Adil Haider

Dr. Adil H. Haider is a globally recognized trauma and acute care surgeon, public health leader, and medical innovator. He serves as Chief Artificial Intelligence Officer at Carle Illinois College of Medicine, Medical Director for Research Informatics at Carle Health, and Professor of Clinical Sciences and Computer Science at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. He is also Editor-in-Chief of the AKU Manual of Clinical Practice Guidelines and former Dean of the Aga Khan University Medical College, Karachi.

Dr. Haider graduated from the Aga Khan University Medical College in 1998 and then completed a Masters of Public Health from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in 2000. He completed his general surgery residency at New York Medical College/Westchester Medical Center, followed by fellowships in Surgical Critical Care (2005–2006) and Trauma and Acute Care Surgery (2006–2007) at Johns Hopkins.

Following his training, Dr. Haider joined the faculty at Johns Hopkins Medicine, where he and his team identified inequities in traumatic injury outcomes and helped pioneer the field of surgical disparities research. In 2010, he was appointed Associate Professor and Director of the Center for Surgery Trials and Outcomes Research, where he developed novel methodologies for evaluating surgical outcomes. In 2014, he became the Kessler Director of the Center for Surgery and Public Health, a joint initiative of Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. In 2019, he became the Dean of his alma-mater, the Aga Khan University Medical College and served in this role through 2025. 

Dr. Haider has authored more than 450 peer-reviewed publications and has led extramurally funded research totaling over USD 30 million. He has served as a visiting professor at numerous institutions and held major national leadership roles, including President of the Association for Academic Surgery. He continues to serve as Deputy Editor of JAMA Surgery.

He is also the founder of BostonHealth.AI, an organization dedicated to leveraging artificial intelligence to empower healthcare providers and improve patient outcomes through the development of HAMI, an AI-driven clinical intelligence companion. In recognition of his contributions, Dr. Haider has received numerous honors, including the Ellis Island Medal of Honor, Honorary Fellowship of the College of Physicians and Surgeons Pakistan, and the Johns Hopkins Distinguished Alumni Award.