Shehzad K. Niazi, MD
Dr. Niazi is a consultation-liaison psychiatrist, healthcare informaticist, and outcomes researcher. He cares for the mental health needs of complex-care patients in acute and sub-acute settings. He pursues inter- and multidisciplinary research and implementation projects to assess how psychiatric comorbidities and Social Determinants of Health factors lead to poorer quality of life, caregiver burden, compliance, increased cost, and mortality. He develops risk stratification models and associated care pathways available at the point of care. This approach enables a physician to identify high-risk patients, match each patient with the right level of care, and monitor the progress using patient-reported outcomes. Such projects include a) leveraging technology to incorporate patient-reported outcomes measurements in routine care delivery to identify the individualized needs of patients, b) linking and analyzing large national databases (e.g., UNOS, AHA, SEER-Medicare, OPTUM-Labs) to identify potentially modifiable factors associated with poorer outcomes, c) developing predictive risk-stratification models using AI/ML, and d) establishing multi-omics disease-specific cohorts.
