however due to a lack of transparency often don’t pass through those savings to the end user - our patients.

This is the type of high level talent that comes together at Austin Medtech Connect events. Founded by my friend Jawad Ali, MD , they have really grown the Texas ecosystem for those in and innovation.

I got to see some great panel discussions. Talk to founders, investors and some pretty ambitious medical students.

11/18/2025

👉Excited to this live event with Omron Healthcare discussing the importance of controlling diabetes and high blood pressure. 👨‍⚕️

Mark your calendars! We’re going LIVE on Reddit for an AMA (Ask Me Anything) with Qasim Ali Butt, MD, interventional nephrologist and OMRON Healthcare’s Senior Independent Medical Advisor!

Topic: Diabetes & Hypertension - How monitoring your blood pressure helps if you have diabetes (or are at risk)
Date and Time: Thursday, November 20 | 6:30pm CST
Location: r/hypertension

Since it’s National , we’ll explore how these two conditions are connected, and how regular monitoring can help protect your heart and kidneys. Set your reminder and join the conversation on Reddit: https://bit.ly/4oARyq5

11/13/2025

📈🧐 Explainable A.I. in medicine 🩺
The black box issue in terms of represents the lack of transparency in how the AI came to its decision or output. This information is vital to us as clinicians in the field of .

I met up with Severence MacLaughlin, Ph.D at the 2025 Kidney Week hosted by American Society of Nephrology.

He goes over the basic concept and how DeLorean Artificial Intelligence overcomes this hurdle.

Always great to see Severence in his Marty McFly jacket 😉

11/10/2025

💻🤖 A lot of traffic at the DeLorean Artificial Intelligence booth for us during 2025 ASN Kidney Week.
Getting to show our predictive AI demos in both and chronic kidney disease, not to mention coming soon transplant.

Also got a chance to see all the new tech in kidney care and meet up with some old and new friends.

Really excited to see where is going.

American Society of Nephrology

11/07/2025

👉 If you’re at Kidney Week 2025 in Houston make sure to come and visit us at the DeLorean Artificial Intelligence booth 1941.

We are getting a ton of traffic and a lot of questions about predictive AI in and .

American Society of Nephrology

11/01/2025

👉Alright, who is going to Houston next week for American Society of Nephrology Kidney Week❓
I’ll be there with my DeLorean Artificial Intelligence team, make sure to stop by our booth.
Always great meeting people doing innovative things in .

10/22/2025

🇺🇸 Physician and patient advocacy in Washington, D.C.
Meet Precious McCowan a 3 time kidney transplant recipient and outspoken patient advocate.

We actually toured Capitol Hill on behalf of Renal Physicians Association together.

Going from Senator to Congressman offices discussing topics from kidney transplant to physician reimbursements.

During each visit her testimonial was crucial to hammer home the importance and severity of the problems in kidney care.

10/16/2025

👟🚶‍♂️Running around Capitol Hill 🏛️ on behalf of issues important to kidney care.

I was honored to tag along with Renal Physicians Association last week visiting offices and discussing the topics of living donors, and physician reimbursement.

Got a chance to visit the offices of:

Sen. Ted Cruz [R-TX]
Rep. Marc Veasey [D-TX33]
Rep. Julie Johnson [D-TX32]
Rep. Tony Gonzales [R-TX23]
Rep. Beth Van Duyne [R-TX24]

Now we only got to talk to the staffers (you rarely meet them in person), but I found them very engaged and some very knowledgeable about health policy.

🇺🇸 Being a history buff, it was great being in our nation’s capitol and seeing how democracy works behind the scenes.

Thanks to Robert Bl**er for his leadership and guidance through the process.

10/12/2025

🗣️Got to be a panelist at the 2025 Renal A.I. Summit in Washington, D.C.

So glad to see the Renal Physicians Association becoming so forward thinking and understand the importance of physician engagement with AI.
My friend Virginia Irwin-Scott DO, MBA, FASN, FAIM, CPE, FACOI helped organize the event.

The panel was moderated by another friend Tim Fitzpatrick and included myself along with:

Alice Wei, M.D.
Stephanie Toth-Manikowski, MD, MHS, FASN
Natalia Neha Khosla, MD, MSc

I got to discuss the accomplishments of my DeLorean Artificial Intelligence team and how we are implementing predictive A.I. into dialysis and kidney care.
Great to be apart of a company that actually takes physician input seriously.

Some issues brought up on the panel included:
🔹 Apprehension from physicians
🔹 Incorporating AI into clinical workflow
🔹 Reimbursement
🔹 Results in population health

10/10/2025

Starting the day in Capitol Hill 🏛️, walking around a lot, reaching out to Congressman and Senators offices to address issues in kidney care.

My first time doing such a trip to Washington. D.C. so I’m ridiculously excited.

We came up on behalf of Renal Physicians Association with the guidance of Robert Bl**er.

We have 3️⃣ goals for today’s visits:

Promote Value-Based Care by Extending
Alternative Payment Model Incentives,
Enact S.1460 and H.R.786, the
Preserving Patient Access to
Accountable Care Act

Congress Must Enact Legislation to
Combat Inflation and Provide
Equitable Reimbursement for
Physician Services in Medicare

To promote living organ donation,
Congress must enact S.1552/
H.R.4582/4583, the Living Donor
Protection Act, H.R.628, the Honor
Our Living Donors Act, and
H.R.3698 the Living Organ Donor
Tax Credit Act.

10/03/2025

🏛️I’m going to Washington D.C. y’all ✈️, government shut down or not.
Headed their next week on behalf of Renal Physicians Association to visit offices of Congressmen and Senators to discuss kidney disease, it’s affects on patients and the need for adequate physician reimbursement.

Honestly just honored to go on this trip.

The next day we will be having the RPA Renal A.I. Summit. I will be on a panel discussion called A.I. State of Play moderated by Tim Fitzpatrick.

I’ll get to discuss my role as Chief Nephrologist for DeLorean Artificial Intelligence and the application of A.I. in kidney care.