Adeel Ajwad Butt, MBBS, MS, FACP, FIDSA, is Professor of Medicine and Population Health Sciences at Weill Cornell Medical College. Dr. Butt held the posts of the inaugural Chief Quality Officer at Hamad Medical Corporation (HMC), the first Director of Hamad Healthcare Quality Institute (HHQI), Vice Chair, Department of Medicine and Director, Clinical Epidemiology Research Unit at HMC. Dr. Butt completed his residency in Internal Medicine in New York and a fellowship in Infectious Diseases in New Orleans. He also holds a Masters in Science degree in Clinical Research from the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine.

Dr. Butt is listed among the top 2% of world’s most influential scientists in the prestigious and peer reviewed “Stanford List”. Dr. Butt has been the recipient of numerous national and international awards, including a Fulbright Scholarship, Yale-Johnson and Johnson Award in International Health, a National Talent Pool Scholars Award and IDSA Training Faculty award to Africa, and Excellence in Research Awards from various institutions in the US, UAE, Qatar, and Pakistan. He has lectured extensively around the world and provided consultations to governmental and non-governmental organizations in building research, educational and training capacity in resource-limited settings. He has published over >250 papers in high impact medical journals including >65 key studies on SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19 infection published in the New England Journal of Medicine, JAMA, JAMA Internal Medicine, Annals of Internal Medicine, Journal of Clinical Investigation, Clinical Infectious Diseases, and others.

Dr. Butt has been appointed to the Board of Governors of the National Institutes of Health in Pakistan, and is also a member of the Qatar Ministry of Public Health Advisory Committee and many other national and international panels and committees.